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Feb. 28, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show with Bishop Ron Webb
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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, our special guest is host of leadership from behind the scenes and pastor to pastors, Bishop Ron Webb.
Our co-host today is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
And now, live from Gray Street at Morningside, USA, here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
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But more important than that, this is all coming from a biblical perspective.
Friends, Christians have been wondering, you know, are aliens real?
Does AI play any type of role in end times Bible prophecy?
And is the Antichrist going to be a real person who walks this earth and truly does what the book of Revelation says he will do?
These questions are going to get answered not by us, by the foremost experts in all of these arenas.
The research is saying artificial intelligence is going to transform the studies of UFOs, moving from reliance on eyewitnesses reports to data-driven analysis.
This is something, Ricky, that artificial intelligence is disrupting our everyday studies into bringing data.
Understand this.
This is the key.
Everything that we do is to collect data.
You want to build a church bishop?
You got to collect the data around the neighborhood.
You got to collect the data around the premises of how the church is going to be established.
Everything we do is collected on data.
Why?
Because data allows you to understand how much investment you want to do in that community, in that project.
So data is really the one that is driving the force for everything to move in.
Well, artificial intelligence is the key to collecting the data.
Remember those words, he who owns the data will control the world.
That's right.
Artificial intelligence is something that is bringing nations up to the forefront, Ricky, that will propel it to maybe, perhaps bring us into a World War III.
That's right.
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Today, we have the wonderful honor of having our bishop here with us, Bishop Ron Webb, a pastor to pastors, host of leadership from behind the scenes on the PTL television network.
Bishop Webb is also on our Morningside USA Board of Directors, a friend to your friend, Pastor Jim Baker.
Bishop, I want to thank you for being on the broadcast.
Thank you.
Thank you.
God bless you.
It's exciting times we're living in, isn't it?
Oh, man, these are great times.
Amen.
God is doing some wonderful things in the kingdom.
I want to ask you this question.
We see a lot of trial, tribulation, turmoil in the world.
Bishop, you travel extensively.
There hasn't been a time where I haven't been on the phone with you where I say, what's that background noise?
He's in the car.
God's Silence Gives Victory 00:15:21
He's in the car going somewhere.
He's in a helicopter.
He's a gospel.
He's driving from this state to that state.
He's preaching the gospel everywhere he can.
He's speaking to governors.
He's speaking to leaders across the country.
Bishop, while there is darkness in the world, there's still got to be some hope, isn't there?
Amen.
The darker the dark is, the brighter the light shines.
Amen.
Amen.
You know, Isaiah talks about how dark, the darkness shall cover the face of the earth.
But you know what?
We can rise and shine because the light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen up on us, the people of God.
And I'm excited about that.
Amen.
You've been on a sermon series right now.
You've been around the country preaching.
Dive into that.
I want to know what you've been teaching the people as you go and minister the gospel.
Man, there's been a variety of things, but look like I've just been locked into, there are so many demonic attacks, pastors, you know, in these last days.
And Daniel talks about it.
Daniel prophesies that in the last days that Satan shall wear out the saints of the most high God.
One translation says the enemy comes to crush the spirit of believers.
And we're starting to see that.
And that's why we've got to rise up and begin to preach hope.
Christ in you is the hope of glory.
And you need to understand that greater is more than just quoting that scripture, but we got to live out that scripture.
And that is, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
Praise God.
But Pastor Ricky, we've been dealing with how to deal with the onslaught of hell.
Amen.
And these attacks that's coming against leadership and those, I call them frontline soldiers because frontline soldiers take all the hits.
Amen.
And so we've been dealing with strategies for victory.
Not just victory, but God gives us strategies.
And when the enemy launches an attack, then you know what?
God gives you strategies on how to overcome the attacks of the enemy.
So we've been dealing with those.
I mean, point one, point two, point three.
You know, in the book of Michael, chapter two, verse 13, it talks about the spirit of the breaker has come.
And I'm telling you, we need the spirit of the breaker in our congregation, in our church services.
And as believers, we know that the breaker, ladies and gentlemen, in the Old Testament was those battered rams that would go before the army and they would bust open gates.
Well, guess who our battered ram is today?
It's Jesus himself.
Come on, somebody.
Praise God.
We got a great one on the inside.
But in this text, it's an interesting text because as David now, David has been anointed by Samuel.
Saul has just been fired.
And 1 Samuel chapter 15.
And the Bible says God speaks to Samuel and says, why are you still crying over Saul seeing that I've rejected him?
He says, get up, fill your horn with oil and move to the next assignment.
Now, it takes an anointing to move to the next assignment.
And we can't move to the next assignment without having the oil of God.
Notice what he said, fill your horn with oil.
You just can't go and do something without the anointing going before you.
He anoints David.
Now, David, ladies and gentlemen, has been anointed.
Praise God, king of Israel.
And so that's his first anointing.
Where does he receive it?
In Jesse's house.
I hear so many people say, oh, I just want the anointing of God.
Well, the first anointing that you get is the anointing to serve.
You got to be faithful at the house.
Well, I feel like God is sending me to the mission fields to go across the pond to Africa.
Well, how can God send you across the pond to Africa when you won't go across the street to witness to your neighbor?
I didn't get no help right now.
And so here's what happens.
God anoints him there.
And now David goes into battle with Goliath.
You know the story there.
But then there's something interesting that happens.
David, in 1 Samuel chapter 30, David and his men return to Ziglag.
And the Bible says when they, you know, upon their return, they notice their smoke, there's fire.
And when they finally arrive there, they realize that the wives and children have been taken captive.
And the enemy, the Amalekites, burned the town down.
David and his men wept until they couldn't weep anymore because they've just come out of a battle.
And this is where we are now in the body of Christ.
Just as soon as you get victory over this, then you've got that to deal with.
Have you ever felt like, my God, now I've got victory and I can take a deep breath.
But before your head comes up out of the water, look like there's something to hit you again.
And so now David, his wives and children have been taken captive and they wept sore until they couldn't weep anymore.
But the Bible says David encouraged himself and the Lord, his God.
Amen.
And then he inquired of the Lord, what must I do?
Shall I pursue after this enemy?
Shall I overtake?
God says, he gives him three answers to two questions.
Surely you shall pursue, overtake, and without fail, you're going to recover all.
Amen.
Say it with me, without fail.
Without fail.
You're going to recover it all.
You're going to get it all back.
So that was the strategy.
He inquires of the Lord.
God says, go.
And then he wins and he recovers.
And then after that, David goes into another battle.
And guess what?
God tells him to go.
And David goes and David pursues.
But then something happens in 2 Samuel chapter number 5.
You know, David now is in Rephiem.
Rephiim is a valley.
It's a valley, ladies and gentlemen.
It's really called the valley of giants.
Rephiim means the terrible ones.
It's where he's surrounded by giants, and now he inquires of the Lord again.
And now the word is different.
All the other times God says go, but this time God says, don't go.
Wait until you hear the sound of the rumbling at the top of the mulberry trees.
So the assignment here is different.
Why would God tell him to stop this time and tell him to go the other times?
Because God has a strategy.
And notice what he said.
This time, this will not be the frontal attack, but you're going to come up behind them.
But here's the revelation until you hear the sound of the rumbling in the mulberry trees.
But at the top, God says orders are coming from headquarters.
This season in your life, you're going to get your answers from on high.
And God says, your victory is going to come through a sound.
Now, God works in many ways.
Sometimes God gives us victory through silence.
Come on.
You know, be still and know that I am God and I will be exalted among the heathen.
I believe that's Psalms 46, 10.
But then there was, you know, we talk about Joshua and how the walls of Jericho come crumbling down.
But before the seventh time, you got to understand, they marched six days in silence.
And God is speaking to someone right now.
Don't always think the anointing is in noise.
God says, I'm going to give you a quiet victory and I'm going, I'm going to fake your enemies out and you're going to win this one in silence.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do as a believer is shut your mouth.
See, we always hear people say, God has anointed me to speak, but every now and then God will anoint you to shut up.
Let me write this down.
That time I'm overwhelmed.
Wow.
So God says, in this season, I got a different strategy for you.
Sometimes you walk in silence and he says, I'm going to let you win in silence.
So you've got stillness, number one.
You've got silence, number two.
You have a shout, number three.
But then right here, God says, I'm giving you a strategy and sound.
When you hear the sound, this next revelation is coming straight from heaven.
Amen.
On the day of Pentecost, they were in one accord, one place, and all of a sudden, oh, come on, somebody.
But in order to hear, you have to be silent.
You have to be silent.
See, Elijah's in a cave.
And while he's in the cave, he's giving up, saying, I'm done.
And all of a sudden, there was the earthquake.
You know the story.
Amen.
There was a whirlwind, but then there was a still small voice.
Wow.
Amen.
God is saying in this season, it's going to be a silent season, but you're coming out with victory.
Amen.
So the key, Bishop, if I'm understanding right, is don't just focus on the victory.
Focus on the strategy.
On the strategy.
God gives a strategy.
You know, we want God to give us a miracle, but sometimes God wants you to participate in that miracle.
Come on.
Why would he tell a blind man to go to the pool of Salom and wash?
Because he wanted him to participate in the miracle.
Why would he tell a general by the name of Naaman to go down in a muddy pond, amen, and dip seven times and then you'll come up clean?
Because that was the strategy for the miracle.
So now we're in a different day now, and the Bible says there's nothing new under the sun.
Well, what's going to happen?
We're under new leadership now.
And all the things that's happening in this world, and there's a shaking going on.
Man, Evans was prophesying when he was singing.
There's a whole lot of shaking.
There's a whole lot of shaking.
And that's exactly what's going on right now.
But guess what?
The men of Isachar had an understanding of the times and the seasons, and they knew what Israel was supposed to do.
Amen.
This is nothing new to God.
Amen.
Friends, I want to remind you what he's saying.
Sometimes God will meet you in your isolation.
Come on.
It's important, friends.
Moses had to get alone to hear the voice of God.
Like you just said, Elijah had to get alone to hear the voice of God.
Jacob, before he wrestled with God, what does it say?
He was alone.
Jesus often withdrew himself from his crowds.
Why?
To get alone with God.
Friends, I'm going to encourage you today: go get alone with God.
Go find that prayer closet, that prayer room.
Go sit in your car, drive, go sit to a McDonald's parking lot.
Go get alone with God somewhere and say, God, this isn't just a one-way conversation where I'm asking you for something.
I'm going to turn the mic over to you.
I want you to speak to me.
And sometimes, friends, you'll sit there and you'll sit there and sit there and say, I didn't hear anything.
Friends, we're being tested to see if we can be quiet.
You know, we were in a prayer time the other day.
I think about 5:30 in the morning.
I was talking with a brother.
He said, You know, let's talk about, let's bind this, let's loose this.
And I said, Yes, most mornings we will.
Let's bind this.
Let's lose that.
I said, The Lord told me it's time to just wait.
Wow.
And I sat there.
I sat there, you know, what do they call it?
Crisscross applesauce, like the kids say.
I sat there on the ground and I said, You know what?
It's a moment of waiting.
It's a moment of waiting.
In that hour, hour and a half that we were there, I didn't hear an audible voice of God.
I didn't hear an impression in my spirit, but I waited on the Lord and I said, Lord, if I have to sit here every day and wait until I hear your voice, I'm going to do it.
It wasn't until shortly after that, a few days later, I'm in my waiting and the Lord speaks something to me.
And I said, Friends, if I had to have waited three, four, five, six, seven more years for that word from the Lord, I would have done it.
Because when the Lord of the Lord speaks to your heart, that's when you can find healing.
See, friends, God will often meet you in your isolation.
When you're in your isolation, sometimes you're broken in your isolation.
God will meet you at your brokenness.
God will meet you right there where you're saying, God, this is who I am.
I'm vulnerable.
I want you to know my name.
And friends, he'll meet you there.
He'll restore you.
He'll redeem you.
He'll bring you back into the fullness of what he has for you.
Friends, Jesus wants to have a relationship with you.
He's the healer.
He's the one who can provide you every sustance that you possibly could ever need.
You know, the word of God says, I've never seen the righteous forsaken.
I've been young and I've been old.
I've never seen the righteous forsaken, nor have I seen what?
Their children beg for bread.
Friends, you may be in a situation where you're saying, well, I've seen my children beg for bread.
Our responsibility, friends, is we must be righteous so that our children don't have to beg for bread.
And friends, I'm talking in a spiritual sense right now.
Pursue the word of God.
Get to know the word of God.
Get to know the man who is Jesus Christ, who was a perfect man, walked a perfect life, fulfilled every prophecy, followed the law perfectly, so that he could bear all of our sins, hang on that cross, and call you a brother or a sister in Christ, heir to the throne.
Bishop Ricky, we have been taught in the church to go.
Go, go, go, go.
Hustle calls.
Go preach the gospel.
Go win souls.
Go, go, go, go.
And then the goals, we get lost.
We get lost in the turbulence of life, not knowing what our mission is.
Here, we thought our mission was to build a church, but it was not God's timing yet.
There you go.
And I want to tell you something.
Some of you are trying to write books, and God is not wanting you to write a book.
You're wanting to start a podcast.
Yet God says, no, it's not time to start a podcast.
But everything is go, go, go.
But when I read the scriptures, bishop, I hear a lot of wait on the Lord.
You see, the greatest thing God ever done for me, bishop, was to show me my future.
And then the hard part was wait.
Oh, wow.
See, our waiting is not a waste.
Oh, no.
We live in a generation when we're told to wait, people get insulted and they get offended.
Sometimes God says, waiting, he's doing us a favor.
I'm glad he didn't give me what I wanted when I wanted it because I wasn't ready for it.
I had to wait.
It makes me think about when Pastor Jim early on in the ministry and I came to serve the ministry and Pastor Jim would knock on my door and says, get ready.
We're getting ready to go into a meeting.
Well, we, I took it as in me too.
And I want to tell you something.
I got ready with my Armani suit that someone gave me and my floorshine shoes and I got my tie and I combed my hair and I got ready and I say, I'm ready to go.
Waiting for Victory 00:08:08
Let's go.
We driving and getting ready and I'm getting excited because I'm going to be part of this meeting, Bishop, and I'm going to learn.
I'm going to be around the prophets and I get ready and we get out of the car.
We walk towards the building, open the door for Pastor Jim.
I'm carrying his briefcase and we're going in.
We get ready to walk into that door.
I'm excited.
God, you're going to speak to me, God.
And as we get ready to go in, Pastor Jim grabs me and says, you're going to wait out here because what is about to be discussed, you're not ready to hear.
See, wow.
It was in the waiting that broke my heart.
And I felt like I did something wrong.
I felt like I let God down.
I felt like God, what did you do?
God, why are you doing this?
But it was in that waiting moment.
This is the key I learned.
Don't be distracted in the waiting.
Come on.
Don't be on your phone while you're waiting.
Don't be distracted by people on your waiting.
Don't allow people to come in and say, you know, you should have gone in there.
Right.
Right.
You talk about that in one of your books.
Instead, bishop, I sat outside with tears.
It doesn't mean you're not allowed to cry.
It doesn't mean that waiting on the Lord doesn't mean that you can not be emotional, but don't move.
And I stood and don't get angry.
Don't get discouraged.
Don't get even.
Don't allow those thoughts to come in and rob you from the waiting period.
Don't get better during the waiting.
Don't get weary.
Don't get better.
And I want to tell you something.
I sat there waiting for Pastor Jim and Lori to come out of that meeting.
I was waiting on the Lord.
Not that he was my Lord.
Don't get it mixed up.
But I was waiting on the Lord while what being heard.
And I was praying.
Instead of murmuring, instead of feeling sorry for myself, I went into prayer.
Father, in the name of Jesus, anoint that meeting.
Lord, speak to Pastor Jim.
Speak through him.
Speak through Pastor Joyner.
Lord, in the name of Jesus.
So instead of bickering and biting, while I was waiting on the Lord, this is what happened.
Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Yes.
That's right.
Come on, Bishop, preach this thing.
Amen.
You're talking.
Well, I mean, a lot of times we abort the plan of God because we're not willing to wait.
We're in a generation that loves to date and mate, but we hate to wait.
Hello, somebody.
Praise God.
But we got to wait up on the Lord.
I think it's Genesis chapter 26.
It talks about Isaac.
Isaac is getting ready to go down to Egypt.
And the Lord says, Abide in Jerar.
Stay right here.
Stay right here.
But he's ready to go.
His bags are packed.
He's ready to go.
And he says, I will bless you in the land of famine.
Amen.
Now, who wants to wait in the land of famine?
But when you get a word from God, hello, he's in an isolated place, as you alluded to a few moments ago, but he obeyed God.
And the Bible said the same year that God blessed him 100 fold.
And the man grew until he was very great, simply because, you know, we preach faith to go, but you don't hear a lot of preaching on faith to wait on God.
See, you got to have just as much faith to wait than you do as faith to go.
I'm reading right here.
The idea of waiting on the Lord can mean having faith and hoping God, even when things are uncertain.
Absolutely.
I believe this is, Ricky, this, by the way, I want to give you a little insight.
This day was not planned.
No, we don't have questions for this.
Meaning, this show was not supposed to happen, but I'm starting to believe right now, at least for my life, this was one of the most important shows we've ever done in the last 20 years because there's a transition.
But in that transition, you said it earlier, is a waiting period to hear from God on what, not the victory, the strategy to the victory.
And you often say, we're not what?
We're not fighting for victory.
We're fighting from victory.
Come on now.
We don't have to strive for it, friends.
God has already given it to our hands.
But friends, there's a process that must be respected.
You know, in the military, they never give us the victory, friends, because we don't know what's uncertain.
There's a lot of uncertainty when you're facing the enemy.
But what they do is they give us the strategy and they train you on that strategy.
And sometimes you say, why am I going through days, weeks, months, years of doing the same thing over and over and over again?
Well, friends, it's because when you get in a situation, you know the strategy.
You can come out with the upper hand because you've been trained on it.
Bishop, you were talking about Joseph.
Yes.
Seven years, seven years, he had to train his people, give a percentage of what you have grown, what you have worked hard for, what you have blood, sweat, and tears invested into.
Give it for something that for the people, they didn't know if it was actually coming.
Year one, two, three, four, five, they're on year seven, still giving a portion of everything that they have.
And they're saying, this man said, this guy said there was going to be a famine.
It didn't look like famine.
It looked like prosperity.
But they had to trust that the man of God knew what he was talking about.
And it was because of their diligence to trust the strategy and to trust the process that they could withstand the next seven years of famine.
And he said, what?
Bill Shallows, what's the assignment of preachers today?
Not to excite people on TV and not to get them to find out how many likes you can get and how many hearts and, you know, thumbs up.
No, it's to prepare them for the coming of the Lord.
You know, Joseph, and man, I love this story because it was in famine that he got the promotion.
He wouldn't have never been promoted if it wasn't for the famine.
See, we always think the blessings come and show up when things are, when you're on top of the mountain.
But most of the time it's when the mountain's on top of you.
Praise God.
Think about this.
He goes from the pit to Potiphar's house and then lied on by Potiphar's wife.
And I mean, it was never an action.
It was an action.
I mean, or yeah, an accusation.
That's right.
Praise God.
And then he goes to prison on an accusation, not an act.
He didn't do it.
It was an accusation.
We're in a day and a time now where you don't have to be guilty.
You know, just accuse.
Yeah, just accuse.
You got it.
Praise God.
And then he goes from there to prison for something that he didn't do.
Well, the king, Pharaoh, has a dream.
No one can interpret it, but the butler and the baker remember being in prison.
They said, hey, there's a young man down there.
I bet you he can interpret the dream.
They bring Joseph in, and Joseph said, hey, those seven skinny cows are going to be seven years of famine.
Those fat cows, God's giving you a bumper crop.
What do we do?
Build shallows.
Because famine is coming.
And because he interpreted the dream in a time of famine, he was promoted.
Wow.
See?
Wow.
Sometimes it's in our low spots that God gets the glory.
And so 2 Samuel chapter 5, around about verse 17, David says that God gave me a breakthrough.
And he renamed that valley from Rephidim to, amen, Belparism, which means the God of breakthrough.
And God is saying, you may be in a valley of giants and a valley of frustration, but rename your valley today.
Place of Trial and Tribulation 00:08:52
And I'm here to tell you, amen.
I know there's a valley down there, but that's a valley of victory.
Whatever you've been going through up until this point, it's about to change in Jesus' name.
It's about to change.
See, friends, we have to have the constant reminder that when we're looking at Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, God didn't deliver them from the furnace.
Come on.
He delivered them from the fire.
We see Daniel going through persecution.
He wasn't delivered from the lion's den, but he was delivered from the lions.
Friends, you may be in a place of trial and tribulation.
You may be saying, God, why am I in this position?
He'll always deliver you.
He'll always bring you through.
Can you wait in those moments?
Wow.
See, Daniel could have got down there and said, I got to start doing some work.
I got to pick up some rocks, start throwing them at the end.
I got to start seeing what I can do to knock as many of these lions out as I can.
What did he do?
He went down there and he knew God's my sustainer.
God's my protector.
God's will be done, not my will.
And friends, he was down there.
It's that he rested.
He waited.
He waited.
An angel came down, shut the mouth of the lion.
Friends, you may feel like, God, I want you to deliver me from these circumstances, but it might be your circumstance that grows your faith.
Friends, like Bishop just said, sometimes it feels like the mountain is on top of you.
But friends, sometimes the Lord's trying to get you to learn how to push, how to push, how to persevere, how to sustain, how to endure.
Because what does the word of God say?
Those who what?
Endure to the end.
Those who endure to the end.
There's a point in a marathon.
You're running 26 miles.
There's a point in a marathon where you're not running off strength anymore.
You're running off endurance.
You're not running off of your power anymore.
You're running off sheer will to say, I'm going to cross that finish line.
Friends, you might be at that point in your faith walk right now.
We're saying, Lord, I don't have any more leg muscles to give.
My back's giving out.
I'm sweating.
I can't feel my feet.
I haven't been able to for the last few miles.
And the Lord says, but will you endure?
Yes.
Will you continue to persevere?
You might fall down, but will you be like a righteous man and get back up?
Will you continue to pursue the good goal that is the finish line?
Friends, that finish line is Jesus Christ.
That's embracing Jesus Christ, the man who was perfect and died on a cross for our sins, and hearing, well done, my good and my faithful servant.
You know, we heard the phrase a lot, fake it till you make it.
We heard that in Christianity.
There is no faking it till you make it.
There's a Matthew 7 experience waiting for those who are faking it until they make it, where they say, look, Lord, look at all the things we've done in your name.
I've cast out demons in your name.
I've done miracles in your name.
Look at all the stuff.
Look at all the accolades I've collected.
Look at my ribbons.
He says, but I didn't know you.
We never had intimacy with each other.
Depart from me, you what?
Worker of iniquity.
Well, they were just talking about all the good things they've done for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But the Lord says, well, you have worked iniquity, friends.
Intimacy with the Holy Spirit, knowing God personally and having a relationship with his son.
That is what matters in this world.
Friends, Jesus said it clearly.
I am the way.
I am the truth.
I am the life.
No one.
No one.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
Friends, if you want to be with the Father, which everyone should desire, go through Jesus.
It's the only way to get there.
Some people think, you know, like it's like a home.
They think I can get through the window.
You know, the last minute, the rapture is going, I'm going to jump in the window at the last minute.
Friends, there's a door, and that door is Jesus Christ.
You have to walk through that door.
Make that decision today.
Call our number.
It's 1-888-988-1588.
There will never be a more important decision you will make.
And friends, I know some people watch this show every single day and they say, this guy never gets off this subject of trying to get, you know, I say the same thing every time.
It's the most important decision you'll ever make because I believe it.
That's right.
Because I stand by it.
Friends, you might be living a certain lifestyle right now that is contradictory to the word of God.
You may be living a lifestyle right now that does not line up with biblical values, principles, does not have the correct moral compass.
And you may be saying, well, why does Ricky call it out on a Sunday service?
I told our church, I'll address issues because they're church issues.
If they are issues of sin, then it is an issue we'll address from the pulpit.
Well, why do you address it?
Why do you address it?
Well, friends, because I care about your eternal position more than your temporary satisfaction.
If I cared about your temporary satisfaction, well, live however you want to.
Live a frivolous life.
Be flippant in every choice you make.
Never be stable in anything.
Bounce from this sin to that sin to that sin.
Friends, I care about where you will spend eternity.
I want you to spend it with Jesus Christ.
Thank you, Lord.
I want you to spend it basking in the glory of God where millions and millions and billions of years will pass by and you'll have the cognitive reasoning ability to understand eternity has just begun.
The beginning of my relationship, intimacy, being with God has just started in a billion years from now.
Friends, eternity lasts forever, and there's a choice to be made here on this earth to determine where you go.
Again, call our number if you want to pray that salvation prayer.
Then after you do that, friends, go get in a good Bible-believing church, one that preaches the full word of God.
Friends, go get baptized.
Go post on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Let everybody know, I believe in Jesus Christ.
Don't be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Don't take the light that the Lord has given you and hide it.
Friends, I promise you right now, when you put, what happens when you put a cup over a candle, the candle will burn out.
That's right.
Friends, you have to let that fire go through your body.
Let it be shut up in your bones.
You should have a desire to evangelize to every person you can and let them know.
I was just in interaction doing some military activities here in Missouri.
I'm in the Missouri National Guard, and I love it.
And I was looking at this group of soldiers, and they're getting ready to work on an active deployment.
My contract will end before that, so I won't go with them.
But I'm looking at all these men around the room who will go and they'll deploy to another country and they'll fight a battle on behalf of the United States of America, whatever it is that they're assigned.
And I was looking at it and I began to weep.
And I don't weep in front of these men, you know, but I said, I began to cry because I realized it's just the reality of it is not all these men are going to make it home.
We would like if they could.
We wish that we could, and that's what we train for, but that's not the reality of it.
And I thought, how many of these men don't know Jesus?
How many of these men are going to go into this situation, not come home, and they will stand in front of God.
And I could have had a personal responsibility.
And Jesus said, you had every opportunity, Ricky.
You had time and time again to tell them about Jesus.
So I made it a mission for the next 24 hours.
I'm going to walk up to every person that likes me and doesn't like me because some of them like me, some of them don't like me because I'm loud.
And I'll say, do you know Jesus?
Do you know Jesus?
A lot of them said, hey, get that out of my face.
I don't care about Jesus.
I don't care.
Do you know Jesus?
Hey, man, I don't care about that.
Some people said, well, I was baptized when I was younger, so I'm good to go.
Don't worry about me.
Well, brother, do you know Jesus?
And we had the conversations.
We had the hard conversations with people.
But friends, your heart should be aching for those around you.
Pick up the phone today and call one of your family members who you know doesn't know Christ.
Pick up the family, uh, pick up the phone and call that person who hurt you and tell them you forgive them.
Right, pick up the phone and for uh ask for forgiveness for that person you hurt.
I'm telling you right now, we need to be a body of restoration.
We need to be a body that aches and hates sin.
We need to be a body that is always concerned about bringing people in to the fullness of what God has for them, and that's a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Sorry, but I don't even take away, but we had to talk about Jesus is the most important choice we'll ever make.
Yes, and I don't want our church body, and I love our church body.
We don't have any lukewarm Christians in there, we don't have any people who love gossip, we don't have any people who love slander, witchcraft, anything.
And I love our church body because of that.
What a blessing!
We have people who love the word of God and stand by the word of God.
But, friends, we want you to have that same relationship with Jesus Christ.
It'll be the best choice you have ever made.
Wow, David said, Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.
At the entrance of thy word, it brings light, understanding, and illumination.
I thank God for the word of God.
David says, I lay up on my bed and I meditate upon his word both day and night.
Amen.
Praise God.
Amen.
It's the word that saves us and heals and delivers and sets us free by the power of God.
I want to talk about a prophetic word the Lord gave you last year.
If it's okay if we start touching it, he was talking, he said he gave you three W's.
Yes.
Let's talk about those three W's because they're important for the times we're living in right now.
Well, one of which was wars.
I saw wars breaking out everywhere.
That's right.
And then water.
Water.
That's right.
Yes.
And weather, you know.
But in that, I saw winds and the fire and just bad inclement weather.
When did the Lord give you this word?
Prophetic Words on Water Wars 00:04:17
It was at the end of 2024.
That's right.
I believe you called me in November when you gave me this word.
Or maybe it might have even been a little bit earlier than November.
He called and gave me this word.
He said, Hey, I got three W's for you.
I thought he was going to give me my next sermon points.
I clicked the pen.
I said, Right.
He gave me those sermons.
He said it in November.
That's right.
I said, Yeah, I'm going to use that for a different sermon, a different day.
When you told me that, I don't know if you remember being on the phone.
I remember where I was.
I was sitting there on the edge of my bed listening to you, and you talked about the Lord showing you fires.
Yes.
And just shortly after that, what did we see in California?
Oh, we saw the fires.
And the Lord showed you that in November.
The wind.
And the wind.
What caused the fire, Mondo?
What caused it to push?
And when I spoke to you in November, I had literally saw that in a vision.
I mean, it was just, and it was going from state to state.
It just won't be California.
It's going to be other states.
Wow.
And wherever there's a fire, it just won't be a fire burning, but there will be wind pushing it and moving it throughout.
You know, the word of God says, we know a prophet.
How?
How do we know if a prophet is a true prophet?
His prophecies come to pass.
Friends, this was a pretty, you know, sometimes it takes decades for prophecies to come to pass.
That's the reality of it.
But sometimes they come to pass pretty quickly.
This is within a two-month time span, Mondo.
And we saw instantaneously, aren't they calling this the worst wildfire?
I know some headlines were saying this was apocalyptic level fires.
I mean, Mondo, this is incredible.
He saw this.
He verbalized this.
I believe he even might have said it during the New Year's Eve service.
He said during the New Year's Eve.
And then when people say, well, you say wars, the Bible speaks of wars and rumors of wars, but it wasn't just wars.
It was war on water.
Wow.
Wow.
So war is breaking out on water.
You're going to see.
We're seeing it on land, but in the vision, God showed me the fires and winds was blowing.
I mean, out of control.
And I would say this: watch Taiwan.
Watch it.
He said, War on water.
Yes.
Obviously, we see China really wants Taiwan.
America defends Taiwan.
And what do they do?
They take Chinese warships and they put them on the water outside of the island.
And there would be a true war on water if they ever decided to invade that.
But Mondo, this is a prophetic word that has been coming to pass over these last few days.
Absolutely.
And we're watching North Carolina.
Wildfires there.
We're watching the war on water right now in Idaho, the war on water in California.
We're watching a war on water in America to have safe drinking water.
Yet the war on water is like never before.
No one's talking about it because we're too busy trying to figure out what's happening with Hollywood stars and whatnot.
But in the middle of all that, there's a war on water right now that very few people are willing to talk about.
But if you wake up one morning and your water is not working, you better go back and watch this programs because I want to tell you something.
There's a war on water and, you know, Carl Palmer being the man that, you know, is passionate about drinking water and the PFOAs.
And I want to tell you something.
There's a war in the water systems right now in America about the PFOAs that nobody wants to talk about, yet they can be fixed, yet they don't want to fix them.
But here's, you gave a prophetic word.
Then in the 31 things that Pastor Jim delivered here at Waterways, he said, watch water, water, water.
And ever since then, nobody really understands what that means.
But if there's another thing about water, then the Pacific North of the United States, they're watching that there's a volcano offshores in the water that should be erupting anytime during 2025.
That's right.
Ricky, this prophetic word allows us to understand that the products that we offer are more important today than any other time.
That's right.
Well, Pastor Jim stood on this set and he said, water, water, water, but not a drop to drink.
Sustaining The People 00:07:52
I don't know if you guys remember that prophetic word he gave on a New Year's service, but friends, it is vital that we understand as the church, we need to be there to sustain the country.
I know you say, well, the government's supposed to sustain the country.
The government will take care of the people.
Friends, the church needs to be the first ground to sustain the people.
After 9-11, that Sunday after and the Sunday after, record high church going.
There was a national tragedy and everybody flooded where?
Not to their capitals.
They didn't flood to their representative seats and congressmen's houses.
They flooded to the church.
And friends, it's our responsibility to take care of those people.
When somebody comes knocking at the door and says, I don't have food, church, it's our responsibility to have food for them.
When somebody comes knocking and says, I need clean clothes, I need diapers.
I need X, Y, and Z for our family friends, it's our responsibility to take care of those people.
That's why through your partnership, we've been able to do this.
Whether it be Texas, Houston, whether it be Florida, Mississippi, California, friends, we have stood with those people through your support.
Friends, it's been you guys that has allowed us to do that.
Truckloads of food, truckloads of clothes, truckloads of things that people need.
But the most important thing was given to these people, and it was the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yes, we're going to give you a hot meal, but we're going to share the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ with you.
Yes, we're going to put clothes on your back.
Yes, we're going to come visit you in prison.
Yes, we're going to take care of the orphan and the widow.
But most important, we're going to give you the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But Mondo, that's why we do the products.
A lot of people ask me, you know, I've had friends who watch this show and say, Ricky, what are you doing?
I said, you know, I'll be honest with you, I do this because I believe in it.
I believe the church should be the food pantries.
I believe the church should be the clothing pantries.
I believe that we should actually do what Jesus told us to do.
And that is feed those, clothe those, visit those in prisons.
Friends, we want to make sure we do that.
Mondo, we have partnered with New Mana, and they have an incredible deal that they can support churches.
That's what's it.
Pastors are calling us and said, hey, we don't want to just get ready on an individual level.
We want to prepare the church.
When you have a truckload of the H2O water, can I see that water bottle there?
Because I want you guys to understand, you see, what's happened with people that made fun of us is that they said, Bishop, oh, just keep the food and the water in the storage facilities.
Don't talk about it.
Just keep the conversation in the pantry.
You know, that's a pantry conversation for Saturdays.
No, it's not.
This is an everyday matter that if we could, we would talk about it on every program to remind you that if you want to be a missionary to the world, start here in the United States with your own neighborhood.
That's right.
Why?
Because H2O, this water right here that I'm holding in my hand, will become more valuable than anything else in a time of need.
But what if you have the ability to do that through yourself, through your ministry, through your business, and we want to work with you because this company is making it available where you order now and set up payments later?
That right there is enough for you to say, I want to do something.
Instead of ordering people to do something, you do it.
You know how many people call us and do, you guys need to do that.
You guys need to.
No, what about you?
You can do it.
You can be his hands extended for your community.
All we can do is get you the best pricing because if you do it on your own, it's going to cost you millions of dollars.
But what if it costs you several hundred dollars to get this water by the truckloads to a food pantry in your community?
Why don't you do this?
Call us right now, 1-888-988-1588, and find out how you can get this H2O emergency drinking water.
This can be stored up to 20 years.
This is military-graded plastic, so it's not going to be leaching any bacteria or anything else that you're thinking about, but it's going to give you a solution for a time of need.
Again, go to the website, jimbakershow.com, and find out about the food, the water, and even the lion energy that can supply power for generating, you know, power.
That's right.
Can you imagine that?
Having the answers at your fingertips, literally, because you can order it through your phone, your iPad, or even your computer.
That's right, Bishop.
You believe in that.
You believe in the mission of the church.
I know you have helped us get truckloads of food for our local community as well as national crisis.
Why are you so passionate about making sure people are fed?
I've never been to Bishop's church where I didn't get fed well.
Right after a service, I'm telling you, you need to go to his church.
That's heat.
You're going to get fed spiritually and you're going to get fed.
But you believe in feeding the people.
Yes.
Well, Jesus did, you know, and there's a blessing that's linked to feeding people.
And we've been tremendously blessed by having partners from around the world, you know, in the country that we've connected with.
And man, we've seen hundreds of thousands of people that's on the recipient in being blessed as a result of having those food baskets and boxes.
And I'm thankful for that, man.
I'm telling you, because there's famine that's coming.
I'm telling you, the prices are going out.
I'm telling you, it's outrageous.
And, you know, we need to get our hand on as much food as we can.
And as Pastor Jim says, don't sell the farm.
Don't sell the farm.
That's right.
Home to the farm.
Amen.
Amen.
You know, you've stood with this ministry for it's probably been over two decades now, truly.
You've stood with Pastor Jim Baker.
I want to ask you this question, unprompted, if that's okay with you.
What has made you continue to stand with this ministry?
Is pastors' love for the people and care for the people and the voice of the prophets getting the word out.
I remember one of the first shows, and it's been some years ago, almost two decades ago.
I would always say, Pastor Jim is a voice to the world and not an echo.
And I always say that Morningside was just a Holy Ghost meteorologist station.
And when I look at you, gentlemen, I'm telling you, God bless your soul because God's hand is up on you.
You all are giving a prophetic forecast for what's coming down the pike.
You know, prophecy is foretelling, is foretelling.
And you're letting us know what's coming.
You know, we watch the news just about on a day-to-day basis, the weather, and they tell you in two days or three days, you know, ice is coming, snow is coming.
People prepare for that.
And every time these prophets send out a word, it's preparing the people for the coming of the Lord.
So this station is so important.
So Pastor Jim is a man that loved the church and he loves the word of God.
I've been with him, you know, on shows.
We've traveled the country together.
We've traveled down the Mississippi River together from flooded states at Tussa, I mean, Alabama, just all around.
But he believes in this message and preparing the people.
And we've built restoration centers as a result of knowing him and connecting with this ministry.
So we believe in restoration.
Amen.
Shortage of water is coming.
Waiting On Preparedness 00:05:14
Write it down.
Shortage of water is coming.
What if I tell you that this right here can make the difference in your ability to waiting on the Lord when the water gets turned back on?
I mean, all the sermon that we've been talking about goes back to this.
The waiting period is where most people die because they're not prepared with the right foods and the right liquids available for your family.
Waiting on FEMA, you'll be waiting for a long time.
Let me tell you that.
And that is not a knock on FEMA, but I want to tell you something.
When you have thousands of people waiting online to get food and then they find out they ran out of food, they tell you, oh, you got to go down the street to another place, another location.
By the time you get to that other location, you're worn out.
You're fatigued.
You're stressed.
You're pressured.
And your family may be counting on you to be prepared.
And I want to tell you something.
You think we're crazy?
That's all right.
But we're talking to the experts that understand the shortages of food that are taking place right now and the war on water that our farmers here in America are facing.
Then the cultural disruption with the illegal immigration that is taking place in America, that a lot of the fields are being worked by illegal immigrants.
And if they have to leave and if they're forced to leave because they broke the law, then that's going to put pressure on the farmers on how to find the help.
And I'm telling you, this is a domino effect.
But yet, what is the church going to do if we're not ready?
And if you were too embarrassed to order food, then I want to tell you something.
You're going to be caught unaware, waiting for someone to come and bail you out.
I'm telling you, it is around the corner.
I'm talking to experts and I'm trying to avoid them because I don't want to get that information, but I know that I have to make time.
And as a matter of fact, after this show is done, I got to get in a call with Seychelle Water Filtration because the news that Carl Palmer had, Carl Palmer has, it's going to be devastating.
And we're going to bring it to you so you can hear it and know what to do and have what you preached on a strategy on how you're going to support your family with the water changes that are taking place in America.
And yet, you're going to wake up one morning and not have cough, not have water for your coffee.
Wow.
Yeah.
You know, Mundo, while you were speaking just a few months ago, when we experienced that hurricane in 2024 in North Carolina and some of the other states, parts of Georgia, we sent out three tractor trailer loads of goods.
And Pastor Ricky was a part of that.
Morningside was a part of that.
And their number one need was water.
And we shipped, I mean, cases and cases and cases of tractor trailer loads of water.
And even before FEMA could get into some of the places, we had several churches that were drop-off places, and they were able to disseminate and get it into the community because the church was prepared.
Wow.
So, but water, food, I mean, you know, people don't care about the car, you know, when you can't eat or drink, then it's devastating.
You, you, you prophesied wildfires.
What did we see?
People leaving their cars in the middle of the streets.
I'm talking about Range Rovers and nice, beautiful cars.
Yes, Corvettes.
Because I'm telling you, when you are in an emergency, your car is the last thing you're wanting to think of.
Matter of fact, your car can't even move.
But when you think about food and water, that's the key.
And you know what?
Thousands and thousands of people are displaced right now in America.
Who would ever thought that rich people and middle-class people will be standing in line at the Dream Center, for example, waiting for water?
Wow.
These are people that are worth millions of dollars, yet they didn't have enough money to even go.
Right.
I mean, we can go on and on trying to paint the pictures in the Middle East.
All those children there.
You know, some are dying because they can't get water and they can't get food supply.
Yet, what that or last administration were doing, that we're sending billions of dollars of your tax money to other people, yet giving $700 checks to American families.
Yeah, that were suffering.
And so figure it out.
I mean, you see the corruption that is being exploited and exposed, but I'm telling you, we at this program, we're not trying to gain anything from you other than the fact that we want you to get prepared.
Sowing Into God's Work 00:04:35
And what you're doing is you're helping this ministry to stay on the air to keep sounding the alarm, but you're also helping American-made companies to continue to do.
If you want things to be made here in America, we have to get behind American companies, Bishop.
And get behind this prophetic voice here to prepare us for the coming of the Lord.
I'm telling you, in the last days to have prophets that's given us a prophetic forecast on what's coming, you're the Holy Ghost meteorologist to let us know.
Amen.
It's coming, brother.
It's coming.
So let's sow into this work of God so that we can continue to hear the word of the Lord in these last days.
We have a few minutes left on the broadcast.
You know, if there's somebody who's saying, well, you know, I don't really sow into ministries.
I haven't really done, you know, gift ministries.
Why is that important?
Oh, it's so important.
My father, we had witnessed to him for many years, and he would watch Christian television.
And my father got saved watching Christian television because a prophet pointed the fingers to the TV screen and said, sir, you need to stop making excuses.
And it's time for you to give your heart to God tonight.
And my father got saved at about 10.15 one night while my uncle and I were in the room because a woman of God pointed her finger through Christian television and he served the Lord for over 20 years in our church.
Amen.
So, man, this message of hope is reaching millions of people.
And I just want to encourage you men of God, amen, to stay on the wall like Nehemiah.
And don't you come down.
Amen.
Amen.
Thank you, Bishop.
Friends, I want to thank you for standing with the vision that the Lord gave Pastor Jim Baker, that we need to prepare the church for whatever may come.
Friends, it's not just apocalyptic events.
It's natural disasters.
It's making sure that you can take care of your neighbor if they lose their job.
Make sure that you can take care of your friends if they're going through financial difficulties.
Friends, we need to be the hands and feet of Christ.
We need to be those good Samaritans.
I want to say thank you to all of our people who stand with the PTL television network.
You provide us a platform to then provide to the prophet a place where they can come give their prophecy without worrying about being censored, where we can tell the pastor, come preach the full message of the gospel without being, you know, worrying if your television program is going to be turned off.
The 24-hour network is critical.
And through your support, we can keep it going.
Mondo, I don't know any other platform.
We've done our research and we've had other guests come here and tell us they've done their research.
No other platform that allows the censorship-free version of their program like we do.
I've traveled to all the networks to promote my book.
And I'm telling you, this is the only network that does what we say we do.
And that is to allow our people, meaning our broadcasters, to say whatever they want to say uncensored.
So you're right.
This network is the only network on the planet that allows you to have that kind of freedom.
That's right.
You know, we've gone through financial difficulties.
We are going and we are really at the finish line, friends.
We've had the conversations with people where I say, well, we can give the ministry a loan to help you guys get out of this situation.
You just have to take X, Y, and Z off of your network.
You just have to take these particular people we don't like off of your television station.
I'll say, well, God will provide for us then.
Never mind.
Next conversation.
Because we're not willing to compromise.
Friends, if the Lord gave someone a platform with a voice and they're preaching the full gospel in 100% truth, we're not going to take them off just because someone likes them.
Friends, we're going to stand with people.
We're going to restore people.
And we're going to make sure that everybody who hears this message has the opportunity to say yes to Jesus Christ.
The most important choice you'll ever make.
Spiritual preparation is the most important preparation you will ever do.
But friends, we believe in that physical preparation as well.
Make sure that your church is ready for anything.
Friends, call that number.
It's 1-888-988-1588 or go to jimbakershow.com.
Look at all the different things we have to offer and say, is my family, is my church, is my community ready for whatever may come our way.
And friends, I want to remind you this.
This is the most important thing you'll ever know, that God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
Thank you.
Bishop, thanks for being on the broadcast, bro.
God bless you.
We love you.
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