good morning church family and ministry friends i'm pastor stephen brooks welcome today to our online internet church service and may i say happy pentecost sunday to you praise the lord wherever you might be at in the world today we're going to take our bibles we're going to go to matthew chapter 28 and i want to pray a special prayer over the special seeds that you have been bringing in the pentecostal pure gold offering which has been designated for the television outreach i want to pray over your special offering and let's first take a look at a couple of verses so that we can understand why we do what it is that we do matthew chapter 28 verse 18 and jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth now notice how the lord jesus takes that authority and he delegates it to the church verse 19. go therefore so that is the delegation of divine authority to go go therefore and make disciples of all the nations now to make disciples in the greek means you are working with those who are under discipline this is not a bad thing this is a good thing sometimes we think discipline oh that's not good but if you didn't have discipline or a form of training you would never make good progress in anything in other words discipline means you're you show up you're there for the teaching you're applying the teaching so you are becoming a disciple you're not just some kind of casual follower you're a disciple go therefore and make disciples and what will take place as you are disciplined in the word of god in the ways of the kingdom you become discipled and you become equipped and that allows you and that empowers you to do what to now be able to disciple others praise the lord go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing or immersing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit teaching them to observe all things that i have commanded you now you've probably noticed that a large part of my ministry is teaching that's because the lord has called me to do that yes i do some preaching hallelujah we have fun times with preaching but i'm mainly teaching i'm getting the word in to the believers so my ministry first and foremost is to build up the body of christ my ministry is primarily to the body of christ to strengthen the lord's church now i'm also evangelistic in nature because we care about the lost but what takes place is because we stay on assignment of building up the church there is an outworking blessing of that uh where we reach many that are lost and the lost they just come on in because they hear it they like it it's something that they're like hey this is what i've been looking for all my life salvation a savior someone that can fix my sin issues and wash them all away and so we win many in the process praise god again teaching them to observe all things that i have commanded you so there are commandments somebody once said that this is not a book of uh you know do's and don'ts and rules and regulations well i know that it's a it's a love letter i understand that but at the same time yes when god said don't do this he meant that and i'm as a minister i'm supposed to teach that because if you disobey commandments you're going to get in trouble it's going to bite you and we don't want that to happen and we don't want to learn by trial and experience we want to follow the instruction manual so that we may have an enjoyable life a successful life and a very satisfying walk with the lord teaching them to observe all things that i have commanded you and lo i am with you always even to the end of the age so the largest outreach of the ministry of stephen brooks international is the television ministry because each week we are speaking to a satellite footprint that covers well over a billion souls now are they all watching at the same time no because there's you know different different networks and different channels and there's different time zones and things like that but even still we are throwing a huge net to a satellite footprint of over one billion people and by god's grace that number is increasing because we have just signed as i said last week with another network and uh so the lord that that network has an outreach of uh satellite footprint of nine million people but as these numbers which you know you start running into the millions it it's kind of like it doesn't seem like a lot but again these are very very large numbers that we are reaching so what are we doing we're taking god's word and we are strengthening the church we're equipping the church to walk in victory and we are also giving an opportunity for the lost to receive christ and that is our version that's our effort to go therefore when jesus said go therefore that's our effort to be involved and to do our part in the great commission thank you for standing with me in this outreach of television ministry because television is costly you have to pay for the air time you have to pay for the the producing of the shows and then once the shows are recorded and it takes a whole team to do that then all of that programming goes into post-production with all of the editing and everything that's involved in that and eventually it all pops out all ready to go but then you have to get that to the appropriate channels and there's very high tech means and methods of syncing all of that and doing all of that so television is an expensive endeavor but it is literally a it's an international global in uh reaching endeavor and so we're honored to be doing what god has called us to do and you know i was talking oh this was maybe like 17 years ago i was talking with the minister and he was pretty well known in california today he's very well known because of how the lord has lifted up his ministry and so forth but i was having lunch with him about 17 years ago and we were talking about christian television because he didn't have a christian television program but he was always a guest and because he was a well-known pastor he was always a guest you know with on christian television networks and he told me something very interesting he said stephen he said there are a lot of ministers that try to do television or want to do television but he said television is a calling from the lord and it's something from god that you either have it or you don't have it and we were talking about a certain minister a pastor of a large church that he and i both knew and and of course still know today and this pastor thought well i've got a large church and you know i give good sermons good messages and he thought well i'm going to go in the television but he went in the television and there was just no response it just he didn't have it and i remember at lunch time as me and this pastor talked he brought up as an example that that particular minister and he said stephen he has a good message he has a very good church he's a great pastor but he doesn't have it for tv and i i just said well you know i noticed the same thing it's not being critical it's just there's different anointings in the body of christ and when the lord has called you into something you go in the direction of what he has called you to do because trust me there's a million different directions you could go so you find your anointing and you find your calling and you go in that direction but let me say this it is an honor from the lord to be called into television ministry why because as a teacher you're speaking into the lives of a lot of people and of course that means i'm responsible for what i teach one day i'll stand before the lord and i'll have to give an account of you know the doctrines that i taught the the word that i taught and i'm believing it's going to be a good report because i'm convinced that god's word and particularly the word of faith message and the prophetic message and you know the things we share the gifts of the spirit the walk with the lord these are things that are foundational truths and even more advanced teaching that god wants to bring his people into so i celebrate this calling into television there used to be this black eye that was upon certain ministers they would be branded as televangelists even if they weren't an evangelist just by being on television they were labeled as televangelists well i celebrate that label praise god i'm there to evangelize i'm there to teach i'm there to equip and i rejoice in the calling that god has for this ministry concerning television and pure gold which is our half hour program that is on television is blessing the lives of many people and yes it does also reach the lost and it's winning those that are lost to christ praise god so thank you for standing with me and with this ministry my wife and i we are so thankful for your support your prayers your giving and the giving uh i tell you what many of you so many of you are just really responding to god's heart in this because it is for souls and it is for strengthening the church don't take for granted that the beautiful truths that you know that everybody else out there in the church just knows that too um you know we're not in the dark ages it's not like we're back in the you know the year 800 a.d but there still is a lot of darkness that could be in the church just because some have not had the privilege of hearing the revelatory truths and teaching that you have been able to walk into and that you now enjoy and you see the great fruit of that producing righteousness and peace and victory in your life so my friends let's continue to do all we can to take the good news to the world amen now one more verse would be exodus chapter 30 because when i was going to get the name of the television program trademarked with the u.s trademark patent office and so forth i had to get the name just right and i said lord i like the name pure gold and kelly and i we had about five names but we kind of kept coming back to that one i said lord i like that name pure gold and um but i said lord i really need to know because it's not like i'm going to be able to change this later because once you start to get branded a message or you know a ministry name gets brand it's not like you want to go back and change that if your name is coca-cola you don't want well let's just change that no you've built up you've built up a name in that area so i said lord i've got to get the tv name for the program right and i went before the lord in prayer and a tremendous anointing of the presence of the lord and the mind of christ came into the room and i was touched by the power of god and i had a visitation from the lord and in that experience with god the lord told me turn to exodus chapter 30 verse 3 and i'll tell you the name of your television program and so i started turning there opened up my bible started turning there and as i did because it's going to take me like you know 10 seconds to get there as i was turning there i was thinking hmm if i'm correct exodus chapter 30 is talking about the various pieces of furniture that are placed within the tabernacle of moses and i was correct but i uh you know it wasn't like i had the chapter memorized or anything like that so i was very excited to see what verse 3 was going to say because he said i'll show you the name of your program exodus chapter 30 verse 3 and so i found exodus 30 found verse 3 this is actually the same bible that i was using when i had that visitation from the lord and when i looked at verse 3 i read it and it said and you shall overlay its top its sides all around by the way this is talking about the altar of incense which just just so happens to be my favorite piece of holy furniture that is in the tabernacle temple system now yes i i would have to say the ark of the covenant's more important but don't forget it is the altar of incense which is a representation of the prayer life of jesus which is designed to reveal the way that he wants us to pray its prayer the altar of instance right before the curtain right before the holy of holies it's prayer that takes you into the presence of the lord where the ark of the covenant is at it and so forth so that's that's the glory that's the really good stuff but you get into it through prayer that's why we teach a lot about prayer we talk about about it and we also are aware of the symbolism expressed these old testament types and shadows now verse 3 and you shall overlay its top that's the altar of incense overlay its top its sides all around and its horns there were four horns pointing outward in different directions on top of that uh altar of incense and its horns with pure gold and when i read that the the two words pure gold were lifted up off of the page it looked like a 3d hologram and they were glistening and those and the lord spoke and said the name of your program will be pure gold praise the lord amen and it is uh trademarked in the u.s patent office today with national and international uh trademark uh accomplishments all done praise god it's good to get that done and so my friends the lord the lord's calling for us into television it's not something that i just thought hey this will be a good idea for a ministry outreach no it's a calling and it has taken a lot of work a lot of effort and a lot of prayer to step into it and see it develop and so we have been on the air now for almost exactly one year with five major networks we have now gone the six networks we have never been late on one single payment we have paid every single time on time praise the lord and i tell you what uh it's no secret not the networks like to do business with a ministry like this hallelujah and i know that it's because of your generous giving and god touching your heart and you having a heart for the lord's purposes amen so thank you for standing with us in this calling of television ministry is it expensive is it costly to do television yes but god has called and therefore god will supply and all you have to do is just do what the holy spirit tells you to do and every need will be met praise god now i want to pray for those of you of course that are bringing in your regular tithes but i also want to pray a special prayer right now for everybody that right now is sowing your pure gold offering this is your pentecostal gold offering and i'm going to pray for those that have also already gotten theirs in you've mailed it in and or you've brought it in online i'm going to pray for you too now keep in mind that this is a gold offering because the lord told moses tell the people to bring an offering of gold silver or brass and then he went into different types of thread and cloth and then gemstones and things like that but because the altar of incense is laid over with pure gold and the television ministry is named after that the lord said this has to be a gold offering so this has to be our very best offering my wife and i have sown into this with our own personal money because we believe in the call of god and what the lord is doing here and the offerings have already been coming in but this is your opportunity to connect with the lord because the lord told me that those that sow into this special pentecostal offering pure gold offering he showed me a vision in which the golden oil will touch your offering i said lord what is that oil because i could see it it was very uh it had a it had what i would call a high viscosity it wasn't thick it was golden oil that was hot and it would just flow almost like water i mean it was like a liquid so this is not something that's being poured real slow this is you pour it and it's just go like it's like hot oil and the lord said it's the golden oil of prosperity and he said he'll bless those that sow into this and touch their seed and touch their lives with the golden oil of prosperity all right so if you haven't done so yet bring your precious prosperity golden seed in right now praise the lord if you're mailing it in please send it to stephen brooks international p.o box 717 moravian falls north carolina zip code 28654 if you would like to bring your pure gold pentecostal offering in online you can do so right now please visit the ministry website stevenbrooks.org there's a link on the home page it's a red stripe that says give it has a heart on it you can click that and you'll see the the the tab that will allow you to give your regular tithe thank you for doing that because there's the regular tithe that supports the general operating expenses of the ministry and then you'll see the opportunity to sow into the pentecostal pure gold offering and it's these types of special offerings that allow us to do the special things and this special thing is the outreach of the television ministry praise god lift your hands to receive a special blessing from the lord father i pray for all of those that have sown and are sowing right now and to the pure gold television ministry they love you they love your people they want your people to walk in the truths that they enjoy and father they love the lost and you said go into all the world and preach and teach and this is our this is our outreach to do this and father they they love the lost and they have given many of them have given sacrificially they have given their gold offering their very very best i ask right now father god that that golden oil that i saw in the spirit realm i ask that you release the oil of prosperity upon their finances now thank you father let it be poured upon their finances dissolving all debt eliminating debt thank you father god paying off any unpaid bills i thank you that the golden oil of prosperity is flowing on them now i speak increase over their finances those of you that are watching receive the anointing of increase upon your life a golden harvest whoa golden favor golden prosperity all over your life whoo father we give you praise we give you praise in the name of jesus we call it done amen and amen whoa praise god blessed be the name of the lord amen just lift your hands and thank him lord we thank you we praise you we thank you for the golden oil of prosperity thank you thank you father thank you for the souls that are going to be saved through these programs thank you father god for the believers that will be built up and set free from discouragement or depression or sickness or disease thank you father god for the word illuminating your people and bringing those that would be in defeat into places of victory strong discipleship thank you thank you thank you thank you father thank you thank you in jesus name amen i hear the lord say i have received your offering it is received praise god amen amen be looking and expecting the miracle praise god now let's take our bibles today and i want us to go to first corinthians chapter 10 and we're going to keep in the theme today of pentecost because what we're going to be looking at symbolizes the pentecostal experience first corinthians chapter 10 let's pray father as we go into your word we ask that your holy spirit would enlighten the eyes of our understanding that light would come in and that we can see the truth of your word and that we can apply it walk in it live in it and enjoy it thank you father in jesus name amen praise the lord first corinthians chapter 10 verse 1 moreover brethren i do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud and passed through the sea now you're very familiar with this the cloud leading the children of israel through the 40-year wilderness sinai desert experience whoo they were all under the cloud all past through the sea and all were baptized or immersed into moses in the cloud and in the sea so we're seeing quite a few parallels here this is revealing to us the journey of israel and there's a lot of symbolism associated with this these were real events but they were written for us so that we can have understanding of what they went through for instance there was their deliverance out of egypt egypt being a word picture or a symbolism of being in the world lost in sin and separated from god being ruled over by a pharaoh an evil task master a form or a symbol of satan and then crossing through the red sea in other words they come out of that egyptian captivity they have their exodus amen they had their passover passover being a symbol of the salvation experience and then there is the red sea crossing which is a type of baptism and they were immersed in a sense into moses their leader but we are immersed into christ praise god our leader glory to god and it's also a representation that baptism is of going down into a watery grave passing out of a previous position of spiritual death now into a position of spiritual life in other words victory on the other side the egyptians are now cut off praise the lord but we know also also once they got to the other side they had their their tests their trials and they had their their long journey but eventually eventually they got to the jordan river crossing the jordan representation of the cutting off of the flesh now this is not like salvation this is a deeper experience this is the the experience of knowing that you are crucified with christ praise the lord and the life that you're not you're now living you're living for him glory to god so it represents circumcision it represents the cutting off of the flesh nature and a heart to follow after god and serve the lord and then then after you've crossed that jordan you're now into what the canaan land that's the promised land this is a representation of going into the canaan land is the representation not of water baptism not of going to heaven but of that of being baptized in the holy spirit as we know it as being the pentecostal experience now when i grew up in church we used to sing a song quite often out of the hymn book that was called you know on geor on jordan's stormy bank i stand and cast a wishful eye to canaan's fair and happy land where my possessions lie and then we were singing about going into canaan's land as if we were going to heaven but my friends the promised land there in canaan was not a type or a symbol of heaven because when you get to heaven there's no giants to drive out aren't you glad when you get to heaven there's no cities to possess no that was all on the earth and that's what you need the baptism of the holy spirit for that empowerment to do what god has called you to do which is to what is to possess your lamb to possess the promises of god so they were all baptized into moses in the cloud and in the sea verse 11 now all these things happen to them as examples now the word examples they're in the greek is the word tupas and it's where we get our theological word type t-y-p-e and when you look from a new covenant perspective back to the old covenant or you look back past the cross you see that so many of their real life experiences that they went through those things were examples for us those things were types for us types or word pictures or elements of symbolism where you could see wow i maybe haven't gone through that exact physical thing they're going through but i can really relate from a spiritual perspective of what it was they went through and you see their successes you see their failures and we can learn from those examples now all these things that's all the old covenant experiences happened to them as examples and they were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the ages have come so we can look at what they went through and we can see the good things and we can take it learn from it avoid the bad things the things that caused uh them to get tripped up or to fall and we're going to go and do all that god has called us to do now having looked at this let's go now to the book of joshua chapter 1 verse 1 praise the lord because in celebration of pentecost it's now time to go into the canaan land which is what that is a representation of that is a word picture of the believer baptized in the holy spirit going into their canaan land and possessing the promises of god hallelujah i believe today i'm speaking to believers who have not yet possessed all that god has called you to take and to do so i would encourage you listen carefully today because god wants you to take every bit of land every promise that rightfully belongs to you even should there be obstacles or giants or you know the enemy with iron chariots and all the things that he ran into the old testament regardless of the obstacle god has a way for you to receive and take what is rightfully yours praise the lord joshua chapter 1 let's go to verse 1. after the death of moses the servant of the lord came to pass that the lord spoke to joshua the son of nun moses assistant saying now moses is gone joshua he's the man he's matured he's grown a lot we saw we were allowed and i'm glad the holy spirit allowed this some examples some uh open window moments where we could see that joshua was in a growing process such as the time that he got jealous that um other other people were prophesying and he's like hey you know moses you got to shut this down and moses is like no you know what that everybody could prophesy you know this is this is good we shouldn't want to restrict the holy spirit or the gift of prophecy and so you see joshua growing you see joshua's hunger really spending a lot of time there at the tabernacle in the presence of the lord and now he is the man that god has picked to be the successor of the great man moses verse 2 moses my servant is dead now therefore rise go over this jordan you and all this people to the land which i am giving to them the children of israel praise the lord glory to god into the land we go now look at verse 5 no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life as i was with moses so i will be with you i will not leave you nor forsake you now in our own generations we've had some moses we've had great men and great women of god maybe we could call them the generals of faith that seems to be how they have been labeled i think that's very accurate and a very honorable label these great generals of faith and many of them of course they have passed on to their eternal reward they're in heaven but my friends every generation brings new possibilities it brings new things and while we rejoice in the great leaders that we have have had that have set golden examples and have set high water marks of you know the anointing and miracles and things accomplished and stuff like that yet this is now our time and this is the joshua general generation moment and just as god was with moses and just as god was with many of the great generals of faith before us we still have that same good word from the lord that he's with us now look at verse 5 again no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life now as they're going to go into the land and they're going to go up against real physical enemies armed with uh swords spears shield shields catapults and all kinds of other things bows and arrows and stuff like that and the israelites they're going to go up against armies where they could see hey they've got some pretty good big size guys over here look at that one he's six foot eight wow looks like he's been working out at the gym too but it doesn't matter look what god said no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life in other words sure they may have all the armor they may have all the tech gadgets they they have uh you know good training they may have this and that but god says i'm with you and there's not one of them that can stand against you it kind of reminded me when i was in i was actually in college and i had i had a weekend off so i left college went home and when i went home my younger brother had a cross-country race and because he started earlier than i did he while he was in high school had more time to build up his running career and by the time he was a senior he was pretty much unbeatable and so uh although you know at the starting line you could have 350 400 people and you know you could look and you think wow there looks like some really good runners here uh to me i could just i could just look at them all say it doesn't matter he's going to win why well he's better he's done more training he's just better and he's there they may look intimidate him it's not going to matter give it a mile or two and everybody's gonna know and so when i went home to watch him race i caught up with my coach who was at the halfway point and i i i didn't see i didn't see my brother and i saw like a long string you know because once that uh once the runners start you might have 400 people but again you know it'll start to thin out and i saw this lot begun thin out and i saw a whole bunch of runners the top pack and i didn't see my brother i said to the coach i said where's my brother he goes oh he's not even over in this area he's already made the halfway turn he's already hit him back home he's way over there whoa praise the lord there was nobody that could stand against him and this thing though with the lord is on a totally different level way beyond even these physical type things when you're walking with the lord and you're on assignment and you're possessing what he's told you that's your rightful inheritance there is a knowing that comes to you through the same holy spirit that is the same holy spirit that spoke to all the ones before us and he says no man shall be able to stand before you now we can we can work with that word man and you could put obstacle or difficulty or challenge no obstacle shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life so you may be called to possess this city and it may not be a literal city but you may be called to do this certain thing and there's all these obstacles there's all this like oh lord who who am i well nobody really this this is all reverting back to the power of god yes we're going to have faith and we're going to endeavor to do what we can do but you and i both know that this this is going to take the power of god but we know what he has done before we know what we what he did here in the book of joshua we know what he has done throughout church history and now guess what it's our time [Music] and the saints in heaven who have finished their course guess what they're looking over the balcony of heaven and they're looking at you and they're saying come on do it god's with you just like he was with us go for it move forward praise god thank you lord jesus praise god from a new testament perspective perspective see god instructing you in the same way that he instructed moses where god literally came to joshua and said no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life whoo hey that's not just for a week or so that's for the remaining days of your life you are unbeatable wow this equates to continual progress on your god-given assignments now let's go to joshua chapter 10 and let's drop down to verse 5. we have the five kings that are going to now give joshua what would appear to be a real challenge now he's been knocking off cities yeah they had a little hang up at ai because of aiken sin they got that fixed got that ironed out real quick got rid of aiken and uh now there does seem to be a conglomeration of some kings that are determined to make a stand against this invincible army i mean they heard how god dried up the red sea they heard how god dried up the jordan river when they crossed it and they heard what happened at jericho and they're afraid now look at this therefore the five kings of the amorites the king of jerusalem the king of hebron the king of jarmuth the king of lakish and the king of iglon gathered together and went up they and all their armies encamped before gibeon and made war against it now israel and gibeon have come into a treaty uh it should have never happened but the you know the gibeonites pulled the fast one over the israelites and acted like they were foreigners had coming from a long journey and wearing old clothes and they really faked them out and the leaders did not pray and so they made a covenant and now they're going to go have to help out their uh their alliance the gibeonites and the men of gibeon sent to joshua the camp at gilgal saying do not forsake your servants come up to us quickly save us in other words uh you know we're outnumbered and they're going to gang up on us and try to kill us so get over here and help us quick so joshua send it from gilgal he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valor now get ready for verse 8 and get ready to place yourself in that same position of joshua verse 8 and the lord said to joshua do not fear them now you've got five kings with their five armies that have morphed into one giant army and of course as you could see that army all gathered together like the as they say the proverbial sand on the seashore without number you you couldn't help but notice hey they've got some pretty big guys on their team wow they've got some advanced weapons over there wow those guys boy they must have been really working out so in the natural you know this just takes god but i'm here today to tell you with the prophetic decree that god is with you and he wants you to know it and he wants you to believe it and he wants you to act on it and the lord said to joshua do not fear them whoa praise god for i have delivered them into your hand now notice this again is the language of god which which is a faith statement because he says i have that that's past tense means i've already done it i've already delivered them into your hand now see they're still standing over there and they're still ready to wage war but god says for basically from his perspective i have delivered them into your hand not a man of them shall stand before you it doesn't matter how big they are it doesn't matter how many repetitions they've been doing in the squat rack it doesn't matter how much they can bench press it doesn't matter if they can outdo you and all that stuff it doesn't matter the moment you guys walk up and you start swinging your swords they're going down and i'm going to work through you to cut them down praise the lord we have got to get our eyes on the lord and the power of the holy spirit because it's not by our physical might or by our physical strength or our intellect or ingenuity it is by the power of the holy spirit praise the lord glory to god do not fear them for i have delivered them into your hand not a man of them shall stand before you can you imagine should god tell you something like that on the projects that he's called you to take on i believe he is saying that today and let it reverberate through your spirit your soul and your whole body may it shake you even in your body knowing that the power of god is with you to do what he has called you to do i see unusual favor dropping all over you i see unusual doors opening you for you because god's favor is upon you and people super naturally like you to agree that it doesn't even make any sense praise the lord hallelujah look at verse 10 so the lord routed them before israel i mean this is not like the struggle where you know we won but we barely won and god barely got us through no this is like a total route this is the legacy of joshua this is the calling card of joshua we're not just coming in we're coming in hard we're coming in hard praise the lord and we're coming in to win whoo praise the lord and he went on he went on a string of just successive victories of winning winning winning winning winning winning over and over woo praise the lord and that's god's plan that's god's plan now listen god does not have one plan in his playbook for you that's planned for your failure oh it's not like god says now he's been winning too much she's been having too many victories let me give them a taste of victory just to keep them excuse me a taste of sour defeat just to keep them humble no no you can keep your own self humble you can you can maintain your walk with the lord and just keep the victories going boom boom boom boom glory to god until you go home to be with the lord until you have done all that he has called you to do i see you routing the enemy i see you breaking through and it's not just a little victory it's a route whew it is an all-out win so the lord routed them before israel killed them with the great slaughter at gibeon chased them along the road that goes to beth horan and struck them down as far as zika and machida verse 11 let's dig into this and it happened as they fled before israel and were on the descent of beth horn that the lord cast down large hail stones now this this happening over there in the land of canaan might remind some of you listening in the um the tulsa area that area of amarillo where you have this uh they call it tornado alley and i've been there i've i've been there when the tornadoes were acting up after naughty and i've been there in a small hail storm but that is a place in america where it can uh have hail come down that's literally the size of softballs not golf balls or baseballs yes that's easy but even softballs sometimes that's big but let me tell you what was raining down that day in the land of canaan it could have been basketball sized hell because it was being thrown down now you understand that when god does this god is working through his angelic army and they are throwing down these gigantic hailstones there were more who died from the hailstones than the children of israel killed with the sword praise the lord what's going on god is fighting for israel god is fighting for israel so they can win and the lord wants to fight on your behalf through the angelic army assisting you aiding you so that the kingdom assignment gets accomplished praise god glory to god the lord is up to something really really dramatic in your life praise the lord let me read a story to you from a book praise god thank you jesus and let me jump right oh that story is right over here i've got a couple of little neat stories i'd like to share with you this one's fascinating now there was a book that came out in the 80s called angels on assignment and it was the story of the pastor roland buck who had encounters with angels particularly with uh mainly it was an encounter with the uh angel gabriel and now he also met the angel michael and he also had some visitations from the lord jesus himself the book is rock solid and it gives a lot of insight into the ministry of the angels but what i would like to share with you is a little further teaching which was not in that book they were stories that roland buck recorded of visitations with gabriel and other angels one of the angels that was named was a captain in the war angel department his name was creoni and i want to tell you a little bit about some of his involvement behind the scenes in these biblical uh events and this uh is a reading from that story praise god uh roland buck pastor roland buck said oops he said i asked let me catch up here just for a second oh let me jump over to this part uh the angel creoni told me of another interesting event when israel was on a forced march that was their overnight march that they took to get there to fight those five kings in their army early in the morning they surprised him and showed up after an all-night march now the angel said the men of gibeon currently sent messengers to joshua at gilgal come and help your servants they demand it come quickly and save us for all the kings of the amorites who live in the hills are here with their armies so joshua and the israeli army left gilgal and went to rescue gibeon don't be afraid of them the lord said the joshua for they are already defeated i have given them to you to destroy not a single one of them will be able to stand up to you god had decreed that israel would have the victory so they had to have the victory but we were too but they were too tired to fight krioni said the angels had orders to intervene but not to interfere with what god was doing in man's normal course of life they the angels had a terrific experience when a group of the warring angels made huge ice balls and threw them down on top of the enemy forces and it came to pass as they fled from before israel and they were going down the beth horan that the lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto zika and they died they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword so in essence roland buck had a conversation with the angel that was a captain in the angelic army under michael's authority this angel crioni was given permission along with his group to throw down these gigantic hailstones upon the enemy i'm here today to say that god is with you and with that utterance means that the angel armies of heaven are ready to assist you and help you behind the scenes as you go forward to possess the land that the lord has called you to possess praise the lord well pastor stephen i'd like to possess my land and come into this how can i really just get after this i want to do it well i would say that the number one thing that you need to be engaging in is the art of prayer praise the lord now in joshua chapter 10 verse 9 we see that joshua therefore came upon them suddenly that's those five kings and their huge army he came upon them suddenly having marched all night from gilgal marching in the scriptures in the old testament again is a type remember paul said those were types and shadows and it's all for our admonition that marching all night long is symbolism of prayer and yes there can be times when you could just get into such a prayer mode you end up praying all night long and we see this of course in the beautiful life of jesus his ministry luke chapter 6 verse 12. let's go there luke 6 12. now it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to god and when it was day when it was day he called his disciples to himself and from them he chose 12 whom he also named apostles now you might ask yourself why did he pray so long such a you know overnight all night long that's a long time to pray well it could be for several reasons number one he was probably endeavoring to get the the exact 12 identified and perhaps he got peter real easy you know sometimes the ones that are easy they come up up first but as he kept on praying maybe he got number two and then number three and number four and he kept on praying and then got number five and six before he ended up getting all 12. and there have been times when i've been praying and as i've prayed i get i would get the answer but there needed to be more and that i just kept on praying okay i got the other part and so it's like a puzzle you start getting the pieces of the puzzle and then when you get all the pieces boom it fits together there's your 12. there's the whole thing well maybe it took all night but he's ready in the morning to get things done and there's also that element of sometimes not just you're asking questions or you're making petitions sometimes it's also just fellowship and you're having a really good time with the lord but i i also know that there's many scriptures where uh it says jesus departed and went to pray or jesus went up on top of the mountain to pray by himself and i think really if we were to ask what was he primarily praying about i would say number one fellowship with the father but number two he's most likely praying for his ministry that all that is on the plate that is a sign for him to do that he's going to get it all done and i believe that he put a lot of prayer into his ministry now you need to put a lot of prayer into your calling and if you're not in the ministry whatever your career calling is and what god wants you to get done you need to pray into that praise the lord just like jesus did and that my friends at times can require some marching and by the way if it's difficult to get in the spirit while you're praying maybe on your knees or sitting down or maybe you're having a challenge of falling asleep then just get up and walk around walk around the you know for me i come i come to the sanctuary sometimes i just walk around and pray and other times i go other places and just walk and pray walk and pray walk and pray this began to take place in my life the first time it happened was about 23 years ago where on sunday nights every week on sunday night i would get hit with this real powerful uh desire a craving to want to go pray and because i was pastoring at that time a church in southern california we had church on sunday morning and we had church on wednesday night but sunday night was free so sunday night i would always go out and pray and the place that i found that worked for me was an area where there was a softball field and it had bleachers but on sunday night there was never any games and so there was never anybody on the field or in the bleachers or anything like that but because it was an open public park i could still go to it so i would go to the bleachers and i would just walk back and forth on the bleachers and i would pray in the spirit because i kept seeing these different nations going before me and at that time i had not traveled at all internationally with ministry but i just i just knew that was uh god's plan for my life so i just started praying and started praying and just kept praying and i did that for over a year close to two years and i had wonderful times and i was out there almost every sunday night just to do nothing but pray in the spirit walking back and forth walking back and forth and i remember one night on a sunday night um that some of the church members wanted to get together and have a meal i said yes let's go do that so i i decided to skip my sunday night prayer session and so i ordered my food and uh they ordered their food and you know kelly's there and we're having a wonderful time and the moment the food got put on the table that urge to pray hit me so strong that i i i said church family i said please excuse me but the urge to pray is so strong it's almost overwhelming and i do not want to grieve the holy spirit i've i i've got something going on with the lord on sunday nights i should have been over there doing it i need to leave and please excuse me they said oh pastor we understand go ahead kelly understood because she knew that's what i've been doing for quite some a lengthy period of time so i it was so strong i literally got up and left and got there as quick as i could it wasn't too far away the restaurant we were eating that was actually in the same same uh city so i was there in 10 minutes and i what a relief i found to get back in my my march my prayer march lord i praise you praying in the spirit and so it wasn't long after that that a door opened television exposure took place and somebody on the other side of the world saw it and saw me and they said we have got to have stephen brooks come here and they invited me to come and so me and kelly went around the world to the other side of the planet and that started and launched our international ministry and we've been going back and forth ever since and i remember what was really neat is that the pastor the apostolic pastor over the church he said stephen he said i am so impressed how you through the call of the holy spirit and the guidance of the lord you have just stepped into the open doors that god has created for you through your prayers and it it really touched his heart because i wasn't going around like begging pastors hey can you give me a meeting can you can can somebody give me a meeting i wasn't doing that i was just praying and doors were opening and then i would step into that but it was because of that prayer poured in that the nations opened up and we're off and running to the nations praise god so that's very important to march if that works for you then step into it and by the way there's been another project i've been working on now for about two over two solid years and only only a few people know about it of course my wife knows about it but this has not just been like on a sunday night this my friends has been usually six uh six out of every seven days in other words six days out of the week i do this every night i've been going somewhere and i've been marching around my city it's not a real city it's not like i'm walking around jericho but for me i have to have a point of contact where i could release my faith and for me 20 something years ago it was go out to the softball field walk the bleachers because i i could see it and i could pray so i found another thing that allows me to connect with what i'm believing god to do and i'm out there marching not just once a week every night praying praying in the spirit pastor steve what is it what is it you'll you'll find out when the walls fall you'll be the first to know woo praise the lord this is a big wall praise god but i i believe in a big god and i know when the miracle happens that i will go right up over that wall that's crumbled and come down and i will take a hold of what is my inheritance praise god see i'm talking about getting in the spirit i'm not talking about natural cities or natural walls i'm talking about promises of god and so you have to find what works for you so you can do your marching and don't be surprised if you're marching and the spirit takes hold now he will not do your praying for you but he will uh help you and he'll but you've got to get over in the spirit start praying and there can come those times where the holy spirit as it says romans chapter 8 verses 26-28 that he in a sense takes hold and he takes hold he can take you all night long sure have a cup of coffee that helps you out sure drink some water whatever whatever you need sit down for a few minutes if you need to but i'm telling you uh marching marching praise the lord you've got to be a person of prayer and i think that what can happen is that even though you enjoy the goodness of the lord the blessing of the lord the increase of the lord there can still be times where it doesn't seem to make sense but you can feel a little bit divinely unsatisfied within your heart and maybe it's not even a little bit maybe it's a lot why because god has something more for you and he wants you to possess all of your land all of your inheritance not just a portion of it and then just sit back and say that's good enough no you start living for the lord and walking with the lord the lord wants you to get everything that rightfully belongs to you and so there can be this inward urge this inward fiery passion that says god there's more i'm thankful for all that you've done but lord i know there's more and it's that praying it's that praying getting over in the spirit and praying that helps you get into the fullness of all that god has for you praise the lord so i believe that there is a new season for you i believe the new assignment is laid out clearly right before you and you need to pray and march and pray and march and if it actually helps to walk around something then find that and let that work for you by the way it's good exercise too praise the lord [Laughter] okay now gen excuse me joshua let's go back very quickly joshua and we're going to go to joshua chapter 6 praise the lord joshua 6. i want to begin to bring this to a close i want to pray for you this is a special pentecostal day this is a pentecostal power anointing get ready joshua chapter 6 verse 3 you shall march around the city all you men of war you shall go all around the city once this you shall do six days and seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark but the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times and the priest shall blow the trumpets march around your inheritance praise god stir yourself up in prayer glory to god now let's go to verse 20. so the people shouted when the priest blew the trumpets and it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and the people shouted with a great shout that the wall fell down flat then the people went up into the city every man straight before him and they took the city they took their inheritance they took it through god's great miracle power and them working with god working with this power allowing the angels to do what they're anointed to do and you do what you're anointed to do because you know god's going to do his part my friends we serve a mighty god god is ready to perform miracles on your behalf get ready because i see that your miracle is coming to you i've got another story of the walls falling down flat pastor roland buck speaking to that same angel creoni now he spoke to gabriel he spoke to michael the the warring angel but he also spoke to different angels that he talked about when he spoke to uh one of the military angel captains named creoni and this angel also brought up this situation right here let's take a look at that roland buck said creoni told me the angels took their positions on top of those walls waiting for the shout israel didn't even know what was going on in the sense like israel wasn't quite sure how this was actually going to take place but his the angel said that israel didn't even know what was going on but god did and the angels did they weighed it and when they heard the shout every angel who was there pushed with all his might and strength and the great big thick walls went down into the ground those walls were thick enough to build a house on and if they had tipped over or had been pushed over there still would have been a wall because they were about as thick as they were high god said to the angels push them down and the bible tells us that the walls went down flat that's joshua chapter 6 verse 20. they didn't even have to pick their way through cracks and rubble because the walls were pushed down into the ground and by the way in the years 1901 through 1903 there was a very professionally done german excavation of the walls of jericho and they they discovered that the walls were pushed down somehow they had been pushed down and they were flattened in that sense they were just pushed straight down and the only part of the wall that was not pushed down was one area where there were two houses on the wall on the outer part of the wall which would have appeared to have been the poor area of the town and they surmised that is where rahab the harlot and her family lived so you can imagine that the angels were instructed push it all down except for this one area over here where the scarlet thread the cord is hanging out don't push that that woman has a she has a covenant with us so she's under grace she's protected and my friends she was praise the lord god is ready to do miracles in your life as you move forward the angels are there you may not see them although there could be times when you might be allowed by the holy spirit to see them through the manifestation of the gift of discerning of spirits or other times you may sense them but get ready for the miracles to happen as you move forward to possess your specific inheritance praise god very quickly i want to share something from ii samuel and i've always found this very very interesting but i saw something special happened because i had a vision just the other night this was within 48 hours that this happened and i want to show this to you second samuel chapter 5 verse 20 so david went to bail pereziem and david defeated them there that would be the philistines and he said the lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breakthrough of water therefore he called the name of that place baal perezim which means lord of the breakthrough now let's go to verse 22. then the philistines went up once again and deployed themselves in the valley of refame or as it says in the latin the valley of the titans verse 23 therefore david inquired of the lord and he said you shall not go up circle around behind them and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees and it shall be when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees then you shall advance quickly for then the lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the philistines i received a good email from one of our ministry partners in germany asking pastor stephen when i'm speaking in tongues should i be aware of any shifting of the sound of my prayer language well in some ways sure if that if there's a shift or no noticeable difference in the type of tongues and that changes yes you can be aware of that but unless the holy spirit gives you the interpretation of those tongues it still it doesn't doesn't necessarily mean anything unless you're being able to understand what it is you're praying in the spirit but i would also say this along with that listening there's not just the listening of the tongues but there's also the listening of what can actually be heard in the spirit realm can you see things yes but you can even also smell things but you can also hear things and i have had times where i have heard uh it would sound like rustling in the tops of trees and that's angels that are moving and anytime you ever hear that supernatural movement in the spirit realm and trust me you'll know it when it happens just be ready because something's about the breakout and breakthrough because that that is the angelic army moving on your behalf god's moving with you he's with you now i had a vision where i had leaned my head back and this was only about like a day and a half ago i leaned my head back just to rest for a moment and when i did and close my eyes i could see something in the spirit realm and i saw a bulldozer and when i saw it i immediately knew as one of the caterpillar bulldozers and it was a real big one but i noticed that one of the tracks was off you know they run on two tracks but the track on on the right had come off and it it wouldn't work the bulldozer wouldn't go anywhere and it was right in front of a big wall and i knew that thing was supposed to bust this wall down knocked this knock this giant opening through this wall and i was looking at the bulldozer and i thought wow i sure wish that thing was working right when suddenly i heard pop real loud and the track got shoved back on and that thing was ready to go and then as i looked at it the bulldozer changed and it turned into this huge angel it was actually an angel anyhow in the in the guise or form of a bulldozer and when i looked at the angel the angel had written over its chest it had written over it breakthrough wow and i knew that the lord of the breakthrough with the breakthrough angels beneath his command were ready to roll and that thing was ready to start up and go but i said lord as i looked at it i said what caused the deficiency what caused the the bulldozer to stop what caused the tract to come off the wheelbase so it can't go anywhere and the lord said it ran out of fuel i said what do you mean it ran out of fuel he said it ran out of praise and the lord said when you praise me it causes my presence to come and with my presence comes the angels let me say this when zacharias saw the angel gabriel there in the holy place standing at the right of the altar of the incense understand that right on the other side of that veil is the ark of the covenant and between the cherubim is where the presence of the lord is at and the lord's presence was always there so wherever the lord's presence is at his angels are there i present to you that that wasn't just a moment where um gabriel showed up and he was never there again he was there very very often standing anytime the priest would go in for the morning and the evening sacrifices he was always there during those times but it just happened that that was the first time that zacharias ever saw him or that as far as we know record it other priests have seen him now there was a legend amongst the jewish sages that gabriel and michael were frequently around the temple or tabernacle structure and that would because why the lord's there so when you praise the lord he inhabits the praises of his people but those angels also the very powerful angels come as well wherever he's at and my friends when you praise the lord the angels they're ready to roll they receive strength from the lord and they're ready to go and do what they're called to do and so what i would like to ask you to do is that while you pray and while you believe i just ask you to just pour the praise out to the lord over the next 21 days just praise him just praise him and walk and pray in the spirit and praise him praise him and just shout god you're mighty you're able to do this you're mighty because it truly is not by our might or power but it's by the spirit it's by the power of the spirit says the lord so we want god to come on the scene and do things hallelujah that are great and mighty and see the walls fall down just a route whoa praise god well you go through and you take what god has made available for you we're going to hear some big testimonies i feel very confident in my spirit we are going to hear some big testimonies and you're going to have one can you say amen praise the lord glory to god so don't don't let your angels run our fuel because they're in a dry area where nobody's praising the lord no you'll be praising the lord hallelujah glory to god those angels they'll perk up and say this this guy wants it this guy's hungry or she's hungry for god she loves the lord and god's presence comes it energizes the angels praise the lord and you're going to see some crazy breakthroughs mm-hmm thank you jesus lift your hands father i pray for your people that are watching right now a pentecostal power anointing that it touched him with great praise and great thanksgiving with great praise and great thanksgiving that for the next 21 days the father i thank you they've sowed their gold seeds their golden offerings so father for the next 21 days let it be 21 days of praise and thanksgiving nonstop non-stop thank you father god we give you all of the praise and glory thank you father for the great miracles that you're doing we give you praise bless your people with the fresh pentecostal oil thank you father fire and power and the gift of special faith touching them manifesting in their lives and the working of miracles breaking forth we give you all of the praise in the name of jesus say amen glory to god god is with you go up and take what is yours god is with you amen now for those that would be watching today's program and you don't know jesus as your lord and savior and high commander well you can get your life right with him right now if you would like to receive him and to your heart into your life pray this prayer after me say lord jesus i'm a sinner but you died to save sinners like me jesus i believe you died on the cross to save me from my sins come into my heart wash all of my sins away and write my name in your book of life and i take you now as my god my king my savior my lord thank you father in jesus name amen and amen and welcome my friend to the family of god hallelujah let's take holy communion together grab some unleavened bread grab some grape juice and let's pray over it whoa there's angels with you right now there are angels with you right now who do you need to get out after this service is over and do some marching glory to god father we thank you for the bread and the juice we consecrate it we set it apart as holy through this prayer and this is now the flesh and blood of christ our savior father as we receive the flesh of jesus we thank you that all of your promises are yes and amen we thank you father that we never have any need to be jealous or envious about anybody else's blessings because we have our own special tailor-made promises designed just for us and father that's what we will pursue and we thank you father god that all of those promises are good and they're wonderful and we thank you father god we thank you we feast at the table you have prepared for us and we partake of your blessings in jesus name amen and amen let's receive father thank you for the blood of jesus we ask father that if we have committed any sin that you would forgive us our sins right now now if you're listening to me and you know there's something specific that you need to specifically confess before the lord do that right now get that taken care of and father we ask you would forgive us of all sins any specific ones that need to be called out i thank you that your people are doing that right now and we thank you that the blood of jesus is being applied to every sin and all sins are being washed away through his powerful blood thank you father thank you and we forgive anybody completely who has sinned against us we bless them we forgive them and we move on we thank you father with a joyful heart we thank you for the cleansing blood thank you father that there's many enemies of the lord many enemies of the church but father christ died for them so father god jesus came to die and to save those who would even hate you such as your great love father let your love win their hearts we thank you we pray for them father we pray for the enemies of the church we pray for those that would persecute the church and father we ask that your spirit would move and would reach them right where they're at and their hearts would be melted their hearts would be convicted and they would get their lives right with you thank you father god and see that they would actually see your love you father god and see christ high and lifted up and we thank you we thank you for this that you are doing this father in jesus name amen let us receive the blood of jesus christ father we ask for trophy souls the vilest of the vile we ask for the atheist the scoffer the skeptic the profaner the cursor lord we asked for the for the violence of the vile that you would touch them they would be trophies in your case of souls we thank you father god we give you praise that there is nobody so far gone that your blood the blood of christ cannot wash them clean if they will simply turn to you we thank you father god you're touching hearts right now we thank you father god let it let this pentecost be a blessing for you father where your family is increased in the earth and in heaven we bless you we thank you for it father in jesus name we pray amen by the holy spirit i would like to call out some healings that are taking place right now the lord is healing sinuses and hay fever right now if that's you and you're you somebody you you're even and there's quite a few people you're tormented by it the ragweed and the pollen and all of that stuff and all the things are in the air it's troubling your respiratory system receive healing now in the name of the lord jesus christ now take it right now in jesus name father we give you praise glory glory glory glory to god stomach problems bloating it would even appear to be like unexplainable bloating and indigestion receive your healing now in jesus name right there in your stomach be healed in the name of jesus depression bordering even on suicidal thoughts you don't want to commit suicide but you you you have even have allowed the thought of it to cross your mind i break that spirit off of you now in the name of the lord jesus christ live you shall live and not die the devil's not going to take you out you're not going anywhere you're staying here and you're doing all god has called you to do and the life that god has for you is glorious step into it i break that spirit off of you at the depression hallelujah in the name of jesus shout i'm free praise the lord glory to god hallelujah somebody's watching me and you're listening to me in a wheelchair right now and the lord says if you will get up by faith right now the strength his strength will come into your body get up right now in the name of the lord jesus christ i speak strength into your hips the fire of god into your hips this is your pentecostal blessing this is what you have been waiting for today is your day get up in jesus name and walk and praise the lord amen praise god now fire is beginning to come over many of you right now the holy spirit pentecostal fire is beginning to come over many of you right now if you have never spoken in tongues before open your mouth right now and begin to speak out the utterance that the holy spirit would give you whatever that would be just begin to speak it out on three are you ready one two three speak it out yes somebody you lost a fire you're getting it back right now keep spit speaking in tongues yes uh somebody you've lost a lot of circulation in your legs and in your feet and the lord is healing you right now he's healing your circulation right now in your legs hallelujah praise the lord somebody tremendous pain in your back right in that center area of your back down low you're being healed now receive it in jesus name praise the lord praise the lord somebody you're smelling you're smelling eggs fresh eggs and that's a representation of new life a new start a fresh beginning take that step into it right now glory to god praise the lord hallelujah father we give you praise glory glory glory glory to god father let all prophetic senses begin to open up right now let the gifts of your holy spirit begin to open up right now thank you father god that your people begin to see in the spirit we give you praise thank you father thank you father somebody you're beginning to taste in the spirit praise the lord glory to god somebody's beginning to taste chocolate praise god praise the lord that means things are going well things are good that's a very good sign when you're tasting the chocolate father we praise you good things are coming into your life father we praise you we bless you somebody you're smelling coffee that's meaning wake up get with it get rolling get going praise the lord this has been your wake up pentecost message praise the lord stay awake keep marching keep praying so father now we thank you that we're now going into 21 days of praise 21 days of thanksgiving 21 days of praise father we just thank you in advance in advance for the miracles that are going to take place father we bless you we bless you let genius ideas let business ideas that financial solutions let ideas of increase come to your people for financial increase and blessing thank you father i speak financial healing over any of your people oh god that would struggle in that area that would be sick as we would say in that area be healed in your finances in jesus name father we give you praise hallelujah hallelujah praise the lord get ready the angels are ready to march with you go up by faith and march and take your land and praise and worship and praise have a very thankful heart and watch what god is going to do father i bless your people on pentecost sunday in jesus name amen and amen thanks for watching i'll see you back next time