Renew Your Strength | Pastor Tim Bagwell | Word of Life Christian Center

I'm in a large auditorium and I'm not totally alone, but I only have that number of about 10 people who are in different parts of the building helping us do the work today to bring this anointing and this message to

your

home. I hope it blesses you today. I still feel like this, we have to almost as if we have to

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ourselves. The Bible says that those who wait on the Lord will

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and that

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will renew their means. Exchange

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for the strength of God and me. I want to challenge you today to renew your strength.

This has been a long and hard battle in many different ways. It's frustrating and one day you hear one report and another day you hear another report. If you listen to a person, you feel that we are receiving. When we're getting to the other side, then you hear someone else and it's like it makes you feel like we're going to live like this for the next few months. I have news for you. I do not trust in mens. my trust in the Lord I don't put my trust and all the research and everything else I put my trust in the Lord when you talk to people naturally they are going to tell you this we will be fine when they get a vaccine I want to tell you something right now this it's okay right now you're not listening to me we're okay right now believers are okay now we're dealing with this we have to trade our strength for God's strength those who wait on the Lord I'm in a place of just telling God let it be done the will of the heavens on earth as in heaven I am waiting on God and he said that if I wait on him he will renew or exchange my strength for his strength so when you are putting on the garment value you are exchanging that garment for the garment of heaviness when you begin to wait on the Lord and tell God whatever it takes to do what you want to do in the middle of this I will wait for you and I will accept it in exchange I will put on the mantle of your strength in exchange for the mantle of my strength that It is mainly weakness and father I glorify you at this moment because God I declare to you we are going to renew our strength Lord we are like marathon runners at this moment we need a second wind we need a second wind in the name of Jesus and God we praise you for that where we will be in peace we will not lose our joy we will not go into depression we will not let anger, rebellion or disobedience take over us we will rise up in the enemy we will be scattered in the name of Jesus I wish you to join your hands wherever you are, wherever you are looking and only give God the kind of praise that is worthy of God we love you today we love you today we praise you today Hallel about calling Sundara bakashot eyoung blessed be the name of the Lord hallelujah well I'm so glad you're watching today if you are watching on youtube live or facebook live or on our website.

I'm grateful you're there. Know? Sometimes I don't think people really understand it. I don't understand everything you're going through. You don't understand the challenges I face, but I'll tell you one thing: I've done things in over 40 years of ministry that are definitely a lot easier than what we've had to do here lately and I just have to stand here and be honest with you, If it's not for the presence of God and the anointing of God, none of us get through this kind of crisis, but I thank God that when I'm behind this pulpit, even though I'm basically looking at a couple of cameramen and some tech people and I have a dog behind me I'm looking at an empty building but I'll tell you one thing when the anointing of God comes upon me it doesn't matter because I know it from another side of that lens that I'm looking at, you're there, that's why it helps me to walk through the front of this building and I see familiar faces because Pastor Galen I miss you all so much, I'm so used to being I can hold my hands and agree with you or lay hands on you, our minister and the gifts of the Spirit to you, but we're in a season where we can't do it except this way we're doing it now.

Pray, you are praying for me because I need your prayers. I need the support of your intercession. I need that prayer from you right now that will help me speak what the Holy Spirit has spoken to me through you. I'm praying. Psalm 91 is defending your home I ask you to put on clothes of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I ask that right now you are exchanging your strength for the strength of our God and I will tell you again, we will make it. We will make it, but when we come out of this we will not be the same people who came into this.

If you have your Bibles, open them to Ephesians chapter five and I will begin with my text Ephesians five. chapter verse 26 I will be reading verse 26 and 27 I am preaching on the topic the glorious church now but while you are looking at this and while you are reading it and looking at it I want to talk to you about something simply it is this the Bible says that the sufferings of the present time They are in no way worthy of being compared to the glory of God that will be revealed in us and I have compared it to a woman carrying a child and when labor begins.

The pain will come, a man will never know, men will understand, but I have heard reports that pain is such an excuse that many of the women, if they have not taken some type of pain relief medication, the pain is so unbearable that it feels like they are almost like they are going to die because the pain is so intense, but he said that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy of being compared to the glory that will be revealed, born or generated by us. and if we can unite our faith, you know what we'll see, we'll see God birth something on the other side of this, we'll rejoice and be glad, and that's why I want to preach about the glorious church. because I believe in God he said the glory that will be revealed I believe that God is preparing to bring out something like the world has never seen before from his church in verse 26 of chapter 5 of Ephesians that I am reading from the New Living Translation to make it holy and clean washed by the cleansing of the Word of God, he did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection, instead she will be holy and blameless now last week I want to review very quickly some things that I mentioned last week, but in these two verses there are several key terms, in fact, there are eight key terms that I want to make sure you understand what they mean.

The first is sanctified, the

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sanctify means. withdraw from the Community of the world gaining the communion of the Lord sanctify withdraw from the Community of the world gaining the communion of the Lord and you say well I have to go to work I have to live in this culture I have my children are in school, etc., but What we are really talking about here is withdrawing from the influence of the world and deigning communion with the Lord, so we are going to withdraw from the influence of the world and then our preeminent influence is our communion with the Lord, then it continues in the word clean, it comes up which means free from filth, clean free from filth, then it moves on to the next term where I want you to grab wash, which essentially in this context means bathe in the word now, let's stop there for just a moment to clean It is to be free from filth and to wash means to bathe and in this scripture to bathe in the word, so when you prioritize the Word of God you are doing something, you are bathing in the word that brings freedom from filth.

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God does not want an unclean people, he does not want a lukewarm people, he wants a clean people and he tells you first, I said, I have sent the shedding of blood to free you from the power of sin and I. had given you the word to wash or bathe daily and keep yourself free from filth, then the word continues and speaks of glorious, the word glorious, splendid, radiant, miraculous, emission of the excellence and perfection of the divine nature, so that the Lord look for something the Lord seeks something he seeks glorious he seeks splendid radiant miraculous the emission of the excellence and perfection of the divine nature that is the type of church he wants he does not want an immoral Church he does not want a fearful Church, he does not want a depressed Church, he does not want a sick church, he doesn't want a church that is dirty, he wants a church that has prioritized communion with him and creates something splendid, radiant and miraculous and perfection or the fullness of his nature begins to scream and then let's move on to the next term, it is Church, which means called once.

Now I will, and I think it's biblical because the word specifically tells us not to neglect meeting together, not to neglect meeting together and before we get into this definition we have a magnificent facility here in Laundry Colorado it's a beautiful plant it's a place where we minister to children we minister to youth we minister to all ages all cultures all races it's a place Some of you might say that. Lee's type of fellowship sees people coming together, loving and encouraging one another. It is a place where the word is preached. It is a place where the sick are healed.

When people look at this building they say it is a church. Well, what is it? It is a church building and it is a building that has been set apart to be used for the glory of God but the church is you are a calling you have been called from the powers of darkness into the kingdom of the dear son of God So when you think In this, I'm practically in an empty building right now, but I'm preaching to the church. I am preaching to the called. We need to be together. We miss being together. We need to encourage each other.

We need to be together. build on each other's faith, we need to worship and praise God together, but you are still the church, if you were alone in a hotel room, you are still called if it is just you and your wife, you as a couple are still called . come out once if it's just your family they still call you once but I want you to listen to me God is looking for a glorious church now this is a building and this building is a habitation of God but more than that God is looking for God is looking for a splendid town , radiant and miraculous, is looking for a people who admit the excellence and perfection of the divine nature, understand me today.

God is going to bring something out of you in this season we can see it as suffering because it is not worthy to be compared to the glory that will be revealed in us, so the church is the one called to come out, so let's move on to the next period and the next period is holy or a stain, excuse me, the next term is stain and the word stain means moral stain or technically immorality. What does it say? I am not looking for a church tainted by immorality. People are trying to convince us with watered down theology that none of this matters.

I already tell you that it does matter because the Lord will not return after an immoral Church. How do you think there is a date on the calendar for the rapture and God is going to take everything we give him? I have a real breaking news for You God is coming after a glorious church and those who are in the glorious church are going to be delivered from immorality. Go to the next period. The next period is holy. Being set apart, we have to understand that we are different from the next world. spotless term is an absence of something evil an absence of something evil now think about this in these two verses God is giving us a description of the church that will be raptured, he is giving us a picture of what his vision of the church is now We are done from reviewing the NFL Draft, that's really the only sports thing we've ever had to hear or see and you'd say, well, what does it have to do with the glorious church?

Well, when those executives are working and the coaches are working, they have a vision of what they want their team to be and they start making selections to strengthen the team's weak points. God looks at his team and says this is the kind of team I want. I don't want an immoral team. I don't want a team with all kinds of things wrong I want a team that is set apart I want a team that has exchanged communion with the world for communion with God I want a team that is splendid and radiant and that emits the nature of God and this is what we have to understand God is looking for something and he is not simply looking for a people to fight the fight, he is looking for a church to win the fight, go with me to Hagin Hogaya, the second chapter in the sixth verse, because this is what the The army of the lord of heaven says that soon I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans on the dry land, I will shake all nations and the treasures of all nations will be brought to this temple, I will fill this place. with glory says the Lord of the hosts of heaven the silver is mine and the gold is mine says the Lord of the hosts of heaven the future glory of this temple will be greater than its past glory says the Lord of the hosts of heaven and in this place I will bring peace I, the Lord of the hosts of heaven, have spoken several times, he identifies himself as the Lord of the hosts of heaven, but he is talking about some things and he gets into this first.

Everything says: I'm going to shake everything and we are in a moment of shaking and I. I looked up that word in and I'm reviewing and I'm trying to understand this quickly that word shake means to tremble but it also means to tremble it means to tremble and tremble and as I was studying this the Lord began to speak to me and reminded me how years ago there was a religious sect and they were known as Quakers because when thepresence of God trembled or trembled under the anointing of God. They thought they were strange They thought they were strange but people would be killed in the spirit they tremble under the power of God and when they would come out of the trembling they would have a word from heaven now stay with me on this but it also needs to tremble and the Lord begins to say the system of the world is trembling but my people are trembling and trembling under the power of the Holy Spirit.

I'm in a time. God is pouring fresh oil on me. And you? I'm in a time. that I am hearing from heaven and in a new and unique way how about you good I am not trembling with fear because of the coronavirus I am trembling and trembling under the power and presence of God and the Lord said I am going to shake things I am going to shake things back to the seventh verse of this segment I will shake all nations and the treasures of all nations will be brought to this temple I will fill this place with glory says the Lord of the hosts of heaven God preparing you to release financial blessings in the temple of God and you say well , that's great, but this was talking about the temple in Jerusalem, but you don't know, you don't know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, think about this your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit God does not have a dwelling place centralized, did you hear me?

God does not have a centralized abode. I'm preaching to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of families right now and you want to know something the glory of God is coming right now to your temple you want to know something else God has already made financial blessings and treasures for your ten Paul you want to know something more like he says in Haggai that there is peace coming to your temple and when you are trembling and trembling under the power of the Holy Spirit, the armies of the Lord of heaven are standing. God is standing with you right now because you are the temple of God, so glory comes, treasures come, and peace comes.

He is shaking everything that can be shaken but I am not shaking with fear I am under a new anointing I am under a fresh touch from heaven I am under something that has a lord for us no matter how difficult it is to say this thank you for this time of separation you do not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit Colossians 1:27 Colossians 1:27 to whom God wants to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory, man, I said this last week.

My father's favorite Scripture was Colossians 1:27 and he loved to preach about the hope of glory, you know what the hope of glory is. The church's great hope is that those who are called are glorious. God is not just a Roberts praying for the sick, he doesn't just want a Benny Hinn praying for the sick, he wants an army of men and women filled and emitting the glory of God to put the hands on the sick and see them recovered to prophesy to rebuke the unclean spirits to where we radically invade the kingdom of darkness because it is Christ the Anointed One in us he is the hope of glory do not lift your hands wherever you are, this would be a moment if we were all together.

I would say it's time to pray. It's a break. I believe we should praise God because we have a hope of glory that is Christ in us. is the richest this is the richest and he said in Hagee I said the treasures are coming to the temple the glory is coming to the temple and peace is coming to the temple and I send the word to your temple right now your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit glory comes to you peace comes to you and treasures come to you The devil is a liar this is the year of double blessing it is a year of double honor and if you don't give up now you won't you will lose you will win and when this year is over you are going to look back and say I am better off now than at the beginning of 2020 even with the Devourer attacking I am getting double the trouble someone needs put your hands together and praise God go to Acts the third chapter of 19 at 21 verses this is off the amplified now here I am getting into the meat of what I really want to talk about today so repent which means change your mind and your purpose turn around and return to God so your sins can be a race that erased them and that the times of refreshing those times of refreshing which means that this is a recovery from the effects of the heat of reviving with fresh air but the times of refreshing can come from the presence of the Lord let's stop there for a second that times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord and we talked about this before we talked about the presence of God in his presence there is fullness of joy so God is saying in Acts chapter 3, repent and if you repent and turn and return to God , there will be a Rabbi Veen who will come to you and who comes from the presence of the Lord, go into the night xx verse that he can send to you the Christ who was before appointed and appointed for you, even Jesus verse 21, whom heaven must retain until the time of complete restoration of all that God has spoken through the mouth of all his holy prophets from the earliest times. ancient times in the memory of men, so now he is telling the Jews that he is preaching to them: the Lord came, the Messiah came, in essence he died on Calvary now he has returned to God and the heavens will contain him until the restoration Of all things, you already know what God is. is preparing to do with the church, is preparing to release in the church and an empowerment that is so supernatural that the Lord looks down from heaven, said, I have restored what Adam and Eve lost, the dominion, they lost the government and the reign, that they lost God.

He said that we should be kings and priests for God, none for his father, we are not designed to be victims, the church should not be full of victims, it should be full of victors, the church should not be full of people of whom the only thing that they can speak is. what they are going through or what they are going through the church should be full of overcomers the church should not be full of believers who are still sick it should be full of believers who are healed by the power and by the presence of God listen to me listen to me today I said repent because the refreshing comes from the presence of the Lord and that he said that the heavens will keep Jesus there until there is restoration on earth that didn't sound like anything we want to present to God this sounds like the Lord was waiting in a glorious church, are you part of that? because if you are part of the glorious church, the big picture you have to be a glorious temple, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and you have allowed the Holy Spirit to do its work and you have repented which means that you have changed and you have returned to God and you are not fleeing from these principles but you are running towards their principles continue with me in the word continue with me in the word I want to go what are some doing in second Corinthians 6:17 2nd Corinthians the sixth chapter in the seventeenth first therefore come out from among them and separate yourselves says the Lord and do not touch the unclean and I will receive you come out from among them people God did not create us to be emulators of the world he did not create us to be perpetually influenced by the world he did not create us to conform to the The world created us and when he delivered us from the powers of darkness he is commanding us to come out from among them the church has become a place of compromise I don't like to hear a word like this well it's okay listen to it anyway The church has become a place of compromise.

Morality in the church is practically no different from the morality of the world system. How dare I say that it is not right for a man and a woman to live together and have sex together unless they are married. Who do I think I am? I'm just telling you what the Word of God says, but now we have all these new translations that don't say that, but now we are trying to create what I call the world translation system and we are trying to convince ourselves that our immorality is okay it's okay for a man to have sex with another man or a woman to have sex with another woman they are selling us propaganda through the system and this is what the Lord is saying come out from among them the drugs are Now the Legalized pornography is more accessible than ever.

There is silence in this room, but I know there is a lot of silence on the other side of the camera. All these things that we have apparently accepted as a church, oh, that's fine for many Christians. look and say oh, it's okay if you have an abortion, it's okay. God understands the gifts in God. God forgives, but you have to understand some. You have to live the harvest of your sins. If you live morally, you will live. through the harvest of your sins and even though that harvest may be in the next generation where you don't understand why that child in you and the authority that you walk with as a parent is not being answered, you have to listen to me in this God.

It says it's time to come out from among them we can't conform to this world we have to be transformed which means changed let's go to another scripture I'm probably not winning points with people today but when we get in I want to get into facts again Acts chapter seventeen and verse 30 and in the past God tolerated this is the translation of the passion in the past God tolerated our ignorance of these things but now the time of deception has passed he commands us all to repent and turn to God this word repent is almost like a lost topic in the Scriptures he commanded us all to repent and turn to God now let's go directly to Romans the twelfth chata the thirteenth chapter the eleventh and twelfth verse says and that knowing the time that it is time to wake up from sleep because now our salvation is near that when we believed that the night is far advanced the day is in him that therefore let us cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light for now he is saying that the night is past, the day is now near There are two things I want to understand and make you listen to me with this.

I think we are coming to the end of this darkness that we are dealing with. The crisis and the pandemic, I don't think it's going to end in the next 2 or 3 days, but I think we have to start operating with faith and with the hope that God is doing something in the midst of all this and the night is passing. It has passed and now the day is near but now that the day is near the Lord is telling us to leave the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. I don't think we're walking through all of this just to come out and say thank God the pandemics are over no, I think he has put us in a time of separating ourselves to where we are stripping ourselves naked, taking off the garments of darkness and putting on the armor of darkness. light, it's time for us to kind of stand up and be the church, not compromise, not be lukewarm people, but stand up and say, I'm getting rid of any attachment that I've had to the darkness and I'm putting on the armor of light.

I am putting on the helmet of salvation I am putting on the breastplate of righteousness and I am putting on my feet with the peace of God I am girding my loins with truth I am protecting myself with faith and I am putting on I am at war with the Rhema of God, listen to me the saying of God right now, excuse me while you are stuck at home while your whole world is different now is the time to turn over your closet now is the time to change your clothes, get rid of the darkness and get into the armor of light God is trying to build a team, he's trying to build an army, he's trying to build a destroying force of darkness around the world and he's saying listen, I'm going to tremble, I'm going to terrorize the world system , but I am going to put a new anointing on my people the glory is coming to your body which is a temple of the Holy Spirit the treasures are coming to your body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit and peace is coming to your body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit go to Isaiah 52 1 and to wake up, wake up, put on your strength from Zion, put on your beautiful garments from Jerusalem, the holy city, because from now on no one will come to you uncircumcised or unclean, shake off the dust, get up and sit down. down, oh Jerusalem, loosen yourself from the bonds of your neck, oh captive daughter of Zion, listen, it says some things in this in the last part it says get up from the dust this is outside the NLT get up from the dust and sit in a place of honor the church is getting ready to rise, we are going to dust ourselves off and we will rise and as we rise we will be repositioned in a position of Honor, double honor and double blessing, but you have to shake yourself up.

The dust, baby, you have to shake off and cast off the garments of injustice, cast off the garments of darkness and put on the armor of light. God is looking for a championship team. He is looking for a church of champions. I don't know some. of you I don't know if you are listening to me or not he is looking for a Church of Champions he is looking for a church of giant killers he is looking for a church that breaks down walls he is looking for a church that is full of powerful men of courage and virtuous women and eyes o women who have been created to be spiritual warriors he is looking for sons and daughters in a prophecy he is looking for mature men who have dreams and young men who will have visions, he is looking for a church that is functioning andnine gifts of the Spirit and in the fruit of the Spirit, he's telling us to shake off the dust and let me put you in a position of honor and I'm going to release you. from the bonds of your captor I will break the buds the anointing removes a burden and the anointing destroys the yoke a cure for the coronavirus will not change you but I knock from heaven will break the buds of depression will break the buds of fear and bring joy that is indescribable to your

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I was someone out there listening to this would give God a praise and give glory to God right now father, I declare that the yokes are breaking, I declare that the anointing of fresh oil that is upon me, we will do it. go to the other side of this chamber and we will minister to men and women, boys and girls who will rise and be repositioned in a position of honor and authority, let's keep going, let's keep going, I know I'm giving you a lot of Scripture but this is a magnificent topic 1 Peter 4:17 1 Peter because the time has come for judgment to begin in the house of God the time has come for judgment to begin in the house of God listen to me on this God is working overtime right now to produce a people who He is going to lay aside the works of darkness He is going to separate himself and He is going to long for the fellowship of God more than people Some of you are Benjamin Artie is the term our friend from South Africa uses Some of you are going crazy and Benjamin is Hades Don't be scared, you are the church, you are God's people, but some of you are going crazy and a big part of the reason you are going crazy is because you are, as they would say, social butterflies, you just enjoy the company of other people, You enjoy the camaraderie of people, there's something wrong with that.

I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but sometimes God starts dealing with us and we have to understand that our communion with him is more important to him than our communion with other people. My brother right now would like to see this church filled with the sons and daughters of God that I could preach to you. Put my hands on your head and pray for you. the hand administers you but something is happening right now and there is a judgment that is taking place in the house of God and God is watching us to see if we are hot or cold but I think he has seen a lot of lukewarmness right now and he said that This is not very encouraging, no, it is encouraging because what God is going to produce from this is going to change the world, so he has seen this lukewarmness and Peter said that judgment must begin in the house of God if people continue talking about a global revival that I am believing in because I heard someone say that a billion soul revival is coming and I believe that a billion souls or more will be saved, but we have to get something in our spirits and I am prophesying that you If God does not get a church that separates and a church that responds to the judgments of God there will not be a revival of a billion souls because there will be no workers to produce the harvest the harvest is white but what?

The Bible says that the workers are few the Lord said I need a configuration our people I need a people that changes that repents that converts I need a people that responds to the Word of God and bathes in the word and gives up trying to change the word to fit your life now maybe I'm old fashioned but I believe God has not written a new version of the Bible. I believe that God has given us the Word inspired by the Holy Spirit and his expectation is this. It is the truth that I have said, obey it so the judgment has to begin in the house of God this is the core of what I want to convey to you because the time has come when the judgment must begin in the house of God that means Me as a spiritual

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prophet I have to be judged by God and I have to put off any work of darkness and put on the armor of life I have to change my garment of heaviness for the garment of praise I have to surrender my ministry to God on another level I have to turn it back on I have to pray more I have to move forward in the spirit that God can use me in this season and you who are part of churches you who are part of congregations you who are people who have said I am part of the cold once the judgment is beginning With us the judgment is beginning with us.

Are we going to stand firm and be ardent in the things of the Spirit? Are we going to be lukewarm? The word continues Matthew third chapter Matthew the third chapter and in these days John the Baptist came preaching in the desert of Judea saying repent because the kingdom of heaven is near because this is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke saying the voice of one who cry out in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make his paths straight and John himself had his garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins and his food was locusts and wild honey then Jerusalem and all Judea and all came out to him the region around the Jordan, let us stop there.

John was a true prophet and he had a message and it was repentance and you know who is preaching that message; he wasn't preaching the message to the Romans, he wasn't preaching. to the Gentile cultures, he was preaching it to the Old Testament church, which was Israel, so the Israelites came from all over Jerusalem, Judea and Jordan, they came and historians tell us that the crowds that heard John were enormous , had probably become the tallest. Known religious leader in these people's lives and he was preparing the way of the Lord in essence, he was preparing the way for Jesus to come to earth and minister in the first realm of his coming, but what was the message before he would the Lord appear? the scene was repent, repent and who was the message to the Old Testament church, Israel, let's go to verse six and they were baptized by him in the Jordan confessing their sins, so now, if they are being baptized, people confess their sins , but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism and said to them: O generation of vipers who have warned you to flee from wrath to come, bear fruits worthy of repentance, fruits that are in accordance with repentance and don't think about saying it.

Within you we have Abraham as our Father because I tell you that God can raise children to Abraham even from these stones and now the ax is also placed at the root of the trees, that is why every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down. thrown into the fire, I truly baptize you with water to repentance, I baptize you to repentance, who is it that baptizes under repentance?, the church of the Old Testament, but he who comes after me, whose shoe I am not worthy of carry, he is more powerful than me, he will baptize you. with the Holy Spirit and with fire with the Holy Spirit and with fire now listen to me on this there is an unquenchable fire that is coming and then verse twelve says whose fan is in his hand and he will completely cleanse his ground and he will gather his wheat into the barn but he He will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Now this message that I am preaching right now can be a source of supernatural life for your future, but you must understand that there is a judgment that is being negotiated with the called ones. Friends there is a message coming out a message that is to claim it is time to change it is time to stop being lukewarm I am not afraid to preach this message I believe in the word said in the book of Esther for a time like this I began ministering in the ministry of time completed in 1972, but I have never felt more important to be in the pulpit than now because I believe God created me to help them slay this giant.

I believe that the giant we face is not the coronavirus. The giant we really face is the lukewarmness of the Church of this generation. David Wilkerson prophesied in 1986 about this pandemic, he said it would shake New York like nothing had ever shaken it and we're seeing it, but then he said God was going to bring prayerless believers back to prayer and the word and then We were going to see a supernatural revival around the world in America. I am telling you something from the spirit. I realize that God has prepared me for a time like this because the message has to be we must change we can no longer look at the church not just something we fit into when we have nothing else to do we can't look at our lifestyle to say well, I will live as I wish and when I sin I will only say forgive me Lord and it doesn't matter no God is looking for God is looking for a people who are coming out God is looking for a people who when the fire of judgment hits the gold the silver the precious stones of our Life will remain and we are willing to let the wood, hay and stubble be devoured this is not a message that is being preached right now it is about prosperity it is about how good everything is things are not good right now no It's good in America Babies are dying in the womb Immoral agendas are being spread You can't watch TV anymore without immoral propaganda spilling into your home It's time to take over the radio waves It's time to get up in the spirit and see to the scattered enemy it is time to take off the works of darkness and put on the armor of life but we cannot be the glorious church if we do not understand that we have to change to be that we can be more powerful we can be stronger we can be more spiritual we can be more anointed but we have to be willing to change we have to be willing to pray we have to be willing to fast we have to be willing to enter into the word we have to be willing to leave our intolerance and our prejudices and our anger, our anger, our rebellion and our lust for DI are less than the flesh and pride of life.

Yes, I am preaching a good old-fashioned holiness message to you right now because God is looking for people with a heart. and he is looking for sons and daughters. John said that one more powerful than me is coming who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Nobody wants to talk about fire because fire is the refiner. Fire is the refiner. He raises his hands and prays with me. true, that is a father who refined me, burn me with what is not clean, burn me with what is contrary to your nature quickly. I know I'm running out of time, well I guess I'm not running out of time, but you probably heard me. enough, but then it continues in the word in Matthew 15, verse 21, this is outside of unity, so Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tire and Sidon, a Gentile woman who lived there approached him begging you to have mercy on me, oh Lord. son of David because my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely wait just a second on this, so in this verse we realize that she is a Gentile woman, she is not an Israelite, she said, have mercy on me, oh Lord, son of David, that statement son of David meant that she was recognizing him as the Messiah now she says that my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely Verse 23 but Jesus did not answer her even a word then her disciples urged him to send her away and tell her to leave.

They said that she is bothering us with all her pleas so Jesus said to the woman I was sent just to help God's lost sheep, the people of Israel, let's stop there for a minute. Jesus is the first course of action on planet John. It came before John preached the message of repentance. Jesus appears on the scene and John is preaching repentance to the Old Testament church and Jesus says that I have been sent to basically restore the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Now he has a gentle woman here and she is. telling her that my immediate mission is to restore the Old Testament church basically let's go to verse twenty-five but she came and worshiped him pleading again Lord helped me Jesus answered is it okay to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs?

He answered that it is true Lord but even dogs are allowed to eat the leftovers that fall under their master's table dear woman Jesus told her your faith is great your request is granted and your daughter and her daughter were healed instantly now all this story in itself is one of the most powerful faith stories we see in the Bible and this woman in essence Jesus just pushed her away he said I and legally I am sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel I am sent to bring a restoration to the Old Testament Church it is not my time, it is not your time yet the dispensation of the whole world has not manifested this woman would not stop, she recognized him as the Messiah, she worshiped him, which meant she submitted to him as Lord and Rey and he said, listen, I can.

I do not give you what belongs to the children and she said but even the dogs receive what falls or what was rejected by the children and Jesus is impressed by her faith and speaks the word and her daughter is freed now that is a whole . Another sermon but the sermon I am preaching to you now is to understand that Jesus was on a mission to restore the Church of that day now multitudes rejected him and multitudes accepted him but he was on a mission to restore the lost sheep of the house of Israel God is on a mission right now and I believe there are a billion revived souls waiting for us, but I believe the mission he has right now is to restore the present tense believers of his church and prevent us from being prayerless believers. bebelievers who barely open our Bibles prevent us from being morally committed believers because the Bible says that if you really love me keep my Commandments, look, we speak well.

I know, God Leslie, there is no doubt that God loves you. God loves the whole world, but you? Love God, do you love him enough to obey him even if it requires you to separate yourself from things that are ungodly and let go of things that you know are not morally right and that are not biblically pleasing to your heavenly Father? Look, this is where we are right now and while we are in this time of isolation while we are in this time of lockdown while we are in this time of stay at home orders, we need to take advantage of this moment and say God, I am.

I'm going to clean up some things. I'm going to take off this garment of darkness. I will warm the fire toward each one of me and say, "I am warm," a boldness in the spirit. I'm in the final stretch here, go with me to the second one. chronicles 7:14 second chronicles 7:14 you know this if my people if my people if my people God is not saying this to the unbelievers he is saying if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves so who is God talking to? speaking here again to the church of the Old Testament your people humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their evil ways then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land the healing of our land is directly related to the repentance that is going to begin to happen in the church the healing of America and the restoration of America as an influencer in the world an influencer of right things a promoter of revival a sending nation the nations of the world that have been evangelized that have been transformed predominantly it has happened through the sending of anointed vessels from the United States of America, great churches that are all over the world, powerful churches that move in the spirit the roots of those revivals, most of them began with the Americans who left their homes and went to the nations of the world but see my people who are called by my name they will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their evil ways then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins you will see that the church needs forgiveness I will forgive your sin and then you will heal your land the true believers want the land to be healed we sit and shake our heads we sit and say oh my God, what is happening what kind of nation we will have is our concession my grandchildren grow up your great-grandfather grandchildren these babies that are being born throughout our nation to good godly parents what kind of nation are we going to have in the future what kind of world are we going to have see terrorism is just a manifestation listen to me on this see if the church is manifesting the power and the presence of God the way it should then we are going to manifest healing and deliverance and people's lives are going to be changed and transformed there is a manifestation of the Spirit the Holy Spirit that is within us and upon us terrorism that we see all over the world world is a manifestation of demonic influence taking lives destroying cities The Bible says: I do not come to you with persuasive words of human wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit in power that your faith is not based on the wisdom of men. but in the power of God, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their evil ways.

I wish I could say that anyone who professes to be a Christian and truly believes in Jesus Christ is one. not to engage in evil ways and I know we all live clean lives, I know we all seek His face and I know we are all praying, but the truth is you know we don't, you know when you deal with most parishioners or people affiliated with Christianity we become believers without prayer we are lukewarm but we are not going to remain that way we are not going to remain that way we are going to pray and God will heal us and God will heal us earth we are going to pray we are going to seek his face we are going to turn away from our evil ways and God is going to start responding and he will forgive us and heal our land America, Trump's battle cries have always been made America is great again.

I'll tell you who will really make America great again: it's the Holy Spirit and I want to make America great again, but more than that I want a revival that is global, but we can't have a global revival if we don't first have restoration. of the church if you are one of the called if you probably say I am a Christian then you have to say that it is time for me to put on the armor of light if you have become lukewarm but still love Jesus then you have to say that if you really do Master I will keep His Commandments and I will not live a lukewarm and compromised lifestyle.

I pray that the conviction of the Holy Spirit will come upon you right now. I look in the mirror and say. God, I preach the gospel all these years, but God, there is still so much more you need to do with me through me and for me, and if we humble ourselves and pray, God will heal our land and make us for the fire of the Holy Spirit. Oh my gosh, can you imagine if we could go into the hospitals and put our hands on the coronavirus victims, they wouldn't let us in there, but we have to take the authority and send the word and see people just rise up and have no explanation? why did your mere presence happen Smith Wigglesworth there was a story in his life and there was a Catholic priest who had been educated and all the theology and all the things that he knew about being a priest were on him, I think it was like a cart or some kind of transportation team of that time and Smith Wigglesworth just standing there, but he was a man who was so gifted with power in the presence of God and that priest fell on his knees and said here your very presence convinces me I need to meet this Jesus Wigglesworth didn't have a cross hanging around his neck he didn't have a big Bible in his hand he was just being a glorious call out people should feel a conviction when they come Jim faith should kindle in them and then look at you and say: I don't know why I'm asking you this, what would you pray for me?

That is the glorious church that God is looking for, we are more trapped. up in his presence and his word than anything else wherever you are today I God, I feel his god spirit. I thank you first of all for allowing me to preach the gospel at a time like this God, we can't go out. from this crisis the same very well gold we will not get out of this crisis the same we must be changed changed from glory to glory we must be changed we must be transformed by the renewal of our minds god gold right now wherever people are in hotel rooms houses hospital rooms sitting in a car God restore the goods today take the lukewarm and make it burn for you again save the lost give us new priorities God forbid this time to be wasted but let this time be the beginning of the birth of a glorious church if you are looking right now I want you to pray with me I want you to pray with me repeat what I'm asking you to pray you could be a member of word of life you could be an attendee of another congregation you could say I'm a believer but are you really on fire?

Pray with me and say father in the name of the Lord Jesus, I come humbly to you. I ask you to forgive me of all my sins, all my anger, all my rebellion and everything. my disobedience Lord forgive my lukewarmness Lord forgive me when before I prioritize everything except your house help me today Jesus forgive me restore me empower me I confess with my mouth of a believing heart that Jesus is my Lord and Savior I rebuke Satan I denounce him his works his ideas I am a Christian I am a calling I am part of the church thank you Jesus for shedding your blood for your forgiveness and everything you mean to me I ask you in the name of Jesus