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Why We Left
00:02:24
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| I was in India with Dr. Mark Bontaine and a terrible flood took place while I was there. | |
| And people were living on top of their stoves were in the street. | |
| The people cooked out in the streets. | |
| But people are sitting up on top of their stoves. | |
| And they picked me up at the airport in an old bus had a motor way up inside of it. | |
| It was a worst flood in the history of India. | |
| And so Mark was so concerned. | |
| We were there because we helped build hospitals and all things, therefore, and fed a lot of people. | |
| And he said, Jim, you have to leave the diseases that is going rampant in this water. | |
| He says, you cannot. | |
| Your immune system isn't built up for India. | |
| And he says, I've got to get you out. | |
| And so he took me to the airport, and there was just no way to get me out. | |
| There was no tickets. | |
| There was just nothing there. | |
| And so he came to me and he said, Jim, I've got you tickets. | |
| I got your ticket to leave. | |
| He said, immediately. | |
| And he put me on an airplane. | |
| And he called me the next week. | |
| He said, Jim, I went back to thank that man who got you on that plane. | |
| And he said he wasn't there. | |
| There was nobody. | |
| He said, I asked at the counter. | |
| So-and-so gave me these tickets. | |
| And he said, well, we don't have anybody that looks like that. | |
| We don't have anybody like that. | |
| He said, I looked and I looked and I looked. | |
| And he said, I even came back and looked. | |
| And he said, there was nobody there like that. | |
| And Dr. Mark Bundain told me this. | |
| He said, I believe that that person was an angel that manifested somehow even to have the ticket for you to get on that plane because you needed to leave. | |
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Angels Around Us
00:06:10
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| You needed to be gone at this time because of this great pandemic that was happening in India at that time. | |
| And so I believe in angels. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And I believe that. | |
| I think many of us have had maybe times like that where it's all of a sudden you're like, I think I just had an angel encounter, even though it may have looked like a human being. | |
| Have any of you had that? | |
| I know I have. | |
| I don't want to tell my crazy story. | |
| Maybe someday I'll be able to. | |
| Do you have to believe to see angels? | |
| Do you have to be a believer, do you think? | |
| No, I don't believe that you have to be a believer. | |
| But I do believe. | |
| And the reason I say you don't have to be is because our God, the creator of the universe, is a very good person. | |
| I think if I didn't believe in angels, I might not see them. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Well, you know, I think that obviously belief causes us to enter into the supernatural, the spiritual world, which opens up a realm for us that enables us to see and interact more with only those things that come by faith. | |
| And so that's why faith is very, very important when it comes to the angelic realm. | |
| And I believe the more faith that you have and the more you grow in your maturity with the Lord, the more the realms are open to you to be able to walk in and walk through. | |
| What about your first encounter with an angel? | |
| Well, actually, I've had multiple encounters with angels, and I put a lot of them in the book. | |
| I will say... | |
| No, we don't worship angels, do we? | |
| No, we do not worship angels. | |
| There's no need for you to worship an angel. | |
| An angel is a created being that God has assigned to us in order to help bring about kingdom purposes in the earth. | |
| So they are, actually they're really no different than any of us sitting around a table. | |
| And as a matter of fact, there's a few here that are in here and in here while you're taping every single time. | |
| They're here, they stand guard. | |
| They also bring about healing and the glory of the Lord in the house on a continual basis. | |
| Whether taping's taking place or not, they're out there. | |
| But when I came in last night, and Kimberly will tell you that, when I hit the door, I knew the glory of the Lord was in this place. | |
| And see, and there are glory angels that are here, and God has protected this. | |
| And He will do this in our homes, He will do this in all kinds of environments. | |
| But you know, I think people really want to see like the huge eight-foot angel arrive in front of them in order for them to say that angelic activity is present. | |
| But really, that's not true. | |
| Angelic activity is present all the time. | |
| Right here, they are present with us. | |
| They are a created being that has additional responsibilities in the kingdom of God and is called to come alongside us as waiters. | |
| That's what the word agalos and malak mean in the Hebrew and the Greek. | |
| They are waiters that stand and they wait for us to give a command. | |
| This is why Charlie mentioned before about the Moravian angels and that they had been there, but they had not been used. | |
| Okay, there had somehow or another not been activity. | |
| Okay, so what we have to understand is that we have the power to speak forth the word of God. | |
| They respond to the word of God because Psalm 103:20 says they hearken unto the voice of the Lord. | |
| Who has the voice of the Lord? | |
| We have the voice of the Lord. | |
| You don't have to wait for the voice of the Lord to arrive when you know you have the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside of you. | |
| You have his voice, we have his word. | |
| That word voice in the Hebrews, the word coal, that actually means spark, fire, thunder. | |
| Every time we open our mouths, angels listen, they hearken unto that voice, the voice of God that's being spoken in and through us, and they get in alignment with that and they begin to start moving. | |
| And I believe there's a lot of angels that are not being used today. | |
| That Charlie and Pastor Jim and Pastor Laurie and Mondo, we have to get into that place of knowing and believing that we have this power that's already been bestowed upon us because in Genesis chapter 1, the Lord said to us, Subdue the nations, have dominion, replenish. | |
| He gave us specific instructions, right, before the fall of man. | |
| And now we have been redeemed. | |
| All of us have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. | |
| So now we are properly positioned to be his voice. | |
| And so I realize that was a long answer, but I think it's really important for people to understand we have the power, and we're not praying to angels. | |
| No. | |
| We are simply operating in the God-given authority that we have in the earth by his voice, his word, to make a statement or to command or to say what needs to be done. | |
| And we have a hierarchy, a heavenly host that will come and aid us at any time to bring about the will of God in the earth today. | |
| Amen. | |
| So we're not alone. | |
| We're not alone. | |
| No. | |
| God has a great army of angels. | |
| It sounds like it's a mysterious thing. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Do you think it's a mystery of angels? | |
| It seems mysterious. | |
| I think that there are mysteries, but the word of God really kind of lays it out the way that angels are in operation around us, how they are activated. | |
| I think one of the clearest pictures is Revelation 8 because the Bible says we understand that we pray in the name of Jesus through the Spirit to the Father. | |
| And in Revelation 8, we see that the prayers of the saints are going up as a mystery to the Lord. | |
| They're hidden information through us praying in the Spirit and speaking in other tongues often. | |
| And these go up as mysteries and they go into the bowl. | |
| And the Bible says that the Father has the angels go to the bowl of incense and take those prayers of those saints. | |
| And they take them and they release them, the Bible says, and they are like lightnings into the earth. | |
| And they come back down as what the Bible in the Greek calls apocalypto or revelation. | |
| And so there are times where we're praying. | |
| We don't even know what we're saying because we're praying in other tongues. | |
| And that moment that we begin to pray, God begins to release the answer. | |