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Burning With the Holy Spirit Fire - Reinhard Bonnke
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Reinhard Bonnke passionately shares his journey of faith, emphasizing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in evangelism. He recounts his early calling to preach in Africa and the struggles he faced, including a pivotal moment when he asked God for souls rather than money. Bonnke's fervent desire is to see souls saved, believing that the Holy Spirit's fire is essential for effective ministry. He encourages believers to embrace their calling and to actively share the gospel, asserting that the church is a lifeboat meant to rescue the lost. His vision is for nations to be transformed by the gospel, igniting a hunger for souls and a commitment to evangelism.
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I just first of all would like to share a little bit about the our own background and then I've got a short word on my heart here for this afternoon. You know I'm by nationality a German and I was born to Pentecostal parents. My father was a pastor so I I came to know the gospel at a very early age. I received Jesus as my Savior when I was a boy of nine. Jesus called me to one day preach the gospel in Africa when I was only 10 and it was so powerful and so clear I've never been able to doubt that call. When I was 11 Jesus baptized me with the power of the Holy Spirit and that carried me through my teenage years and you know I couldn't wait to be old enough to be accepted at Bible College and ever since I've been preaching the gospel. The day I would no more preach the gospel I think I would die of starvation because I'm not a mechanics I don't know how to repair cars and I don't know how to bake bread. I know nothing. I just preach the gospel. Praise God. I think if I should sum it up right at the beginning my wife and I went to a small country in Africa called Lesotho. It was a very very tough time. Seven years of hard work. I would say hard labor. We labored for the Lord in the true sense of the word. I mean it was hard work and we saw little results. I had hired a little office somewhere there just for about thirty dollars a month and that was a lot of money for me because my that was about my whole salary for the whole month and it was tough and then one day I had to pay I had to pay the rent for that office that church office and I didn't have the money to pay the rent and the whole day I was crying to God and I said Lord I need $30 I need $30 I need $30 before five o'clock this evening and the evening came but the money didn't so I was upset and I said I was worried I might lose the office and so on and so on and I was walking from the office to the house not far away which we had rented there as a family and as I was walking on the street suddenly the power of the Holy Spirit came upon me and I clearly clearly heard the voice of the Lord speaking in my heart saying do you want me to give you 1 million dollars it nearly blew my mind 1 million dollars for a few seconds it raced through my mind what I couldn't do for Jesus with 1 million dollars and I thought I could bombard the whole world with the gospel if I had 1 million dollars today I know better but then I thought so and then all of a sudden I had a second thought and it is it gripped me it stirred me I'm not a weepy man at all but I stood there on the street and tears came out of my eyes and I lifted my hands up I didn't care about the people that passed me and I cried to God and I said no Lord I'm not asking for 1 million dollars I'm asking for much more I said Lord don't give me 1 million dollars give me 1 million souls I said Lord 1 million souls give me 1 million souls that moment the Holy Spirit whispered words into my heart I had never heard I had never read it was brand new but ever since it has characterized my whole life and ministry and this is what the Holy Spirit said you will plunder hell and populate heaven for Calvary's sake hallelujah and I latched onto that I grabbed it I said Lord this is true I want to see hell empty and I want to see heaven full in the name of Jesus hallelujah glory to God glory to God glory to God that day God put a hunger into my spirit a hunger for souls I want to see souls safe that's my whole desire I don't want gold and I don't want silver although we do need finances I want to see souls safe I want to do as much harm and damage to the devil as I possibly can Jesus crushed the head of the serpent Jesus died for no other reason but to seek and to save the lost not to provide careers for the clergy he died to save the lost amen sometimes certain people come to me and they say they say what do you think of that evangelist trying to pit me against some evangelist what about that evangelist I said listen when it comes to evangelism I have no competitor I only I only have colleagues and I draw my heart to anyone who wins one soul for Jesus amen and then shortly after that in a vision God showed me the continent of Africa getting washed in the blood of Jesus the whole continent every nation I tell you when I now get into those nations where I had never set foot in I always enter those nations and I said this was one of them I saw it already washed in the blood of Jesus I believe in the spiritual world it's already an accomplished fact when God says something he is the fulfiller of his own word and he gives us the privilege to be involved in it isn't that so he gives it to you and he gives it to me and he gives it to us all then God opened doors and we saw his mighty powers spring into action we saw whole nations shaken under the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ the gospel is a public issue in Africa amen and millions upon millions of precious souls are turning to Jesus Christ as their Savior this is absolutely fantastic hallelujah well Ron said it already when it comes to figures I'm very very careful because I believe that exaggeration is another form of lying and when we speak of figures we have educated figures we do proper counting we count the heads and not the fingers all right some even count the toes but a person is a person we give no glory to God if we speak of millions and they aren't but the fact is the fact is by the grace of God I've been able to lead millions and millions and millions of people to Jesus Christ he who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved somebody said to me everybody who lifts his hand and everybody who prays the sinner's prayer surely is not born again or is not a Christian well I said you know what I said I said I also know that but one thing I is one thing is sure if it is true but the Bible says and I'm sure that it is true that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved then I must do something right I must do something right and when you preach the gospel and you invite people to receive this wonderful Jesus and you lead them in prayer to the Lord and they call upon the name of the Lord something is happening in the invisible world I am absolutely certain amen hallelujah you know an evangelist is somebody with an undivided mind it's just all always one thing one thing one thing and that's what burns in my spirit day and night this our generation must hear the word of the Lord I was on a talk show here somewhere in the United States and when I arrived there of course I didn't know what the theme was or nothing when I arrived there they said today we are going to solve some deep theological problems it was a controversial issue and thank God Reinhardt is here and now we are going to solve all these theological problems when I heard that I thought oh Lord what did I get into here I'm an evangelist I'm not a professor anyway and they were talking and talking and talking and then they gave the microphone to me and I said you know I want to say something before I say something about the subject let me say something else I'm an evangelist and I said I have decided before God that I will only start splitting hair after the last chain is broken I'm in the business of breaking chains not splitting hair amen and I tell you we are confronted with the greatest emergency this world has ever seen we are in the midst of people who are eternally lost unless somebody throws their lifeline to them and the preaching of the gospel is the throwing out of the lifeline and unpreached gospel is no gospel at all why not because an unpreached gospel helps nobody God has decided that the gospel shall be preached and then it becomes effective amen that was the end of the theological discussion there and we only talked about what God is doing and about winning souls last year in February we were in the Republic of Central African Republic the capital called Bangui and I was so amazed when I arrived at the airport you know it was a big big reception there government was there the president sent his Mercedes limousine with driver for me and and with the police outriders it was terrific I enjoy it you know as I said VIP very important peanut and and there was national television and they interviewed me they wanted to interview me may we ask some questions I said yes and the first question was this they said do you in women preaching the gospel now that was national television I thought wow why did that I just thought why did they ask that question and then I knew of course was to set up thing she was already there ahead of time and she belongs to our team and she's preaching like crazy and they never saw a woman preach so do you believe for women to preach I said Lord what must I say that moment the Holy Spirit spoke to me you know he's my secret weapon and I said I let you I said this is the answer to your question I said you know we had a group of evangelists and I said you know if I was a man drowning in the river I wouldn't care whether a man or a woman throws the lifeline to me as long as I get the lifeline amen hallelujah is it not true some people keep on forever picking on the finer points and they forget that the people are going to hell in the meantime throw out the lifeline man or woman boy or girl throw out the lifeline in Jesus name hallelujah as I said we are seeing nations shaken we went to Kenya we had such a difficult time to enter Kenya believe it or not I thought it would be the easiest country and it was the most difficult for two years we tried to get into Kenya and somehow it was blocked we could not establish ourselves there the government would not allow us in and then I said well let's go in under the wings of somebody else and then once we have had one crusade everything will be fine and so it was we went right to Nairobi Uhuru Park that's the National Sanctuary you can say you know Freedom Park it means that's where all the political rallies are and we were given that very spot for our crusade and God blessed up to 180,000 people in a single service you must see the picture it was awesome one afternoon I was praying in my hotel when the phone rang and my crusade director he said Reinhardt you had a call from the president's office this afternoon president Moy is going to attend the meeting I said that's wonderful but remember we haven't got chairs he said no no they the president will bring his own chair I said when is he coming he said in two hours time at five o'clock he's coming Wow I thought this is wonderful five o'clock I was there and there comes the whole the whole convoy the presidential convoy the chairs everything was already organized under the platform there I mean just in front of the platform downstairs with all his cabinet ministers and security and the people behind so I stood up and I just I prayed when I sat on the platform I said Lord the president is here what must I preach something special the Lord said no preach the gospel as always and I stood up and I just welcomed the president and then I turned to the Bible and I started to preach and when I made the altar call some of the government ministers received Jesus as the Savior the next day I was called to the presidential statehouse the statehouse the president received me there what a fine man and I asked him to allow us to register our ministry in his country was granted instantly and he said to me Reverend Ponke I am going to church many times but yesterday I was absolutely sure it was the first time the preacher didn't change his sermon he said that and he was so blessed you know he said I have decided that all further crusade meetings that you are taking here at Uhuru Park are going to be aired live on all radio channels and television channels across the whole of Kenya now wonderful and the whole country began to be really felt the impact of the gospel of Jesus Christ I we I preached my messages of salvation we preached on divine healing we preached on the baptism in the Holy Spirit all life on the air it was absolutely terrific the miracles we heard afterwards were absolutely incredible even drunks in bars received healing there was a cripple in the bar they were watching on television they were watching on television there was one cripple just drinking his his beer and then I came to the point at the end and I said if you put your trust in Jesus now wherever you are Jesus is going to heal you put your hand on the sick part of your body and the other drunks said to that cripple drunk do what the preacher told you and that cripple drunk he put his hand on his crippled leg and when the prayer rang out the power of God knocked that man off his stool and he was healed it's not amazing the mercy of God is inexplicable is inexplicable what a mighty God we serve and so country after country unlocked and opened we've seen up to 500,000 people in a single service it was rush hour to the meeting rush hour from the meeting it was awesome 25 acres of human beings pushed together shoulder-to-shoulder our crusade lights only lit out half of the crowd the other stood in the darkness I tell you God wants to do great things and I say it again I don't want to play with marbles when God wants mountains to be moved Jesus didn't die for small things Jesus died for great things he is the great I am the everlasting father the prince of peace hallelujah glory to God glory to God I had the privilege to lead presidents to the Lord I had the privilege to preach in the houses of Parliament that's it that's a special joy I think that's a wonderful joy when in Togo I was absolutely fabulous I think I can just share that with you here briefly that was that was now almost two years ago talk was the West African country the capital is Lomi I have never had a crusade there before at all but the gospel struck that nation it was during the Gulf War during the Gulf War the gospel struck that nation I like like lightning with such force and power Lomi has 400,000 inhabitants we had over 200,000 in a single service in a single service and the people were coming and God was saving and the Lord was healing the sick it was absolutely terrific then I had a courtesy visit with with the president I'm not a politician I don't discuss politics with politicians and they invite me we talk about something else and I went out it was just a courtesy call and I shook hands with him he was very nice and before I left he would allow me to pray I prayed and I thought that's the end of the courtesy visit dead official next day I received a call the president seven o'clock in the morning I was I wasn't all together awake yet you know because we have got night shift when our crusades are running and I was asked to come for a dinner to the president's palace I said yes I'm coming so Peter Vandenberg and I and some others went and I was amazed it was a banquet a state banquet absolutely fabulous absolutely fabulous I think they had flown in the food from Paris I stood I was sat was the guest of honor sitting right of the president he had invited all this the top politicians of the country and the top clergy and there I sat as an evangelist and just to start off the conversation I said mr. president your excellency as you as you address them I said your excellency I'm sorry that you you weren't there in last night's meeting he said you know I've got he said to me I've got a friend an old man he is blind for 10 years he said last night his eyes were opened in your meeting he said in my extended family there's a little girl she was stone-deaf since last night she can hear perfectly he was telling me what God was doing and he said to me what why has nobody ever told me that Jesus is doing miracles the president called me again afterwards we talked again I prayed for his family introduced his his son to me is his eldest son was a wonderful time I led that president to the Lord and his wife as well they prayed the sinner's prayer it's absolutely fantastic what God is doing isn't it it is no secret what God can do it's absolutely glorious that was during the time of the Gulf War I tell you we watched in the evening's late we watched the late-night national news you know what happened of the 10 minutes national news eight minutes were about the gospel campaign and the rest for the Gulf War is no wonderful that's wonderful absolutely fantastic to God be the glory to God be the glory we have seen God shaking whole nations shaking whole nations and when it comes to the wonderful gospel of Jesus Christ Satan has absolutely nothing to counter it we are not down we are up we are absolutely fantastic I'm so sure of it when I take the microphone in the Crusades and I begin to preach the gospel I can feel the love of God just flooding my spirit and I can feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit and I know it's just striking everywhere and multitudes upon multitudes enter the valley of decision and decide for Jesus Christ amen I'm hungry for souls I hope you can sense that I'm hungry for souls to be saved Africa shall be saved but America shall just as well be saved and will be saved I pray for divine visions to be given to all of you to see a blood-washed America and I tell you you will never be the same again you won't because all of a sudden you see that that what God is saying is possible and it's not only possible it's God's explicit will and I get you going I get you going and it makes you inventive it makes you inventive if you can't go around there you will go there if you can't go over it you will go under it but you won't give up and that's actually the secret of my team we are just not given giving up amen Africa is being saved not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord what a mighty God we serve amen amen it's such an immense privilege such an immense privilege I just want to conclude my report and then I start preaching you know by by by saying something that stirred my heart from the book of Joshua well Joshua of course is all our favorite isn't it it's terrific it's wonderful and you know Joshua 1 for God gives the dimensions of the promised land and he says from the desert to Lebanon that's from south to north and then it says from the Great Lake to the river Euphrates not Jordan to the river Euphrates shall be your limit say amen and then I wondered Euphrates Euphrates Euphrates this is a Euphrates promise God gave a Euphrates promise and I said to myself now Euphrates is a mighty river just look at the map it's a mighty river now God didn't say which point of the Euphrates the closest or the furthest if Israel had taken the closest point of the Euphrates River it would have meant about let me just say about 300,000 square miles of territory but if God would have meant the furthest point of the river Euphrates it would have been more or less 1 million square miles of territory so the difference between 300,000 and 1 million was lying between well that was the scope God gave to Israel you know I call that Euphrates promise the rubber band promise of God it has a built-in elasticity and the more I thought about it the clearer it became to me that every single promise of God has a built-in elasticity there's always in every promise a minimum and a maximum and the difference between minimum and maximum does not depend upon God it depends you and me what we do with the promise of God I tell you for whom the minimum is the minimum is for those men of God who are always very easily to be satisfied they are satisfied with the small things it's all they ever dreamt I don't belong to that lazy lot the minimum is for the lazy ones but there is another breed of men and women they say like Caleb give me that mountain give me that mountain there is a maximum and God's maximum is always for those hungry men and those hungry women they can never get enough you give them as much as you want and they are still hungry I want more from God and I believe God delights in those men and women who hunger for more may God grant that we possess our Euphrates promise to the full and I tell you what that Euphrates promise is for our time and generation not just for Africa to be saved but for Europe to be saved as well and for America to be saved and Latin America as a bonus on top of it and the whole world shall be saved because Jesus for the whole wide world that is the maximum amen that is the maximum the Church of Jesus Christ cannot be compared with a pleasure boat it cannot be compared with a pleasure boat entertainers are neither needed nor wanted the Church of Jesus Christ is not a pleasure boat it's a lifeboat a lifeboat every hand from the doesn't seek the lost is lost itself Oh may the Holy Spirit charge our spirits that we get our focus right and the master focus of Scripture is the cross of Calvary and the reason of this cross saved to be lost amen I do not feel my view myself as any having anything to do with entertainment I'm not traveling around to entertain people I'm not interested I tell you I'm not I'm not interested in compliments or in prices or in awards or what I every time I preach I've just got one one one one aim I want hell empty and heaven full and I want something to happen in that line in the name of Jesus because Jesus has come the works of the devil I don't come from Hollywood from Calvary well if your thermometer if your thermometer works you will feel the heat amen we've got to do something more than we have ever done before to win our generation for Jesus Christ glory to God in the highest let me just read one scripture if I may Matthew 3 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he who is coming after me is mightier than I John said whose sandals I am not worthy to carry he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire amen we know that scripture the fire of the Holy Spirit is to me personally not just a little decoration over a Christian's head it's the absolute necessity for an effective ministry do you agree with me you see the gospel that God has given us is a fire gospel it has something to do with fire it burns I found an Old Testament illustration why we need the fire of the Holy Spirit just with a few sentences let me let me let me say that in the book of Judges we read about something I've been puzzled about that scripture I think it's it's chapter 15 where Samson had an awful experience he married a wonderful girl the girl of his choice and then one day when he came home to visit his wife his father-in-law oh dear you should never speak bad about the mother-in-law he is a very wicked father-in-law his father-in-law said hey Samson I thought you wouldn't come back I've given your wife to another man so Samson was very very angry and we can't blame him and then Samson did something that can only be understood in in the times in those times the Bible says he went and he caught 300 foxes now that's miracle number one all right and then it says that he took those foxes and tied tail to tail and because every fox only has got one tail I think you always joined two and then Samson did a very cruel thing he took a torch and he lit the tails of these fox pairs and let them run into the ripe harvest fields of the Philistines his enemies and I think as the foxes run Samson might have just wondered and looked and watched and watched and watched and wherever he watched he could exactly see where the foxes were running because they're everywhere everywhere they run they lit fires and all of a sudden my mind went back to Luke where Jesus said I have come to throw fire on earth and what did Jesus do Jesus took his foxes his disciples two by two he joined them together two by two and then he put a divine flame of authority upon them and he said go preach the gospel raise the dead cast out devils heal the sick cleanse the lepers freely you have received freely give and what did they do they went and what happened the whole country started to burn the whole country started to burn I asked myself one silly question what would have happened if Samson had caught the foxes tied their tails together and sent them off what would have happened if Samson had forgotten to light the tails huh nothing absolutely nothing and I I tremble to say this I've seen it so many times there are servants of God who work their fingers to the bone and nothing happens because the fire is missing therefore we need that flame of the Holy Spirit as a bare necessity in our lives and ministries to be effective in times like these and may God grant that truly we may be incendiary of Jesus Christ that's the only time when arson is not a crime hallelujah and we are going to burn down the devil's harvest fields we will burn down his harvest field of hate and of pornography through the fire of the Holy Spirit that is God's antidote to anything Satan wants to do and harm our nations and our young generation our sons and our daughters he is the baptizer with the Holy Ghost and with fire said John hallelujah I believe in the fire because I burned with it amen glory to God let me say just very briefly something about the purpose of the fire the need of the fire now the purpose of the fire the Holy Spirit is not just given to us for us to be happy and clappy you know although that's also also true thank God we are not baptized into lemon juice amen but that fire of the Holy Spirit is given for a very specific purpose very specific purpose actually I've said it already listen sometimes I'm thinking of these old steam engines these old locomotives of the railways you would say railroads you know railroads you know these old steam engines huffing and puffing with fire in their bellies let me just draw a picture when when the fire is lit in one of those locomotives and the head of steam is built up by the fire there's pressure on the boiler the train driver can do two things he can either pull the lever for the whistle and when he does that all the steam will go through the whistle the energy will go through the whistle and it can be heard for miles around a mighty mighty sound but the train driver can do something else he can pull another lever and then the steam the energy is directed to the pistons and all of a sudden those big wheels start turning with much less fuss than the whistle makes and the whole load is transported across the land this is a picture why God is baptizing us with a Holy Ghost and with fire the whistle is important I don't deny that but if that is all if that was all it would be a great pity hear the word of the Lord pull the lever so that the fire that the energy this divine energy the Holy Spirit power is directed to the pistons and then we go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature that is the purpose for Pentecost hallelujah let's give a hand for Jesus blessed be the name of the Lord God hasn't made the sofa for us he's made the road for us the church is not a sit church the church is a go church Jesus said go ye into all the world and preach the gospel somebody has got to go we need to go amen hallelujah and you know the nature of the fire of the Holy Spirit just look at the burning bush I'm giving you pictures here today just look at the burning bush of Moses some people say I won't let me burn out for thee dear Lord I don't I don't pray that because I don't want to be an ashid the whole secret the whole secret of the burning bush with Moses was that it burned but it was not consumed don't forget that when the Holy Spirit comes upon man they burn but they are not consumed and they keep on burning and they're still not consumed fire of God is of a different quality amen oh the nature of that fire is absolutely terrific it's absolutely terrific I saw something in Acts chapter 2 lately I've never seen before and you know I know that chapter by heart as you do I saw all of a sudden I saw something I've never seen before acts 2 it says there first three let me run and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and sat upon one each one of them listen I asked myself what would have happened in Jerusalem if the fire of the Holy Spirit would have come in one big massive general flame one big flame coming down on the upper room what would have happened I think if that would have been the case we would all have to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem and then we would appear there maybe once a year around that mighty big flame and we would start to warm us first from the front because it's so cold and then from the back and when you are warm from the back you are getting cold again in the front so you turn around again listen there didn't come one big flame because that was not God's purpose the fire of the Holy Spirit is not given just for us to have cozy conferences I'll tell you what happened the fire it says you came in divided tongues the Greek it speaks of utterly separate utterly separate flames and it sat upon each of them and I said Lord what that does it mean what does it mean and suddenly the Holy Spirit spoke to me I never heard that before he said to me the flames of fire a miniature power stations for the road hallelujah and one sat upon each of them and instead of us always having to run back to the fire we carry that fire that power station is with me right now that power station is with you right now a man we are bearers of this wonderful holy pure fire from on high he is the baptizer with the Holy Ghost and with fire isn't that terrific I am a bearer of that fire amen how many of you are bearers of that fire hallelujah let's give a hand for Jesus I'm a carrier of that fire we are bearers of this fire hallelujah what a difference what a difference I told the story on other occasions but allow me to mention this no wonder I was preaching somewhere and afterwards a lady came to me and she said to me preacher pray for me pray for me pray for me pray for me she said there is a demon sitting right here on my head I said where she said here I said are you a Christian she said yes yes yes so puzzled she said pray for me pray for me tears came out of her eyes pray for me there's a demon she repeated sitting right here on my head and one moment the Holy Spirit touched my heart I said to her lady flies can only sit on a cold stove and on a cold stove they can sit for a mighty long time but get the fire of the Holy Spirit inside of you and I'll tell you that dirty devil will not dare to touch you because he's going to burn his filthy fingers amen oh we carry a flame it is a power station a miniature power station powerful ministry powerful life it is the power of the Holy Spirit glory to God just imagine this is the stove I mean the hot stove here comes the fly here the fly senses the heat of the stove amen oh hallelujah I tell you if the devil keeps on troubling you just get a new dosage of the fire of God amen and all of a sudden you will feel the heat and you will say wow I used to be afraid of the devil today the devil is afraid of me it's a fact God solved my devil problem 2,000 years ago when Jesus crushed the head of the serpent that's not our problem it's not our problem that problem is solved and Jesus is sent not sending us like defenseless defenseless yeah somebody said to me haven't you read Jesus said I sent you like sheep among the wolves I said yes he sends us like sheep among the wolves but the sheep are on the attack isn't that true the sheep are on the attack amen I tell you I've got a fierce spirit inside of me now when I move out to preach the gospel it burns and it burns in my heart and I just launch these gospel assaults on Satan's territory and we see how this wonderful built-in gospel power turns the tables again and again and again we have that 34,000 seater tent in South Africa and when we pitched it for the second time in Cape Town a mighty mighty tornado swept in and our tent was destroyed destroyed it wasn't just torn it was shredded I was in India with Ron at that time in Calcutta preaching to the Hindus remember and my team was weeping they said it was like a funeral to see that tent disintegrate and I was told by phone I had such peace in my heart perfect peace I had so much peace that I became worried I was worried that I wasn't worried do you know what I'm talking about I thought how can it be my whole team is weeping and I feel as if I'm on top of everything but what I wanted to say this is this that wind swept those shreds of the tent roof into the backyards of the people of Cape Town afterwards I heard people took those pieces and laid them upon the sick and they were healed and then I knew I tell you no matter what Satan does no matter let him shred the tent and we he just has helped us to distribute our prayer cloths I mean he's a servant forever he is condemned to defeat and we are condemned to victory in Jesus name amen he is the baptizer with the Holy Ghost and with fire and divided tongues of fire shall fall upon the people that's the anointing we talk about it's that power station that generates Holy Spirit energy day and night and it's inexhaustible and it is pollution free just in case here is somebody from the Green Party amen we are condemned to victory amen hallelujah I know it's late will you allow me to tell you one more story listen this was terrific I was invited on secular television to come for a talk for a talk show and they had invited an atheist and some other fellows I never know knew them before I was introduced to them just beforehand before before the meetings before the talk show started now I was the preacher and while we were talking I don't know what happened I thought we were to talk about spiritual spiritual subjects there was nothing spiritual there they talked about horse racing gambling gambling now I told you I was I grew up as the son of a pastor I never had a chance in all my life to gamble thank God I always just stumble on the help of God that's all and that's no gamble but they were talking horses horse it was just the time of the handicap races there in the city horses horses horses horses horses and that atheist was the expert he knew all the horses the names of the horses he knew all the names of the of the jockeys back to front I mean just by he knew it and he was rattling it off I was sitting there not my eyes shut and I prayed I said talking horses horses horses horses horses suddenly a flash went through my spirit and I woke up and I said to the atheist I said mister now I would like to tell you something about horses the atheist was surprised what does this preacher know about horse racing I said mister I have put all my money on the white horse in the book of Revelation hallelujah amen now though the atheist started to marvel looked at me scratched his head he repeated white horse the book of education revelation the white horse in the book of Revelation and then that atheist made a second mistake he said to me preacher tell me who is the rider on that horse hallelujah amen I had the feeling you wanted to know the name of the jockey and I said mister in Revelation chapter 19 we read his name his name is faithful and true king of kings lord of lords Jesus Christ is his name the son of the living God hallelujah amen I said mister I want to be honest with you I didn't put my money on him because I got no money but I put my life and my soul on him and I know already now I'm going to win we are condemned to victory in the name of Jesus it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord it's not flame that enables us the divine commission comes with a divine enablement that miniature power station is functioning perfectly in Jesus name America shall be saved amen let's give a hand for Jesus let's give a hand for Jesus I'm concluding I'm concluding and I want to say justice God spoke to my heart about America I believe you and I we together here are going to I didn't see it as a project I saw it already done I saw it as done you know God sees things as done and I see it as done our sons and our daughters are not going to be ruined by pornography and by ungodliness our sons and our daughters shall prophesy our young man shall see visions and upon servants and handmaids the Lord will pour out his Holy Spirit I believe this with all my heart God wants to hear you.
Burning With the Holy Spirit Fire - Reinhard Bonnke
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