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Jan. 14, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show New Years Eve Part 1
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An Honor to Share 00:15:42
Hello and welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show coming to you from the village of Morningside, USA, nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.
Today, we'll hear special prophetic messages for this new year, 2025, from our good friends, Joseph Z and Todd Rogers.
Our co-host today is Reverend Mundo de la Vega.
And now, live from Gray Street at Morningside, USA, here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
Hello, you're watching the PTL Television Network, friends.
It's an honor.
You're tuned in with us today.
If you're watching right now, you're watching this live on the PTL Television Network or on a social media platform.
We want to say thank you.
Just right off the bat, we got Luke.
He's grabbing the mic over here.
Luke, do you want to say something?
No.
No, he doesn't want to say something.
This is Luke Baker.
If you're watching live, this is my middle child.
He is two years old and he runs the house.
We also have with us Brooke.
Brooke, how are you doing?
Hello, I'm doing well.
This is good, Brooke.
I have this natural, like, innate thing, and parents probably know this.
There's like an introduction.
You can't just say their name.
You also have to say like how old they are.
But the issue is I carry it over to Brooke.
I'll be like, this is Brooke.
She's 27.
Brooke's like, you just can't keep telling people my age.
But there it is.
I just said it for you.
So there we go, Brooke.
And then, Brooke, you introduce who else you have with you.
Yes, this is Evangeline.
She is 10 months old.
That's right.
Sometimes she waves hi.
I don't know.
Do you want to say hi?
You know, we have those stories.
I think everybody has had one of those friends.
It's like one of those one of those beautiful stories where they're telling a story about their child and they're saying something like really tremendous that their kid did.
They're like, you know, my child's two months old and said the word tremendous.
You know, it's like, oh, my child's still like picking up rocks and chewing on them.
You know, so we have we have wonderful kids, but they're, you know, still kids at best.
So Jacqueline, we have you down there.
Can you say your name and say something you love?
Jacqueline and Frederick.
I don't know what she said.
But Mondo, we have your family here with us today too.
Jacqueline, you never know what you're going to get when it comes to Jacqueline.
Oh boy.
Welcome, everybody.
Happy New Year's.
You're in for a treat.
We have special people that are going to give a message for 2025.
But we wanted to say hello to you, bring our families.
I just look at Luke and it makes me think of Mila and Mateo.
And it feels like just yesterday they were Luke's age.
Now they're teenagers, but here's my beautiful wife, Elizabeth.
Hello, everyone.
And you want to introduce, not the kids, the young man and young lady.
Absolutely.
They turned 14 and a half on Christmas Day.
Oh, am I still babies?
I know they'll be 15 in less than six months, but this is our daughter, Mila.
Hi, everyone.
Mila.
And this is our son, Mateo, the twins.
Hey, guys, how you doing?
Who's older?
I always forget.
Mila is the oldest.
She's 46 minutes older than her brother.
She'll hold that over you your entire life.
Some special things have just happened in your guys's lives.
I think maybe we have even a video of it.
Mila, if you want to go first, I know some things happening in your life.
You guys are pretty much playing sports at like a collegiate level.
You guys are incredible.
I would say, guys, I was a senior in high school playing junior varsity basketball.
I wasn't very good.
These kids are middle school playing pretty much at a college level.
They're amazing.
But tell us what's happening in your guys's lives.
Well, my favorite thing that's happening in my life right now is that I have Bible study and we meet every Wednesday morning.
And I think it's my favorite part of the week.
Amen.
Praise God.
Mateo, what's happening in your life?
Some things that just happened in your life?
So I have a Bible study with all my friends at school.
We meet after school and we just read the Bible.
And this summer, my dad baptized me in California in the ocean.
And One of the greatest moments of my life that I've ever had.
And I'm so grateful that I can share it with my dad.
Amen.
What a beautiful thing.
You know, the Bible says to raise up a child in the way that they're supposed to go.
And when they're old, they won't depart from it.
That's why it's an important part of our, you know, historical background that parents have raised their children in a godly manner.
Parents have raised their children in the right direction.
We have two, and there's a video right there.
There's Mondo and Mateo.
You guys are in California right here.
And you guys are doing a little baptism.
That's amazing.
What did that feel like to baptize your own son?
And kind of tell us that experience.
You know, it was the greatest, I believe, miracle that I experienced personally because never thinking that I will become a father, let alone to raise a young man that has a passion for Christ all on his own.
Amen.
One of the things that I tell dads is don't preach to your kids.
You have to live it out.
And one of the things is that kids don't learn by what you're saying.
They learn by watching you.
And by watching you, they're going to take on what you're displaying.
Now, I'm not saying I'm perfect because I'm sure we can do five hours.
Hey, go ahead and pull that mic and start telling us some things about your dad.
You know, the one thing I am passionate about is letting them know that without Christ, there is no life.
And at the beginning of the year, Ricky, I thought that my accomplishment was going to be writing a book that I've been working on for 26 years being published.
Now, you have to understand, only 1% of the population gets to experience a book that is published by a national publisher.
That's right, Chris.
Yeah, I thought this was the best thing that was going to happen to me in 2024.
But what topped it off was my kids' accomplishments, my kids understanding that the way they love Jesus is going to be on their own and finding the passion to do what God has called them to do.
Now, you have to understand everything started when we took a walk and Mateo, you know, started asking me questions.
And in front of our house, he asked me, Dad, can you lead me to the Lord?
Come on.
Amen.
I'm going to tell you why is that amazing?
I'm an ex-gang member that the world said, lock them up and throw the key away.
I'm an ex-gang member that said, I will never get married.
I'm never going to have kids.
Yet, the greatest moment that happened was when we got married.
And I'm never going to forget that one.
I believe you that.
That's right.
And then having kids.
But then the third miracle is your kids leading your kids to the Lord and then baptizing them.
That Ricky is takes.
Now I can die and go to heaven.
I'm not going to die anytime soon.
But I want to tell you something.
Knowing that my kids have chosen to follow Christ all on their own can be one of the greatest miracles.
Amen.
You know, we're living in a time right now.
We see Barna studies and we see news reports that we are truly living in a day and age where we have biblical illiteracy running rampant, where people aren't reading the word of God for themselves anymore.
They're not studying to show themselves approved.
And a lot of people are leaving the church in masses.
But friends, we believe that in 2025, this year we're about to go into, we are going to see a revolution of young men and women reignite their passion for Christ again.
And starting with people this age group.
It's starting with 14, 15, 16-year-olds saying, you know what?
There is something different about being a true believer in Jesus Christ, not just in word, but like you did with baptism in action as well.
Absolutely.
You know, I want to ask my wife, you women, I'm applauding to you.
Yeah, praise God.
All the mothers, grandmothers, and sisters and aunties.
And I want to tell you some single mothers out there that really you guys take on the role of really discipling the kids.
What has it been like to you to watch the twins grow from this age all the way to now?
I'll probably start crying, so I'm not going to go there too deep.
But with Matteo and his choice of baptism, I think what was extra special, we are Catholic, we are practicing Catholics, that's been my life.
But Mateo was, and Mila, they were baptized as babies.
So for him to want to do this on his own, for our kids as adults to make these decisions to be baptized, watching it, because I'm the one that filmed it, it was one of the most beautiful things in my life because this is what we have prayed for.
This is what we prayed for when they were growing inside of me, was that one day they would find Jesus on their own and choose on their own to let God lead them.
Amen.
It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
That is a beautiful moment.
You know, Brooke, we homeschool our children, and that's been a journey as well.
Jacka went to school for like six months and she enjoyed it, but we decided to homeschool the children.
I do hats off applause to all mothers, to those who have to raise small children, because I say to Brooke often, she has a much more difficult job than I do because I've been left alone with like, you know, three, four hours with the kids, and I'm like, my goodness, I don't know how she does it all day long.
But I want to ask you this question.
Lou, can mom have the microphone?
Can she hold it?
You know, how important is it in this culture to be raising children in a godly manner?
Here, we'll let mama hold it real quick, okay?
In this culture, yeah.
Is it on?
Oh, it is.
It's vital.
I mean, in every culture, it's important to raise God or raise children in the way of the Lord.
You know, like you said, train a child up in the way they should go and they will not depart from it.
It is our responsibility as parents to pour into our children the ways of the kingdom of God so that they know his goodness and they won't turn from him.
Amen.
I told Mondo, honestly, we were slotting 15 minutes for these kids.
Friends, I got three kids under the age of four years old.
I don't know if we can last 15 minutes, but I'm telling you, it's important.
It's vital this culture.
And grandparents, I'm speaking to you guys because we do have a lot of grandparents you watch and parents.
I'm speaking to you as well.
Don't stop praying for your children.
Don't stop praying for your grandchildren.
They may have seemed like they have gone too far or they have strayed away, but friends, don't stop contending for them.
Go into those war rooms and pray and pray and pray and fast for them.
Why?
Because it might be your prayers that lead someone to witness to them again.
It might be your prayers that causes them to have the Holy Spirit tug at their heart again to say, hey, maybe I should reconnect with my family.
Maybe I should join a church again, rediscover my relationship with Jesus Christ.
One of the most important things you can be doing, grandparent, mom, dad, aunt, uncle, is praying for the lost family members.
Everybody in our families has a prodigal where they have gone astray and you know that they've gone astray and maybe the whole family knows they've gone astray.
But I'm telling you right now, there is nothing more special than when that person comes to the realization on their own, like the prodigal son.
And when they start walking home, the father saw him at a distance in that story and he didn't say, well, I'm going to wait for the son to come all the way to me because he's done me wrong.
I'm going to wait for the son to come all the way back home because I know all the stupid decisions he's made.
No, when the father saw that son walking home, what did he do, friend?
He ran.
He ran to him.
Friends, it's our job, especially in 2025.
When we see those prodigals coming home, whether it be your grandson or daughter or your son or your niece or nephew, let's run to those people and accept them back into the family of God.
Because Mondo, we all need grace.
Oh, my goodness.
You talk about prodigals.
My wife and I look at each other.
That's us.
And I want to tell you, Center, if you want to know a picture, if you want to see a picture of what a prodigal looks like, you're looking at one right now.
The two of us, we took different roads, but yet God had mercy and grace.
Don't give up.
Can I give you some advice?
Have compassion for this generation.
You were once a young man and a young lady struggling, fighting, trying to discover who you are, trying to figure out life.
Yet we become mean, we become uncompassionate towards this generation, and we forget that they are struggling to find their place on this earth.
You think you got to figure it out?
All you have to do is spend one day with your kids and hear them and find out what they're thinking, what their challenges are all about.
What is God saying to them?
Babe, you and I, we listen more than we talk.
Absolutely.
Something that has really been important to me and something that Mondo and I talked about even when they were little, four years old, five years old, their opinion matters.
And it is our job as parents not to tell them that they're wrong, but to guide them in the right direction.
And so to this day, we try to come to a win-win.
Of course, when it comes down to it, if it comes to their health, if it comes to their safety, we win.
But in normal conversation, we want their opinions to be validated.
They need to know that as human beings, we validate them.
It's super important.
You know, Dr. Gary Smalley was our friend, our mentor, our grandfather.
He said some of the most powerful things to us.
Yet one of the things that stands out the most is we as people, we as the body of Christ need to learn how to honor one another.
But yet most people don't understand the word honor, what that means.
The word honor means you value them.
When you value somebody, you get excited that they're in your presence.
Amen.
When you value them, you validate them because that's how God sees us.
He honors us.
He values our thoughts.
He values what we're feeling.
Yet this generation is one of the most, can I say this, lonely generations we've ever seen.
This generation is committing suicide like there's no too many.
Yet they don't feel valued.
They don't feel like their honor in this world.
Or young men and women, I'm talking about your daughters, your sons need to feel like they're valuable.
Honor them today.
I believe that what you're going to read is what we're going to understand what Jesus wants us to do in this season is to honor one another.
Amen.
Value one another.
When we value each other, we complete the fulfillment of scripture.
That's right.
Oh, you're going to get me.
You know, Paul says it best.
He says, you know, we're to be good to everybody, but especially to those of the household of faith.
Now, I know a lot of Christians will be like, well, you know, I'm supposed to treat everybody equally.
Brother, that's not what Paul said.
I mean, honestly, we're supposed to treat each other.
That's why you've heard me say this on the show, and I'll never take it back.
If we have the opportunity to shop at Christian businesses, by all means, go do that.
If it means that it costs a dollar more, by all means, go do that.
Why?
Because I truly believe, friends, this is a year where we need to honor one another greater, especially those of the household of faith.
Friends, if you believe in Jesus Christ and you believe those tenets of faith where you say, yes, Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven.
The Bible is our final authority.
Friends, we're of the household of faith.
We have come to a mutual agreement.
Friends, I believe that this year is going to be one of the most powerful years for revelation and revival, but it will only come through the church unifying again, through denominations linking arms with one another, through saying, you know what, we are going to put small differences aside and we're going to press on for the goal that actually matters.
2025: Year of Trial and Triumph 00:00:59
That is salvation of the soul to Jesus Christ.
Because Jesus is the only thing that matters in this world, friend.
You can have all the money you want, the nice things you want.
You can have as much stuff in your house to fill it from the ceiling to the floor.
But, friends, if you don't have Christ and he isn't the sole ruler of your heart, then I'm sorry to tell you, you actually don't have anything.
It's important that you understand Jesus is the only thing that matters.
2025, I believe, is going to be showing people that.
2025, I believe, is going to be a year of blessing for a lot of people.
But, friends, for the world, it will be a year of trial and tribulation.
Friends, we see a parable where there are two homes.
Foundation of Faith 00:15:05
One is built on sand, one is built on rock.
The same trials and tribulations came to both homes.
The winds rose on both homes.
The aggressive water came to both homes.
Both homes, the external environment, tried to knock them down.
There was only one difference: the foundation.
The foundation, friends, in 2025, your foundation must be Christ and Christ alone.
I promise you, it doesn't matter what comes your way, doesn't matter what wind, what water, what rain, what slander, what falsehood gets thrown on your name.
When your foundation is Christ, your foundation will never be shaken.
Friends, we have an exciting word today from Pastor Todd Rogers, and he's going to deliver a word for 2025.
You guys are going to be locked in and tuned into this.
If you have a Bible, pull it out right now.
If you have a notebook, pull it out.
But I want to introduce you, our friend, Pastor Todd Rogers.
Thank you for being here with us.
Man of God, thank you.
Love you.
I'm going to pull it up for you right there.
Praise God.
Take it away, son.
Come on.
I love you.
Come on now.
Don't clap for me.
Clap for Jesus.
Give it up like you mean it.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Well, glory.
You'll be seated in the presence of the Lord if you can.
Thank you for being here.
I am excited.
I'm kind of ready for December to be over.
I ate too much, way too much.
I've laid out for a couple of days trying to recover.
And so I'm glad.
I'm glad it's moving on.
Listen, I'm not going to take a lot of time with the prelims.
I just wanted to say thank you.
Thank you, Pastor Ricky.
Thank you to the head of this household, Pastor Jim.
I appreciate the opportunity to be here and to share the word of God with you.
And I want to just get right into it.
I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on it tonight.
But I want to see if I can address something that most of us have been feeling for a very long time.
And so I'm just read a passage of scripture for you pretty quickly, and then we'll get right into it.
This is from Isaiah chapter 43, verse 18 through 19.
And it says this, Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing.
Now it shall spring forth.
Shall you not know it?
I will even make, and listen closely, a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Father, I thank you so very much for everything that you have done in these recent days.
God, I thank you for everything that you are doing.
And I'm asking, Lord, that you just take me beyond any ability that I think I have tonight.
And, God, that you would show up.
And if you'll do that, I will give you all the praise and glory for it in Jesus' name.
And everybody play my game.
Everybody say amen.
That's not bad.
Amen.
We'll go ahead and move on with that.
I appreciate that.
You know, recently I had somebody come to me.
Actually, it was right before the election, and it was just in a kind of a counseling situation.
And they said, Pastor, I felt like for the last four years, I've been in a desert.
And they made the statement.
They said, it seemed like somewhere around 2016, 17 for a few years, it seemed like we were kind of going in the right direction.
And all of a sudden, I could say Merry Christmas again.
And the signs were coming down.
And it was a good thing starting to happen.
And then all of a sudden, we, 2020, we just slammed with COVID and all the different stuff was happening.
And then they made the statement.
They said, you know, between that over the next four years, it just seemed like everything was against us.
All of a sudden, everything about Christianity, we're fighting the government again to be Christians.
We're fighting, you know, we're fighting, we're fighting secular society, we're fighting social media, we're fighting whatever.
And then they made the statement, not to mention COVID and the people that we lost and the things that we lost, inflation going up, fuel going up, and all this stuff.
And they said it was like we had a fresh wind or a new breath of air for a while.
And all of a sudden, we ended up in this wilderness space that we're just fighting.
And as they were speaking, I began to think about something that's in your Bible.
And I'll read this to you very quickly.
I want you to see this, but it's in Mark chapter 1, verse number 11.
And this is speaking of Jesus.
And it says this: it says, and immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
And he was there in the wilderness 40 days, tempted of Satan, and was with the wild beast, and the angels ministered unto him.
And while they were speaking to me, I began to think about that.
And later on, after we had that conversation, I went back and I started.
And this has been, like I said, it's been a few months ago.
And I went back and I just started meditating on these scriptures.
And so I began to build something.
And to be honest with you, I hadn't really planned on sharing it tonight, but circumstances, we're going to share the first piece with you anyway.
And I began to look at that.
I began to think about it.
If you know this story, if you know what's going on when it says, immediately was driven in the wilderness, you have to know what happened right before that happened.
And what had just taken place is Jesus' baptism.
In fact, what had just taken place was the declaration that the Savior's here.
Literally, John had just stood up and said, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
So now we have this prophetic declaration, this supernatural thing that's about to happen to the world.
Literally, salvation has come.
And just stay with me.
We'll preach in a minute, but salvation has come.
So we got everything that the world's been looking for all this time has just shown up.
The Messiah, Emmanuel, God with us, all these things that we say now and celebrate.
Jesus is here.
And the Bible says, as soon as the announcement is made, immediately he's driven into the wilderness.
All of a sudden, before he can do any of his miracles, because remember, at this point, he's done none.
Okay, so no, no supernatural thing.
Jesus has been a carpenter until his baptism.
And I heard these young people talking about baptism tonight.
Edmondo had got to baptize his son.
And I begin to think, you know, sometimes we think baptism is some kind of a ritual.
Baptism isn't a ritual, honey.
Baptism is a supernatural event that says, I'm going down and coming back up with Christ.
I may have gone down like me, but I come up in Jesus.
Amen.
And that's what had happened.
It was a supernatural turn of events.
And immediately it says he was driven in the wilderness.
And then it goes, starts describing some of the things that are in the wilderness with him.
He said he was there with beast.
I don't know about you, but that's kind of what it's felt like for the last few years.
Literally, he's in the wilderness with beasts.
And I began to think about what that person had shared with me and that all the things that they had lost because they had lost several loved ones in COVID and they had lost different things.
But most of all, they'd lost some financial things, some different things that happened because of the economy and whatever.
And I begin to think, and in that conversation, though, towards the end, they said, you know, but one thing about it, even though, and they had actually lost their job, but said, even in that, I did get to spend a whole bunch of time with God.
And they started talking about how they resurrected their prayer life and their Bible study and their devotion.
And then God gave them a job back, and they were able.
And they were talking about how spiritually, and I began to think about we preached yesterday about Joseph's coat at harvest.
And in that message, I made this declaration.
I said, sometimes you have to have things taken away from you before you can get to where God's trying to take you.
You see, Joseph's coat was a supernatural coat.
I mean, if you read, there's been so many books and messages and all kinds of things preached about Joseph's coat.
There's teachings and books, and that's fine.
It's all good.
Joseph's coat's of many colors, except for Joseph's coat is what got him in trouble.
Joseph's coat was a coat of favoritism from father.
Amen.
Now, listen, we are not going to get into the wisdoms of parenting right now, but it probably wasn't the wisest move to slap a label on the back of the son that wasn't already as popular as the rest of them.
But that's what happened.
And Joseph loved that coat.
He wore that coat with pride.
And that coat is what ended him up in a pit.
But here's the thing: a lot of times God blesses us with things.
And I don't know how to say this, but through my life, I've had so many different blessings.
And my first ministry was a huge blessing.
And I spent years building that ministry.
And we grew in all kinds of fantastic things.
I was a youth minister in a little bitty town.
We started with eight kids and ended up with almost 100.
It was an amazing thing that God did.
And all of a sudden, all of that was just taken away, just almost overnight, just ripped.
And it tore me up.
I thought, God, what are you doing?
This is my coat.
This is the one you gave me.
This is the one that fits me.
This is what I do.
This is what I do well.
And for a while, I was really lost in a wilderness.
I'll just be honest with you.
I didn't understand what was going on.
I don't know how you talk to God, but I talked to him pretty plainly.
What are you doing?
I mean, I'm giving my stuff.
I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
Obviously, you're not.
Oh, I know, you guys.
I see the halo's getting dimmer over here.
You plug those back in.
You'll be all right.
We'll go back over here.
But it took, and it took a while.
It was about a year before I really got back on my feet and began to experience some things that God wanted me to experience.
And can I tell you, had I worn that coat, I would still be there wearing that coat, happy with what God had done.
Blessed because we had 100 kids.
Blessed because I baptized 17 children or 17 young people one time in a cattle trough.
Blessed because I had seen 50 of them filled with the Holy Ghost.
Blessed because that was my coat.
But God understood my coat wasn't my destiny.
Your coat is never your destiny.
Your coat is a blessing God gives you, but it's never your destiny.
My destiny was to preach to millions of people.
My destiny was to go on evangelistic field and see 9,000 people walk the aisles in just a few years.
Not in great big crusades at the time, just in little churches all across America.
That was what God wanted me to do.
So I want to declare to you that 2025, see, the good news about wilderness is that you serve a God of the wilderness.
Oh my Lord, I'm about to get excited.
I know where I'm going.
Don't yet.
So just hang on.
You serve a God that the Bible declares makes ways in the wilderness.
Let me just think about that for a minute.
A God who makes ways in the wilderness.
Now, the Hebrew term there for wilderness means an uninhabited place or a barren place or a place alone, a place with nothing there, a non-profitable place.
That's what the Hebrew literally says, a barren place.
So this is a God who takes things you don't understand and places you think are going wrong or things you think are going wrong and begins to make a way through the middle of all those things that you think are not going to happen.
So can I tell you something tonight?
Listen, I don't think we're ever going to get to quit fighting.
I don't think there's any point in this dispensation where the enemy won't be attacking, where there won't be things to do for God, where there won't be things that we've got to go after.
I don't ever think that time's coming, but I do believe that my God is a God of wilderness.
And I think we've come through some things.
Amen.
Are you listening tonight?
I'm telling you, church, I can feel it.
I've talked to so many people all over the nation in the last couple of months, and you can feel that not only in this nation, but spiritually, God is doing something.
And he's beginning.
I heard Mondo talking about bringing, talking about our children and our youth and causing them to have respect.
Listen, there is an undercurrent or an underflow in our youth right now.
And God is beginning to do supernatural things.
He's turning the hearts and their minds back from social media and things they're not supposed to do back to the house of God.
And so many times I understand, and I get this, and I got to hurry.
I got to get going.
But I want you to hear this.
So many times, especially in those wilderness experiences, and I don't have time to develop all this tonight, but so many times in those wilderness experiences, we just can't see a way out.
It's just like we just can't see it.
And I know it's been some rough years.
I mean, let's face it, we can profess all the faith we want to.
Amen.
Now, you know, we're conditioned to say the right things.
We're conditioned to not give the devil a foothold.
You don't want to start speaking his language.
Amen.
We don't want to do that at the same time.
And I'm reminded of that old Crab Family song that talks about that.
And it says, all the things I believe, and I believe God is always good, but sometimes I still hurt and sometimes I still cry.
Every time we get in the wilderness, nothing makes sense.
And the enemy tries to declare that he's in control of what's going on with you.
And I want you to hear this.
But the Bible is very plain about what Satan will look like to us one of these days.
When we finally see him bound, when he goes to the lake of fire, and I don't know about you, but I am not missing that.
I've got my tickets.
I'm going to be front row.
And when we find, the Bible says we will look on him and think, and almost, and this is the book of Todd, not the book of God, but paraphrasing, we'll be disgusted, really, that we let that really, he's the one that caused all of this.
Satan's Declining Power 00:10:05
Really?
He's the one.
See, so the enemy likes you to think that he's so powerful, but I'm telling you, if you could see Satan right now, this is what I believe with all of my heart.
Because I think he did kind of have a field day for a little while, but things are changing, and there's a path now.
And if you could see him right now, instead of seeing some triumphant victor, what you would see is a Satan with a nail-print foot on the back of his neck, pushing his face down in the ground.
Church, I'm telling you, 2025 is going to be different.
There's going to be a bunch of challenges, but we are not giving up on our kids.
We're not giving up on our sons.
We're not giving up on our daughters.
We're not giving up on our churches.
We're not giving up on our businesses or our ministries or our families or anything else that the enemy's trying to take.
I'm telling you, 2025 is going to be different.
Hallelujah.
Now, watch.
And I'm closing.
Like I said, I get a little long-winded sometime, and I do apologize.
We, as clear as I can make this, we are not going to be without challenge.
Okay?
The election in November didn't change that.
Okay?
We will be challenged.
We're going to consistently be challenged.
It's the devil's job.
And although I don't like him very much and I really don't like to give him any compliments, he's pretty good at it.
He's been doing it a long time.
But there are seasons in this dispensation.
There's seasons in our lives, seasons in our families, seasons in our ministry.
But there are seasons in this dispensation.
Okay?
So there's been times of great outpouring, in times where things were restricted, times where we saw miracle healings, and times when we couldn't seem to break through.
The heavens were brass.
Those seasons ebb and flow.
We are about to enter, and you just hear what I'm telling you, a season where God has made a way out of that wilderness.
Thank you, Jesus.
Now, you know, don't get too excited.
The devil hasn't retired, but he's defeated.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
And so here's what to close this.
I really want to encourage you.
And I told our people from the pulpit months ago, I said, keep your head on the swivel.
Just keep your head on the swivel.
The devil's all around doing what he does.
He's not going to stop that.
But spiritually, we've got to be wiser than what we've been.
COVID removed some coats, especially in the church world.
And if you don't, Pastor, if you're not in full-time ministry, you might or may not understand this, but it removed a lot of games.
God began to reveal people who were really just playing games, and they were removed.
We saw who was serious about God, who really lived for God, who really wanted to see a great moving of the Holy Ghost.
We begin to see those people begin to rise to the top and others just to begin to flow away.
We're getting to the end of that season.
And now God has built a remnant.
He's built a supernatural remnant.
So I'm going to say, end like this.
Don't give up.
If you've been going through a bunch of junk, you're in good company.
I had to clean that up.
That got close right there.
Yeah.
I'm sorry for all you religious people.
I didn't mean to mess you up.
You're in good company.
If you have been going through a battle of your life, you're in great company.
You are compassed about by such a great cloud of witnesses.
But I'm telling you, we're winning.
It may not look like you're winning, but we're winning.
And just like the song says, it may look like I'm surrounded, but I'm surrounded by God.
Amen.
And since I'm a Pentecostal preacher, I'll do my third closing and I'll quit.
There's a story in the Bible where the prophet's standing and they're watching an army come after them and his protege is just terrified.
He's about to lose it.
And I can see the frustration in the prophets, in his actions.
He doesn't even address the protege.
He ends up going to God and said, Will you just show him, open his eyes, and let him look that they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
This is a spiritual time to open your eyes and see that they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
Hallelujah.
God bless you.
Praise God.
Come on, Pastor.
That works for us.
I want to tell you something.
He doesn't know that message was for this house.
You may look pretty and act like everything's good in your house, but in this house, we have been transparent.
And I want to tell you something.
The older I'm getting, the harder it's getting.
Sometimes I'm saying to myself, I'm getting too old for all of this nonsense.
But I want to tell you something.
This pastor just confirmed some things that we're going through.
And until you get honest, God cannot move in your house.
Until you get honest and accept where you are, how can God deal with you in your house if you can't get honest before God?
I believe that's why the church is in trouble.
I believe the reason why young people are experiencing revival outside of the church is because the church hasn't been honest for a long time.
And I love the church.
I will always love the church.
I believe the church is the key.
But I also do believe that it's time for the church.
God deals with his church first.
And I want to tell you something, until you get honest and understand, I love this.
I wrote it down.
The wilderness experience.
Don't knock the wilderness.
Some of the greatest prophets were built in the wilderness.
Some of the greatest sermons came out of the wilderness.
Some of the greatest songs have come out of the wilderness moments.
But yet God does not remove his anointing from the church.
We may look messed up.
We may look like everything's falling apart.
But I want to tell you something.
God is purging his church.
God is shifting things in the church.
He came.
Pastor, that was an anointed message for this home.
And I hope you got it.
And I know you're all about prophecy.
Listen, I'm all about prophecy.
I got so many books.
I'm choking on prophecy.
But this is a reminder.
Listen, I want to tell you something.
Wherever there's prophecy, there's balance.
That sermon is going to get you through the wilderness of prophecy.
I want to tell you something.
Some of you hold on to prophecy so tight that you forget that God has a purpose for his church in the process of prophecy.
And I want to tell you something.
We are coming to hard times.
But if the church doesn't understand what it means to be in the wilderness without food, without prophecy, without all this that we depend on, yet God wants us to depend on his voice, on his word.
There's things that are coming around the corner that is going to shake America.
Yet that sermon right there is the key to get you through the process of the wilderness.
Friends, we have Joseph Z. Does anyone know who Joseph Z is?
What an amazing man of God.
He sent us something to the PTL Television Network.
I don't want you to miss this.
Watch this word.
This is from brother Joseph Z for the PTL Television Network, and it's going to be live here.
Don't tune out.
We're about to play this right now for you.
Here's our brother, Joseph Z.
I wanted to say hello to Jim and Lori and Mondo and Ricky and just everybody that's a part of the network today.
And I just really want to thank you for the opportunity, Jim, to share with you what I see coming for the new year.
Toe-to-Toe with Goliath 00:02:18
And you know, it's an interesting thing.
I've had this word for four years.
I've been working through the process of it.
So I'm just going to break it down.
I'm going to get a running start at it and just tell you what I see coming next.
So let me start up by saying this.
Back in 2020, Spirit of the Lord began to minister to me that we were going to go into a time in March 15th of 2020.
I stood up on a platform and began to declare the word of the Lord that we were going into the time facing the lion, the bear, but that Goliath was coming.
The lion, the bear, and Goliath was coming.
And of course, I think that had everything to do with control, economics, systems of man, all the things that were taking place until finally the ultimate enemy stepped up to the line.
I now believe we faced those two and we are coming toe-to-toe with Goliath.
Now, I've got to say, I believe darkness did not believe that we were going to win in November.
I believe darkness believed that the good guys were going to lose.
And you can determine what level of good and what level of evil you think all of this is.
But I believe the good guys, for the most part, won in November.
That being said, what we're looking at right now is a year that the Lord had spoken to me about back in 23, about 2024, labeling it a do-over year that would be a repeat in spirit of 2020.
And what that really meant is, is we saw things like the Chiefs win the Super Bowl again.
We saw circumstances around tyranny trying to rise again.
We saw these things trying to take place until ultimately we saw 45, now 47 elect, going toe-to-toe with another female candidate.
So it was a complete do-over, a complete repeat of what took place in 2016, 2020.
The same spirit of control and trying to hijack things is what we were going to face in 2024.
We did.
And darkness believed with that do-over year, this year that we're still in, just for this brief moment, that it was going to win.
Go To Pike's Peak 00:04:20
Darkness believed it was completely going to win.
But the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me clearly before that and said, I'm going to do a thing in these days you would not believe though someone told it to you.
Now, leading up to that time, I saw many things.
Now, as you know, I went on a trip where the Lord actually called me out in a meeting supernaturally, standing in a meeting.
The word Lord hit me, knocked me into a chair, and spoke these words to me: come up here, come up higher, come up where I am, Joseph.
Within a few days of that, he said, Go to the top of Pike's Peak.
So I went to the top of Pike's Peak, all the way out here in Colorado, where I live.
Went to the top of that beautiful mountain.
As I was there, the Lord began to speak to me and say, I've called you as a watchman to America's mountain over America.
Now, Pike's Peak, as those of you who are watching may or may not know, Pike's Peak is labeled America's mountain.
It is the Purple Mountain Majesty in the song, Oh, Purple Mountain Majesty.
The Lord sent me to the top of Pike's Peak to say, I've called you as a watchman over America.
I said, Okay, one of many, of course.
And from there, amazingly enough, the Lord then sent me on a trip to Turkey with Rick Renner.
We toured all the seven churches, and the Spirit of God began to speak to me as I stood.
Jim, you're going to like this at the location of John the Revelator's house.
He'd already been exiled to Patmos.
He left Patmos with his sidekick Prokoris, came back to his home, finished the book of Revelation, finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John.
And when John the Revelator was there, he stood on a hill or a bluff, a mountaintop overlooking the area he was called to in Ephesus.
Now, this mirrors me standing on Pike's Peak.
Now, I'm in no way trying to say anything goofy about this or whatever.
I'm just saying there were parallels.
The Lord is speaking to me through a prophetic act.
I'm standing in the same location.
John the Revelator would have been standing in Ephesus as he looked over the city below and over the temple of Artemis.
He could have heard the pagan idolatry.
He could have heard the worship.
He heard all those things that I'm sure grieved and vexed his spirit listening to those things.
But John the Revelator was in a place of safety, and people came and went from his house.
He led the church from that place in the mountain away from it all.
And the Lord began to speak to me, saying, I'm calling people to be watchmen over America.
I believe this network represents one of those.
From there, I ended up going to the location that many people believe is, and I happen to believe this, Noah's Ark.
The actual Noah's Ark, not the one in Kentucky, the one on the Iran border, right next to the border, is this area called the mountains, plural of Ararat.
We could see Mount Ararat proper.
I went there with Rick Renner.
We filmed two weeks of television there.
And as we were in this location, I was standing at the site that is known as the Darupanir site of Noah's Ark.
Now, many people debate if it is, debate if it isn't.
I really believe it is because of being there and what I've seen.
That is not the point I'm trying to make.
Nonetheless, as I stood there, the Lord began to minister to me and say, Okay, I called you to come up higher, took you to the top of Pike's Peak.
I took you to John the Revelator's house, and he stood on a mountain over this area.
And now I'm taking you to the site of Noah's Ark.
And this was just before the leader of Iran at that time went down in the mountains, just days, like a day before that.
We had just been in that location, and that was not far from where this happened.
But as I'm standing there, the Lord spoke a word to me.
The same way Noah's Ark was lifted above the flood and all this chaos was happening.
The Lord spoke clearly and said, America and the nations, if they will receive it, will go into a time of redemptive instability.
And that means they will go through time.
There will be chaos, difficulty, challenge.
But those who fear my name, those that I've called to watch over the nation, those that I've called to come up higher, those that I've called will go through this time of the flood, of a redemptive instability to have a do-over and a complete cleansing of the area.
Darkness Did Not Expect to Lose 00:03:49
That's what the Lord showed me about the coming cycle, the coming four years, 24 through 28.
Said these will be years of a redemptive instability.
Now to go into what's coming for the next year, I began to ask the Lord, what's coming in 2025 particularly?
What are we going to see?
I heard these words.
Everybody, please listen very carefully.
You might want to write this down.
I heard the words, darkness did not expect to lose.
They took an unexpected defeat.
Now they're desperate.
That's one thing that's going to happen.
They're going to respond out of desperation and pull out all the stops now.
But having said that, the Lord spoke to me.
I have purposed for my church and my people to storm Babylon, to storm Babylon, to go after the gates of hell, to not just say, well, we won.
Now it's time to just shrink back, hide and watch.
No, I've called you to redeem the time and push things back until the appointed time of the Lord's return.
And then things will go into a biblical narrative like we have never seen before.
But that being said, I heard these words.
It's time to storm Babylon.
And I began to see this.
And then I was brought over to 2 Kings chapter 13, where Elisha is the old man prophet.
He's old now.
He's in his 90s.
And King Joash comes to Elisha and he says, as soon as he comes in to get a counsel and a prophetic word, my father, my father, and the horseman thereof.
And he begins to lay into him the same way he did when he saw Elijah go up in the chariot.
Now, when this happened, Joash was doing a sense of, oh my goodness, I have nostalgia with you.
Maybe I'm going to see you go up.
Something's going to happen here.
And when he came in, he said, I need advice.
I need to know how to beat my enemies.
And Elisha said, pull back your bow, point an arrow out the east window and fire it.
And when he did this, Elisha, the old man, put his hands on Joash's hands.
They did that prophetic act.
He did it.
Now, Joash is in this nostalgic place of my father, my father, and the chariots and horsemen thereof.
And suddenly Elisha says, okay, now take the arrows.
You guys know where I'm going.
Take the arrows, take them in your hand and strike the ground.
Notice, Elisha did not tell Joash how many times.
So Joash, after he does this prophetic act, after he has this nostalgic moment, my father, my father, thinking Elisha is going to pass on very soon, says, my father, my father, and the horseman thereof.
And then Elisha, after he does the prophetic act, after he hears the nostalgia, says, strike the ground with arrows, young king.
Joash takes the arrows and he strikes the ground three times and stands up.
And Elisha became angry because he said to him, you should have struck the ground five or six times and then I would have delivered you completely from your enemies.
But because you only did it three times, you will only beat them three times.
And the Lord spoke to me and said, this is the church.
We must continue striking the ground until the gates of hell, storming Babylon, the Babylonian system that's trying to come back with sickness, ailments, orbs in the sky, all this craziness, until it's defeated for another generation.
And it's in the hands of the church.
I had a dream recently where I woke up, I saw a flash.
In this dream, I was on a bus.
I saw a flash.
It was a nuclear blast and people were ducking down.
July 2025 Benchmark 00:05:27
And I felt my skin burning.
And the Lord said, the church, it was a mountainous foothill type area going towards a city.
And I saw a flash on the horizon and it began to burn people.
And the Lord spoke to me and said, doesn't have to be.
This is a warning.
And the church is a nuclear deterrent.
The church is the nuclear deterrent.
So I began to see that.
And I began to recognize the Lord is saying that July of 2025, if we can get through quarter one and quarter two of 2025 all the way to July and somewhere in July, I see a tent peg going down and it will be a benchmark.
And that is when the turn will begin towards redemptive instability.
That's where the turn will begin to say we will storm Babylon.
And that's where the turn will be.
If we have no nuclear event that is let off the leash in quarter one or quarter two and we get to July, I believe we can begin to see.
Now you're going to have to pray about this and discern this, but I saw several years going into the future.
I saw the year 2040 and I saw us making history for our children for another time if we will obey and cooperate.
After all, it's not the great mission.
It's the great co-mission with the Lord God Almighty.
And during this time, I saw a number of things, and I'll share this very quickly for the sake of time here, very, very quickly.
I saw us getting past that.
I saw the benchmark.
I saw that we need to discern deviant prophetic voices.
There's two forms of deviant voices.
One is the John the Baptist voice, which is simply uncomfortable but yet truthful.
The other one is those that prophesy from their own soul and they're unrighteous.
I saw warfare breaking out before the beginning of this last quarter, quarter three.
I saw warfare breaking out in 24 and going to go all the way into next year over gatekeeping platforms, legacy television and media, and the change of hands is going to begin to happen because freedom tech is the new warfare.
There's going to be warfare over freedom tech where people begin to contend over the voice and platforms with a voice and freedom tech is what's trying to come forward and we've got to pray and stand on that.
I see that.
I remind everybody that I had a vision of the angel called red, white, and blue standing on the United States of America.
And to the side of that angel was an angel of white and blue and how the angel of red, white, and blue stood with the angel of white and blue, determined the future and the longevity of red, white, and blue's nation.
That means America and Israel.
If we see the goodness of the Lord prevail through the church with our cooperation, if we don't, we will forfeit this and the days will be cut short and we will see difficulty like we've never seen before.
But if we do prevail, I see this and I believe it's in the hands of the church, the nuclear deterrent, and also all the difficulty.
I see us having another round of another generation if we will pray, if we will show up, if we will not shrink back in the day of adversity.
So I'll share just some of the quick things and I'm almost through.
Here, please listen.
I saw an economic miracle through oil, new inventions, and witty ideas from those that are coming in.
I saw foreign land that is owned, especially by military areas and farmlands, being forfeit through a form of imminent domain by a righteous government from foreign entities being kicked out.
I saw that.
I saw the mass deportation scenario and the initiative bigger than any in history and it's going to work.
I saw property and land reversals of losses coming back to people.
It's a Psalm 126.
If we do this right, 2026 will be Psalm 126.
Hear this.
I know I'm jumping a year out, but if we do what we're supposed to do in 25, which is a year of fire, we will see Psalm 126 in 2026, which is a year of picking up sticks, reclaiming.
I saw a water crisis being averted and blaming will take place.
A miracle will come for that.
I saw answers to cyber warfare, which is going to increase.
Satellites will be involved and they will shout solar flares, solar flares, solar flares.
And I see this as a false flag, even if the solar flares are real.
They will use it for a mechanism of control and destroying tech.
But I see power grids, all these things, and the Spirit of the Lord is saying, not on my watch.
If the church will cooperate, I will stop Decapolis, 10 cities burning at once.
I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, It is my will that peace comes and strength comes, and that we have another round to preach the gospel and make disciples.
And it is in the church's hands these next four years of redemptive instability.
And I believe God's will is that we go another length of time beyond that.
And if the church does not rise and we don't see another miracle like we saw in November, well, it's our job as individual believers to keep standing, keep believing, keep watching, keep discerning, because even on a bad day, you're anointed to be the very best there is.
A man or woman with a revelation from God is not at the mercy of this culture going mad.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
And I'll tell you what, he's not sweating.
He's not nervous.
This woke agenda will fall and God is going to be glorified in our children's children.
Remember God's Love 00:02:22
I love you all.
Happy New Year.
It's a thrill to be with you, Jim, Lori, all of you, Mondo, Ricky, everybody.
Jesus is Lord.
We love you so much, family.
Thank you for letting us participate.
Happy New Year.
Let's go into this next year with faith and favor and knowing our covenant rights in the goodness of God.
I love you all.
I'll see you soon.
Amen.
Amen.
We want to thank Brother Joseph Z for doing that for us.
I love that.
Faith, favor, and knowing our covenant rights.
We want to thank that he brings a powerful word with no regret.
And Mondo, he brings it.
And I'm telling you, he just says it like it is.
In a time when there's so many voices out there, which one do you listen to?
That's right.
I tell you who, you know them by their fruits.
That's right.
We know Brother Joseph Z's fruits.
We know him personally.
And I can tell you that he's one of the most genuine, accurate voices in this hour right now, is an emerging prophet, establishing words that God is speaking almost in a daily basis.
Listen, this is why the voice of the prophet's network was birthed in a time when things didn't look good, when money didn't look good, when even everything surrounding us didn't look good.
Yet when God speaks, you obey.
Friends, you've heard an incredible message from Pastor Todd Rogers, as well as a powerful word from our friend Joseph Z.
I want you to cling on to those words because they're vital and important, friends.
As we enter the 2025 season, I want you to remember that God is for you.
He loves you.
He wants to be intimate with you, friends.
You need to have that relationship with him.
That will be the best choice you have ever made.
And what a better way to start off 2025.
If you have a relationship with him, strive to have a closer relationship with him.
And if you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, that will be the best decision you have ever made.
Friends, I want you to remember this: that God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
God bless you.
We want to thank you for your prayers and support.
We would not be able to be here without you.
If you want to see more from us and our family, go to watch JimBakershow.com.
And as my dad always says, remember, God loves you.
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