Sermons from Yesteryear | Paul Cain

God has His own peculiar way of apparently disappearing at the times when we seem to need Him the most–times when He seems to hide His face. I have experienced the Lord hiding His face from me.

Years ago when I first began a public ministry, it wasn’t long before thousands of people were coming to hear me speak. Within one year, we had 26 healing and revival services in Los Angeles, and wonderful things were being said about me. It didn’t bother me, though, because my humility was intact. I was very proud of my humility.

Believing I was immortal, I would pray for hundreds of people in a single service, having had little or no sleep. I would fast from food or water for long periods of time. Proudly boasting one night about the accuracy of my discernment, I said, “I can tell every one of you what’s wrong with you. I know your names; I can tell you who your children are and where you are with God; whether you have been converted or not, and whether you are a spiritualist or a New Ager.” I was so proud.

When I began the prayer line, I said to the first lady, “I know who you are.” But I did not! The anointing was gone. God had hidden His face from me, and it was terrible. I looked at all of those hungry people lined up for prayer and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a terrible mistake. His anointing is gone, so I’m leaving. If He comes back, I’ll be back tomorrow night, but if He doesn’t, you won’t see me again.”

I stayed on my face before the Lord all night. He had withdrawn from me the intimacy of His conscious presence that I loved and along with it, the wonderful confidence and ability He had given me. He was there, but I didn’t have the benefit of knowing His presence or feeling Him. I think that John Newton understood this when he wrote these words in a hymn: “How tedious and tasteless the hours when Jesus no longer I see. Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers have all lost their sweetness to me.”

“Surely I Am with You”

In biblical terminology, the hiding of God’s face refers to this withdrawal of His conscious presence.  says, “Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.” David said in , “How long, O LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” In , he said, “Why, LORD, do you stand afar off? Why do you hide yourself in time of trouble?”  says, “Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and our oppression?”

When there is no conscious presence of God, no visible means of support, no tangible way to see the Lord meeting our needs, then it is time for us to rejoice and acknowledge that this is an opportunity to trust the Lord to reveal Himself in an even a greater way when He shows Himself again. On such occasions, God is really there. Just because we cannot see Him does not mean that He is not present. He is with us all the time!

In order to survive the times when God hides His face, we need to know Scripture. The New Testament speaks of reaching out for God and feeling for Him so that we might find Him “not far from each one of us” (). Perhaps we may not feel Him at first, but when we persist in reaching out and seeking Him, we will find Him.

The accuser of the brethren will always try to separate us from the Lord by telling us that God is not with us: this is not the truth. The fact is that God is present with us all the time. He is testing us to see how we will react and what we will do under the set of circumstances in which He has hidden His face from us. The Lord has said in His Word to us, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (). Even when we cannot feel and see and taste and handle the sweetness of God, He is still there.

In , the Lord told Joshua, “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous.” He says in , “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” God never withdraws His promises, His power or Himself from us; He may allow us to feel that He has withdrawn for a specific purpose. However, He is always with us even when we do not believe that He is there.

When I was a little boy, I would listen to “The Midnight Hour–Songs in the Night,” and God’s presence would fill the room. It was a wonderful feeling that reminded me of , when David said, “Will the LORD reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” The answer is, “No!” Regardless of how bad we may feel, the Lord is still there. He is omnipresent: He is here, there, and everywhere, all at the same time.

When Moses told Aaron and his sons how they should bless the Israelites, he instructed them to say, “The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace” (). The “face of the Lord” became the symbol of a smile, approval, or a sense of His presence. When it does not seem that the Lord’s face is turned toward us, the best thing for us to do is acknowledge that He is there, even though we may not feel Him. When the sense of His presence is withdrawn, we may not know the reason why, but God does not have to reveal His reasons. He is omniscient; He knows why He is allowing us to have this experience.

When God Shows His Face

Our desire must be to have His presence remain and abide. When His presence and His power come, they are worth everything. His presence is like having Jesus right there with us, just like a husband or a wife. When the Lord reveals His face and shows Himself, it is like when the Holy Spirit decided to reveal Himself and came on the day of Pentecost: the disciples were there together, and suddenly the sound of a mighty rushing wind came from heaven (see ).

In , there is a man, lame from his mother’s womb, whom they carried and placed at the Gate Beautiful every day. When God decided to show His face, He healed him. Rejoicing, the man leapt up and went into the temple, shouting and praising and magnifying God. A crippled, mangled body was straightened out immediately. This is what it is like when God decides to show His face.

However, there is a warning in  that we must remember:

But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

It should not surprise us when we commit blatant sins and lose the sense of God’s presence. When we sin, we must repent and turn our backs on evil if we hope to experience His presence with us again.

Trials and Disappointments Will Come

Each of us will go through trials. Paul said in , “So that no one would be unsettled by these trials, you know quite well that we were destined for them.” In his letter to the Philippians, he writes, “For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him” (1:29). The end of every trial is at hand, though, because every trial has a built-in time limit. “And no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it” (). God knows just how much we can bear. In we read,

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

The Lord is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in love. He will not always withdraw Himself, nor will He harbor His anger forever (). We may think that God is never going to show up again or that He is never going to come through for us anymore. Trials or difficulties may seem like they will last forever, but they will not. We must understand that God our Father has compassion on us, His children. “As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust”().

Many people only want the brilliance of God’s presence–the fun, the spiritual food and the fellowship. Christians tend to want to be happy and jovial all the time. When we are not, we sometimes lie about it and don’t want others to know that we going through difficult times.

Let us be honest with each other. Trials and disappointments will come, but Jesus is always standing nearby, ready to step in. Just when it seems we cannot bear anymore, He will say, Your shoulders weren’t built for more than you could bear, and I am going to shoulder this for you. I am going to take your problems; I am going to take your burdens, and I will carry them for you.

This is what happens when He reveals Himself. In a moment, everything changes. Our Father is merciful and loving. “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning” (). “Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him” (). Seeing Christ will make everything we have suffered worthwhile–all the midnight of the soul, all the pain, all the trials. We will realize that all the suffering and adversity we experienced were for a purpose; they will pay innumerable dividends in these last days as we meet our Lord and our Savior.

With joy, we can thank the Father for times of pain, the times of not enjoying His conscious presence, nor seeing His face. In all things, we must seek His face and not His hand. When we take Him for granted and believe that we should never feel bad or have a dull moment, we are acting like spoiled children. We can thank Him even for painful times or dull times, for the times when we aren’t gushing with joy or filled with happiness. At the end of our journey, we will look back and be able to say, “It was all for a reason. It was all for a purpose. It was all for my benefit, all to the glory of God.”

Sermons from Yesteryear | Paul Cain 

New year message 1999

This is an unusual time every year. In the last few years I have had the privilege of bringing the New Years Eve message and it has kind of become a “State of the Church” address rather than a “State of the Union”, a “State of the Church” address. I planned to say a lot things about the worship tonight, how much I enjoyed Tom and the worship group. It was wonderful and then the sister that just sang. I wanted to do all of these things and I won’t have time to do all of the things that are going on in my mind tonight because I need all of the energy that I have able to accumulate today after being out knocked of the race. I’m not giving you a health report, but I’ve been knocked out of again. I’ve been taking a licking, but I keep on kicking or ticking, which ever, I don’t know, but the lord has intervened and I am able to be here tonight.I’ve learned a little more about warfare than I have known in the past and thank God for the people, not only here in Kansas City, which is the main spot for intercession and prayer. I came here for that, for 24-hour prayer and intercession. We are lost without it. We have to have that. That’s the reason why I am here. The ones that are most troubled make it to Kansas City hoping that this 24 hour prayer, intercession and this bombarding heaven will pay off and it has been paying off. Thank God for what he has done for Don Steadman. Without this we are hopeless and helpless.A lot of people have been hit with cancer just in this past year. In just the past few months we have heard of a number of people, some of the leaders of this church, who have loved ones close to them who have been hit with cancer. Even though we say cancer is the little “c” and Christ is the big “C,” it is an awful thing for God’s people to be hit with such a demonic destroyer called cancer. We don’t minimize the fact that cancer does kill, but we can’t help but magnify the lord in this matter and Jesus does heal. Amen? Jesus heals. Thank you for your wonderful enthusiasm. Most of you must not be sick. If you were sick you would be enthusiastic about Jesus healing tonight. It’s too late now, (to applaud) but He will accept it I suppose. He is more friendly that I am and warmer, by far. But let me tell you, most of the people who criticize healing are people who don’t need healing, but when they get sick enough they will think again and maybe they will call upon the lord.

I have a prayer that I want to pray before I bring you the message. I have the most unusual message that I have ever tried to preach. I started to say undertaken, but I guess that would go along with it because the title of my message tonight is, “Dying to Live in Kansas City.” You say, “That’s cute,” but wait until it is over and we’ll see about that. But right now, let’s pray.

Heavenly Father, we pray to you because you are the Father of lights. You are the truth. You are the Way, you are the Truth and You are the Life. Lord, I pray tonight that you will overcome our enemy; the father of lies. We resist the spirit of witchcraft tonight. We refuse to listen to this fallen worshiper of God, satan. I beheld satan fall from heaven. Lord, this prince of man who was able to worship, this angel who was able to worship you with such spirit and with such truth is now a fallen worshipper and is now the father of lies. We resist him tonight and we believe that you will come through for us. I say, satan, it is enough, it is enough and it is finished. ().

() So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

It is written, “It is finished, it is finished.” Lord, we thank you for that proclamation in the Holy Spirit that it is finished, it is finished and satan has lost the battle. We are going to have victory through the Lord Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father, I pray you will move here tonight by your finger, by your hand and by your arm. Recapture the truth that has been thrown in the streets. Nothing but the blood here tonight. Nothing but the cross and the resurrection power of our lord Jesus Christ. We divorce humanity and abide with divinity. We declare that this is the day of the Father. This is the day of Father God. Come through for us Holy God.

We release the fear of God here tonight. We release the fear of God in this service, this very service. Right now in the name of Jesus, put a holy fear in Metro. Put a holy fear in us tonight. No one talking, no one moving around or no one anxious to leave. I pray lord, that you will put a holy fear in all of us tonight. Let us focus not on hearing a man, but hearing God. Judgment is in the house. Judgment is upon us and we need to hear from heaven for the healing of our land. Have mercy on your people and give us another chance. Give us a vision to say that all of your promises are mine in 1999, in Jesus name we pray. Have mercy on us in Jesus name, amen.

Well, I don’t really like to say a lot of cliché’s or employ a lot of cliché’s in my messages, but why don’t we just say, “Everything is fine in 1999.” Would you do it? Just project that into the atmosphere, “Everything is fine in 1999.” I’m not so concerned about Y2K; I’m more concerned about 1k999. Does that make sense? 1,999, because we will be into that year in just a few hours and I’m looking foreword to this year. I’m looking foreword with great anticipation for what God will be doing this year.

Right now, without further adieu, I want to talk about dying to live in Kansas City. If you came here, to Kansas City, to live you just may die a horrible death. Let me repeat that. If you came to Kansas City to live you may die a horrible death. If you came here to die, and you have died, you may just live a wonderful life in Christ. That may be tricky, but

 says:

() But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

and I believe that he that liveth in pleasure is already dead. Have you been in a graveyard lately? How many of you have been in a graveyard lately? I drive by one every day that I go out. I live by a graveyard. But what you don’t realize is that you are in a graveyard tonight. If you have truly come here to die, you are in a graveyard tonight. This should be one of the greatest indoor graveyards in Kansas City and welcome, dead or alive, but welcome.

Tonight’s message is a radical call to discipleship. A radical call to apostolic leadership. Two of my favorite passages in all of the bible that deal with discipleship have to do with what the lord says about it; the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself.

() And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. {24} For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

In the days of Jesus anyone who was carrying a cross in Jerusalem or through Jerusalem was a walking dead person. He was a walking dead man. He was advertising to everyone that he was dead because the cross meant death. We don’t advertise so much, the cross anymore. We have lost sight of the fact that we are all on a journey and we, on this journey, leave something behind, which is ourselves and we take something with us on the journey, which is the cross. We don’t see very many people advertising their death anymore, but that is what Kansas City represents and that is what Kansas City is all about. That is the reason to many who have been playing games in Kansas City, I am glad to announce to you that the game playing is over and God is about to step in. That is the reason why I said that judgment is in the house for judgment begins at the house of God.

Now this may not be a pretty message to begin with, but it ends well. All is well that ends well. That’s not scripture, but Shakespeare said a thing or two that were fairly good. All is well that ends well and this is going to end well, but we may not be doing so well tonight for we are not advertising enough; our death. We are not emphasizing enough; His death, His burial and His resurrection and the prophetic gospel, which I plan to be consumed with and I am already consumed with for this next year. Now, this  business:

() And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

is something that Jesus himself is saying. It’s not Paul’s version of discipleship. It is the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself. The sinless, spotless, Lamb of God is saying, “If you want to follow me, if you want to be my successor, if you want to take up where I left off, then this is what you do: you get on this journey, you leave yourself behind, you take up your cross daily and you follow in My footsteps.  is a wonderful verse of scripture. I love it and I have used it more than a thousand times in messages. Everyone seems to like verse 8 of because is says:

() Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

But wait a minute, there is still price to pay for God’s miracle working power. Everybody wants to someday heal the sick, or cleanse the lepers, or raise the dead. They want to see demons cast out. They want to see all of this on a wholesale scale, but there is a price to be paid. I said, everyone likes , but not everyone likes verse 38. Let me just preface it with verse 37.

() He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

That is pretty cruel discipleship, isn’t it? Did you know that you might have to follow that close? Did you know that the cross might be that excruciatingly painful? Some of you found out later and you just skipped out. You may stay out or you may come in. The invitation to you is, come on back for the lord still loves you. You can still get into the journey. You can still deny yourself. You can still take up the cross daily and follow Him, but when you found out this part of the gospel it didn’t seem to be good news, did it? So, who in the world is willing to give up father and mother, houses and lands? Or even children? Who is willing to do that? That’s too radical! That’s too much! But can anything be wasted on the Son of God when He gave everything for you and me? When He died on the cruel tree, can anything be too much to give to Him?

You know there are people in my lifetime, when I first started out as a disciple for the lord people were on fire for God. All of those were rooting for me and they were blessing me and encouraging me along the way. Their lives were full of vim, vigor and vitality. They had a lot of energy for God and a lot of energy for bearing the cross, but you know many of those have passed on now. Some of them died while they were cooled off and while they lost the vision and while they never got back on the journey. But I don’t want that to happen to me and I pray this will never happen to you. We need to come back to the original Kansas City Fellowship where we had an original vision. Where we had an original simplified lifestyle and that was so wonderful for me to learn about. It eventually brought me here and it brought you here. Many of you that are here and have become fixtures here, that is the reason, because of that four-fold vision, the IHOP vision if you will. But verse 38 is what some people do not like.

() And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. {39} He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

() And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Whether it’s  or , the challenge is a challenge to surrender everything to the Lord Jesus Christ. You don’t have anything to lose, really, but your own life and you’re going to lose it anyway. So what is there to lose? We need to take up our cross and follow Him. The cost for being a disciple is one thing and I said it before, it is a great cost. But the cost of not being is a greater cost than you may ever dream of.

While I was preparing this message I thought about, “How about a hell on earth marriage? How about a hell on earth house full of children on drugs or in jail? How about a hell of bankruptcy and losing everything you have? How about a hell on earth of divorce? Then how about a hell on earth of attempted suicide?” So what’s left for us?

Most all of my adult life I have spent in a search of those who have similar values. My values are that we must come to the realization that we have to die and if we don’t die we will lose our life anyway. So, again, what do we have to lose? Dying to self is one of the strangest things. We don’t know a good definition for the flesh. I have preached messages about the flesh and it is a very mysterious thing. People want to deny themselves and they want to kill the flesh. They work hard at it under the Golden Arches. They eat junk food and they eat things that will kill them eventually and if you spend enough time under the Golden Arches you will soon be seeing the Pearly Gates. But will you be prepared to meet the lord unless you have successfully made this journey? Dying to self; here is what it means. When you are content with any food, any offering (and thank you for the offering I am very content. I don’t know what it is. When the bag passed me it was empty, but thank you for the offering tonight. I am contented with it.)

Any climate, any society, any raiment and any interruption by the will of God, that is dying to self. When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely set at naught and you don’t sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your heart is happy at being counted worthy to suffer for Christ; that is dying to self. When your good is evil spoken of and when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinion ridiculed and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving stride; that is dying to self. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularities or any annoyance. When you stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagant spiritual insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured; that is dying to self. When you never care to be referred to in conversation or to record your own good works or itch after commendations. When you truly love to be unknown; that is dying to self.

When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and you can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God while your needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances; that is dying to self. When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart; that is dying to self. Question: Are you dead yet? Am I dead yet? Well, I am dead certain that we must die. We must take up our cross and follow Him, ready to die to self.

There are things that others seem to be able get away with in the Christian walk and they don’t go very deep and they don’t go very far on the journey, but that’s not you. That’s not me. When I was just a young boy I read a tract that I ran across the other day and it was entitled, “Others May, You Can Not.” It had a whole list of things that others could very well get away with and seemed to be able get away with, like the song, “Farther Along, We’ll Understand Why.” We don’t understand why we have to be hit for every little thing we do and others just go along never molested and never tried, but we are all tempted and tried, but it is worth everything isn’t it? I just want you to know that your excitement about this message tonight is overwhelming me. It’s just like a tidal wave sweeping in from you. Don’t keep that coming. Just let me rest a little while here. Don’t bombard me with such praise for this wonderful message because I know you are all just itching to die. You are just dying to get out of here, but you can’t leave.

We have this radical call to death to self. God is calling us to voluntary fasting. That is the best thing if you can do it right now. It’s good because involuntary fasting can be rather painful when you are forced to it. Think about Jesus with the disciples. He said, “you won’t fast now that I am with you.” He was there, he was blessing them, but he said, “when the bridegroom is taken, then you will fast.”

() And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Listen, the lord can cut things off for you and me and make things miserable and that’s when it is an involuntary fast. It is time to fast the best we can. Why not volunteer while things are good? In the day of the lord’s power there will be willing volunteers.

() Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Well, how about you who volunteer now? There is going to be a special place for you, just remember that. You did your Christmas shopping early, why don’t you die early? Don’t wait for 1999. Why don’t we just die now? I mean die to self. Die to self and be resurrected into the newness of life and walk with Christ all through 1999 and be a red-hot, on fire, praying church and have intercession going, and have holiness going, and have the offering that God is accepting, have that going? Have the prophetic going and have prophetic preaching going and go all through 1999?

If you want to know the truth about it, I think 1999 is what we need to focus in on and forget about Y2K, that will take care of itself. If you want to know more about Y2K then get the tape that we did on that subject. It is entitled, “The Prophetic Tale of Two Cities.” Get that. I am not going to waste anymore time talking about Y2K. I am just sick of it. I want to talk about Y1K999. 1999 was going to be my greatest year and I can hardly wait for it. It is just right around the clock here. It won’t be long. Now this is not the time to get excited here. You should have gotten excited a while ago about dying. That is what we ought to get excited about. Come on now.

There is a three-fold drama about to be played out. Number one of course will be Y2K. There is a loss of electricity and some things are going to go haywire for a while, but that’s not the big problem. It is not Y2K, it’s Y-O-U. That’s what somebody said at one of our last conferences, the Amber Rose Conference in Portland. I think it was Jack Taylor. He said, “It’s not Y2K, it’s Y-O-U.” Then I added to it: “Yes, it’s Y-O-U and

M-E! It’s you and me, or you and I, I guess, but it sounds better because it’s hard to spell “I.” Well let me just tell you that it’s you and me and it is not what we think it is.

Number two; there will be economic pressure globally. I am talking about wholesale pressures with a domino affect; Indonesia, Japan, Russian, Brazil, Western Europe and then finally, the USA are all headed for some serious problems. But be that as it may, it will be the church’s finest hour. I have a friend that is looking in tonight by Internet and I think this is the first or second time that have preached on the Internet. While we were in Europe recently during the Shiloh Conference there were people all over that nation that we were in, who were watching you on the Internet. In fact someone in the household where we were staying. We were very seriously involved in some of the Far East business, but in that household there was someone watching the Shiloh Conference on the Internet. It just makes it a little closer for the lord to come back. When this gospel is preached in all the world, then shall the end come and here, there and everywhere the gospel is being preached. But I believe that this gospel represents the prophetic gospel; what the prophets said about the cross, the death, the burial and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and that is what God has ordained me for and called me for from my mother’s womb, to preach the prophetic gospel. That is all I am going to be doing in 1999 is preaching the prophetic gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation. We can thank the lord for that and the miracles are going to come from that and the thousands of souls that are going to be saved. I believe more souls will be coming to Christ in 1999 than any year in our history and we are going to see them come under the influence and through the power of the preaching of the prophetic gospel.

I wish we had a lot of time to say something about that, but just wait until 1999. If I go over past twelve midnight I will start preaching the prophetic gospel because I am committed to doing that all through 1999; preaching the prophetic gospel. What did the prophets say? Why did they prophesy? What came to pass? Where was it fulfilled and so on and you can talk to anyone. You can talk to an Islamic person. You can talk to a Moslem person about your doctrine and they will just treat you like you are beating the air and you will feel like you are beating the air, but if you preach the prophetic gospel it cannot be resisted because that is where the power is. That is where the power is for the Moslem. That is where the power is for the Hindu. That is where the power is for the Buddhist. That is where the power is and it is going to be different when they hear the gospel preached as the prophetic gospel, where you cannot resist the death, the burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as it has been prophesied by all of the holy prophets since the world began. Amen. That is where the power is. It is in the prophetic gospel.

All right now, we have talked about economic pressures globally and then, number three, there will be unprecedented terrorist activity. I know that you expected a little prophetic thing here tonight and you are getting it because staged acts of terrorism by demonically inspired minds from different parts of the world will be employed against America, especially, and also against Great Britain. I tell you that there are certain people who are not finding any peace about what has happened in Afghanistan and Sudan and in Iraq. I know I am bold in making those statements, but there are certain things that are going on. You know, I feel sorry for Iraq, but there is something biblical I want to say about Iraq. It is where the Garden of Eden existed. We know that, that piece of geography is so important and Iraq is where the first great lie was told. That was where the first lie was told. That was where the father of lies began his war on the Holy Father God and then had to be driven out of heaven. So they have had trouble ever since. But I have good news for Iraq, when the prophetic gospel is ever preached there in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, Iraq’s problems will be over and all of the Ishmael states will have no problems and study war no more and peace will come to the Middle East when the prophetic gospel is allowed to be preached. Can you say amen to that?

My how I enjoyed talking to my friend tonight from way up north, as far north as you can go from the USA. He is watching by Internet tonight. He is my friend and my intercessor, a dear minister friend that we met recently when Aaron and I went over on the Middle East business. We met him over there where we were staying and he is looking in and I just want to say hello to Bud tonight. I call him Bud wiser. I didn’t realize the meaning of that, but I do put a little slash after Bud/ and then, wiser. He is enjoying such wisdom from God and he was giving me some of these thoughts that just thrilled me through and through tonight. So, I just wanted to say hello, Bud and you just keep getting wiser. If he gets any more anointed he is going to be taken up like Enoch and I told him to please cool it just a little so he can stay here and help us, but you keep praying for me Bud.

But anyway, what can save us? First, there is going to be a national shaking and don’t discount God being in this. There will be a natural shaking.

() See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: {26} Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. {27} And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. {28} Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: {29} For our God is a consuming fire.

I want to get into a place with God that we can stand. Having done all to stand we will stand therefore and we cannot be shaken, but we will remain. We need that stability tonight.

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: {29} For our God is a consuming fire.

That is the reason I prayed that the judgment of God that’s in the house, that there would be a holy fear in this place tonight. That we would leave here with God meeting us in an awesome way and we would have a reverential awe for Him and a holy fear for all of 1999 for our God is a consuming fire.

A global shaking at the end will come and then a spiritual shaking. A global warring and as I said, there is a war in Iraq tonight and there is a war in the Middle East, but that is not the warring that I am talking about. I am talking about you and I entering into a spiritual warfare that hasn’t been described yet. It is indescribable warfare that I am trying to hit at tonight. I can’t even start to describe it because we are going to be warring against things that haven’t even been invented yet. Against tribulations and against temptations that haven’t even come up yet. The devil is working day and night in his laboratory trying to figure out something so sophisticated that even the most ardent Christian will fall for it. I used to tell the devil when he would send some good-looking broad, I mean good-looking female my way, I used to say, “devil can’t you do better than that?” Because that was my area of strength, but you know something? Well, you know, he did better and he did better. He will wind up doing so much better that he will cause you to fall if you are not stable. If you can be shaken you will fall.

But let’s get this stability we need. Let’s grind our heels in and let’s stand tall and strong and say, “Come on devil, I’m coming through right where you are standing and you can’t get me because I have already heard from heaven. I know what you are up to and the deal is dead. You’re a dead dude.” Well, I shouldn’t say that, but the deal is dead. I will only call the devil what the Word of God calls him and don’t you ever make the mistake of calling him anything the Word of God doesn’t call him. But, I feel very safe in anything that Jesus calls him and I have a whole list of things that I am saving up for 1999. When I get a little more vim, vigor and vitality I am going to let him have it.

() And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, {8} And prevailed not;

“And prevailed not!” There is bad news and there is good news. The bad news is we are going to war, but the good news is that it is going to be won. It says:

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, {8} And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. {9} And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:

He was cast out. And may I say would deceive the very elect if it were possible

() which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. {10} And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,

Isn’t that wonderful? Isn’t that something to praise God for? One day the accuser of the brethren will be cast down. This implies that he is already making trips to heaven or that he is already up there bringing accusations and saying accusatory things about every one of us, but thank God he will be cast down.

() Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night. {11} And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,

Remember, that which will prevail in the last days is the preaching of the cross, the blood, the death, the burial and the resurrection of Christ. None can dispute it, none can gainsay it, none can resist it. It is the irresistible gospel and after we are long gone, even the angels will preach the everlasting gospel and more people will be saved then, than the earth has ever known. But let me tell you I am anxious about what is going to happen in 1999 with you and me, or you and I preaching not only the everlasting gospel, but the prophetic gospel! Amen.

I just feel the power in that when I say it, but I’m not expecting you to get excited again because you’re still thinking about carrying the cross and about giving up mother, father, houses, lands and everything else and you just can’t bring yourself to that, but you are going to have to. You are going to have to! You don’t have to. You don’t have to. The cross may be too great for you, but I’ll tell you one thing, it’s going to be greater if you don’t. You shouldn’t have gotten yourself into this mess in the first place. You made a choice. It is a matter of choice that we choose Jesus Christ. It is a matter of choice that we accepted salvation. It is a matter of choice that we accept what comes with it. Now, we have all of these people that just, well, “grace is one thing” and “grace, you know, does cover it all,” but let me tell you there is something left for you and I to do when it comes to taking up our cross daily and follow Him. Don’t you ever forget it.

Now here is what’s left for us to do.

() {11} And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

You get a group of people in Kansas City that feel this way, that work this way together, that join in faith this way together in day and night prayer and sacrificial lifestyle and that is what I came here to be a part of and I want you to know that something is going to happen. If you don’t love your life this is what is going to happen:

{12} Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

But during that short time there is going to be a mobilization of God’s troops, of God’s army, of God’s people and some of those people are right here in Kansas City. They are not all here, but there is a good segment of God’s people here and they have come here for all of the right reasons. You may have gotten sidetracked on some of this, but you can come on back and take up your cross any time. Before it is too late let’s do it and let’s get on with it.

() And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. {14} And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. {15} And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. {16} And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. {17} And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Let me tell you that the solution is for the church, globally, warring in red-hot, fervent prayer, fasting, intercession, prayer and supplication. That is the need. It is a radical call to prayer. . You say, “There sure is a lot of scripture in this tonight.” Well, I know there is a lot of scripture. I happen to know where the power is for the Word of God is powerful and there is no Word of God without power. So the more of that I use tonight, the more of it that I employ it, the more obligated God is and the Holy Spirit is to come along side here and confirm the Word even with signs and wonders and diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit. He has always done that, always will do that and why should tonight be an exception? He can do it again tonight.

() Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

That is what I came to Kansas City for. I know that many of you came to Kansas City for that. You heard this was a place for day and night prayer, 24 hour prayer. You heard the IHOP thing. You heard about the intercession. You heard about all of this; about the giving to the poor, the offering and the radical ministry to the poor. You heard about it and you came here for those reasons and for more. But here the church was gathered together for a very special reason. Peter had been cast into prison right after James had been killed by the sword of Herod and it says in here, in verse 6:

{6} And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. {7} And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

We are talking about New Testament caliber stuff. May it come to Kansas City. May it live in Kansas City. May it be welcome in Kansas City. May it have a good life here. May 1999 see the fulfillment of all of this, not only the chains falling off, but the gate opening of it’s own accord and the deliverance of all of God’s people. Like Peter was delivered, we will be delivered. Sorry, just a little sidebar there.

{8} And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did.

I tell you, there is going to be a lot of that kind of thing. God is going to speak and say, “Get out of bed,” and so I did. “Put on your shoes,” and so I did. “Go down to the street,” and so I did. That is where the gospel and the Word have been taken and dumped. Pick it up! Reclaim it and preach it! Preach the prophetic gospel! “And these dry bones will live,” and they did. I’m going to look foreword to that..

{9} And he went out, and followed him; and wist not (did I say, “And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee?, I guess not. Well, anyway, he put on his garment on and followed him. We have to be clothed before we leave the prison, see.)

{9} And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.

God is going to be moving so fast in these last days, we can’t tell whether it’s a vision or whether it’s the lord Himself, or what is going on. It’s just going to start happening. Look for it in 1999! This is not a pep talk. I’m glad I have some pep. I’m glad I have some vim. I don’t know, I didn’t expect, well, I’m glad I’ve got it! That’s all there is to it. I don’t know… well, I do know how I it happened, but I don’t have time to tell you about it.

{9} And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. {10} When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. {11} And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. {12} And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. {13} And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. {14} And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.

Well, of course they say, “well it’s impossible to pray for him. Herod has already killed James with the sword and now they are going to do the same and probably crucify Peter upside down tomorrow, and don’t bother us.” But, you know, even though they were praying and not knowing, really, what they were praying for, red-hot intercessory prayer pays off whether you know what to pray for or not. Even if you can’t do anything but groan in the Spirit the Holy Spirit will make intercession for you and make sense out of your groanings. Just make it a red-hot powerful groan and groan in the Spirit if you can’t do anything else, but they prayed not knowing really what to pray for and God answered their prayers anyway because the Spirit was praying behind it. You’re missing all of this good doctrine.

{16} But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

Some of you will be astonished at the kind of prayers God is going to answer, but it’s our only hope. If you don’t do it, what on earth are we going to do about people like Don Steadman and people like Pat Bickle. We need red-hot intercession going and day and night, 24-hours a day and not even bother to check out the health reports of the people we pray for, but just keep praying and praying and praying and then you may be astonished at what has happened because you haven’t had time to hear the latest news or read the latest email. You just were so busy seeking the face of God for these needs that you were astonished when it happened.

{17} But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go show these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place. {18} Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. {19} And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode. {20} And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country. {21} And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. {22} And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

If we ever praise anyone or anything or any place above our magnification of God for what He will be doing through intercession and prayer and through the pursuit of holiness and our pursuit of feeding the poor and extravagant giving and all of that, our prophetic preaching; it has to be that we give God the glory and God the praise for everything that is a result from that. Can you say amen? But here is a man that gave God not the praise and they praised him as though he were a god and not a man and immediately the angel of the lord smote him.

{22} And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. {23} And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him,

The angel of the lord delivered Peter from prison, but now here the angel of the lord smote Herod because he gave not God the glory…because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. {24} But the word of God grew and multiplied. {25} And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.

Now we are in a similar situation here in Kansas City. The only solution to our woes and our problems with so many coming down with cancer and even in the leadership of the church. Those great people have been smitten with these afflictions. Now here is our dilemma. Either we pray without ceasing and don’t give up just because you get a good report. Now, with all due respect and with all kindness, I am not trying to destroy any faith, we should not stop praying for Don Steadman. We should not stop praying for anyone else that has a remission or seems to be getting all good reports because the same faith that we employ to pray for them to get those good reports, we may need to maintain that for them to keep getting good reports from here on out. Let’s keep the demon of cancer, which has an intelligence all it’s own, let’s keep cancer away from this body by red-hot intercessory prayer, fasting and a lifestyle that pleases God.

I want to show you that five great things came out of this  prayer meeting at John Mark’s mother’s house.

1) The angel of the lord delivers Peter from prison and that was no little miracle.

2) The angel of the lord smote Herod because he gave not the glory to God.

3) The Word of God grew.

4) The Word of God multiplied.

5) The greatest missionary journey in all of history; Paul and Barnabus launched the first missionary journey.

So it pays to pray. Look what comes out of it.

() Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Some things don’t move easily. Some things are not easily cast out or done in, or done away with. So, we are going to be approaching some big demons and some big problems. Forget about Y2K and think of the problems of 1999 that God is giving you and giving me the opportunity to stand up against, to pray against, to war against. There is going to be a warring of the saints, especially here in Kansas City. I challenge you and everybody listening around the world, I challenge you to make this a year of warring. A lot will depend on how far Y2K goes, by how far we go in our prayer, our red-hot prayer regime praising God, worshipping God and praying day and night without ceasing.

So the church is being called upon to fast in this desperate hour. We need to fast in many and varied ways of life. I know some people who just are tired of reading about the news. They fast the newspapers. They fast CNN, they fast television news. They fast periodical reading and book reading.

You can fast television, that’s a tough one right there. When I first started in apostolic ministry as a teenager, I want you to know that television was just coming in. It hit New York big time. It was black and white then and a lot of snow was in it and everything. They had snow just about every night even through the summer, just by watching television. But anyway, I hated that thing. It was like a demon rising up against the church. It started eventually emptying the churches. It also emptied the theaters. A lot of the great theaters (the good and bad side of that) a lot of the great theaters out west closed down because of television, when television hit. It was good for us because we were able to rent out some of the largest and most beautiful theaters in the country because television closed them down. Television was a one-eyed monster that just robbed the church of attendance. Let me tell you, it wouldn’t hurt if you fast television. If you fast television.

You say, “What about Christian Television?” There will be no Christian Television in heaven, you might as well get used to it now. So we could even fast a little in that area. I wouldn’t want to go to heaven for Christian Television. Wouldn’t you be bored for watching television throughout eternity for millions and billions and quartrillions of years? Oh my, no way. Just let everything that hath breath will be praising the lord and we won’t have to watch television to do it. Thank God for television right now, but I am going on a fast. Now, you’ve heard me, didn’t you? I am going on a fast, but lord, don’t take my videos away from me. I mean, I know that some of you just rented some videos and you’re anxious to go home and watch them. All right.

But this is a wake-up call for the church of Kansas City and we really are sleeping. Not all of you, but some of us are sleeping. Now, the bad thing about sleeping, as I have said before, is that we don’t know we are asleep until we wake up. Now isn’t that logical? But before a great awakening there is going to be a rude awakening. We do things in our sleep that we would never think of doing while we are awake and the church is doing some embarrassing things these days. When I was young and a Southern Baptist preacher, finally ordained by a Southern Baptist church; I had been a fiery Pentecostal preacher before that, but there was so much rule making and so much legalism in the Pentecostal church that I escaped. I thought that I would find less gossip and less sin in a more refined church. Well, it was just the opposite. What they didn’t do in the way of some of the shameful things of the other group, they made up for it in other ways so I was just out of the frying pan and into the fire. So the only way out of this is for us to truly wake up and for us to truly, truly see what the major vision is. It’s not leaving Metro and going into something else or leaving that something and going into something else, you will never find peace. But there is a rude awakening right where you are and we need to come out of our sleep. Amen. The thought I was pursuing there has left me. If it comes back, it was the lord. If it doesn’t , I’m not worried about it.

Let me share two major visions with you that led me to Kansas City. June 1996: the IHOP vision, Intercession, Holiness, Offering and the Prophetic. That was enough to bring me here, but the thing that happened in August 1997 in which God revealed to me that Kansas City was a place of day and night prayer. I couldn’t think of any other place because I thought if Kansas City is red-hot on this day and night prayer that is where I have to be because I had a dream in Anaheim, California and I was told in that dream that I would not survive. I would not come through what I was suffering if I did not find a place of day and night prayer. So I hopped a plane from Anaheim or Orange County to Kansas City for that reason. I am here for that reason and if you let down and you stop praying without ceasing, if you discontinue the vision for your four values then I am sunk and a lot of other people will sink with me. But let’s go all the way with this. God is beginning to use similar events like in  to wake up His sleeping church.

My mother has quoted this scripture to me in her lifetime or my lifetime hundreds of times.

() Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: {11} So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Father, I pray that you will anoint the rest of this message and not let anything take away from it. Lord, we refuse to listen to that fallen worshipper ever again. We refuse to give in to the spirit of witchcraft and Jezebel ever again, in Jesus name, amen.

This is not a time to sleep. This is not a time to be numb or to numb our senses with the wine of Babylon or any other kind of wine if you want to know the truth about it. . You say, “Well, what about wine drinking? There’s nothing in the bible about drinking wine as a sin, it’s only drunkenness that is a sin.” Well, be that as it may, this is the time for soberness. We are right on the heels of doom or we are on the threshold of the greatest move of God in all of the history of the world combined. So don’t you think it’s good if we give up the wine of Babylon and all else that comes from Babylon and come out from among her because the good that are in her will perish with the bad. All the bad that are in her. So you don’t want to be the good mixing with the bad. It’s an unholy mixture. God has come to give something to his people in an unprecedented way. He will visit his people without mixture, with his Spirit without measure.

() Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {15} See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, {16} Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

I want you brothers and sisters to know that we here tonight, (it’s just before midnight, I can say it) we are the only people on God’s earth, on this planet, that have a unique ability to buy time. Redeem means buy! We, the children of God, can buy time! We can say, “just a little longer please, Jesus.” That’s not just an icky song. It is a special message to the church; just a little longer please, Jesus. Just a little longer to get our loved ones in. There is time for you and I to buy time because the days are so evil. It seems like one more day of evil will overwhelm us, bit we can buy time.

 describes a vision I had about AIDS, a communicable form of cancer as it were, coming upon the human race. Twenty years ago I preached ardently and even the medical profession, some of the of the medical community doctors were attending our meetings who were great friends of ours said, “Paul, you’re going to ruin your ministry and lose all of your credibility because there is no proof and never will be that cancer is communicable. There will never be anything like this, surely. If you want to keep your ministry intact don’t say that anymore.” But I kept saying there was a fire in my bones that in the last days men’s hearts would fail them for a form of disease that would come upon them through sexual acts and would transmit a thing like cancer. It would be communicable and they would die from it and men’s hearts would fail them for the fear of this coming upon them. Well, there are other reasons too, men’s hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things that are coming upon the earth. There will be people who will die over Y2K, over the fear of it. Not over the calamities, but over the fear of it before a calamity ever comes. So let’s get that out of us right now, amen? Let’s work on that. We’ve got a whole year to do it. So don’t fear those things which are coming upon the earth for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

() And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

This is an awesome warning tonight. That is the reason we should not partake of the wine of Babylon. That is the reason we should not get investing into the money system, the world system of Babylon, because Babylon will fall. We must have our faith in the unseen, which is the only real thing left to have faith in. The seen is absolutely futile and it’s not real. It’s the unseen. It’s our way out and it’s our invisible means of support.

() For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. {36} Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

“Oh, but the grace of God will cover us. Oh we’re saved and the lord is going to take care of it. Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe.” Of course he did, but why should we, why should we watch then? Why should we pray? Why pray if it has already been determined what God is going to do? No, we can pray and God will hear our prayers and God will heal our land! God will save our household! He will save a nation, maybe in a day.

{36} Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Amen and amen. Brother Bud and I were talking tonight about the need to pray the kind of prayer that I prayed in the early part of the message. The kind that I want to end with too. 

() Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Where that saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he spake,

() Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

All right, I am closing this message, but I’m closing it on a positive note. Earlier I talked about the finger of God. Do you know he spanned the heavens? He spanned the heavens with His little finger. If he can do all of that with his little finger and if he flung the stars in space and hung all of the constellations in the sky and he did all of these acts with his finger and his hand, what on earth could He do with His arm? I want to end this on that. We have something wonderful to look foreword to and my heart will not fail me for fear because I see the finger of God and I see Him casting out devils. I see the hand of God. I see Him making all things well and I see the arm of God strengthening us to preach the prophetic gospel to the ends of the earth and then shall the end come. God has raised us up for such a time as this: for the time for the Arm of the Lord to be revealed.

In the 1960’s we published a periodical called, “Our Report.” It was a clever little thing to come up with because we had a scripture at the top that said, “Who has believed our report?” Then underneath it we had the rest of the Isaiah scripture, “And to whom has the arm of the lord been revealed?” Then we would have some pages in there of testimonies of people who had been saved in the meetings and people who had been healed in the meetings. People who had marvelous deliverance’s. They were the ones to whom the arm of the lord was revealed. So I say there will be a greater manifestation of this. We are going to hear from people who have believed the everlasting gospel. Who have believed the prophetic gospel. Who have believed the report which is the prophetic gospel and to whom the arm of the lord has been revealed. God has raised us up for such a time as this and the lord wants to reveal his arm.

One last thought: God is looking for true worshippers who are always in the pursuit of worshipping Him in Spirit and in truth. God wants us to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. He is seeking for those to worship Him and those who worship Him, to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. That is how we come into alignment with the plan and purpose of God for us.

() When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

The work of His hands in other words. The lord made the heavens and the earth by the work of His hands, but just wait until you see in the last days, what He will do when He reveals His arm. His arm is about to be revealed, revealing the prophetic gospel. It’s about to be revealed in the most amazing move of God the world has ever seen. It will be the preaching to the ends of the earth of the prophetic gospel in a way that none will be able to gainsay or resist it. The redemptive work of God. I want to just add that a whole city will hear it, like Ninevah, and turn to the lord in a day. Then a whole nation will hear it; I don’t know by what means, but they will hear the preaching of the prophetic gospel and one day maybe in your lifetime and mine, we will see a nation! I hope its Iraq. I hope its Jordan. I hope its Israel because he promised that he would purge the iniquity of Israel in a day! In one day! So I hope he turns nations unto him in one day and the preaching of the prophetic gospel can do that. The redemptive work of God: the cross, the death, the burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the prophets.

I tell you, I used to come home after a meeting and my mother would say, “Was there a good meeting? Was there any Azusa there?” I said, “What do you mean by that?” She said, “Well, did anybody feel the presence of the lord? Did anybody shout? Did anybody get saved? Did anybody get healed?” Well, I just want all of that to happen here tonight. I know my mother is looking in on this, maybe. I don’t think she is looking in by Internet because they don’t have it up there. Microsoft is too hard for heaven. But let me tell you they have something better and she has a way of looking over, into this service tonight and my Grandmother is looking in too, saying, “There’s my Buzzy and God is blessing him.” That’s what she always said when I preached.

All right, I don’t apologize for preaching so long. I wish I could preach longer and I may. But , if you had been through all that I’ve been through you would be glad just to be here, but I’m glad to be here and to be anointed. If you don’t think I’m anointed, that just shows you how the devil has fooled you. I want you to know that he shouldn’t be tampering with your thinker that way.

() And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. {2} And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. {3} For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Won’t you prepare for it tonight? In closing, can we see the need of coming back to those four values? I came here because I wanted to share those values with you. I wanted to live them out with you. I intend to live out my value of a celibate life with you in hopes that somewhere along the way there will be others who will be able to make it. There is a great reward in that. There is a reward in being a eunuch for Christ. There is a reward for making a choice of this kind. There is a reward for making the IHOP choice. There is a reward for making all of this extravagant giving to the poor, the choice to do that. All of these: IHOP, in this international house of prayer is also meaning by acronym, this great intercession and holiness and pursuit of holiness, and offering to the poor and this prophetic preaching; let me tell you, great things are in store.

But the things that I have read to you of a negative nature: Babylon falling, which means get out of her or you will fall with her. , and I’m closing. What manner of people ought we to be? I’m asking you, will you prepare with me? Will you prepare yourself with me for 1999?

() Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, {12} Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? {13} Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. {14} Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent (BE DILIGENT!) that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Heavenly Father, tonight I have preached none other invitation than that of the sinless, spotless Son of the Living God; His invitation to discipleship.

() And he said to them all, (It’s a matter of choice) If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Lord, we want to follow in your steps throughout 1999. We don’t want to just be secular Christians and believers and be a part of the humanistic form of church that both saint and sinner would do no differently and if we come into a situation saying, “What would Jesus do?” in a situation like this and then try to do it. Lord, we want to be so filled with your power and with the Lord Jesus Christ. We want to be so much in Christ, for in Adam all died, but in Christ all are made alive. We want to be so much alive in you that we would automatically do what it is to do when we see any situation with the poor, or with the sick and suffering, especially with the lost and dying. Lord, we will just do it because we are following in your steps. Give us that tonight, in Jesus name.

I want every one of you that will accept the challenge, you have plenty of time tonight before this meeting is over, to accept the challenge of making 1999 the most important year, ever, in your life. We don’t know how many else we will have of many more years or even if we will go all through 1999. But lord willing, if we have 1999 before us, will you accept this challenge tonight to make every day count?

My thought about happiness: I used to say that happiness is the most elusive thing in the world and I gave up on it. But I’m still thinking that happiness, to me, means something to look foreword to. I heard that and it just kind of set with me. Have you ever heard a little thing like that? Just someone says it accidentally? Not even a believer said that. I thought, that’s what it is, happiness, that’s it really is: something to look foreword to. I’m looking foreword to red-hot, glorious intercession and prayer meetings. I’m looking foreword to IHOP becoming a reality. I’m looking foreword to Shiloh amounting to something more than we ever dreamed of. I’m looking foreword to 1999 producing marvelous results as the lord comes along side, as the Holy Spirit automatically accompanies us and we do things that we do not ordinarily do and we say things that we cannot ordinarily say, and preach the prophetic gospel just this way that a city or a nation will come to the lord in a day. Will you stand?

I really would like to minister to a lot of people tonight, but I prayed a whole lot about that. I prayed much about it and I believe the lord said, “I will give you energy to do my will. I will give you energy to do one thing and if you step outside of that perimeter it will be you that will have to account for it.” So I have been cautious and I have been careful to only do only what the lord anointed me to do tonight. My anointing is confined and restricted to the kind of preaching that I have done tonight. That’s all that I have had energy for. My brain has been messed up all day long. The last two days I’ve been under an attack, but I cried out to the lord over and over. I said, “Lord, keep me out of palpitations, keep me out of atrofribulation.” Right now I’m wearing an event monitor, a heart monitor and I think it has blown up and I’m going to have to pay thousands of dollars for it because I think the power showed up tonight in the prophetic words that were said and the prophetic preaching, or prophetic gospel, rather. I know that sounds funny to you, but it’s a very expensive little gadget and I was warned not to wear it because there has been a time more than once where power has come into a meeting and things happen. Somebody said, “Don’t wear that tonight. That’s the first thing the power will hit.” No, I think it just hit my heart, I really do and it hit my mind.

The lord gave me grace for this meeting tonight. He gave me power and strength and he has made my way plain to preach the gospel. So, I’m leaving it with you. You have a long time to do something with it before 1999 rolls in. Well, maybe not so long, but I would get on it if I were you. I’m going to get with it. We’re going to see God do things that will astonish us just like it did those believers at John Mark’s mother’s house in .

God be with you. God, bring us into everything that Kansas City IHOP vision and Shiloh vision ever, ever was meant to be and don’t let us miss a thing, in Jesus name

Sermons from Yesteryear | Paul Cain

Paul Cain. Transcript of message 18th November 2017. Rainton Meadows Arena. Sunderland

WITH PROFOUND APPRECIATION TO DEBORAH STEVENS ORGILL FOR THE OUTSTANDING WORK, TIME AND DEDICATION GIVEN TO THIS LONG TRANSCRIPTION.

Thank you so much. I am so thrilled and pleased with what the Lord has ordained for such a time as this and excuse this I can’t see any of you without blocking the light. I never felt comfortable in the lime light anyway.

I’m here to tell you that the Lord is here and my Mama always taught me and said you must decrease for Him to increase. Every meeting I would go to she would pray over me, as I was leaving she’d say, “Son, you just be as little as you can be and God will be just as big as He can be.” So I come to you tonight in weakness, but the Lord’s strength is what we’re looking for, the impartation of His strength. And if I can do no more than groan in the Spirit, it’ll accomplish more than all the beautiful words the auditory put together.
I am really just so glad to be here. Someone said at your age and condition you should be glad to be anywhere (laughter). but I’m specially glad to be here.

My mother was a very humorous person and I think she passed what humour she had along to me. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to see the receptivity, no resistance, I couldn’t feel any amount of resistance in this meeting last night. The speakers today were on fire and that just pleased me so much. Paul Mannering…Man Warring I guess I pronounce it. Man Warring…and it looks like he won the war. And Doctor Glass, I hear that the Lord was mighty, used him mightily today. It just really thrilled my heart to think we heard from God and obeyed the Lord and here we are in a most history making meeting probably in many decades. We prayed it would be greater than 1907, the results, when the results are finally in we’re going to look back on this meeting, those of us who are still alive , and say I was there and God was moved in and anointed in a mighty way and He’s here tonight to confirm ministries and do mighty things.

I was just hoping in some way, this young doctor who led me to the platform, I understand he’s the son in law of brother Ken and Lois Gott and he came to visit me today. Someone said you’re always having health issues, health problems and they’re critical of that and in America a prayer request will go out and say Paul Cain needs prayer and then the response is, “How bad is he this time?” Very heart warming. Well, anyway, I think I had the battle of my life this morning. So brother and sister Ken and Lois sent their son in law, who is an accomplished, I guess sounds like, a world class physician, already retired, can you imagine that, if I had the finances I would just invite him and his family to travel with me and help me. He told me things that only one other specialist I ever met told me and so he really is an intelligent, accomplished doctor. Well I didn’t come to preach tonight, I just came to talk about how God really established you in the meeting last night and we will see the results of it on the years to come. I want you to pray that I will live to see at least some of the benefits from this meeting. (Applause) I want to with all my heart.
Now one of the things that happens to me without the anointing, where my memory is involved and without the Lord illumining my mind, sometimes I don’t know where I am. This morning I had an experience where I thought it was the end and my life, I didn’t know where I was, I didn’t know who I was and I didn’t know if someone else was in the next room. It was probably the most unusual experience and the enemy said, “Well, you’re not going to live through this meeting.” Well now that bothers me. Wouldn’t it bother you? Well of course the devil is a liar, always has been from the beginning so I have to remind him of that. He always knows it, but we have to remind the devil who the devil is. How many of you would like to get to the point where you just scare the devil out of the devil? Wouldn’t that be wonderful! I’m not preaching tonight as you can tell, but I’m going to share a few things with you. I just wanted to tell you that I was breathe struck when I was told that Doctor Colin Dye and his wonderful wife Amanda had gone back today and I thought, “Oh I won’t get to tell them what’s on my heart for them|” and when I found them here tonight it just really blessed my heart.

I don’t know when I’ve met anyone who has challenged me to really go on to know the Lord, as Hosea said, as much as brother Ken and Lois Gott, They’re just regal people to me, very wonderful charged vessels of God and who else would the Lord call to host the beginning of a revival like this. You know I had an assistant that lasted for 20 years, he and his wife when they first met me, they were just newly married and they sent me a card, a greeting card and they said we don’t love you for what you’ve got we love you for who you are, but what you got ain’t bad either. So with the Gott’s I thought of something a little humorous today. I was telling Danny, the Gott’s have ‘got it, the Gott’s have ‘got it’, can’t remember the rest. You that have discernment can laugh and you that don’t just forget I said it. So anyway I wanted to mention people tonight if I possibly could.

I have a representative here for many years n the meeting and he and his wife have been such wonderful friends and that’s Jon and Kerry Cressey. I’m just so glad they are here, that they represent the Paul Cain Ministry of the UN, I mean the UK. I really appreciate them being here. I appreciate the hostages, I mean the hosts that they’ve been to us given and taken care of us. They’ve been absolutely wonderful. Well I know there’s someone I’m going to leave out. I know there’s a young man here tonight, an older man now who is married and he was in the meeting in Anaheim California when I first gave the visions of the stadiums and that meeting was accompanied by such awesome power that something tangible, something you could feel knocked out a $50,000 camera and the phone systems and someone said that can happen because of the current in the AC, the electrical current, but what was strange about it, it was all battery operated equipment and all of that burned because of the power of God that was in that place.

I don’t know whether I told you last night about, we had a meeting in Olathe, Kansas, near Kansas City, Missouri, on the Kansas side and the glory of God came to the degree that the fire alarm was set off at the fire station and here are all these fire trucks and fireman came in and the power and the presence of God was so strong that it was so disruptive to see them walk in with their yellow jackets and hats, axe in their hand. ” Where’s the fire? Where’s the fire? Fire alarm, fire signal….Well when the glory of God comes it messes up with, gets mixed up with the what is real in the flesh and what’s real in the natural mind because the natural mind can’t discern the things of God.

How many of you know that there were people in this meeting last night, you were here, you believe that the first match was struck, that God was going to strike the first match for revival? Amen. I believe that with all my heart.

This is something I wanted to speak about tomorrow, but I feel like there are people here tonight that God wants to hear this and you may not be in the meeting tomorrow so I’d like to just give you my thoughts, then pray for you and see what The Lord has in store for us tonight.

Again you know, Dan and I are not in this thing alone. Appreciate Dr. Glass and Dr Paul Manwarring. We appreciate them. Appreciate the Gotts. Appreciate what they’ve got it’s really wonderful

“But the Lord had laid on my heart just to talk about discipleship tonight. In Luke 9:23 it is written the real meaning and a real principle of discipleship and you can take a note, I want you to read this when you have time. It speaks of discipleship. I believe it is a journey. For many years we had a television programme in America that was really blessed and it was entitled,” The Class of 33AD.” It was all about discipleship. So I think that’s what Luke 9:23 is all about.
“If any man would come after me he must deny himself take up his cross daily and follow me.”
When we think of discipleship as a journey, every journey consists of 3 things:
1. What we leave behind.
2. What we take with us.
3. The path we follow.
So of course what we leave behind in Luke 9:23 is ourself; we leave self behind. What we take with us; we take up our cross daily and the path we follow is in His steps. We follow the Lord. That’s the most wonderful illustration of discipleship that I could ever imagine. So I want you to think of yourself in the future journey that’s ahead of us to leave something behind and what we leave behind is of course yourself. You know everytime I go on a trip I prepare to take something with me and always leave something behind and what you leave behind in discipleship, you leave behind yourself. And what you take with you, you take up your cross daily and follow him in His steps. There is no reason to ever get out of sync or ever be distracted as long as you keep your eyes on Jesus. How many think it’s important to keep your eyes on Jesus? “Looking onto Him the author and finisher of our faith.” We need to keep our eyes on the Lord. I could see in this vision for discipleship in Luke 9:23, the Lord leading us. If you’re following the Lord you need to keep your eyes on Jesus and He’s the one that’s head of the group and if you don’t keep your eyes on Him, the Lord may turn a corner and you have your eyes now on number 13 and he goes right on in another direction and you’ve missed the Lord altogether. Wouldn’t that be sad.
So the point beyond all points tonight is, “Keep your eyes on Jesus.”
Watch the Lord and which way He goes and don’t follow after another, because you’ll wind up in all kinds of weirdness and doctrines that are even of devils.

Keep your eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ and that’s what’s important in this last day revival, is for you to keep your eye on the Lord at all times and to do what He does and follow in his step, then you’re going to be involved in revival beyond your fondest dreams. Supernatural revival, the healing of the sick and the raising of the dead.

Before I came here, every time I would look at Lois on the Facebook page. I would see all these children and I saw one in particular and it turns out his name is Elijah and the Lord showed me, I told his father today, that the Lord showed me that he was a future prophet and that he was going to be used, before I ever knew his name was Elijah. Before anyone ever told me anything about it, I was going to ask Ken and Lois about this young man.

So I say to that, something happened when I was 5 years old. I didn’t know anything about my mother’s healing or about my calling and we went to this First Assemblies of God, little county church, Saxe Texas and everyone forgot there was an old prophet there….. Stately old gentleman, just an awesome looking man. He had the largest hands I think I’ve ever seen and here a little 5 year old boy that was leaving with my family, my family was holding my hand taking me out of church, he stopped them and put his great big hand on the back of my head and just captured my head in his hand. I felt so strange and he said , ‘ I hold in my hand” and his voice just resonated all through the church,
he said, “I hold in my hand on the head of a future prophet to the nations.” You know that didn’t mean so much to me till later when I found out that the Lord appeared to my Mom at my birth and told her she’d live and not die, when she’s dying with the cancerous tumours in her womb and cancers that had eaten both breasts away and mutilated her and destroyed her breasts and her heart trouble and tuberculosis in both lungs. Now my mother was given up to die long before my birth and she went to Baylor University Hospital for help. They told her she was dying and never would live for the time for me to be born. How many of you believe I’ve been born?

Well I’ve been born you know for all these years. It seems like all my life I’ve loved the Lord. Never has been a time in my life when I didn’t love the Lord. I’ve never turned away from Him and I’ve followed Him on a discipleship journey and it looks like it’s going to pay off in innumerable dividends right form this meeting here. God is going to raise up young prophets and apostles and evangelists and teachers and pastors from these meetings to go into all the world and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. But I just come and I just tell you these simple little truths. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Keep your eyes focussed on Him. You know it used to be our theme song in the meetings.

I was staying in a home for elderly women, they had a prophets chamber there, when I was at Calvary Temple in Los Angeles for meetings and there was a lady there that had written a song and it turned out to be Mother Lidden and she wrote this song, “Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face and the things of earth will grow strangely dim as we see His glory and behold His grace. Let’s keep our eyes on the Lord. Don’t ever allow yourself to focus on number 13 or you’ll be ruined. You’ll be tainted. You’ll be absolutely out, out of step with what God is doing in these last days.

Don’t you want to be in on the greatest event in history? Don’t you want to think that we maybe the very generation that will see the Lord split the eastern skies of Glory and come to earth to catch His bride away?

Listen! All things will disappear. There’s been some songs. I used this phrase quite a bit lately because it’s the winter of my life and when something warms the winter of my life it thrills me and when I heard from Dr. Colin Dye the other day, he wrote something that i just said to him, ” You’ve just warmed the heart of an old man in the winter of his life.” Well I want you to know in the winter of my life right now, the greatest thing i could ever hope for is to know that last night a fire was lit. Last night something just as significant as the beginning of any move of God or revival of the past, may go beyond it and upstage it greatly and it happened last night. How honoured we are just to be here with each of you and to the speakers, the leaders of this meeting. I’ll never be the same again. I’ve had faith to go through all I know I had to go through to get to the end of the way.

How many of you still want to be a disciple? You still want to follow the Lord? You still want to look to him the author and finisher of our faith.

Not long ago I was in North Carolina. I was in a walk out basement of a beautiful home there, staying with some wonderful people. I was there by myself and I was looking out of these sliding glass doors and it was night time outside, but i actually had a vision and didn’t know what was going on. But I had a vision of the host of heaven and I saw my mother and everyone in that host looked exactly alike and I thought, ” How in the world will I recognise my mother and my loved ones?” And I knew my mother out of that great host of vast numbers of people and I said, “How can this be Lord?” And so He said, ” Well you will be known as you are known.” Won’t that be wonderful! To be in heaven and know as you are known. I mean you’ll know everything , everybody as you are known.

Well say something. Amen! Don’t you look forward to that? Now I do look forward to that and heaven’s my home, but I’m not home sick tonight. I really want to live to see what you’re going to see. I really want to live to see young men and women excel for God. Heal the sick and raise the dead and I haven’t lost the fire I had when I was a very young preacher.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time and the pastor’s son of this great church, Calvary Temple, in the old Paul Rader tabernacle, he was the man who wrote, “Only Believe”. Remember that old chorus we used to sing? And so this pastor’s son had just returned from South America and he had fasted for 40 days, had unusual miracles, everything this side of raising the dead. But I had a vision beyond this. I was going for raising of the dead, you know when I was just a very young man, a boy. So I told him that I believed God would raise a person from the dead during the meeting at Calvary Temple. He said, ” Well that would be wonderful!’ So I said, ” I know you’ve seen outstanding wonderful things in South America, but something better than that is going to happen during this meeting. Someone’s going to get raised from the dead.” I said, “Will you pray with me? Will you pray with me that we’ll hear about someone dying during the meeting and we’ll go and raise them from the dead.” He said, “Sure. I’ll agree with you. i’ll pray for you.”

One day he came, he had no sense of humour at all, he came in and said,” We’ve got a live one!” And I said, “What?”
“Well”, he said, “A lady in the church, her husband died this morning and I called her and told her we were coming to pray for her.” So I thought he told her that we were coming out to raise her husband from the dead. So we prepared to go to the home of this palatial mansion type home and very wealthy people. We went in the living room area and we were seated in comfortable seating for this lady who had just become a widow and Paul, the other man was named Paul, this young man and he began to quote John 12:14. Anyway I said, “Paul!” Paul Copp was his name, I said, “Didn’t you tell this lady what we were coming here for?”
“Well wait just a minute brother Paul, I told her we were coming to speak.”
I said, “Paul, you didn’t tell her?” And I walked over in front of the divan and I said, “Lady we’re here to raise your husband from the dead.” And she shot straight up from that couch and looked at me and fainted. So here we’re patting her little hand trying to bring her back around, so when she did come back around she said,”Did I understand you right? Did you say you were here to raise my husband?” She said, ” Please don’t! You wouldn’t do that would you? Please don’t! I wouldn’t have him back for anything!” (laughter).

So that’s the closest we ever came to raising the dead from that time.

You know it’s going to take that kind of child like faith in this discipleship journey. We’re going to have to be able to trust God for anything. I don’t know how we’re going to get rid of this carnal brain of ours and see the dead raised in these last days. It’s going to be a revival so great that the dead will be raised. That’s the kind of thing you’ve signed up for whether you realise it or not. Amen. Amen!

We have some people here from the States, that have come all the way over here and why do you think they did that? Because they really believed that God was going to visit Sunderland, and that it was going to be unprecedented and that’s what we talked about last night. I’m not going to speak a long time tonight, but i just want you to know that we need the dead raising faith to see this revival to go the way God wants it. We need to go about everyday in this discipleship journey telling the righteous it shall be well with you. We need to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils. That’s what the church is all about in these days.

Aren’t you excited about your journey? There’s a little song in America, “It wouldn’t take long for my journey now. We’ve come this far let’s go the rest of the way.”I mean we haven’t seen the things we’ve talked about, but we’re going to see them. Let’s press on. Let’s press forward! The way forward means Jesus will come and help you in every situation. He will accompany every word you speak as His and think of the word and how powerful it is. It is written,

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same that was in the beginning with God. All things were made for Him; and without Him there was not anything made that was made. in Him was the life; and the life was the light of men. The light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. So there was a man sent by God, whose name was John. He came to bear witness of that light. He was not that light, but came to bear witness of the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The world was made for Him. He came to his own, His own received him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become the Sons of God, even to them who believe in His name.”

Let’s believe on His name. By the name of the Lord the lost will be saved, the sick will be healed. By the name of the Lord, the lost will be saved by scores and everywhere you go you’re going to be a soul saving instrument for God in the last days. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Let’s all strike some matches tonight, for revival has come in the name of the Saviour, in the name of the deliverer of the world. The Lord Jesus Christ has come to our hearts again. Although, we’ve gone astray in the past and we’ve settled for things that didn’t last, but let’s go all the way, let’s pick up our cross, take up our cross, let’s walk, let’s follow Him wheresoever the Holy spirit leads us. We’ll see the signs and wonders above any imagination, beyond any thought, beyond any belief. Let’s go for broke. Let’s go for the whole 9 yards. Let’s go for the whole thing. Amen! Amen!

Will you stand with me and just say “Come Lord Jesus.” As John Wimber used to say, “Come Holy Spirit.” Lord Jesus come. Come to your people tonight. Fill them. Fill them. Fill them with the Holy Spirit Lord. Let it flow through us. Let it emanate from our being. Let the light shine above the brightness of the sun. In Jesus name. Revival! Revival Lord! Let the first fires of revival start here for the end time, in Jesus name.

Now one of the things the Lord has laid on my heart tonight is for the young. This thing with the doctor today, I told him about his son, that the Lord has shown me he was going to be used of God greatly and the young man needs to be protected. He needs to be watched over, prayed over , tutored and guided by Holy Spirit. And Elijah inspired me no end and I said , ” Lord what do you want to do tonight?” Knowing my weak vessel I can’t do anything in myself. I’m just at the point right now where God can use me because I can’t use myself. I’m not able to do anything in a self centered way. I can only depend on Him to keep me alive with what I’m doing right now. I’m 88 going on 120.
Now listen this young man has inspired me so much, the Lord showed me I should pray for every young person under 21. You can cheat if you want, if you’re under 30 or 40. I want every person under 21 years of age that’s in this meeting to come forward right now. And you know I was speaking to William Branham before he died , of course, and I said, ” You know I don’t understand why I get mixed up with so many situations. Why can’t the discernment the Lord gives me for others, why can’t it work for me? And Brother Branham said, ” Paul, the gift is not for us! It’s for others.” He said, ” I get mixed up with the biggest crooks in the world and I don’t even know about it until it’s too late.”
Well I want you to know tonight we have the mind for Christ. These young people are coming forward. You’re certainly candidates. You certainly can be equipped for the last day ministry. Isn’t it wonderful! Oh Lord, let the spirit of Elijah come! Let the spirit of Elijah come in Jesus name. Thank you for that Lord. Amen . Oh my! Lord please move upon every one of these young people, no matter what age they are. I pray you will baptise then with the Holy Ghost. Lord baptise them with every gift. Lord give them the gift of discernment, the gift of healing, the gift of miracles, Lord every gift available. Lord give these young people their marching orders tonight. Give them their anointing tonight, so that they can leave from this meeting with the glory of God upon them and so that they can walk behind you all the rest of the way and follow you in this discipleship journey Lord. Oh God, let us keep our eyes ever upon you Lord Jesus Christ. Lord send your angels to lift these young people up lest they dash their foot against a stone. Everyone that stands before you tonight, I declare and decree that they’ll never fall. I pray they’ll never fall into sin or into sexual problems or into any kind of immorality Lord. Keep them! Keep them from falling. Lord keep them. Hold them with the right hand of your righteousness. Lift them up lest their feet may dash against a stone. Oh Lord, carry them all the way through the rest of this journey. Help them be evangelists for you. Help them be prophets for you. Help them to be discerning of spirits for you Lord. Help them with discernments and words of knowledge and everything you have to equip your people with. Equip the young saints here tonight Lord. Equip them with your power, your anointing. May their tongues be tongues of fire. May their words pierce through the hardest criminal and through the hardest heart. Let them be your salvation evangelists. Let them be your healing evangelists. Let them be your word prophets and what they speak will come to pass. Lord let things come to pass not many days hence from this night. Let the glory of God come upon both young and old. Bless all of us no matter what ages we are. Let your power, let your glory, let your victory come. Unprecedented unity coming to the church. Oh my!
You young people are commissioned tonight. In the name of Jesus such as I have I give to you. If I have anything, if I have anything that has been worthwhile from God, I give it to you. The Lord has given me the ability to give it away. To give it away! I might not be here much longer, but I’m here to give it away. Whatever God has given me through these many years of ministry, I give it to every young person. I give it to old and young and Lord may they take it up and may they use it and may it be for your glory. May they go beyond anything any healing evangelist has ever done, anything I’ve ever done, ever thought I might do. Let it happen to them! Lord this is a baptism of your love, a baptism of your power, a baptism of your fire, a baptism of your glory. Lord you’re gong to bring unity to the church through these young people. I commission them to live in faith and walk in faith and purity the rest of their lives. May they be ‘way showers’. May they show us the way. May they show others the way. To the glory of God unprecedented in Jesus name.
And now I want to prophesy to the people of the UK, and of course this is extended to everyone no matter where you’re from, whether you’re from Australia or the uttermost parts of the earth, this is come to you like on the day of Pentecost, “But to them that are far off to as many as the Lord our God will call.”
But I just see for the UK that your churches are going to be on fire. Your churches are going to be attractive and people are going to watch you come and burn. They are going to come and see the glory of God and the fire of God and the anointing of God and it’s going to stay with you and you’re going to know how to nurture it and you’re going to know how to keep it. It’s not going to be a passing thing like the Welsh Revival or Brother Roberts, bless his heart, Evan Roberts, that was one of the greatest moves of God this nation has ever seen, yet it was not nurtured, it was not kept by the right keepers. They didn’t know how to to do it. We know how to do it! Don’t we! We’re going to follow Him. Follow Him. Wherever the Lamb leads us we’ll follow Him. Wherever He goes. I don’t know whether you can feel it or not, I get going about feeling all the way, but there’s something you can realise here tonight, I tell you some of these young people up here tonight close, I felt the the power of God surging through your being, through your body and this couple of brothers here they can’t turn it loose. Something got ahold of them and they can’t turn loose. And I want something to get ahold of both old and young that you can’t turn loose and that won’t turn you loose because you don’t want it to turn you loose.
The love of God is multiplied here tonight. The power of God is multiplied here tonight and in every increasing way tonight the power of God is all over this audience. This is what we’ve come for. This is what we’ve prayed for. This is what we’ve longed for ever since the last time the Lord said in 2017, “I’m going to send revival to them.” Alright now Elim, let it go over your walls and let it pour out over the Assemblies of God. Let it pour out over the Baptists, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Catholics and all flesh. All flesh will know that something happened on this day that was prophesied 30 years ago. Thank God! How could we ever forget.
Now just extend your hand to these young people here. Father let them be anointed from the top of their head to the tip of their extremities. Flow through them Holy Spirit and let them bring revival everywhere they go. Everywhere the soles of their feet have trod, let revival come and let the power of God, let the power of God fall on old and young, both small and great all through this place. Let it be known on this date, on this particular time, at this exact time the power of Almighty God fell. The power of Almighty God and His Christ.
Oh Lord, we’ll never forget what you did in Sunderland this night for the very young and the old. Let’s all stand. Let’s all praise Him and accept whatever the Lord is giving to the young people. Let it resonate in you. Let it come upon you and the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon you and you’ll be turned into another man or another woman before you get out of this place tonight. The Spirit of the Lord coming upon you. The Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of Wisdom. The Spirit of unity, of power and of a sound mind comes upon everyone in this room. You’re privileged to be here. The power of God has put His stamp of approval on this gathering and we’re all gathered in one place and suddenly the Holy Spirit has come, almost like a mighty rushing wind and cloven tongues as like of a fire are on some of you. The spirit of discipleship is on every one of you. You’ll leave here not being the same, ever being the same again. For God is with you. He’s with your children. He’s with those you represent at home, far off and as many as the Lord our God shall call. Let’s praise Him for that and thank Him for that right now.
Listen while I’m under the anointing I want to pray for Colin and Amanda and i want everyone else to be blessed as well, but there seems to be those who God had called for specific things in the body of Christ for these last days. And I feel that way about Colin and Amanda Dye, I feel that way about Ken and Lois Gott and I feel that way about many of you and Jon and Kerry Cressey. All of you and the wonderful people who have taken care of us. But all of you. This is an all inclusive thing. God is not just speaking to a handful of people. Everyone here has been graced by the touch of the hand of God. Everyone! The fire of the Holy Spirit has come upon everyone here and when you leave you’re not going to be the same again, no matter how much you try. You’ll never be the same again. I prophesy that no-one in this building will ever be the same again. It’s for you and your children and for them that are far off, to as many as the Lord our God shall call. A significant thing. A significant voice has come and spoken and God has revealed Himself in a new and living way in every one of us.
So Lord I just pray that the anointing will come upon Colin and Amanda. Lord the church that has had the most history of Smith Wigglesworth and the revivals of the past, Lord I pray that the Welsh Revival and all would be upstaged in this meeting. But anoint them Lord and let their days be greater than anything that they’ve experienced in the past. We’re making some strides forward tonight. God, the Holy Spirit, has come to make great strides forward for your path. Let’s walk in His path, follow after him to know Him and Lord I’ll just pray this blessing for everyone. It’s a vision I’ve seen before. In a vision praying for Colin and his wife and for others. Oh God, don’t let this escape the minds , the hearts, the experience that you’re sending tonight. Don’t let it ever escape any of us. In Jesus name. In Jesus name.
Let everyone stretch their hands out towards the youth that have come forward tonight. It’s the most glorious thing He’s done, He’s done for the youth and then it’s overflowing to both young and old.
I want to pray for the leaders of the conference and the speakers of course, this requires a reciprocal action. I want you to pray for me too because the enemy has already planned to make sure I pay for this. But it’s worth it. It’s worth it.
I told Lois, God, in an email, that this meeting’s the most important ‘cos I’m giving my life, it’s costing me my life. It really is costing me my life. I don’t mean that I’m going to expire or anything ‘cos I’m too inspired to expire, but let me tell you this meeting has cost something and God has rewarded those who have prayed for these years. God has rewarded you and the effort you put forth to come here. Look what God has done for us! It’s wonderful!
Now Lord I pray for the sick. I pray for….. Lord I want you to please heal Lois tonight. Just move up and down that spine and her back and Lord bless Ken and Lord give them strength, not just for the day, but also for the rest of the way. And all of you, both young and old, I pray you will bring healing power. Let your healing waters flow on all of these and let them go away saying, “We’ve never seen it on this fashion before. We’ve never felt the depth or the power to this degree before.” Let them be able to exclaim that. And Lord I pray that the power will rest upon them for the rest of days of their life and they’ll dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Thank you Lord.
There’s a number of people here with cancer, hanging on. Lord we pray that, that cancer will die, die at the roots and fall from their bodies and be passed from their bodies and Lord from the crown of their head to the tips of their extremities, I pray the arthritis, sickness and diabetes and blood disease, every kind of cripple condition, everything that caused it Lord will be dealt with tonight. Let people go their way saying, ” We really have never seen it on this fashion before. Surely God was there!” And you are here and we thank you Lord for showing up in this meeting of all meetings and I thank you Lord we’ll never be the same again, going right on to the end of the way with the power to witness. The power to have well bodies and strength and health and vitality to go all the way to the end of this age and the end of this time when you shall appear. Oh Lord, and all fear, all fear will be wiped away. Oh Lord, you came again to us. In Jesus name. It’s been worth it all and it will be worth it all from this point on. When we see Jesus, one glimpse of your dear face, all sorrow will erase and how bravely we’ll run the race from this night on. How bravely we’ll run the race until we see you Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The Lord bless you.