i'm pastor stephen brooks and welcome today to our online around the world internet church service i'm so happy that you're here and i trust that today that the lord will minister to you through his word that the holy spirit will anoint the holy word of god and it will bless you and feed you today with the nourishment and the strength that you need i have great confidence in god's word to put you over praise god now let's take our bibles and go today to the book of exodus chapter eight we're going to come down to verse 22 and we're going to receive the holy tithes and offerings we're going to bring them into the storehouse of the lord so that the gospel can continue to be preached around the world hallelujah and i'm so happy that we are called by the lord to do just that i'm so thankful for you and that we have this great privilege of reaching so many people for christ to praise god what an honor and what a joy now verse 22 i want to talk about where you live praise the lord watch this and in that day i will set apart the land of goshen now the land of goshen of course was a land located in egypt it was an area of egypt and this is where the israelites were at and the ten plagues are going to be released upon egypt but although goshen is in egypt the people of god are in goshen and god will exempt them from all of the great calamities that are about to befall the nation yet they are in that nation but they are exempt there is an umbrella of covering over them strictly in that area of goshen now this is your place in christ jesus now it says and in that day i will set apart the land of goshen in which my people dwell that no swarms of flies shall be there in order that you may know that i am the lord in the midst of the land i will make a difference between my people and your people tomorrow this sign shall be and the lord did so thick swarms of flies came into the house of pharaoh into his servants houses and into all the land of egypt the land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies but you know what there weren't any flies there in goshen praise god god has protection blessing security health every need met for you in christ jesus christ is your land of goshen praise god so when you're in him and your faith and trust is in him hallelujah god will protect you regardless of where you live now it is interesting that here in north carolina from right where i'm standing oh about maybe about eight miles down the road there is the the little town of goshen praise the lord yes spelled the same way g-o-s-h-e-n with the same meaning when the town was founded that uh this is a land of goshen where we are blessed of the lord praise god now you don't have to move the north carolina and buy a house there in goshen here in the same county where i live wilkes county it's not necessary for you to do that now that would be nice to have that on your mailing address i live in goshen you get all your mail there in goshen that that's pretty cool but it's not about a physical location it's about your heart location being in christ being hidden in god and god is well able to deliver you and protect you look he's done this for his people for millennia he can do it for you again should the need arise and let me just say between now and the end of the year because this is an election year this is a presidential election year and it's going to be a little bit crazy from here on out get ready for it praise the lord i'll share a little bit more about that in just a moment but again let's turn to the next chapter exodus chapter 9 verse 25 and the hell struck throughout the whole land of egypt all that was in the field both man and beast and the hell struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field only in the land of goshen where the children of israel were there was no hell praise the lord thank you lord jesus praise god god has the ability to supernaturally protect you sustain you hold you up keep you going even if it's like it says in psalm 91 a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand yet it will not come near you but see you have to believe in god's promises of his covenant protection for his people praise god i see you in the land of goshen i see you not in fear but in faith that because you are in christ standing on his promises all of the things that are going on out there they cannot touch you they may be going on but they will not penetrate into your goshen into your area of protection underneath the umbrella of god's blessing over your life praise the lord the enemy cannot penetrate he cannot penetrate into that area that is surrounded by the protective the protective force of warrior angels that are all around you and your household and your family praise god thank you lord jesus now what we're going to see over the next couple of months remember it's an election year and the devil is going to go all out he's already done a lot he's going to he's going to do some more in order to do anything he can to stop the re-election of president donald trump but i am praying as i know many of you are that god will have mercy upon this nation and that he will be re-elected he will be re-elected for four more years and many righteous things will be established in this nation so up until that point don't be surprised should another virus type thing pop up should another fearful thing uh explode on the scene stay grounded stay in goshen stay in the lord because all this stuff there's a lot of spiritual workings behind the scenes and it's the devil it's not god who is making people sick god's not releasing biological warfare through these manmade diseases by the way covet 19 did not come from bats it did not come from a wet market it did come from china but it was manufactured as a biological weapon uh look this is uh nothing hidden really that doesn't take a lot of digging to find the truth on these types of things when you skip past all of the lies and the stuff that's out there it's really quite clear what's going on there is a atheistic communistic agenda to take over this nation from within not through bombs not through guns and tanks and things like that because our nation our military is still too strong there's no nation on the earth that would dare challenge the usa with the military might that we now have but this is an this is an attempt from within to overthrow the nation through lawlessness and godless ideologies that are being you know proclaimed through people that literally yield themselves to a satanic agenda but we're praying that the work of god go forward that god's man be put into office now i'm not naive enough to think that everybody that's watching my my messages and my programs are all going to be in the same political boat but i will say this i never ever with a good conscience could ever vote for somebody that's a baby killer or that supports the killing of babies and we do have a political party in america for those of you that are in different countries that might not be aware of this we have two political primary parties one of them is a champion baby killer and it's it's being led by their candidate who has radical beliefs and has a person as a running mate who is has been labeled quite easily labeled this the most radical senator ever in the history of any senator that our nation has ever had and so that's who the running mate is of the person that they have running for vice president and also for their their president uh but i'm just believing that god's man will get into office that will be mr trump because mr trump loves the church and he he doesn't like seeing babies slaughtered and killed that's an awful curse an awful curse that anybody could do let me say this also the opposing political party hates israel with a tremendous hatred but our president loves israel and should biden win i don't believe he's going to but should he win he could never connect with that blessing that comes through israel because when he was vice president he and the president at that time did everything they could everything they could to frustrate and humiliate the nation of israel while honoring those who were actually enemies sworn enemies of israel that had no other desire than to see israel destroyed but my friends that group could never connect with the blessing but mr trump can't because not only that he moved the embassy the american embassy there in israel to jerusalem acknowledging that jerusalem is the eternal capital of israel and and that was something that the last six presidents promised they would do the first thing they were put in the office they said we'll do it they never did george w bush said the first day i get in the office i'll do it he never did it never did it for eight years mr trump is the only one who has kept his word to do it and he stands with israel and also he has also continued uh to see the the importance of being a blessing to the nation of israel by linking israel and the united arab emirates together where they can have peaceful business relations and uh technology relations and medical relationships back and forth so that both countries will flourish and prosper hallelujah that blessing is on our president praise god and that blessing will touch this nation but my friends up until this election is settled it's going to be like a roller coaster ride i'm just saying get ready for it it hasn't quite broken loose yet but as we get closer it's it's going to be quite interesting i would ask you please right now begin to pray for president trump don't wait till november it'll be too late don't wait until we're deep into october it'll be too late you've got to start really interceding for him now and also for our attorney general mr barr that he will go after these very corrupt people who have broken the law at the highest levels and think they can get away with it that he will go after them because they've got the goods on these lawbreakers they've got the goods on them they've got the proof so it's time for uh it's time for these people to be subpoenaed it's time for these people that are wicked and corrupt to go literally to prison for a real long time just like everybody else did who was lower down on the pole who broke laws they went to prison it's time for these people to go also so there are some major shakings and the enemy knows this behind the scenes and the corrupt ones who've violated the law they know it too and they're terrified and that includes a lot of some of your favorite hollywood actors who know what they've been doing this disgusting child sex trafficking and using children as sex slaves and even other things that are so evil and twisted and wicked i should not say them from this pulpit but it does involve child sacrifice there are hollywood actors that are involved in that this is not conspiracy this is fact this is absolute truth praise the lord hallelujah you must pray for our president you must pray for our nation because on the other side of this victory there will be this moving forward with the agenda of god the kingdom of god now the kingdom of god is within but in order to get it within people we have to preach minister and all and also with the glory coming the great miracles coming and the great harvest and the enemy is so nervous about it that it's going to be an interesting couple of months as we walk this out but just pray and remember regardless of what's going on out there you're in goshen you are protected you are protected by the lord thank you jesus let me say this the only time israel as a nation the people of israel ever got in trouble where enemies came in and destroyed them or where crops failed or where the locusts or the pestilence came in anytime you saw these awful things happening it was only for one of two reasons number one either israel was in rebellion as a nation or number two they were in idolatry what happens when you are in rebellion and idolatry you come out from underneath the umbrella of atonement now in the old testament they had a system of atonement where their sins were covered the sins were not taken away they were temporarily covered until the next year came along there would be another animal sacrifice that would continue to appease the wrath of god and cover the sins of the people but if you got into rebellion under the old covenant or you got into idolatry you step out from underneath the atonement the word atonement means covering and you get you get into a place where now you're not protected and now the enemy can hit you and he did when the enemy got the people of god into rebellion or idolatry remember uh uh he had he could hit them but remember remember it says in the bible that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft rebellion is is when you know what the right thing to do is but you're not doing it you're being very stubborn like saul was stubborn against the things of god and you're actually moving into an area of witchcraft you may not be going to a coven you may not be a warlock you may not be wearing a black witch's hat or you know sitting on a broom but if you get into rebellion you're moving into areas of witchcraft and that that stubbornness and that refusal to obey the lord is uh it can be lethal it's very very dangerous stay under that umbrella of protection stay in goshen and of course we know about idolatry giving your worship to anyone or anything besides god you worship the lord and you worship god only praise the lord thank you jesus thank you jesus hallelujah get ready get ready get ready now with the flame-ups that you see of what we would call iniquity iniquity basically means lawlessness when you see people rioting uh knocking out windows and running into the gucci store and grabbing purses and shoes and running off with it that's not reparations that's called theft right now iniquity basically means lawlessness and iniquity is a word in the hebrew that also means crooked and twisted so whenever you see this crookedness and this twistedness going on you're actually seeing precursors of the very darkest of the last days we're not there yet we're not there yet but you can see exactly what it would be like moving into the seven year tribulation period leading up to the final three and a half years of what's called the great tribulation you could see easily what it would be like with governors going berserk with control uh you know that that you know want to shut everything down and they they enjoy telling people don't do this don't go there you can't do this you can tell they actually love doing that they're getting like a high or rush out of that it's a power trip and you could see the lawlessness of cities burning buildings burning theft and looting and things like that we're gonna we're gonna see some some more shakings we're gonna get through it though the end is not yet the end is not yet but this for the enemy is like a short test run even the things that he would like to do with one world government moving all religions into one world religion taking taking the economic system into a one world economic system where you have a mark on your right hand or on your forehead and without that mark you can't buy or sell he would like to do all of that but we're just not quite there yet i know a lot of people say the technology is in is there but it's there only in the infancy stage it needs it needs a a few more years so the end is not yet but you're going to see some precursors of what it would be like to be in the great tribulation now i believe that we're going to be caught up as a church and we will be spared the wrath or the punishment or the anger that god will release upon the wicked but not upon his own people praise the lord thank you jesus so their ingotion is protection is protection we're going to get through this and we're going to get into the glory praise the lord but we need to pray don't take it for granted that president trump is going to get reelected pray pray pray and also pray that justice will be done because as you know we have had one of our supposed conservative supreme court justices uh basically bail out on god and he's basically just become liberal and you can't count on him for any type of conservative when i say conservative i'm talking about moral biblical values uh he's compromised now so god's gonna have to do some things and we need the right man in the office to elect the right justices praise the lord and also to back the attorney general to bust these crooked people and all of the evil things that they have been doing let it all come out in the light let it all come out in the light praise god and many of us have have stood back and said how are these evil people getting away with this when their their criminal record of all the misdeeds they've done is just you know a mile deep well it's it's gonna it's gonna fall the ax is gonna fall finally but we've got to keep this moving in the right direction so i'm encouraging you to gear up over these next few months until we get into uh well into december gear up mentally spiritually walk with the lord be in goshen be prepared hallelujah spiritually be prepared in your mind don't let the things trouble you you're going to be protected praise the lord you may even want to do some things physically naturally where you get a little extra water get a little extra food praise god because remember remember the toilet paper thing that we went through a couple of months back you could even get toilet paper shelves completely cleared out i'm saying this because we are people of faith but we are also people of action and i foresee that until this election we get through it and things restabilize we're going to see the enemy just go cuckoo now remember for the enemy to do it evil spirits cannot just do it on their own they have to work through people that are willing to yield to their evil impulses and so there's going to be some flare-ups and this is and this and that so just cover your bases cover your bases now let me also say this since the enemy is going to delight in this short brief precursor of you know some more lawlessness and you know more craziness or even another like type disease or sickness or something that could get released let me say this while the enemy will get a little taste of his coming seven year tribulation during this brief moment god if you're if you believe it god is going to give his people who are keen to it and who are in faith for it he's going to give them a taste of what his people experienced when they came out of egypt and they plundered the egyptians let me just read that to you very quickly hallelujah glory to god this will be in psalms and this will be the psalm number 105 verse 37. he also brought them out with silver and gold and there was none feeble among his tribes egypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them had fallen upon them now that's what the communists and the socialists in america would like to say to the christians here in america just get out you know just just leave get out well don't worry one day we will but we're not going anywhere yet but there will be a day when we go up to meet the lord in the air and he's taking all of the believers out with him and then the tribulation period will start and then lawlessness and insanity and the craziest stuff beyond what you could even imagine will begin to unfold in this earth hallelujah but we will be exempted from that praise god we'll be in heaven at that time my friends in this brief period if you're looking for it there's going to be things happen where god wants to give gold to his people god is going to want to give silver to his people and the lord told me he's going to want even stocks to come to his people oh pastor stephen the stock market's going to crash don't think on that not with mr trump as president don't don't bet against don't bet against the stock market uh and why because god's not done with this country yet whoa praise the lord thank you lord jesus so there are people of god that god is going to want to move watch this because the enemy's going to get a little pre-taste of his coming days we're going to get a little pre-taste of our coming days on the last days before the catching up of the saints where there is the full outpouring of provision and well transfer so we can preach the gospel uh with no means spare all over the earth there's going to be a release of that over the next few months i re i just proclaim that release right now where gold is going to come to the people of god don't try to figure it out just just let it happen gold's going to come to some silver is going to come to others others are going to have stocks transferred to them and uh just watch what god's going to do he also brought them out with silver and gold get ready for a taste of that praise god and there was unfeeble among his tribes where healing belongs to us so we can claim healing at any time but that was a mighty miracle when all of the children of israel walked out of egypt not pushed out in wheelchairs with oxygen tanks popping pills and all that stuff no they they walked out all of them so there was not a feeble person there so god touched their bodies and i believe god's gonna touch your body and everything that he's called you to do you're you're going to still get it done you're still going to get it done well pastor stephen if the lord should intervene and the blessed hope spoken of in in the book of titus chapter 2 if the blessed hope should take place tonight and we're taken out of the earth to go and the be with the lord well what would happen well i'd be shouting hallelujah praise god we're out of here amen it is what it is we're gone praise the lord but i sense that we're not at the end yet you've got to stay on task jesus said occupy till i come so that word occupy has two dual meanings in the greek one is a military term that means don't lose ground keep moving forward and hold what you've already got and number two it is a business term that means do business until i come back and since we're going to do some business we're going to do some business praise god god's gonna bless you with provision and prosperity get ready you're in the land of goshen there may be others out there in the world that are taking hits left and right but god's gonna hold you up and you're gonna not only be sustained you're going to move forward during this time during this time my friends i'm telling you i've preached it i believe it's true isaiah chapter 60 verse 1 and verse 2. it's the it's the worst of times and it's also the best of times it's gross darkness in the earth but it's the glory rising on you and me praise god that darkness is not for us the glory is praise god god's going to make you shine praise the lord god's going to infuse you with energy and strength and courage health vitality and all of the provision that you need to do what he's called you to do now believe it and receive it because we are under an open heaven right now so move with the spirit praise god hallelujah now as you bring your tithes uh and not your tie hallelujah but your tithes that means 10 of all of your earned income or even if it's not earned should you receive an inheritance of 20 million dollars 2 million goes into the storehouse of the lord that is the tithe tithe off of every blessing that comes into your life as you bring the tithes and the offerings into the storehouse of the lord for those of you that prefer to mail them in you can send them to stephen brooks international po box 717 moravian falls north carolina 28654 now if you want to bring the tides and the offerings in online you can do so at any time of the day or night please visit the ministry website stevenbrooks.org there's a link on the homepage called titanson offering so and reap and you can go there right now and bring it into the storehouse of god now we also have a header on the website called projects if you want to click on that you'll see our current projects one of them is the studio refresh you know i walked with my wife into the lowe's home improvement store a couple of days ago and you know how it is when when summer begins to end they start moving all of the summer stuff out and then they'll start to bring in all the fall stuff like you know the fireplaces and all of that kind of stuff and they'll get all the summer stuff out you know all the grass seed and things like that they'll do move it somewhere else that's called a reset well lowe's is not just resetting you know the you know that garden type area they were setting the whole store why you know over years they figure out better placements the better traffic flow uh better ways of setting things up so they're they're redesigning the entire store well what we're doing is we're redesigning our two internet sets which is one the main one which is i'm on right here we want to redesign everything back behind us and some things with audio and move from analog to digital and we're redesigning another studio that we have as well which is used for the morning glory midweek bible studies praise god so if you would like to sow a special offering seed into that project it would be a blessing at this time thank you so much thank you so much woo glory to god we're moving forward on all fronts thank you for your faithful giving and i see you in the land of goshen now father bless your people bless your people that they'll not only be sustained during this time let them move forward financially with prosperity and also with health and immunity from whatever yucky stuff that will be out there and also let them always have continual safety and protection that the arrow of the enemy never will touch them ever we thank you father for protecting all that they have we give you all of the praise in jesus name amen shout i live in goshen hallelujah and we understand we're talking about living in the promises of god praise god all right now let's today go over to the book of second chronicles praise the lord and i want to talk about turning the key thank you jesus let's pray father as we jump into your word we ask that the anointing of your spirit will flow with revelation illumination the eyes of our heart can see it and understand the truths of your word father thank you thank you in jesus name we all agree and say amen the title of today's message is turn the key please say that just say turn the key praise god ii chronicles chapter 5 we're in verse 13. indeed it came to pass when the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the lord and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and symbols and instruments of music and praise the lord saying for he is good for his mercy endures forever that the house the house of the lord was filled with the cloud now remember in the old testament you had the temple system it began with a tabernacle which was a tent type structure that god instructed moses to build but then later after david we had solomon solomon built a magnificent temple and the presence of the lord came into the temple but in the new testament we as believers are the temple of the holy spirit god lives on us as individuals as as you know as a single individual believer but also collectively as the body of christ we are inhabited by god praise the lord and he can come and dwell among us praise god with that manifestation of his glory as we praise him now the cloud came and it says that the priest could not continue ministering because of the cloud that's the glory cloud for the glory of the lord filled the house of god and as you my friends take the key of praise and don't just hold it in your hand okay but as you take the key and stick it in to the door and into that section where it goes into that that key section you take the key and turn it how do i turn it pastor stephen with your tongue with your lips okay that's how you turn it you begin to open your mouth oh pastor stephen i don't know what to say i don't know what to sing i don't know what to do well if you don't know anything about praise or the principle of praise or the power of praise but you want to connect and maybe you aren't quite sure what to let come out of your mouth you could always say this lord you are good your mercy endures forever and if you're not sure where to go from there just repeat it over and over again lord you're good and your mercy endures forever and ever and ever praise god hallelujah amen now you understand that when we use the word hallelujah that's a hebrew word that just simply means praise the lord but my friends when you begin to praise the lord god comes and inhabits the praises of his people and the when the glory comes the power comes and god begins to do miracles in your life pastor stephen my life is full of problems welcome to planet earth praise the lord there's not one believer on the earth who doesn't have perhaps one area that needs some special attention or could use the touch of god okay but you know what when you begin to praise the lord and out of your mouth take the key of praise and turn the key the door will open god will come on the scene and when you become jesus conscious not not problem conscious i'm not saying you don't have problems but when you begin to praise the lord you take your eyes off the problem and you put your eyes on jesus and the moment you begin to put your eyes on jesus and praise him praise him what happens is you will become victorious because when you become jesus conscious everything about jesus is victory victory victory victory victory and the enemy will be pushed back and whatever he's doing will be shut down and the dark clouds will clear and god will begin to do miracles for you but if all you ever do is talk about the trouble or the problems and i'm not saying they're not there but if you if you keep talking about all of that then you're not going to see the change that you're looking for praise god you need to get over into praise in your prayer time get yes present all your needs before the lord but don't ever forget that he's good and i want to say it again god's not going around killing people with covet 19. god's not killing people with earthquakes god's not killing people with diseases that's the dirty dirty old lion devil who's doing it and who works through ignorant people that tried to put the blame over on god while the whole time the devil devil stands over in a darkened corner over there in the corner snickering and laughing knowing that he's do it he's doing it and he's laughing that even christians would attribute it to god he's laughing at their ignorance but no praise god for he's good and so as you begin to let that come out of your mouth the door of miracles begins to open lord i praise you you're good you're good you're good i just start saying it all the time you're good you're good well it doesn't seem like he's been too good to you you're a liar he's good he's good he's good lord you're good and your mercy your mercy endures forever endures forever and if this is all you had that's all you need and that's all they said over and over here came the glory and it will produce the same blessed state within your life let me just tell you demons hate praise and they're terrified of the glory they back off they back off you can't kill a spirit there's not one angel who's been killed uh it's a constant back and forth push the forces of light against the forces of evil in the spirit realm angels fighting the demons but you know they're they're all spirits you know so uh yes there could be injuries but you know you get healed up and stuff like that you know take a little break get healed up but you can't kill a spirit so it's just it's just a battle who's going to dominate the atmosphere in your life the angels will as you praise the lord they'll push back all of the forces of evil hallelujah glory to god praise the lord hallelujah the angels are ready to go to work for you pastor stephen what do i do do i whip them in action no you stir them up by taking the key which is called praise and you turn it you turn it with your tongue and with your lips and the and the key let me tell you that key will open the door of miracles and breakthrough and blessing it'll open it yes it will hallelujah so just do that that door will open and those angels will work on your behalf and they will cause the provision to come they will cause the answers to come and they will push back the enemy just like they did for daniel when michael came on the scene and pushed back the demon forces that were holding back the messenger angel gabriel from coming through with that phenomenal revelation that he gave the daniel of the end times and the enemy did not want that revelation knowledge to come through of what was going to happen in the end times too bad daniel got it anyhow and he recorded it for us praise god thank you jesus thank you jesus as you praise the lord the door of miracles begins to open it gets unlocked through through your praise oh praise god forever thank you jesus let's say it again the lord is good for his mercy endures forever praise god lord we worship you and thank you now let's go to the book of hebrews just for a moment hebrews chapter 13 verse 15 therefore by him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to god that is the fruit of our ellipse giving thanks to his name that's the sacrifice of praise pastor stephen why is it a sacrifice because there can be times it's very difficult to praise the lord when your flesh wants to just let anything come out but prays so it can be a great sacrifice you know let me give you a crazy example some years back the pastor [Music] kenneth hagin jr son of the prophet kenneth hagin senior kenneth hagin senior had been if i'm correct with the story he had been away traveling and ministering while he was gone his house was robbed and when pastor hagin jr went to the home to check on his father's uh and his mother's home he realized they'd been uh broken into it been burglarized and all of the valuables you know nobody takes you know like uh dishwashing soap or you know or you know stuff you know nobody takes the shampoo but anything that's available the thief the thieves had taken all the valuables so he thought well i'm gonna have to call my father and let him know this is not good so he calls his dad kenneth hagin senior on the phone and says dad uh i have some i have some bad news while you've been gone your house has been broken into and thieves have stolen all of your valuables all the valuables that you and you know mom have they've stolen them you know what he you know what the first thing that came out of his mouth was he said praise the lord oh he's not praising the lord because the devil has done something rotten he's praising the lord because god's bigger than what the devil did and when it's all said and done god will god will outdo the devil's bad stuff god will bless in such a way that when it's all said and done it'll all be made up praise god and i'm sure i'm sure that prophet hagin and his wife are very happy right now as they're walking in heaven on streets of gold praise the lord so they won and in the end we all win we all win hallelujah but even down here on earth when you praise the lord when praise comes out there's just something that allows god's angels to get involved to turn the situation around so that a blessing is made out of the mess praise god god's he's amazing he's well able to do that um uh another crazy story of a of a man that had a car and his car was stolen it was the only car he had and he liked this car it was an older model but it had gotten stolen and he told some friends let's pray you know i really like that car and i know that you know according to what the police say once it's gone you know they'll they'll strip the serial number off of it and it's you know they'll put it in a chop shop and uh we'll never see it again but he said you know what i just believe god's good i believe his mercy endures forever and i would like god to get involved in this situation of my stolen car and for the angels to be released and something special to happen well they prayed and they begin to praise the lord and this uh you know they concluded the prayer meeting and this young man said i'm just going to keep praising the lord because i believe something good is going to come out of this and would you believe about 10 days later the car that had been stolen showed back up and was parked in front of where he lived at and when we went outside and saw his car there he was stunned because the thieves had taken all the wheels off and they had replaced the skinny tires and the cheapo rims with real high-end rims and they'd put high performance low profile tires on it and they had added extra horsepower to it and they had they had taken out the old cheesy am fm radio and thrown that thing away and put the most state-of-the-art uh high-performance audio sound system all throughout the car with the most phenomenal speakers and you know the uh everything that you need to do all of that and there was a note inside the car saying hey sorry we stole your car you know why we were chopping it up uh we just thought you know what let's do something nice for somebody we always are doing things that aren't good that we want to do something nice for somebody so we decided to return your car to you with some upgrades and they did hallelujah praise god true story amen the lord is good see if you praise him you move into that area where that door will open into the miraculous but you have to take the key and you have to turn the key you just can't hold the key in your hand stick it into the door turn it and open it and you will move into the supernatural praise god and yes sometimes it can be very difficult i would say summon up to pull up out of your spirit not out of your flesh it'll fly out of your flesh real easy but to pull up from the depth of your spirit the praise the praise that's needed in the hour now i've told this before but i i need to tell it again some years back before i was in the ministry full-time i used to be a plumber and i worked out on the plumbing field i worked with my brother-in-law and i worked with my father-in-law and we had a lot of fun we really we had a lot of fun now i probably i primarily work with my father-in-law and you know sometimes it wasn't the greatest of days because you know he used to cuss a whole lot now he got saved later by god's goodness i was able to lead him to the lord and he's now saved and he belongs to jesus and he loves the lord greatly today and uh but you know there was a point when uh he wasn't saved and that irishman because he immigrated from ireland came straight over from ireland with no money except maybe like five dollars or something like that and he just began to as we would say climb the ladder started his own business ended up having a very large plumbing company but because he was an irishman he had that drinking issue and it caused him to eventually lose the business matter of fact the doctor said if you take one more drink of whiskey it'll kill you well he took that one more drink and it sent him to the emergency room and he was at death's door he almost died and he said i could never do it again so he got his life back and he kept on plumbing after that so he taught me everything i knew about plumbing also taught my brother-in-law everything he knew about plumbing we had a lot of fun together and uh you know because it was southern california every time we go to work in the morning uh he would always say to me well you know with that thick irish accent well uh steven just another day in paradise you know because we're in southern california it never rained sunshine all the time and it was it was a lot of fun we had good times and you know they're in southern california you've got in and out burger you've got uh palm trees and perpetual sunshine so you know you just work your you work your work and you uh life's good right you know uh theoretically you still have issues but nevertheless i love the lord i was happy but i learned something on one day one day's plumbing job that really got me thinking more about this key i had gone underneath the house to re-pipe a house taking all of the old hot and cold water lines out extract them all just take them all out throw them all away and of course you can sell the copper you get get some money for that but just strip it all out of the entire house and run brand new lines hot and cold lines to the whole house and there's a big job so i think it was like maybe on you know day five or something like that because it's like a 5 000 square foot home so on the last day of the work uh you know after being underneath the house all day long and that's what i would do you know because i'm i'm just crawling through a crawl space crawling on dirt all day long laying on dirt and uh taking piping down putting new stuff up and uh it's so difficult you get so dirty that it's very difficult to come out and you know eat and stuff like that so because you're just too dirty so i would just say well if i'm under here i'm going to stay under all day eat a big breakfast and have a big dinner okay so i would get all zipped up in my little suit you know my plumbing suit and uh you know because you know got spiders under there and all kinds of other things you run into so you don't want to get stung or bit so you're all you all kind of covered up and you just work just work you know for like eight or nine hours well on the last day i had been underneath the house all day long when i went out underneath the house the sun was just coming up when i came out on that last day of this big job when i came out the sun was starting to set and i felt really good with the you know everything was hooked up they turned on all the water not one single leak and i'd uh i got all my tools out and i thought this is a wrap i'm done i'll never see this place again uh because there's you know who wants to be crawling around under a house that was 100 years old so we finished it up and uh uh my father-in-law brother-in-law said good job steven we'll see you tomorrow and they they left in the plumbing van and i i'm putting all everything away in my plumbing van and uh i locked the back of the van closed the doors and everything's there and i'm getting ready to walk to the front get in the driver's seat and leave but i realized something i said now wait a minute i'm missing one of my tools and uh so i thought now hold on a minute i put that away that way something's missing and i realized that there's this saw i have those of you that use these types of equipment you know what's called a sawzall it'll cut through wood you've got the right blade cut through metal cast iron all that stuff i said oh my goodness i left that underneath the house and i realized actually where i left it it was at the furthest point underneath the house in the very back corner so it wasn't like it was closed it was way back well i've got to now open up the crawl space put all those dirty clothes back on again that i shook all the dirt off of took 20 minutes just to go through that put them all back on crawl all the way back underneath the house and uh you know find that missing saul and when i realized that i had done that and i was tired been a long day when i realized i had done that uh this thing began to rise up not in my spirit in my flesh that wanted to complain that wanted to say oh that's not fair that's that's not cool that's not but i didn't let it come out of my mouth it's like i caught it before before it could come out and i just stayed quiet and i refused to let that come out and then coming up from the other side from my spirit my inner man came praise and i said yes lord i'm going to let that out and i begin to praise the lord lord your good it's been a good day lord not one leak on this whole job we've got it all done lord thank you lord thank you i praise you and so i'm putting my my work clothes back on my coveralls back on and i take off the uh the thing on the side of the house the crawl space so i can get access to the access panel now i'm crawling through the dirt to go to the far side of this uh home i'm crawling to the dirt lord i praise you lord i thank you lord i thank you i thank you for my wife i thank you for my family lord i thank you that you're so good to me i praise you i worship you and i'm crawling through the dirt and as i as i kept praising the lord it it seemed like uh it went from a spring to like a river to where i mean i it just started coming out like easy so i just kept on praising the lord and after i got all the way to the other side of the house underneath crawling on the dirt there i saw it my saw's all laying in the very back part of the corner so i grabbed it i said lord thank you for allowing me to remember that i wouldn't have lost that those expensive tool and i turned back around pulling that thing with me praising the lord just praising the lord lord your good your mercy endures forever i praise you i praise you when suddenly my hand hits something and when my hand hit it it made a slight metallic sound and i thought i wonder what in the world that could be and so um i took my hand and i began to dig through the dirt about about two inches down whatever it was it was covered up and as i dug the dirt back to my great i would say shock i saw that lane there covered up were my keys to the van so what had happened is that day when crawling around and working they had come out of my pocket and i had lost them and then as i'm dragging stuff and pulling pulling pipes and you know tools and stuff like that it somehow pulled dirt over it and covered it up so i had lost it and i didn't even know i lost it but because i was praising god god orchestrated it that i found them even before i realized i had lost them and i know if i had not been praising the lord that never would have happened well that just seemed supernatural to me because it was and i went outside and uh you know i took my keys and uh you know put the saw back into the van and unlocked the back of the van and did those things i needed to do and i thought that was wonderful i didn't have a spare set that would have been a real inconvenience because it was high traffic i would needed somebody to pick me up and on and on so i just realized that there's something to this praise that you it'll move you into miracle realm even you'll even be able to reclaim lost blessings sometimes you'll reclaim it not even though you lost it praise god god will just bring it back and you'll think oh that's nice to have that back we'll praise the lord but you know some years later when i was serving the lord full-time in in ministry the i remember that we had been out traveling my wife and i uh and daughter in a motorhome a long coast to coast trip and when we got back to north carolina on the east side of the country we rolled back into moravian falls and we drove up the mountain to the place that we were staying at and i parked the motor home and when i got out of the motor home one of the neighbors was working to put pine needles out at their lodge because there was a large group of christians that were going to come and stay there and he didn't like the way the landscaping looked so he's going to like put fresh pine needles and cover the whole area and i thought you know he's got a lot of pine needles to put out and there's no way he's going to get that done because he said they're going to be here in 20 minutes i thought you know what i've been driving all day i'm a little cooped up i'd i'd like to do something with some movement so i got out of the motorhome and parked and talked to him and found out what was going on and decided i would help him so i grabbed some gloves and uh just start working with him real fast it was not freezing but it was in the low 40s like 40 degrees but we were working so fast and so quick that we were just sweating but you know what we got it all done before that big group showed up and it was enough pine needles that if if you could like put them into a square footage area it was probably i'd say uh at least probably about 2 000 square feet of pine needles evenly distributed all over and they were put out about that deep so some areas almost a foot some areas the pine needles were about a foot some areas maybe five or six inches but they were put out thick all over the place and you know as we finished and we were kind of hot and sweaty but we were both real happy and he was very thankful that i helped him out he said thanks stephen i never would have gotten that done without your help so glad to do it uh we stood there kind of looking at the pine needles and i saw one area that i thought didn't look quite smooth enough i i thought that's kind of clumped up over there let me go over there and spread that out a little bit better and i walked over there and when i was spreading out the pine needles i heard uh and i moved the pine needles around i heard a metallic sound i thought well what in the world could that be and i dug down through the pine needles and pulled them all back and moved them all out of the way and there laying on the dirt with the pine needles hiding them and uh you know covering them were my keys to the motorhome and i had the keys to the motorhome on there i had the keys to the car on there every key that i own was on that chain laying there and i said lord it's happened again and if i would have realized i had lost them i never would have found them and so i had i had reclaimed and found them even before i knew i'd lost them praise god okay now watch this about let me see here i want to make sure i tell this right how how long okay so all my notes i've got it because i i reviewed my notes it was about a month later i was in virginia ministry in a church it was the last day of a revival conference it was the fourth day i was at a hotel my wife and daughter had gone into town to pick some things up but i was at the hotel all by myself and i just praying there in the room just praying getting ready for the the last service on the last day and you know what had happened is that even while putting out all of those pine needles about a month earlier i was just praising the lord the whole time i did it just praising the lord and i had found those keys supernaturally well when i was in that hotel room praying i'd been in prayer for a couple of hours praising the lord praying in the spirit worshiping the lord and suddenly an angel came into the room now i had stood up a lot of times i pray on my knees but sometimes i'll stand up and i'll pray and i'll just walk around and just pray in the spirit or pray in tongues and i was standing up and an angel came into the room and he was standing just a few feet behind my left shoulder and i could see the blue light that was emanating from him coming off of him and reflecting over on me and it was like a heavenly radiation now if an angel comes from heaven as a messenger angel and that's what he was he was a messenger angel that was not my the normal angels that are stationed with me as guardian angels that was a messenger angel now when they come from heaven because they leave the presence of god in heaven they will carry that presence with them when they come into the earth to deliver that message and that that glory and anointing that heavenly power of god was all over that angel and it was radiating off of him and it was it was like emanating through me and it brought me a sensation of deep deep peace and the comfort and the presence and the peace of god it was just all going through me it was a wonderful experience but that angel spoke this to me and i did turn around and i looked at him but the angel said that praise is the lost key to victory now you have to take that key though but you have to turn it you take the key of praise and you turn it and you activate it by turning it and the way you turn it is with your tongue and with your lips and you just praise the lord praise the lord glory to god even when it's a sacrificial praise you let it come up you let it come up and then you release it praise god but this is something that's fascinating because why would praise be considered a lost key and the answer is this the reason praise for some christians would be considered a lost key would be would be because the praise is absent from their lives now let me give you example again with the keys if you lose the keys whether you've lost them knowingly or unknowingly either way they're gone okay they're absent from your life if you realize i've lost them or if you've lost them and you don't even know you lost them it's irrelevant the fact is is they're gone and it's absent from your life now let's move from keys over to praise praise is the same way you may praise the lord some or you may not really praise the lord very much i mean maybe you go to church in the sense where you you gathered together with the assembly of god the people of god and you you know you have your time of praise and worship but outside of that it could be that you really don't praise the lord at all outside of maybe if there's a gathering you don't you don't really do it on your own so in the same case it would be the same situation it's something that is no longer in your life it's absent from you that's why praise would be lost and if it's lost the key of praise it's gone and you can't use it so you need to bring it back and here's the thing bring it back into your life take it stick it into the door turn it turn it and the door will open and there is no door that won't open there is no situation even if you're between a rock and a hard place that god can't get you out of if you'll praise him and trust him and bless him now i'm not going to go through it we know the story very well but in acts chapter 16 there in verse 23 and when they had laid many stripes on them that would be paul and silas they threw them in the prison commanding the jailer to keep them securely having received such a charge he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stalks but at midnight now midnight was a literal time frame when this happened but that could also have a prophetic symbolism to it meaning the darkest hour of your life when it looks like all hope is lost what is just as dark as dark could be the midnight hour as they say that's really when you need to pour it on thank you jesus but at midnight paul and silas were praying but don't stop with just prayer bring that praise into it they were praying and singing hymns to god the hymns are the psalms the psalms are 150 songs that are praise songs they were singing some of those okay praise god they were praying and singing hymns and so we know that those are praise uh psalms to god and the prisoners were listening to them so they were singing out loud okay suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's changed were loosed praise god my friends if you will just take the key of praise even if it's been lost okay you've reclaimed it you've refound the lost key okay take the take the key but don't just take it and keep it on keychain don't just uh take it say well i've got it back in my life i know the value of it no no no use it take the key stick it into the door of miracles and unlimited blessing and turn it turn it with your lips with your tongue lord i praise you lord you're bringing me out pastor stephen i'm not much of a singer well say it then proclaim it hallelujah however however it comes out singing praising or you know but just get it out lord i praise you lord i praise you whoo thank you jesus for the miracles miracles hallelujah and you'll begin to move off of the problem unto jesus and any time again you get onto jesus your eyes are focused and you're caught up in him there's victory victory victory victory because jesus already whipped the devil at the cross through his death burial resurrection and ascension hallelujah glory to god and when your eyes are on him you begin to rise in faith to know that you are seated with him in the heavenly realms and what's beneath his feet is beneath your feet and you enjoy the victory that jesus won at calvary for you and i um that sweet victory were the reality of colossians chapter 2 verse 15 where christ stripped satan of all of his authority and power to work against the believer who knows his rights and refuses to back down satan stripped excuse me satan was stripped and defeated and all the principalities and powers they were disarmed humiliated humiliated by christ great triumphant act thank you jesus he came out of that tomb and there was nothing that satan or all of his assistants or all of his group could do to stop christ from coming out of that tomb and ascending up on high praise to the lord if he could have he would have but he couldn't he couldn't and jesus took the keys of death and hell the see the keys the authority of death and hell he's taken it away from the devil and one day satan and all of these demons okay and even hell itself hell is a is an organism okay a very very large organism but it it's all going to be thrown into the lake of fire the the antichrist the false prophet satan they're all going to be thrown into the lake of fire and they will burn there and be punished there and be tormented there day and night forever and ever and ever and they know it they know it who praise god hallelujah the victory is ours and when you put your eyes on jesus and praise him his victory who is imputed into your life with full force hallelujah hallelujah praise god thank you jesus so stir yourself up to praise the lord don't let it be lost in your life don't let it be lost in your life it's a lost key to victory to victory nobody wants to lose no christian wants to be defeated no christian wants to be sick no christian wants to be in lack unable to pay their bills or to step into a place of of extra where they could be a blessing but you need to praise the lord you know the promises of god you know your covenant rights now begin to rejoice in all of those things and praise god for it praise god for it and it will energize the angels god will energize them through your praise to him we're not we're not praising the angels we're praising god but as you praise god he releases authority and permission for the angels to go and do the miraculous in your life hallelujah praise god praise the lord don't miss it with all of the distractions that are out there don't miss it everything you do do in faith and do it praising the lord hallelujah praise god i see miracles coming to you very very quickly very very quickly god's going to move on your behalf the angels are going to invade your situation you may not see them you may not see them but that's okay just let them get the job done the bottom line is you'll see the results father we thank you we give you praise you are so deserving you are so worthy of it thank you father god let us take the key let us be mindful to take the key of praise and to turn the key and to see you open the door now father we bless you thank you thank you for your holy spirit who will remind us of this rich spiritual principle of victory that will establish us in victory when we act upon it in jesus name amen and let me tell you another thing the holy spirit will also check you when the negative wants to come out he'll check you whoo he'll help you just to zip it praise god you know praise in a worship service when we assembled a symbol together praise is not entertainment you know if if a church is just presenting entertainment you never get into the spirit of praise you've got to get into the spirit of it and you'll know it when it starts flowing and when it starts flowing just let it come out let it come out in tongues let it come out of english whatever your native language is just let it come out just start praising the lord hallelujah glory to god hallelujah glory to god thank you jesus praise the lord now i've had people contact me on death's door just i mean wiped out pastor stephen what do i do i'm so sick i'm i this thing's got me so knocked out i can't even get off the floor what should i do i'll tell you exactly what to do lay on the floor in your depleted state and start praising the lord if even if you're so wiped out you can barely get it out of your mouth let it come out let it come out jesus you're good and your mercy endures forever and do that keep doing that you'll feel a little better and then keep doing that and keep doing that i'll tear i'll tell you one thing you'll get up off that floor hallelujah let it come out let it come out and if you're not filled with the holy spirit you keep doing that jesus will baptize you with the holy spirit right there in your own room all by yourself he'll he'll touch you he'll fill you with the holy spirit if you keep walking in that river of praise and yield and yield jesus right there will fill you with the holy spirit you don't need me to show up and lay hands on you you need jesus to show up and he will he'll baptize you in the holy spirit right there just keep praising him and yield and tongues will start coming out glory to god father we thank you we thank you we thank you in jesus name amen hallelujah hallelujah let me tell you right now no evil no evil is going to befall you no plague will come near your dwelling believe it hallelujah don't just speak it like intellectually that won't work i've known some people that intellectually did that but they're not connected to the vine they're not really walking close to the lord then when then when the yucky stuff showed up it hit them too no living real walk with the lord get filled up when you get filled up just praise praise praise the lord thank you jesus let's take holy communion we're going to look at one verse first corinthians chapter 11 verse 26 for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord's death till he comes now you have to understand that we're going to receive the body and the blood of jesus whenever you take it and it says as often as you eat this and i would encourage you to do this as often as you would like and be mindful of this that whenever whenever you take the body and the blood you're proclaiming the lord's death what does that mean it means that on the cross all of our sins and all of the sins of humanity that have ever lived are living right now and those who aren't born yet who are going to eventually live and any sins that have not yet been committed every sin has already been taken and it was placed on jesus when he was there at calvary hanging on that cross he became the passover lamb he became the sacrifice that listen to this did not just atone for sin but washed sin completely away now for the unbelievers that don't know jesus here's the good news christ has already paid the debt for your sin if you'll just put your faith and trust in him and receive him as your lord and savior you can receive forgiveness of your sins and newness of life hallelujah it's already been paid for but you've got to receive it i could buy you a ticket to the movie okay but until you receive that ticket you can't go into the movie you you have to receive it praise god thank you lord jesus and there on the cross every every sin was concentrated and put on him and went into him and it says he became sin for us praise god so you need to understand that when christ died for us he paid for our sins so today as a believer whenever you commit a sin something that has upset your conscience you knew it was wrong you confess it okay and immediately the blood because it covers you continually okay when you confess it when you confess that sin the blood destroys it it wipes that sin out and god will never ever remember it again and that is a promise now we may have memory of it but the reality is it's an empty shell it cannot hurt you it cannot affect you it cannot do anything to you it has no power it's burned up ashes just like the animals in the old testament sacrificial system were burned there at the altar and when it was done nothing left but ashes and that would cover or atone for the sins of the people but the blood of jesus does more than just cover or hide it beneath the rug it washes it all away destroys it forever praise god and god never remembers it ever again glory glory glory hallelujah and you know what one of the most beautiful things about the new covenant is that when you walk in fellowship with the lord that blood's just cleansing you and washing your sins away continually hallelujah hallelujah now if there is a sin that you commit that bothers your conscience just confess it to the lord but outside of that even as you're walking with the lord even as you make a mistake or maybe you raised your voice or maybe you did something that wasn't you know christian perfection hey that blood's just cleansing all the time it's just washing you all the time that way should the lord come to take you home with him you're ready oh pastor stephen we need to be in a revival meeting and have a deep move of god's spirit then the lord can come then we're finally ready oh you hey when when you're in christ walking under that blood hey you're ready at any time walking in him you're ready any time to go praise god hallelujah thank you jesus well pastor stephen i just merged in the traffic i cut somebody off that that that wasn't good well hey the blood it's working all the time and the unbeliever the sinner doesn't have that and the good news is christ already paid for the forgiveness of sins but they have to receive it if you're watching today and you don't know jesus let me tell you about the greatest gift of all jesus jesus he died for you so that your sins went on him so did mine but i've received him as my lord and savior i got my ticket hallelujah so if you'll receive christ right now he he will receive you into himself and all of your sins which were put on him they'll be all gone hallelujah because that's what your faith will do praise god now right now if you would like to receive christ as your savior pray this out loud after me say lord jesus come into my heart wash all of my sins away i give my life to you save me now write my name in your book of life thank you jesus for saving me thank you i belong to you now in your name i pray amen and if you're christian but you have rebelled and you've walked away from the lord and you're living in darkness and in sin come back to him right now say jesus jesus i've ran away from you but i'm back never more to roam jesus wash away my sin and secure and anchor me in you right now thank you jesus commit my life never get into rome and to do that stuff thank you jesus in your name i pray amen hallelujah glory to god he is good and his mercy endures forever and you know it does because there are many of you that were not for the mercy of god you wouldn't even be alive right now the enemy would have taken you out a long time ago but god loves you so much he put his angels around you to protect you even when you're doing stupid silly sinful things god loved you so much he still protected you hallelujah praise god let's take holy communion and proclaim the lord's death what are we proclaiming all of our sins were placed on him and because of that we have been redeemed and we have now become the righteousness of god in christ hallelujah grab some unleavened bread a little wafer a little cracker we'll do grab some grape juice father we bless the bread and the juice we set of the part is holy when we receive it we're receiving the body and the blood of our savior thank you father for the body of jesus that all of our sins were placed on him so that we can be clean hallelujah clean even in our conscious our consciousness all of our sins washed away we're ready at any time father to meet the lord because we proclaim his death and we belong to him thank you o god thank you father we now receive the body of christ with great thanksgiving in his name we pray amen let's partake praise the lord father we thank you that as we drink this cup we proclaim the lord's death till he comes we proclaim that all of our sins were put on him and we have now become righteous because we are in him thank you father god thank you for jesus that his blood is so powerful that whoever calls upon the name of the lord shall be saved we thank you that we're saved by grace through faith we believe it and we rejoice in it and we thank you oh god that we're looking forward to the blessed hope where you're going to come father you're going to you're going to send jesus to come and take us home to be with you let us stay busy let us occupy until he comes thank you father for all of our sins washed away and for empowering us to proclaim the good news this good news all around the world thank you father in jesus name amen let's receive the blood of jesus praise the lord hallelujah praise god all right turn the praise on take the key don't just sit the key there look at it take the key and turn it take your mouth your tongue your lips and praise him hallelujah praise him all the time you wake up the night go to the bathroom praise the lord hallelujah praise the lord have a toilet and toilet paper hallelujah praise the lord i've got hot water thank you jesus i have a bedroom thank you lord i've got a roof over my head hallelujah praise him day and night and watch how god will dissolve even your most complex difficulties he will dissolve them and he will bless you and he will he will cause you to experience some heaven right here on earth get ready praise god thank you for watching i'll see you back next time bye bye