Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of anointed intercession in the context of apostolic preaching, illustrating how powerful prayer can lead to a great harvest of souls. He recounts personal experiences and historical accounts of revival, highlighting the connection between deep intercession and the manifestation of God's power in preaching. Bickle shares stories of notable figures like David Brainerd and the impact of their fervent prayers, asserting that the gift of intercession is crucial for the church today. He believes that a new wave of intercessors will rise, empowered to bring about a significant spiritual awakening and harvest.

What a story. Let's pray. Father, we ask you for the spirit of wisdom and revelation. We ask you for impartation tonight. We ask you for your blessing in the name of Jesus. Amen. Well, let's look at our notes on the prophetic history. This is our fifth session. And the Lord has given us some substantial promises related to powerful preaching or powerful communicating of the word because it's not only preaching. That's the word I'm using. It's singing, dancing, drama, media, writing. It's whatever way that the word of God goes forth. There's five or six experiences that I'm going to share. But before I do that, I'm going to give just about a five-minute foundation, a concept. Because without this concept, these promises won't make as much sense to you. But if you understand this concept, I'm going to take just a little bit from the Scripture, a little bit from history. Then it will make more sense to you, the promises. Paragraph A, first I want to say this. Our premise that is not emphasized enough today, talking about the body of Christ around the world or here, it's not emphasized enough. Anointed intercession. Now catch this. Is as much a work of the Holy Spirit, it is as much a supernatural gift as anointed preaching is. When the Holy Spirit graciously gives us the gift of travail that moves things in the Spirit far more powerful than we can imagine. When the Holy Spirit gives us those moments, sometimes those moments go for hours, where the heart of Jesus is opened up and we actually receive. We enter into His intercession. Then our intercession kicks into a whole other gear, a whole other level. I'm going to talk a little bit about that. God promising to give us the gift of prayer, which is, I've not seen it at IHOP in 10 years of meetings. We've met for 10 years. We're here at our 10-year anniversary. We did the calculation. 87,000 hours of worship and prayer in the global prayer room and 13,000 in the justice prayer room and the EGS services. So over a hundred thousand hours of worship and intercession. That's an amazing thing. If you figure there's about a hundred in every prayer meeting through the years, that's a million man-hours of intercession has gone forth in 10 years. That's a great point, but that's not really my main point. I love that point. But as I look back at the 10 years, very few moments have we experienced where God gave us the gift of intercession fell on us. It's a gift we've not understood or seen or had yet, but it's coming. And I want to just take a moment and describe what this is about and the implications. It is dynamic in the spirit when this gift is given to us and we are postured for it after 10 years. The Lord has promised us this. John 16 8 in the notes here. Jesus promised supernatural conviction. He said the Holy Spirit's going to convict the world of sin. This is a atomic bomb of power when the Holy Spirit convicts. It's not just kind of a gentle wooing. He does that. But I'm talking about Jesus understood. There are moments in history when the Holy Spirit convicted and I mean thousands of people would come under the agonizing gripping conviction of the spirit and they would well and cry out to God and it would radically change their mother their their their lives. We've seen very little that in America in the last hundred years. Probably anywhere in the Western world, but this kind of reality has shown up in the is it testified in the Bible and has shown up in history the first Great Awakening the second Great Awakening. This was commonplace. What we call Revival today is often extended meetings a little bit of energy big crowds. We call it Revival and I appreciate extended meetings with big crowds with added energy. I really do. I like that. But the Revival that God has promised us has a supernatural connectedness to the to the prayer room. We have not touched yet moment moment just a moment here and there but almost we haven't about 99% we have not and I'm waiting because I know where this is going a little bit. Lord, you're about to target us with the spirit of prayer and a spirit of conviction and it is it like atomic power and its impact upon people when it happens paragraph B. History tells us the story. So I mentioned a minute ago the two Great Awakenings the first Great Awakening the second Great Awakening and I have the story here in Acts chapter 2 where 3,000 were cut to the heart. They were cut to the heart. And the fruit of it in Acts 2 42, they continue steadfastly, which means they had a quality of conversion. That was radical. It wasn't like they came forward prayed a prayer with everyone. I closed which is fine to do that, but I'm talking about they were cut asunder and they continued radical for years and years in the deep areas of their life. That's the power of the spirit of conviction. It says in Acts 19. I love this all in Asia heard the word of God and Asia the word of God prevailed it prevailed over Asia. What does this mean the power of the word took hold and it confronted multitudes throughout Asia in Paul's day paragraph D. My favorite preachers or missionaries and revivalists in history and the reason I'm telling you this I would like I'm talking to the young people mostly but anybody that has anybody that hears this to get the biographies. I've read these biographies over and over and I'm just going to give you a couple that have really moved me when I was in my early 20s because I still read them, but I devoured them when I was 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. I'm talking about hours a day. Sometimes the biography of David Brainerd. Jonathan Edwards George Whitfield, John Wesley Charles Finney. These were vessels in which God set nation the nation ablaze with the power of conviction. Their biographies gave me a vision for where I wanted to go as Lou Engel said that when we read those that history, it gives us a vision of where we're going paragraph F. Now, I'm going to get more specific about our prophetic history. It was David Brainerd's biography and I believe his biographies free online. It is one of the most profound stories. It's it's not easy reading. He was a missionary to the Native Americans 1700s. He died at age 29 and his missionary. Career so to speak as ministry was only about age 22 to 29. But the story of his impact throughout history since his death is quite amazing. Jonathan Edwards, one of the greatest Bible teachers and men of God in the history of America's history said that David Brainerd, he knew no person more devoted to God than David Brainerd the young saintly David Brainerd this Jonathan Edwards. He says, I know no man that's his equal that surpasses him in piety and devotion to the Lord. I read that it, you know, 22 23 years old. I said, Dave, you know, Jonathan Edwards said this about a 20 year old a guy in his 20s. I go, what is the deal? I read Brainerd's biography. I read it over and over. I read it near daily for about five years. And young people, I would really encourage you to do that. You can get it online. Most of these guys, their writings, their stories, their biographies are free online these days. But I noticed paragraph F here. It is a cause effect in Brainerd's story. David Brainerd. I I would study it and there was a cause effect that when Brainerd was anointed in prayer. Then after the time of prayer, he was anointed in proclamation. And it was this amazing thing. His experiences of being anointed in prayer. I'd never ever read anything like this. One of the famous stories has happened a number of times. He's in his again 20s. Well, I died at 29. So he had to be in his 20s. He's out in the snow because you know 1700s and not everybody had a hotel to go check into missionary journeys. He's out in the snow up in New England. And he's in such so gripped with intercession. He's three to four hours in the snow groaning and travailing with the anointing of God sweating and all the snow around him is melting. And he has tuberculosis. So he's coughing up blood and they described the scene. There's snow is melted and it's red with blood. But Brainerd won't let go of this because God won't let go of Brainerd. He's crying out for the salvation of lost souls. Under the authority and the unction of the Holy Spirit. I would read these stories and his life and the other guys as well that I mentioned. They all talk about this and I said, what is this about the gift of anointed praying not the gift of anointed preaching the gift of anointed praying and Brainerd would talk about when that would happen. He would go preach and the power of God would fall in an awesome terrifying impact. He would preach to the Native Americans through an interpreter and the only interpreter that he could find for a period of time was a drunk. He could speak English. He did not love Jesus at all. But he needed the money. So Brainerd paid him the only guy that could speak both languages and Brainerd would talk about the power of God hitting him in prayer and he would preach through this drunken interpreter and the power of God fell in such power that the Native Americans were wailing and weeping and he and what Brainerd said and they were soundly converted. I mean the stories are amazing. So I'm 23 24 25 reading this. I said I got to have this. I set my vision not just for anointed preaching. I said I'm going to live with anointed intercession. I want the gift of supernatural intercession. Not just the gift of supernatural preaching with power. I want power in prayer. I mean where Jesus opens his heart and you enter your you enter into it. Now, you can't just do that because you want to it's the gift of God, but it comes and when it comes it has an amazing impact. On the lives of people particularly upon unbelievers top of page 2 paragraph M. Now I'm going to begin the story now. You can read a little bit more about these other guys, but I'd love to see you get into because if you don't get the picture because the pictures best told from the Bible and from history because modern these modern days, nobody's talking about this hardly a few guys here and there. But you go back to the Great Awakenings and this was commonplace in their experience. So my spirit was stoked and fed the fire of my spirit by these stories. I'm in st. Louis. We were there for seven years pastoring. That's in the spring of 1982 and what happens one Saturday night. We had a little prayer meeting. We're praying for the Sunday morning meeting about five of us are there. And for the first time, I'm just normal prayer Lord, you know breakthrough with power. It's kind of boring prayer time for five of us. It's not lively at all. And suddenly first time ever the spirit of travail comes on me spirit of prayer. It's a biblical concept. And I begin to groan as it says in Romans 8 26 with groanings to do too deep for words. It's the anointing of God. It's not a contrived thing where you watch somebody do it. So you try one. I'm not talking about that. So people do that and that's okay, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about suddenly there was an unction a weeping a travailing a groaning and the spirit of God is on me and it's bigger than me and I don't know what's happening and it goes on for about an hour. I mean beloved. I'd pay a million dollars for an hour of that if you could buy it with money, but you can't it's worth gold. An hour in that spirit is worth gold. Trust me all that you could give to it and what we give to give our life to God the Holy Spirit will Marcus. So here's what I said being a student of Brainerd and Wesley and Whitfield and Finney because they had these experience. I said in my mind travailing and weeping. I wonder if like what happened to Brainerd tomorrow, there will be power. I don't have an interpreter. I don't know. I'm just preaching myself. I wonder if the same thing would happen. I was on this bit of a Holy experiment. So the next morning, I don't even tell the four or five guys. They're all pacing around a room. I'm up on the up on the stage and kneeling down and weeping and travailing and of course, I'm always one when that happens. I don't typically get on the microphone and let everybody know I'm doing it. I just give myself to the Lord. They didn't even know it but for an hour I was groaning under travail and something was happening inside of me. And I said to myself Lord, let's see what happens tomorrow. And I went with such anticipation. I'm 26 years old. I'm living in St. Louis pastoring a little young adult Church. About 500 young people. I get up and I preach first time this ever happens congregation of about 500 to 1 to 200 are weeping during the service. Never had this happen before, you know, maybe somebody was touched two people. I mean where I was hearing. I could visibly see and hear sobs and cries in the congregation. Now, this is the night after this travail. I thought wow brainer was on to something. There is a cause-effect dynamic and I found out later. It's not exactly. Scientific in the way that you would like it to be there's mystery to the move of the spirit. So I gave the altar call I'd never had a time where people were just crying out loud in the service. So I gave the altar called typically did it every week actually an altar call. We would have normally one or two people every single Sunday get saved and that was so exciting every single Sunday one or two. This Sunday 20 people not one or two 20. We've never seen that that number because most of people in our midst were saved and I was preaching on prayer and Revival and most unbelievers didn't come to a church to preach on prayer Revival. A lot 20 people and a number of them are weeping. I mean just crying weeping. I mean, yeah out loud to Jesus in an altar call with nobody coaxing them or helping them and I left that meeting. I said, I got it. I've stumbled onto something. This is real anointed intercession ends up with anointed manifestation of power. I said this brainer the equation. Of course, it's a reality that's in the Bible and and verified through history, but I called it it was my kind of brainer the equation get anointed in prayer and watch out what happens now get you don't have to be a preacher. You might be a singer. You might be a writer might be drama. There's many ways of which the message goes forth might be one-on-one. Now about two months later. And it's I'm going to move to Kansas City in about six months after this. But about two months later, it's in May of 82. I'm on a Saturday night the same little group of four or five same thing happens. I'm over my little corner. Weeping travail groaning for lost souls and the the case. I mean the key thing I understood not that it's limited to this. It was related to lost souls. It wasn't just related to having a lively church service. It was lost souls. It was related to the lost and the harvest. Here it is again. It's not I go an hour. You can't make it happen. You can't you know, like some of the old Pentecostal Revival meetings. They would hide some onions in the napkin so they could put the napkin up there and get tears in their eyes. It wasn't that kind of deal. I'm up there and goes an hour, you know, whatever. I didn't measure the time but I said Lord, I want to be a part of this. I want to be I want to be so connected to you. This is a part of my life and destiny and I said to myself Saturday night. We'll see again tomorrow. It happened two months ago. First time in my life. Let's see it again Sunday morning. I'd say nothing to anybody again. I started preaching same thing. We had about 500 people there. One or 200 people tenderly weeping or several of them. You can hear them out loud from the pulpit because I was watching for them. I go. This is remarkable. Same thing about 20 people could say. I mean, I'm ready to go. I said, I don't care what it costs me. I'm going to abandon my life into this kind of reality. That's when I met Bob Jones. You know the next year he was talking about a movement. I didn't care about a movement. I just wanted thousands to get saved in stadium meetings and he was talking about a movement. He was talking about a whole new way to live life together in the kingdom of God under the anointing. And I thought I don't know about movements and anointings and leading up to the coming of the Lord. That's the sort of thing. He was on his mind. I was into evangelistic meetings with power in them and we really had a disconnected first on that because I love Bob. I love all this movement stuff. That's really not really what I'm into. I'm into raw power evangelism. That's really what I'm into. And he says, well, you'll see there's more to the kingdom to that, but that's very important. So the first day I met Bob when he said you're an evangelist and a youth pastor. I mean an intercessor and a youth pastor. He said this youth movement will have power evangelism. I like that. I leaned forward. I said, I'm listening. He goes, you'll pray for Israel. I said, well, I don't know about that. And he goes against a bunch of singers and musicians. Well, you know, I love music, but I'm not a youth pastor singer musician. I don't get that part but in Israel, but I like the power evangelism. Well, so now I'm in Kansas City. It's April 1983. Now, this is not my first experience with Bob Jones, but you had to understand these two experiences in St. Louis to understand the significance or the dynamics of what happened on April 3rd, 1983. It's Easter Sunday. First Easter in Kansas City. I've only known Bob. This is April. I've known him from the first of spring when the snow melts. That's about two weeks earlier. I don't know Bob yet. Just that he gave me that secret in my heart that night that I spoke to my dad that secret Val and I knew he was of God, but we still haven't we haven't really operated together. So it's April 3rd. Oh, I'll never forget this morning. Six o'clock in the morning. Easter Sunday, and I figure, you know, we got a couple hundred people in our new church. I figure we're going to have 10 2030 unbelievers just because it's Easter and I want to see the fight. Fire of God just break in on them. I may have a vision not for people, you know, again, talk them into giving Jesus a chance. Just give poor Jesus a chance. Don't repent. Hold on to your sin. Keep your own way, but give him a chance to forgive you. That's just absolute. I don't want to have to repent that kind of preaching. I went to the kind of thing that confronted the heart of sinners under the power of God and they saw the pleasure in the delight of wholehearted repentance because the kingdom of God was bright in their understanding by the power of God. That's the sort of thing. I was they were thanking God for the opportunity to repent not giving Jesus one more chance and you better come through with the money this time Jesus or you're out kind of a lot of the popular attitude. That's going on the kingdom of God in a lot of places or in the church world. Let's call it that way. Well, it's Sunday morning six o'clock in the morning. I got to pick this story up if I'm going to get done with it six o'clock in the morning. Wake up and I mean, I just for a moment. I pray in in one second of prayer 10 seconds. Lord, I ask you to break in to the service in a couple hours. The spirit of travail hits me. I am groaning. I am travailing. I mean within within 10 seconds. It is a pure gift of God. You never know when it's going to come. I'm not talking about contrived. I don't talk about it. But you guys get in a room and trying to make it happen. I'm not talking about that. I'll talk about the pure real genuine move of God on the human spirit communicating the heart of Jesus intercession imparting it to you and I'm there at home for two hours. Groaning travailing crying out for lost souls on the unction of God is on me and I'm thinking I do this in st. Louis twice and happen for an hour each on a Saturday night. I've been two hours under the unction of God. Not that the hours earn it. That's not the point but the hours indicated to me the reality of God imparting it. I mean, it was a sustained reality. I am excited. I drive in the car to the church. I'm weeping all the way. I can't stop weeping in the car. I'm weeping for lost souls. I get to the church about nine o'clock. Services at 10. I go in my office. Groaning pleading but with unction with power 10 o'clock. I mean the hour goes by like a moment. They knock on the door night service starts in one minute Easter Sunday. Brand-new Church, you know, we're only four months old. Are you coming out? No, just start. They don't know what's happening inside. I go on for to 11 o'clock. I can't stop. I guess I could just get up and quench the spirit, but it's on me strong 11. They knock on the door. They say this the worship is done the an hour waiting. I said, I don't know quite what to do. This is so precious to have this power on you a prayer. So I get my composure. I go up there. It's late. My eyes are swollen up. You know, it's like I can't even figure out but I know one thing for sure. Six seven eight nine ten eleven. How many is that five six lots of hours? I am wrong out with fatigue that kind of intensity but it was effortless in the sense. I didn't drum it up. It was given. It's given as a gift. I said this in my heart one thing. I'm sure of I may not look good my swollen up and I may not be organized, but I know one thing the power of God's going to hit this room. Like I've never seen it before. I've seen it two for two times in st. Louis when the unction of prayer comes that supernatural dimension. I'm not talking about faithful prayer. So I'm at the supernatural unction hits in prayer the power hits in preaching. So I get up there. They give me the mic. Nothing and the Lord 10 15 minutes nothing. It is one of the most oppressed truly oppressed meetings. I've ever been in I am confused in a way. You cannot imagine. I was so convinced. It was the devil. Then I stopped Easter Sunday Brandon. I get these guys. I've been there for months. They don't know me. I don't know them. I said in the name of Jesus. I take authority over this spirit and break it. I will I thought I mean serious Revival was breaking out that morning and I wasn't going to be stopped by a little bit of oppression. I had this five hours and this equation and this Brainerd cause-effect and these great awakening guys it all it happened in their lives many times. I think something I mean amazing is going to happen. I go for about 15 more minutes. It is so oppressed. I quit short. It is so bad. I quit the I couldn't do the message. I cut it short 15 minutes short. I said, okay there you know, amen. I was really discouraged really I couldn't I bind it and it wouldn't leave and I mean for real I was in pain and I said if anybody wants to give their life to Jesus, you know gave another moment or two raise your hand nobody. It was really oppressed. I said amen anybody wants prayer come up nobody. So I'm up there and people are milling around maybe, you know, a hundred people up front. They're all talking. It's, you know, kind of a big altar area and I'm sitting up there on the platform get my notes together and I don't want to talk to anybody. I've rung out from the five hours, but I'm really perplexed. I mean it just what happened. So Lord, I love you, but I will I'm positive. This was going to be the most dynamic thing I've ever witnessed in my eyes of power in preaching of four souls. There's about a hundred people down there. There's about maybe 500 came that to that service and I just thought we were really going to get at least a hundred of them saved. I go down there and people talk and I don't know almost know anybody because I'm a new pastor in town and there's a lot of people that I know that are one lady three people. I noticed of the hundred walking around talking and just, you know, loving on the kids and Easter this and Easter that and they're having a great time and I'm in pain. I'm in great pain. Hey, bro. Good work. Just shut up. Don't don't say that to me. No, I mean it just like don't say great word. I mean there's sometimes you can't even bear flattery. You can't bear it. So I noticed this guy here this lady over here this guy with three of them in this crowd and that getting the crowd was mingling and talking not organized their head. They had their eyes closed strangers. Just what I mean kind of an earnest standing there and I went over to the guy. I just put my finger on him. I said I was so discouraged. I go Lord in the name of Jesus just touch him. I just kind of whispered it and muttered it just whatever. I mean, I didn't really think it didn't have my touched him and this guy collapsed on the ground is what went down in the power of God and started crying for mercy. I looked at that. I said, I don't know what just happened and he's going. Oh Jesus. Oh, no, forgive me. Oh, that's just like in the revivals and at least you know, some people turned around as you know, look I said, I'm not sure what happened. No, no, I mean it. I don't know. He's crying out loud. Give me mercy. Forgive me. Oh God, your salvation. Wow. So I walk over about 10 steps and there's a lady. And I whispered to her. I said, uh, would you like prayer? She nods her hair. Her eyes are closed. That's why I went up to her because everybody else was talking and fellowshipping. I touch her. She collapses. Same thing wailing crying out that Jesus would forgive her. Forgive me. Oh God, your mercy. I went where did this come from? And then one other guy over here. Now I'm my face a little stirred up. One more guy with his eyes closed. I lay hands on him. I said in the name of Jesus. No, I mean, I had some a little bit of faith and feeling now. I said the name of Jesus touch you'd say thing. He just collapses. I mean falls flat. I don't mean one of those kind of just kind of gentle went down just boom and he's sweeping and crying for forgiveness. I mean, I've never seen people cry in a meeting for forgiveness total strangers in a meeting. I've seen Saints do it in a prayer meeting, but not my goodness now. The auditorium was about half this size and Bob Jones is way over in the corner love again, but 500 people that this time it's Easter and they're all talking. He doesn't know what's going on because everybody's making up there and I don't know Bob but two or three weeks from that go that great night the first of spring. So I walked back there and he's got a little group of six or seven guys and they're all sitting around in a circle. He's just getting to know these young people. He's telling stories in and I walked back there and they're having a great old time. And so top of page three. I put a little bit store this whole thing in for you. Bob Jones says Q paragraph Q on the notes. He said well, you've had quite a day and I look at him and I don't know how much he knows yet. I mean after the months unfold. I kind of think that he probably knows what he's saying. He said I saw he said you had quite a day today. I should I said, yeah, I sure have and he said I saw it all in the vision last night. So what do you mean? He said you were all set to go fishing today. Wasn't you? I said Bob I was really set to go fishing today. You don't even know because he didn't know about my two experiences in st. Louis. He didn't know about my Brainerd equation and the Great Awakening and how the prayer dynamic he didn't know how that worked in. I watched it twice in st. Louis. I mean it was powerful in the relative sense of my own little world. He said I saw you in the night visions you and the Lord went out in a fishing boat. I said really I should tell me these five six seven people sit and talking to him and again, we don't even know each other. And Bob looks at me because I saw you you and the Lord were at a fishing boat last night. He goes and there was a net in the boat. You know in a net it would mean that the Mass evangelism you throw the net in the crowd, you know stadiums and you don't leave thousands to the Lord type deal. He goes you grabbed the net you wanted a big harvest today and I know this is true because he doesn't know what I've done for five hours and he doesn't know the equation I have in my mind. He said the Lord grabbed your hand your arm and he said no not today. Not today, but it's coming. And he put the net down. I'm really listening. He goes and he gave you a fish hook. He said and you went over the side and you swung the hook three times and it pierced right through three people. Now. He didn't know that happened up here because he's all the people he can't see any but even the people up here weren't mingling around up front. We're not paying attention to the people that collapsed. I mean unless they were staring at them. They were all talking and chasing kids and that kind of stuff. He said the Lord is going to give you three souls today. I mean powerful. So be alert the rest of today. He don't know it just happened. I said Bob this is remarkable. I said this is remarkable but finish your story because I one thing I learned they got to tell the whole story. I don't want to tell part of my story and then mix any of it up. I want to hear the whole story. He said the Lord told me to tell you. Not today. You don't have the authority to throw the net today, but it is your destiny. And the day is coming. He said with these young people when they come. He said the Lord said he will give 1,000 times the power that you see today with the three people that get saved and he thought they had not been saved yet that I was going to lead him to the Lord. It's Easter. I got the whole day. I mean when I went to these three I put my finger on them just said the name of Jesus just whispered it. I was so discouraged and I mean it was like a sword went through them and they were wailing for salvation instantaneous and the Lord said tell him tell him Bob Jones in the dream. He grabbed my hand. I'm about to throw the fishing net and the Lord grabbed my hand says you can't throw the fishing net but you can have the hook today, but he says to Bob or to me. I don't know how it all happens in Bob's visions, but this is the message God is going to give 1,000 times the power that what happened in these three people that I touched in the days to come in the Lord's timing. He said he's going to authorize you to throw the net. I'm talking about the young people and he goes on look at the end of paragraph are here. The Lord told me Bob speaking. He set you up to understand this vision. I go I have been so set up. I said Bob what happened to me in st. Louis and my reading and my Great Awakening and my evangelist guys. I was so set up to understand what you're talking about right now. He said well the Lord's going to send 5,000 young people that have a vision that understand this apostolic preaching who understand the power of intercession. I don't mean just dedicated intercession and we're really into dedicated intercession. I believe in dedicated intercession, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about keeping our sacred trust, but you need to keep your sacred trust. I'm talking about something more entering into a realm of power in prayer that brings a release that cannot be ascribed to man's abilities at all. It is an anointing. It's a gift that is supernatural in every sense of the word. He said I'm sending you 5,000 young people who will have a vision for this. They won't take no for an answer. They will understand the authority of prayer and they will understand the power of this kind of preaching. We're not talking about crowds. We're not talking about just, you know, marketing to get a big crowd there and say, well, we have a revival. We're talking about the sort of thing the first and second great awakening in America, the 1700s, the 1800s, but far beyond that and what happened in the book of Acts beloved. It's in our destiny. This thing is coming. This thing is coming middle of page 3. It's a few years later. It's five years later. It's in July 1988. Bob Jones is at a Bible study one Saturday night with some young people. There's a you know, 50 or 100 young people and he occasionally would go to me. They get to ask him any question. They wanted me. They loved it. You know, Bob Jones is coming did about once or twice, you know future. I don't know a few times a year type thing and and it was a big deal. And they he announced something. He said I'm going to tell you what Mike is going to preach on tomorrow. Saturday night, but by then it's five years later. They're kind of understand that this could really be real and it was. He said he's going to preach on the gospel of John. I haven't heard him preach on John for a while, but I guarantee he's going to tomorrow. They were smiling and laughing. He said he's going to receive a visitation from an angel tonight related to Salvation of Souls related to intercession and angels going to visit him tonight. He said my gas Mike won't even know it's an angel. But he's coming nonetheless and in this visitation, he's going to receive a promise about intercession. And about souls. So, of course, I don't know none of this. I'm not at the meeting. I hear nothing. Go home and go to bed. It's my normal what I did on Saturday night type thing and 2 30 in the morning. I'm suddenly awakened. And I'm awake and I'm guessing again. I'm not trying to be melodramatic, but it was less than 10 seconds. From a dead sleep. I'm instantly awakened under the power of God is resting on me visible. I mean discernibly and I am travailing in prayer within 10 seconds after being dead asleep. That qualifies as an angel woke me up. Actually, that's true. Some of you don't won't know that and Bob Jones taught me that he says when you're in a complete dead sleep. And you're instantly awakened. And you're the presence of God is on you. I mean, you're from asleep to I don't mean you wake up and you just restless and the anointing of the Lord is on you and you're instantly alert and the power of God's on you. He says you didn't just wake up. He says you didn't see the angel, but the angel. The angel rustled you. He goes and when that happens, you want to pay attention. You want to say what do you want Lord? Here? I am Lord. He taught me that and I've used that. I've employed that a few times over the years. I wake up and suddenly the power of God's on me. I go Lord. I just say angel. I know you're here. Holy Spirit. I know you're here. Jesus. You're looking at me here. I am and I mean things happen. But that happened a few times and I just kind of was like, whoa, what's going on and Bob's that was an angel. You didn't you didn't realize it. So I'm it's 2 30 in the morning. It's within 10 seconds. I am travailing like I did at Easter time five years before for souls in Kansas City. It goes on for about an hour. I mean, when's the last time you woke up at 2 30 in the morning? Of course of the night watch it. Maybe it was your lunch break and instantly in the power of God in intercession. Travailing for the soul of a city. That's got to be the power of God. So I'm sitting there. I mean it was for sure and the Holy Spirit talks to me after this hour and I'm thinking I don't know which is I don't know why this happened and I got from my bed to the living room on the couch and travailing prayer in 10 seconds. Now, this is something is going on right now. Paragraph B. The Holy Spirit speaks one word to me. John 644 the word of Jesus. I will draw them. I will draw them. And the Holy Spirit says I will draw you into the power of prayer and I will draw the souls into the kingdom. It will be a sovereign work. I will anoint you in prayer and I will anoint the work of the leading of souls into the kingdom. I will draw them and it will be as sovereign and it will be as fully the work of God. I mean in the human sense we have to give ourself to it, but it will be as fully the sovereign work of God is when the Lord speaking to me you waking up from this dead sleep and you're under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I'm not talking about trying to get it, you know, kind of revving up trying to cry. I'm not trying to talk about self-induced tears. That's not what I'm talking about. It will be a gift of God that falls on us from heaven and John 644 the Holy Spirit saying I will draw you into this and I will draw these people into this. So the 10 years of IHOP, I've seen it just a little here and a little there. I'm talking about corporately. I've seen it on individuals. I've experienced it a couple times individually, but in these hundred thousand hours of prayer, you know with a hundred people, that's a million hours. I go Lord. We haven't entered in yet. I mean, I love the faithfulness. I love the faithfulness of the of the people in this community, but I want more than faithfulness. I want faithfulness plus a supernatural dimension in prayer not just a faithfulness in prayer, but I believe the faithfulness is critical to be in a position for the supernatural gift to operate. It's like we're building an altar, but God's going to send fire on it. Again, I just just so that nobody's tempted to I'm not talking about stirring people up emotionally and getting five or ten people and hey, we're going to make this travail thing happen. I'm not talking about a self-induced thing. I'm talking about something. No man can produce it is a sovereign gift of God and what the Lord was saying. It will be a sovereign in that hour in this future of this movement as it was when I gave it to you within 10 seconds of waking up from a dead sleep. It will be a sovereign work of God and then I will sovereignly pull them in draw the people in a great power. Let's go to Roman numeral three tonight. I'm just talking about preaching and again, it's singing. It's musicians. It's the whole communication dimension of the kingdom the technology part of it the media part of it. There's power will go forth wherever the word goes forth Roman numeral three in March 1984. It's a Tuesday night. We have our midweek service on Tuesday night for a number of years pop Jones. Here's the voice the audible voice of the Lord that morning that Tuesday. He says the Lord says Noel is coming. Noel is coming. So Bob comes to the Tuesday night meeting. Couple hundred people there and Bob walks up to the microphone now. We all know him now. You know, it's a year after the solemn assembly. From 83 and he says Noel is coming. Noel is coming. I said what what's that? I said it sounds like a Christmas song. I mean, I actually really thought it sounded like a Christmas song. That was actually sincere. He said well, it is the song of the Lord, but it's more than that. He said matter of fact, I want you to lay your hands on the songbirds. That's what he called all the singers. You always call them songbirds for years still does and Joanne McFadder and Julie Meyer were our two main singers. He goes go lay hands on them and they're going to start singing the song of the Lord tonight. So I go to Joanne and Julie and Julie, you know, their eyes are big and okay, the whole you know, two or three hundred people watching it Lord. Release the song of the Lord. I mean, it's kind of a awkward thing. Bob's pronouncing it and they're up there. They're both phenomenal singers and but the spirit of the Lord touches them. It was the first time they sang prophetic songs and both of them sang about five of them and you all know Julie and she's been operating in that from that night that Noel is coming. Noel is coming night and Joanne McFadder some of you know her because she's well known in some circles. She's gone on and the last 25 years to I mean really the Lord is blessed her and used her in so many ways. She has such an excellent spirit a woman of God. John McFadder just a faithful faithful woman of God. The Lord is touched through the years but it began that night with both of them. So we're excited. So it's a week later. Ten days later. I'm at the citywide pastors meeting and the Noel is kind of the word has come. It's prophetic singing because it happened and you know, and Joanne and Julie been singing prophetic songs ever since that night. It was a true word. So I go to the citywide pastors meeting. There's about 50 pastors there on Friday mornings. It's about 10 days later. And no Alexander is there for the first time. And some of you know, no Alexander's from South Africa has a beautiful accent. I just love guys with no just talk. So beautiful and so no had been all up all night in prayer. No, he was glowing and I don't mean glowing. I don't want to exaggerate but his his had a brightness in his countenance. I was walking, you know, a big auditorium about five or six guys and this new guy is talking and he's animated. He's moving his arms and and he's talking I go, you know, I've been to this prayer meeting the citywide prayer meeting for you know, some time now and I've never seen this guy. He's very excited. And so I walk up there stand around the circle. The six seven guys pastors and he goes. I tell you the truth. The power of God is coming to this city, but it will only come through night and day prayer and when the Lord gives the power of intercession then we double and I'm going love at first sight. I love this guy. I love this man. I look at him and they give the announcement. Okay time to start the pastors prayer meeting and so they break up. I haven't said a word. I go. Hello. I go. My name is Mike. What's your name? He goes no. I said you're a man. I said you're a man and he said excuse me. I go. You're a man. I go amazing and he's and he's a little like okay. I was struck. I mean I couldn't I went I mean that he had a presence on him. So after the prayer meeting the pastors prayer meeting I said who are you he goes? I'm in this city. I'm in the Nazarene Church and I know I have one thing on my mind souls crying out night and day for souls Luke 18 night and day for souls. That's all I care about. I go unbelievable. I said can we get together like tonight and he gave the most beautiful answer I've ever heard. He said I can't and I said why oh, I love this answer. He goes because I have a prayer meeting every night and I won't miss it for anything. I go. Oh, I love you. I love you. I go. I have a prayer meeting tonight too. That's perfect. I go. What a great answer. It's the only man I met that went to a prayer meeting every night and passed up every social engagement to keep his prayer commitment. I never heard of a person who did that. I said what about after your prayer meeting? He goes I'd be happy to I'd love to so we got together our prayer meeting went 7 to 10 every night. So he came over at 10 o'clock at night and we talked brought his wife Mickey and Nolan Mickey and me and Diane the four of us talked to two in the morning. Oh, I was so excited. And I said, you know, it's two o'clock in the morning. We got to go and I said I have a meeting tomorrow. It's early. It's like 8 o'clock. It's a March down at the Plaza for the Soviet Jews that are being persecuted. I'm going to go March. There's a couple thousand or whatever a thousand people going to March. I'm going I know it's 2 a.m. You want to join me? He goes. I'd love to. So I meet you at the Plaza, you know, so-and-so Street and so we get there me and no, I mean, I am so excited about this guy this comrade. I have this comrade. So we're marching. And we're talking there's a thousand people there and we're marching for days, you know, he's in the meeting and I mean, he's marching for because I'm telling him all the Bob Jones stories and and we're kind of preoccupied from the night before. And it's interesting. This is just God's poetry. You know how he does things in parables with poetry the next day in the Kansas City Star. There's a big picture Christians March for Soviet Jews. There's the picture me and no Alexander in the Kansas City Star. I mean that was we were in the middle of the crowd and for some reason the guy got in the middle and took the pick. I don't know why but it's me and also it's documented April 1st 1984 Sunday morning newspaper Mike and no are there together standing for Israel in the Kansas City Star. That was just poetry Divine poetry. I imagine the Lord looked down and says I did that one. I think the Lord loves to do things. But that's a secondary point. So I said no, would you like to meet this man Bob Jones? He goes. Yes. I mean, I would like to meet him right now. I mean today. I mean I said we could go I says, you know in my experience with Bob. He already knows we're coming. No, no, this is real. This is real. I remember once. I mean, I just happened many many as in 5 or 10 times is what I mean by many with when I would bring a visitor over. He knew about I was with these two Presbyterian pastors. Just put the story on for a moment. Just true Presbyterian pastors in there. Hey, what's going on? And I'm telling him about why you know what we're doing. Will you pray all these meetings? Why do you do these prayer meetings? Well, the Lord has spoken prophetically and the word of data done and who's spoken prophetically how well, there's this one guy Bob Jones. Can we meet Bob Jones? Yes. Can we meet him today? I go. Well, yeah, probably I said come with me just so you'll want witnesses. I picked these two Presbyterian pastors. I pick phone up. I go now. I didn't know we were going to talk about this and Bob doesn't know you were coming. I didn't know you want to see Bob. I said, it's a completely completely uninformed meeting. I mean unplanned meeting. So what's this? I could come by the phone. So I dial the phone pick it up. I go. Hello, Bob. Yep. Yep. Okay, click. I said, what was that? I said, hello, Bob. He said two of them. I go. Yep. He goes Presbyterians. Yep. He goes bring them over. I went yes. I didn't say yeah, that's how Bob says it. I was imitating the wrong guy. I said yes. Yes, click. What was that? Two of them. Yes, Presbyterians. Yes, bring them over. I'm ready for him. So I told no. I said he might know we're coming but I'm gonna call him anyway. I said Bob, I'm going to bring a friend over. He says bring him over. I've already seen him. I'm going to put a mirror in front of me. I just said Bob. I'll bring someone. I said, okay hung up and no said what did he say? He says just let's go. Let's just go put a mirror in front of you. I don't know what that means yet. I mean, I really love no, I love Bob, but I don't know what put a mirror in front of you means. That's what he told me. It was a 10-second conversation. So I'm driving over with no, I'm driving over to the house. I'm at the top of page 4. If you're following the notes, I'm looking at my own notes here. Not that you have to and no tells me the story. It's about 20 minute drive to Bob's house. He goes, I'm going to tell you Mike because you told me all the Bob Jones stories last night, but I'm going to tell you now my story a prophetic experience that happened the most dynamic thing happened in my life. He goes it happened in 1979. He goes. I was in Colorado Springs. That's interesting. God called us to do I hop in Colorado Springs and no had his most dramatic experience at Colorado Springs. There's this Colorado Springs connection that there's about four or five more Colorado Springs connections. That's just another story for another day. But he said I was in Colorado Springs in 1979 in August. He said in the spirit of the Lord touch me and I went out in the middle of the night. And I saw this vast Valley of flowers. I mean, I was looking over the whole Valley and he said I could see Pikes Peak and this millions and millions. He goes in the Lord called me to intercession this night in a sovereign way. Called me to intercession. And he said no. How many flowers do you see? And those said Lord, you know, just millions or whatever, you know, and he says do you have faith? The Lord says it's too busy. You have faith that no answers Lord. Yes, you know, I believe and the Lord tells me. No, as many flowers as you see, that's how many souls you're going to leave into the kingdom. Take off your shoes for the place you stand is holy ground. So knows telling me this story and knows weeping and I start we we so we're both weeping in the car. We I mean, we are just a wreck. It is so tender and so moving because he tells it in full detail. He goes, I'm committing my life to intercession for these souls. I don't care what it costs me. The Lord said, do you have faith? I said, yes, Lord. I'm going to believe for this many souls and he said I took my shoes off for the place is holy ground. Then he walked we got to Bob's house and you know, and knows just obviously been weeping and we walked in. And Bob, I said, this is Bob Jones. I said, here's my friend. He says, what's your name? And he says, no, Alexander and Bob said, that's what I thought it was going to be something like that and he had a piece of paper in his hand. I mean, this wasn't like he ran to the back room and made something happen. He had the piece of paper in his hand an old envelope with his handwriting and it said this it was from 1976. It was dated when Major General Alexander comes he will be the beginning of the government of this youth movement. He goes, you're a Major General in the spirit. He goes when Mike said a man was coming. I knew this was the Major General Alexander. He said, what's your name? He goes know how it's Henry goes. There you have it. He had it in his hand. He goes. I'm going to put a mirror in front of you today. I was thinking oh boy, but it was such a tender moment. He said, I'm going to put a mirror in front of you. And I'm going to show you what you already know. You are like a man that the Lord is set before a vast Valley of flowers. And the Lord says that is the number that you will lead into the kingdom. I mean me and Noah are so touched. We are just silenced and then Bob says the next critical statement. He goes and the Lord says take off your shoes for this is holy ground. Now the three of us are weeping and so no joined our movement. And when no joined us. This is happening in March. It's October because he's still in the Nazarene Church and he's just finished seminary and has things to finish. He finally joins. I mean it is all the issues are finalized. He joins us in October and when joint no join us, we've been praying one every night for seven to ten for now for two years from 1982 the end of 82 now, it's the end of 1984. So for two years and when no came. Let's increase the prayer meeting. So we made a covenant together me and him that we would do three times a day prayer meeting six hours a day. We would go to them all we would each take one off. I took off Monday morning. He I think he took off Sunday night, but we went to all of them together. We made a covenant. We would do this for a couple years. We had a time frame laid out and I mean it was that it was the comrade I needed because I mean it was two hours at two years every day and I was getting weary just having strength that God sent no Alexander and I mean this man strengthened my spirit and he had more fire than I had for intercession and we did this morning noon and night every single day me and no locked in and others joined us and I tell you that was the bridge that kept this movement rooted this future. I hop movement. I mean it was fragile. There was the numbers were small and no came in with fire and strength and no had the dynamic dream a few months later because he joined us October now November. It's December 1984. He has the prophetic dream and then the dream the Lord shows him the day is coming where 7,000 new souls will be added to the kingdom in Kansas City. Well, however, we're waiting for a day where it won't be one week of 7,000 day after day. I mean week after week after week after week 7,000 to where there will seemingly be no into it. That's what's happening in this city that will happen in the cities of the world, but I know it's going to happen in this city little page for one more story the bus story. It's July 1988 now knows been with this about four years Bob Jones has a vision of a bus. It has seven windows in it and he sees our staff in the bus and the bus speaks of this youth movement and the great Harvest and this bus story is linked to intercessory giving not just intercessory praying but actually giving money. There's prayer and there's money. Both of them go together. There's a generosity of finance and a generosity of intercession in prayer. These are both forms of intercession that go together for the Harvest. It's not just one both of them are necessary paragraph B. Bob's describing the bus story. Jesus is driving this bus and we're all the leaders are in it. The leaders of the church, which were the from in the in the big picture. They it was the same root system. It was the early days of I hop using the language we use today and there's two stories going on in this bus vision. Now just take a minute on the first story. I love the first part of the story, but that's I'm not going to take so much time on it. I wrote it a little bit Jesus is driving the bus. But nobody knows it's Jesus. They're only seeing the back of him and when he would he would drive downhill really fast. I mean so fast that he would take the curves and all the people watching saying that bus is going to go off the cliff. I don't care what anyone says that driver is out of control. And then when he went uphill he went really slow. So the people in the bus which was us. We were going what's wrong with this bus driver at the pace. We're going we're never going to get there. So the people on the outside said they are reckless and out of control because of how fast they went down and how fast they took curves the people on the inside said it's so slow when we went uphill. We're never going to get there. We might as well quit then the bus comes to a stop paragraph C and the Lord gets out. And he says this bus is totally under control. I'm leading this bus. It's time about this movement. And I love this about what Bob says in paragraph C. These are his words. The second sentence he said Bob Jones says let me tell you something about the way the Lord drives the bus which means he leads the movements. I mean you could you know, I remember John Wimber had a few dreams with the bus and it was the whole Vineyard movement and the bus could be in the picture language of many people in ministries might have that you know, it's a whole bunch of people going on the journey is kind of the symbolic language in the parable language. It's the movement and Bob Jones says this man driving the bus course talking about the Lord. He has the most unique ideas. He goes if we really understood what he was doing. He said there isn't hardly a leadership group in the earth including us that would agree with him. If we really knew what he was going to do because when we make decisions, which we should make them this way we make decisions almost all always how to get more comfort to get more money and get more on him almost all decisions. All of us make Church decisions ministry decisions business decisions family decisions almost all of them how to get more money how to get more honor and how to get more comfort and Jesus makes decisions of how to get more humility and more obedience and more Glory for God and the decisions are constantly crosswise. So the Lord's driving the bus and the Lord shows him in this that the way that men would do it. They would go downhill slow and uphill fast, but the Lord does it exactly opposite. He scares us going downhill and then wears us out our patience going uphill. But he has a different goal. His goal is to produce humility and to produce confidence and connectedness with his heart. But that's one part of this bus. I love that part, but that's not the part I want to focus on here. So the bus stops. The Lord turns around and now everybody sees it's the Lord driving the bus. Oh, you're the bus driver because everybody was complaining about how he was driving because they didn't know it was the Lord and there's a lot of lessons for all of us for all of our personal lives ministry lives everywhere. I mean all of us can relate to that. So the Lord turns around and gives $1,000 the bus driver turns around knows the front seat. He said here's $1,000. He said this is a token of the prosperity. I'm going to give this movement. This is a token. If you will obey me with it. This is a token. I'm giving you the chance. If you will obey me with this money, there will be great prosperity if you will be me. So the Lord tells him paragraph II if you so paragraph D the Lord said to know here's $1,000 if you will sow this money, if you'll give it into the harvest, I will multiply a thousand dollars a thousand times. And Noel says in the bus in the dream Bob Jones vision. Well, that's a million dollars fight. If you give me a thousand and I give it to the harvest and you multiply it times a thousand. I'll have a million dollars the Lord shook his head. That's right. And then the Lord says if you give the million dollars away. It will lead a million people to the Lord and I'll give you a thousand fold return again. And Bob Jones was saying the Lord's going to give us a billion dollars. If we will obey him a billion. You obey the Lord at the harvest. The Lord is so rich. He's not just kind. He's not just smart. He has a lot of money. I mean, he's kind and he's smart, but he is really rich. I mean really rich. He just wants people to obey. He said I'll give you a thousand dollars. No, if you'll sow it into the harvest, I will give you I'll multiply it a thousand times. I'll give you a million. If you sow that in the harvest, I'll give you a million souls and I'll give you a thousand fold return. Bob Jones says that's a billion dollars that we're going to get. So no in this bus, he's excited and the Lord turns around in this dream and tell her this, you know, it's not a dream Bob Jones as I was there type thing. Every time I said Bob, tell me that one dream. He goes, I was no dream. Okay. Okay. That one thing. Tell me that one thing. So the Lord tells him he goes, I'm going to confirm this to you, Bob. He says, I'm going to have a millionaire call you and I'm going to give know Alexander $1,000. So Bob comes out of this experience. It's like wow. Wow, we're going to give a million dollars to the harvest. God's gonna give Nola thousand. We're gonna give it away. He's gonna give us a million. We're going to give it away. Then we're going to get a billion. This is awesome and souls. And intercessors. So Bob's out digging in his garden that morning. Bob's a real gardener. He always loves gardens and I'd go over there most time. He'd be digging it with the, you know, the tomatoes and the potatoes and he knows the bugs in the weeds and this is that and you know, it's kind of neat. So he's out in his car. He loved his garden. He's digging down unusual. Normally, he did got a foot or two and do different things and I never fully understood his garden world that he would explain stuff and I just say, you know, whatever. So he goes down two or three feet. He just kind of preoccupied with his vision and he's digging. He goes down to it. I bet that's a long two three feet a long way down and he two three feet. He hits plank plank. Well, it's not a rock. It's a clink. It's what is that? He goes down there. He pulls out. There's this cast iron bus. He just had this experience has seven windows on it on each side. He goes well, look at that. He sees he goes. This is remarkable. I was just in the bus. Now again, this is God's poetry. What does God care about a bus giving a bus? What I mean the dream can be the dream without running into a bus in your garden. I mean that is that doesn't have to be some people say that's awesome. I go that's just divine poetry. I don't Lord. I don't have to the Dominus dream be standing on the big tape dawn. I mean this divine poetry. It's just I typically don't tell those parts of the stories, but it's just poetry. It's the Lord smiling going. I knew that you'd like that one the type deal. So Bob goes, what do you know? It's a bus. I was just on this bus. His wife comes out. Bob, you got a phone call. It's from New York. It's a guy named John DeLorean or something like that. Some of you will know the name John DeLorean. He's one of the car manufacturers of sports cars famous sports cars a very wealthy man. The millionaire calls Bob within an hour or two. Hello. Hello, Bob. This is John DeLorean from New York and calling from New York and you know, I heard about this and that and what I don't know what happened, but they had a dinner together. I mean, can you imagine Bob Jones Hills of Arkansas John DeLorean world-class sports cars meeting in New York and John DeLorean setting Bob tells the story. I won't go there, but it's really something. But the point of it was the millionaire called Bob is so excited. We have a staff meeting that day. It's a Monday. He comes walking in. He's got this old dirty cast-iron bus. I go Bob cuz I go what dig it in your garden again. He goes. Yes, I was kidding. I was joking just dirty rusty dirty dirty bus. I go dig it in your garden again. Yes, Lord was with me. You'll see. I said what are you going to show it to us at the staff meeting? He goes. Yes, so this is fun. I said, okay guys. We got a lot to cover today, but we're going to have a moment of show-and-tell Bob's going to know Bob's going to bring the boss Bob. Tell us about the bus today. I don't know. It's a dynamic experience. I have no idea. I what are you bringing a bus to a staff meeting? He says well in this bus. The Lord's driving it. He gives the whole story. He goes. Don't worry. The Lord's controlling this movement and got it. I hear that was a beautiful thing and we're listening. He goes and the Lord turned around and gave Noel Alexander $1,000. No, he's going to give you $1,000 like right away. No says you're not going to believe this. So in his pocket, he goes, I got $1,000 today in the mail right before I came to staff meeting. Noel Alexander $1,000 from US government because I'm from South Africa. What are they giving me $1,000 for? He goes, I have no idea what this is about and Bob says, I don't know what it's about. You better so into the harvest and so of course no bid and Bob said God's going to give us a million dollars. Now, he's going to give us a million for this thousand. And if we give that million away, he'll give us a million souls, but he'll multiply the million times a thousand. A billion dollars. So our next big conference Bob pushes me on this. Take a car an offering because the the Berlin Wall just came down in November 89. So this is the summer June 1990 our big conference and Bob says, this is the time. Let's take a offering for the Soviet. For all the believers been in prison and Bible has been illegal. Let's take the offering. No gave the thousand. Let's let this is the bus. This is the hour and he pushes me hard. So I take this offering. And between our church our church gave this the couple nights before $200,000. I took the offering our church gave 200,000 went down to the conference. The conference gave 1.2 million. I mean, it was like Thursday and next Thursday within a week 1.4 million dollars came in. Bob Jones says you better give that to the Lord and we sold it all to Russia to buy Bibles beloved. There's a million dollars turning to a billion. There's a million souls. There's an anointing of intercession. There's a 7,000 souls a week. There's the gift of prayer the gift of power. There's 5,000 apostolic preachers of young people on and on and on let's stand now. Don't go nowhere. This is that 60 seconds down. We got a video to show you Shelly. Come on up. I want you to see the bus. This is the bus. Let's show up with the camera on the bus. Okay, Shelly give one of those kind of walk around things, you know, like no walk up in the back. Yeah, there you go. Wait, can you see it? Let's get the camera real close even closer if you can. Okay. I think if you stay there the camera will get you there and Okay, show it the other way. That's that little bus. He's painted it all. That's it. No, no gets the bus. That's at his house. And so we said I said no, can I have the bus for you better get that bus back to me? I said, okay, I'll get it back to you. This is this the there's one man in there. He was driving the bus and there's the seven. He found that. Can you believe that? This is the show-and-tell item that no Bob brought us. Thank you Shelly. Beloved. We have such a we have a financial future of supernatural finances billions of dollars or billions are coming. I want to tell you whether we're the billions are coming to finance the prayer movement to finance the harvest are part of the harvest in the prayer move. There's billions coming other places as well. There's an anointing of prayer coming. I mean a supernatural unction of prayer. There's 1,000 times the power of when I touch those three people and I mean they cried out in anguish and under the power of God for Salvation beloved. We have a awesome destiny ahead of us. I want you to just now go ahead and have a seat just about six or seven minutes. Then we'll be done and I'm a it's a Bob Jones and Noel are going to talk about the bus.