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Nov. 18, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show with Mary Grace Hughs and Shelly Simas Part 2
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Reigniting Azusa Street Revival 00:15:03
Welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show.
Today, our special guests talk about reigniting the fire of the Azusa Street Revival.
Our co-host today is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
Now, here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
Hello, friends.
You're watching the PTL Television Network.
We have day two where we're going to be talking about an incredible event that happened, Mondo, over 100 years ago called the Azusa Street Revival.
I believe if you're a Christian in modern day time, I don't care what sect of Christianity you fall under, if you're a Catholic, if you're Orthodox, if you're a Protestant, friends, you have heard of the Azusa Street Revival.
Why?
Because over 900 million people's lives have been affected by one man saying, you know what?
I'm going to give God my everything.
And Mondo, we still feel the effects of it today.
Absolutely.
The nations, our nation, they have been impacted by what took place in an era where the nation didn't look good.
In California.
Yes.
Yes.
I want to read to you what Pastor Lester Hughes Jr. Yes.
Wrote before his passing.
I'd love to hear it.
He said, a prophecy foretold that a revival like Azusa Street would occur after 100 years, leading to an end times harvest.
Understanding Azusa's history is crucial for this generation as the coming awakening and revival is expected to bring the greatest harvest of souls to the Lord Jesus.
This movie that we're talking about, he says, the movie shows the events of the Azusa Street revival and is narrated by people who have been keepers and guardians of Azusa's history.
Isn't it amazing that throughout these whole years, we have talked about Azusa Street and the events that took place and the miracles and the move of the power of Pentecost that has changed the world.
Once again, the first was recorded in Acts chapter 2.
Yes.
In modern day, we go back to Azusa Street.
Amen.
And now, if we are living in the time that the Bible says the end times, then a great harvest has to arise from that moment once again.
That's right.
Where men and women will speak in tongues, where healings will take place, miracles will take place.
This time around, if we are going to understand a great move of God, we almost have to go back to history to understand what led up to that great move of God.
Outside God's blueprint.
Absolutely.
Outside of it, I mean, listen, 1906 followed chapter 2 of Acts.
That's right.
Where they started praying and seeking the Lord.
And if you want to be a part of this prophecy, I believe we're part of this prophecy.
What do you do?
Start praying and fasting in your home.
That's right.
Start asking the Lord to begin to move and prepare you for this great harvest time that we are starting to, again, witness together.
Amen.
We are that generation, Ricky.
We are that generation that the Bible talks about.
We are that revelation generation.
And I don't want to miss God.
I want to be a part of this moment because God will always use what no one else thinks is useful for God to allow his spirit to move through.
No one expected a half-blind man, African-American, in the middle of one of the greatest race wars in one of the most complicated, segregated unions in the church for God to use this man to bring a Pentecostal move of God that literally touched India, it touched Latin America, Asia, it touched the world, and almost a billion people were affected by that.
That's right, that's right.
And today we have Mary Grace Hughes with us.
I want to say thank you so much.
And Sally Simas.
Seamas?
Simas?
Simas.
I want to say, all right.
Like I said, I've had Pastor Jim Baker's anointing to pronounce names wrong.
I've had it since I was a young boy.
But friends, I want to say thank you so much for being here today.
Thank you for having me.
Why this movie?
Why this project?
I know your husband really started this as the executive producer and passed the baton to you.
But what keeps your passion going to see it through to the end?
Ricky, we were in the making before my husband passed away, went to be with the Lord for 10 years on the making of this movie.
So, and before he passed away, he said, baby, you're going to be the executive producer of this movie.
And I took the mantle from my husband.
And I am passionate as William Seymour was passionate for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
I'm passionate for that for our generation, Rick.
We need desperately of the endowment, the power of God.
We need to be, you know, Jesus said that he's coming back for a glorious church.
There is no way for us to be a glorious church without the power and the fire of the Holy Spirit.
That's right.
So it's timing now, Rick.
It's timing.
We are seeing the prophecies being fulfilled.
We are seeing, you know, what's going on with the world and everything.
So it's time for us to ignite to that fire of the Pentecost with the disciples, then Azusa, with William Seymour.
And now this generation that Charlie Kirk had prepared for this next move of revival.
So I believe that the move is going to be a link that will empower them to wake up that we need something else now.
We need something more.
We need the power of God.
Amen.
Right now, I believe what we see across the United States of America, Mondo, we've seen it after church after church after church.
It has a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
Shelly, there's still power in the church, isn't there?
Because Jesus Christ has never lost his power.
Amen.
Amen.
And it's there for all of us.
Amen.
Where we have the ability to get more and more, to press in more and more.
As William Seymour, he started off pressing in, praying to God daily.
They said he was five hours praying, but he still needed more.
He wanted more.
He was up to seven hours a day praying for the power of God.
So, yes, the power is there.
We need to seek it.
I believe this movie is going to inspire not only those of us that have been believers and in the church for a long time, but this is going to inspire the youth.
They're going to see in this movie how God used the children, the youth, to bring in the power of God, to be a part of the move of God that was going on in the Azusa revival.
And I believe, like Mary Grace said, I really believe in memory of Charlie Kirk.
I believe in the United States, speaking for the United States, that the youth has been stirred up.
The youth has been stirred up.
And we believe that this movie will take them to a higher level of pressing into the power of God.
That's right.
We just saw a statistic the other day that actually this is some of the highest attendance of church in the youth in many, many years.
And friends, I believe it's just going to be more and more where parents aren't believers.
They're not going to church, but their children are going to begin to go to church.
Why?
Because they're hungry for truth.
They've been lied to enough on social media.
They've been lied to enough by the mainstream media.
And they're ready to experience something real.
And friends, I'll tell you this.
And I'll say this boldly, and I will make no apologies for my words.
There is nothing more real than Jesus Christ.
There's nothing more real than your relationship with the Holy Spirit.
Everything else is good.
And yes, it might benefit you, but you have to have that relationship with Jesus Christ if you truly want to be alive and feel alive.
And Mondo, we're seeing a generation hungry for Jesus Christ right now.
And not only that, but the baptism of the Holy Spirit is what changes everything.
Amen.
Right now, we are drunken with information, and the church is elaborating on the fact that they can become great orators and be able to communicate the message.
But information doesn't change lives.
It's the power of the Holy Spirit in giving you the baptism of the Holy Ghost is what changes the hearts of man and women and generations and nations, not the information age that we're in right now.
And I think that God is about to really make us look sad because here we're investing millions of dollars on information.
And God said, all I want is the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your life that will anoint the information that you carry.
But information without the anointing is an empty soul.
Now, when you anointed by the power of the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your life, now the information can change lives.
What happened in Azusa Street with William J. Seymour, the miracle worker, was something so simple.
And I want to tell you something.
When you start being anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit over your life and you begin to speak the language of heaven, everything in the hemisphere and atmosphere begin to shift because now it becomes about kingdom work and not about your information type of work.
Amen.
This film is now moment, is a moment that would shift the culture that we're in right now.
But if you notice what's happening, it has to get really bad before God can begin to move.
That's right.
That's right.
We've seen that.
It's like the beacon of hope, the lighthouse.
You know, it's typically people appreciate it during good weather, but they really appreciate it during the storm.
When they can see that lighthouse and they know, okay, land is close and we are getting close to a place of safety.
They really appreciate it.
Mondo, I do believe that we are entering a dark hour.
And friends, if you're watching this, you know that you can turn on your news broadcast, your social media, and see that we're entering a dark, dark hour.
But Jesus has called us to be two things.
What?
The salt and the light of the world.
Friends, don't take this as an opportunity to take your light and go to the top of a mountain and hide it under a bushel.
That is not the time to do that.
We need to go and shine this light brighter than it has ever been shown before.
And I believe this movie is exactly that.
It is salt and light.
Why?
Because salt was meant to preserve and we're meant to preserve the earth.
And friends, I believe this movie will show how a man contended for preservation of Christianity and a greater relationship with the Holy Spirit in our time.
And I believe it was a light, a beacon of hope for the entire world.
No matter where they were, when they heard of the Azusa Street Revival, people's faith were edified and their faith were built.
It was fortified.
And friends, I'll tell you right now, we saw light and salt out of the Azusa Street Revival.
And I believe we're going to see the same thing out of this film.
Yes, definitely.
Ricky, I believe that us, even when we are doing the shooting of the movie, we're going to see signs, wonders, and miracles happen on the sets.
And I believe, too, that when the movie is in the theaters and the homes, the people is going to be touched.
They're going to receive their miracle.
Deliverance and it's going to be awesome.
It's going to be amazing.
So the results and the impact that this movie is going to do to our generation and to our viewers of this movie, Rick.
And I want to talk about the partnership that we have with PTL and with what's happening because Mondo, you're actually involved in this.
As she said at the beginning of the broadcast, and if you haven't watched episode one, I would encourage you, go and watch the first interview that we did because it is incredible.
Good information.
The Holy Spirit truly was moving through that.
But Mondo, you're going to be playing the role of a narrator as well as a speaker in the film, aren't you?
I am.
And when they reached out, they had been looking for me, I think, two to four months.
And I received a message in my office phone and I heard it and I'm thinking, oh, this is a joke or, you know, this is another campaign.
And I reached back out and I told them I was going to be in California visiting family.
And while I'm there, if this is serious, I want you to fly me from, and I was not being demanding.
I just want to know how serious this moment was because I said, you know what, God, if this is meant to be something, then you're going to have to open the doors.
I've never met you guys.
I've never heard of you guys before.
And I took a risk by the intuition of the Holy Spirit to get on the plane from L.A. to Sacramento, not knowing where I was going, not knowing my wife goes, they're going to kidnap you.
They're going to do it.
I was like, nobody's going to kidnap this guy.
Trust me.
I just let you know, if you ever kidnap Honda, I'm not paying the ransom.
You can keep him.
You're going to kidnap him.
You guys are keeping him.
You're stuck with him.
You'll give him back.
Hey, you'll give him back.
You know, so you go on faith when God says go on faith.
Amen.
And then you presented this opportunity.
And I say, you know, let me pray about it.
And I did.
I prayed about it for a lot, a lot of weeks to see how this will play out and see what this will look like.
Because I want to tell you something.
When they made the opportunity available to play the reporter and to be one of the narrators of this film, you automatically want to say, man, I'm not capable of doing that.
I got an accent.
I don't look the part.
I don't have blue eyes.
You start comparing yourself and God says, stop it.
I have called you.
I have prepared you.
Now, trust me when I'm telling you that I'm about to do something through your life because people are not going to be able to explain when, how, who, but God.
Amen.
And I want to tell you something.
This moment here goes back to understanding Ricky is trusting God.
And our partnership with this film is for you to get involved.
We need your help.
And I'm trying to explain the movie as best as I can, but the best thing is get the book.
Learn about the history of Azusa Street.
Learn where it was birthed.
It was not just birth in Bonnie Bray home or Bonnie Bray Street, and then it became Azusa Street.
It takes you through the journey of where everything started and what it looked like at that time.
And you write about leaving his birthplace, transition to Indiana, transition to Ohio, transition to Texas, transition to California, William Seymour's arrival in Los Angeles, departure from Bonnie Bray Street, the revival, Los Angeles newspaper scorn of Azusa.
I mean, it goes down the list.
And before I committed to this, I said, Lord, show me a sign over and over again.
Dave Robbins.
Yes.
Dallas Connection 00:00:58
Reverend Dave Robbins, end time minute.
I respect this man completely.
And he sat right there and he asked me a question.
He goes, do you know anything about Azusa?
I said, do I know anything?
Of course I do.
And I started telling about the movie.
He says, get out of here.
You know that one of the people that were there in Azusa came to, I think we're located, Dallas, came to Texas and Dallas, and they were one of the grandbabies that were running around during that time.
And they started a church based on the move of God.
He goes, I'll connect you with that person.
And then another person.
Hey, we were in Utah.
You remember that?
And the pastors there are from Sacramento.
A Forgiving Heart Revives 00:05:49
That's right.
And I said, well, Lord, show me a sign that one of the Seymour's legacy members will be there.
And you know what?
God opened the door to meet one of the Seymours.
Amen.
Why is William J. Seymour's story so relevant to today's understanding of revival?
Well, because he was passionate seeking God and intimacy with God.
Amen.
So without intimacy with God, Mondo, we cannot have results in our life.
That's right.
Because God is looking for somebody that he can say, well, that man, that woman, it has my own heart, like he did to David.
So God is looking from heaven to that person.
And he found the William Seymour in his humbleness.
He was so humble.
He was like seeking through prayer three hours, five hours, seven hours.
And he was there, you know, because when you humble yourself in repentance, because I think the most humble way that the human being can be is on the repentance.
And when he was there repenting himself, not only for him, but for his generation, for the church, repenting for America, repenting for the slavery, repenting for everything.
So, and then came his forgiveness.
He had a forgiving heart.
He was a son of slavers.
And with that forgiving heart, Mondo, what do we need today, Mondo?
To a forgiving heart.
Doesn't matter what the nation is going through, we are going through, our neighbor, our family, you know, we need a forgiving heart.
That's right.
And seek God.
Yeah.
Being humble.
Amen.
With the repentance of the heart.
That's what he did.
I think we're going to see that too.
You know, I think it was August 4th this year.
I put out a prophetic word in our church, but then I also put it out on social media so other people would see it as well.
I said, the next, and I believe the Lord told me this.
I said the next great revival would be birthed out of a forgiveness movement where we would see mothers and fathers, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, people who have hurt family members and people who have killed other people's family.
Just all-out forgiveness movement.
We saw the assassination of Charlie Kirk live on television.
People saw that everywhere.
But then just a week later, when they held his memorial service, we saw one of the most powerful acts of forgiveness.
We saw his wife go up at their end stage and say, I forgive him.
She's referring to the shooter who assassinated her husband.
She said, I forgive him.
And then all of a sudden we see major news outlets, major pastors across the nation saying, oh, we're now entering a place of revival.
And it's starting here with these words of forgiveness.
Just like you said, William Seymour understood the need for forgiveness.
I believe in the same way when he forgave his revival came.
I believe we're about to see a huge shift of forgiveness in our nation, and we're going to see another Azusa moment.
But people need to see the blueprint.
They need to watch films about Azusa.
They need to read books about Azusa to understand the blueprint.
Why?
I love God because he doesn't make us have to beg for information.
Typically, if we will just be smart enough to open up the word of God, he already has how he wants to do things for us.
When we go and look at historically how he moved before, he wants to move that way again in an even greater level.
We just have to be willing to see the information, to watch it.
I know you guys are producing a film, and I want to make sure I get the title correct.
Will it be called Azusa's William Seymour, The Miracle Worker?
Yes, yes.
That's the title of the movie.
That's going to be the title.
Mondo, we know that there's a need always when you're doing things like this.
I want to support this, if at all possible.
While we have no, other than Mondo being in it, we have no affiliation, no agreement.
It's not a percentage on the back end.
We want you just to go and support this.
Why?
Because I believe it will edify, fortify, and build up the next generation's faith.
And friends, don't you want your children or your grandchildren to see what God did in our nation and what God can do once again?
Absolutely.
Listen, you're going to show something.
I hope you show it because it's another reminder that God is with us.
Amen.
Another sign that God said, I'm picking PTL Network.
I'm picking Ricky, picking Mondo, picking Pastor Jim, the ministry to be a part of this film and support it today.
And what you added, the way you can support it, if you just want to give a donation, that's fantastic.
Or if you want to get the book on the website, you can do that.
You can go to azusawilliamseymour.com and get information on the book, get the book, get information about the film, how you can get involved.
We need to raise $50,000 to get this trailer made so it can be distributed and it will begin to roll everything forward.
The church has been responsible for some of the greatest movies that have come out about Christianity in the last decade or so.
Let's do it again.
And if you need a sign that, well, how do we know that this is from God?
Ricky, what did you receive a few months ago?
Yeah, a few months ago, actually, there's a woman that attended our church just for the service.
She's a powerful woman, but she came up to me and said, hey, I need to talk to you for just a minute.
This is after service, after I got done preaching the message.
I said, of course, what was it that you would like to talk about?
And she begins to tell me how there's been this book that's been passed down from generation to generation in her family, and that she was given the book, but she knew that she was just holding it for somebody else.
Pentecostal Hymns Revealed 00:07:07
And she had been praying for two decades plus.
Lord, who is it that I'm supposed to give this book to?
And all this time she's referring to this book.
I didn't know what she was referring to, but she was holding it behind her back.
So finally, she turns around and hands me what this is.
And at the time, I didn't know what it was, but I'll show it to you.
It's very delicate.
It's Pentecostal hymns.
And she hands this to me.
And I said, can you tell me more about this?
What is it?
She goes, this is one of the original hymns that was used in the physical Azusa Street Revival.
Wow.
It's been passed down.
The Lord told me to pass it off to the next generation who would carry the torch of Azusa.
And I believe this is the day the Lord highlighted you.
This is supposed to go to you.
So she handed this to me.
I've kept it in my office ever since and said, thank you, Lord.
We're praying for Azusa revival once again.
Little did I know around the same, because we didn't communicate this, that this was happening, that this connection was being made.
But the Lord told me, contend for a new Azusa Street revival.
So I was holding on to prophecies from Corey 10 Boom that says the next great revival would be birthed out of this Ozarks region.
And I always tell our church, I said, you know, I don't mean to sound selfish, but I am a little bit there.
I said, I don't want it to be birthed out of, you know, 20 miles north or 20 miles south.
I want this to be the pinpoint of where people can say that's where it started because there was a church willing to put their face on the ground and cry out to the Lord.
There's a church that wasn't so married to schedules that we don't let the Holy Spirit move in our services.
You know, there isn't a church that was worried about looking weird to the outside world so they don't pray in tongues out loud.
And, you know what, we've just been pressing and pressing.
I believe we've gotten so many prophetic words and they're saying this is the beginning shift of something great happening for the world to see out of this region right here.
And I believe it started when this was handed to me.
And I said, you know what?
It's time to press in and pray again once for Azusa to come again.
I believe that's what we're going to see.
Shelly, I want to ask you, is it possible to see another move of God like the Azusa Street Revival today?
Of course it is because just like God chose William Seymour, the most unlikely person to bring that Azusa revival, he can choose you or me.
He can choose any of us, anyone out there.
And we've heard today that what it took was a lot of humbleness.
That's right.
A lot of prayer, a lot of seeking God, wanting more, wanting more of God.
Not just settle with what you have or where you're at, but to, we believe this movie is going to take people from glory to glory.
We really believe that.
And we know that the youth is a big part of this movie.
This is an old story, and old people can tell it well.
But this story is for the youth.
It's for the young.
It's for the next generation, the generation that's now our grandchildren, my grandchildren, to take this and to be a part of the next great move of God.
And we know that God is in it.
This is God's story.
This is not our story.
Amen.
No.
And listen, we are, I want to say this.
We have been chosen for this moment.
Amen.
You have been chosen for this moment.
Amen.
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Amen.
And I know that when God chooses a place and the people to do what he wants to do in these last days, all you have to do is say, yes, Lord, use me.
Let God use you right now.
Let the baptism of the Holy Spirit enter into your home right now.
And as you're praying right now, you can be baptized by the same spirit that visited Pentecost out of Acts chapter 2.
And the same spirit that moved in 1906 with William Seymour in Azusa Street is the same spirit that can move in your home right now.
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I know the majority of people who watch this program are worried about the next generation.
And we're saying, well, what are they going to do?
We're living in a time where darkness is getting darker, where perversion is getting more perverted, where we see evil growing at a rapid pace.
Well, friends, what you can do is empower your children, your grandchildren, to go and evangelize and preach the gospel.
But friends, it's one thing to tell them, go out and preach the gospel, son.
Go out and evangelize, daughter.
It's another thing to show them.
Friends, I encourage you right now, every time you have your children, your grandchildren, and you have the opportunity to pray for somebody and lay hands on them and have them filled with the Holy Spirit, do it.
Take every opportunity because those children, those grandchildren that you have the opportunity to raise, that you have the obligation to raise godly, if you're a Christian, friends, they'll watch you.
They'll see it.
And I'll tell you right now, no person's argument will ever be able to trump their experience.
No person's argument will ever say, well, the Holy Spirit doesn't move today.
They'll say, well, I've seen the Holy Spirit move today.
Well, the Holy Spirit doesn't heal today.
The gift of tongues isn't for today anymore.
Well, I've seen the Holy Spirit heal.
I've seen the Holy Spirit give the gift of tongues.
So they will not be able to deny it.
Friends, go out and be the example that you want for your children.
If you're saying, well, that's not me.
I'm not the evangelistic type.
I'm not then.
Friends, I encourage you, get your children around people who are, the ones who will go out and stand on the street corners with no shame and say, Jesus is coming soon and Christ loves you and he died on the cross for you.
Get out there and be the change that you want to see.
Support the ministries that are supporting the cause that you believe in.
Whether it's us, friends, if it's us, that's wonderful.
If it's a church in your area that you're giving your tithes and offering to, continue to do that.
But I believe you should find good ground and sow your seed today.
Sow it in a movie like this.
Sow it in a book like this.
Sow it in programs that talk about things that happened that happened because the Holy Spirit was moving.
And I believe we're going to see another great move of the Holy Spirit in our lifetime.
Mary Grace, I want to say thank you for being on the broadcast with us today.
Shelly, thank you much for being so much for being here with us.
Friends, never forget this.
Never get discouraged.
Never feel dismayed because God is always with you.
He's for you and he's fighting for you.
Never forget this.
It's Pastor Jim Baker says best, our father.
What does he say, Amanda?
God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
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