Mike Bickle reflects on the ten-year journey of his ministry, emphasizing the importance of sharing God's works with future generations as outlined in Psalm 78. He recounts significant prophetic experiences, including a life-changing encounter in Cairo, Egypt, where he received a vision of a global movement that would transform Christianity. Bickle stresses the necessity of night and day prayer, holiness, extravagant giving, and the activity of the Holy Spirit as foundational values for this movement. He shares how prophetic words and signs, such as a comet and a drought, have confirmed God's plans for revival and the establishment of a house of prayer. Ultimately, Bickle encourages listeners to remain faithful to their assignments and to trust in God's timing for the fulfillment of His promises.

Let's get started. Psalm 78. Let's pray. Father, we thank you at this 10-year anniversary and we celebrate your goodness towards us and all the many things that you have done in the days gone by and all the promises you have given for the days yet to unfold. Lord, I ask you for all that are receiving and hearing this testimony here and other places. All that are saying yes to the Holy Spirit. I ask that you would strengthen them and their calling wherever it's at across the world or in the city. I ask you God to strengthen people whatever they're calling and their assignment is by this little testimony over these eight sessions and we thank you in Jesus name. Amen. On Psalm 78 verse 2 to 7. I'll read it briefly. This is what I the verse I think of when I think of the eight sessions that we're going to be covering on our prophetic history. The psalmist said in verse 2, I will open my mouth in a parable. That's interesting. He said in a parable. I will utter dark sayings. That's like a parable as well. The sayings which our fathers told us tell them to the generation to come. That's what we're doing right now. Tell them his wonderful works verse 5. He established a testimony in Jacob he commanded our fathers this thing to tell the children the story. He commanded the fathers tell the children the story of the wonderful works of God verse 6 so that the generation to come may declare even to their children and what's the purpose verse 7 so that the fathers and the children and everyone in between they would set their hope in God. They would not forget the works of the Lord but they would keep his commandments now some of God's ways are parables and as we tell this prophetic story, there's many parables Matthew chapter 13 Jesus spoke in many parables. It says many things. He said in parables now Jesus doesn't change. He still speaks today in parables now parables are a stumbling block but they're meant to be they're meant to cause us to struggle they're given on purpose truth is given in the form of a parable now parable has two purposes to make truth easy and to make truth difficult and you can read the notes those that are following this through the DVDs. I want to encourage them to forget the notes because there'll be more complete explanations of the story and what I'm saying in the notes paragraph C first Timothy 1 Paul charged Timothy to fight the good fight of faith according to the prophecies because prophecy it strengthens our resolve to obey God. It strengthens our focus in the things of God paragraph D now there's a vast glorious storyline going on the father's grand storyline of this generation and every ministry and every individual has their own particular little part of that story and I'm going to tell our little part of the story and one of our purposes is that it would encourage other people in other places that have another assignment and they have a part in there of the grand storyline when I hear their story it encourages me when we tell our story. The goal is that it would encourage them so that as we hear one another story we get the more clear view of the big picture the puzzle that mysterious grand storyline of what God's doing. And so that's what we're hoping will happen that as people hear this that they won't necessarily all say hey, I want to be a part of that but they would say hey if God's doing that there what will he do here? Roman numeral two it's going to take two minutes to give a little bit of my personal background of the reason I'm doing this. This is how I processed the information in 1982 83 and 84 that's when the most dramatic experiences happened one after the other in those in that three-year period and so I want to give just a two-minute overview of where I came from and where I was at that point in time and how I process the information through this particular lens paragraph a I was born again in 71. I was a part of a Presbyterian Church for five years and I was radically anti-charismatic for five years. I mean radically I when I was asked to speak at a college campus or a high school Bible study often I taught against the gift of tongues and why it was a heresy and an error. I was involved in my high school and college years and Campus Crusade for Christ and Navigators and Fellowship of Christian Athletes paragraph be my favorite Bible teacher for the last 30 years has been dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones from London and my other favorite teachers were a W Tozer and John Stott and J. I Packard and guys like Stewart Briscoe and Chuck Smith. And of course, Leonard Ravenhill guys like that. Now some of those names those those that are younger won't even know but for those that are older that's the framework of which I stumbled into this large kind of drama that was unfolding in my little life. I've always read biographies and in my early days in my teens and twenties. I was a biography fanatic. I read them many many times over and over and over. I want to encourage young people read biographies because they give you a picture of what what God might do in your life. And of course my heroes were guys like Jay Hudson Taylor and David Brainerd Jonathan Edwards Wesley and Whitfield and Finney and John G. Lake and Bernard of Clairvaux, which some of you won't know that name. But when you look at those heroes, all of them had a strong evangelistic anointing. My heroes were all evangelist. So when I met Bob Jones and the Lord started talking about the House of Prayer, I heard it through the lens in the background of the paradigm of an evangelist. I heard every story through the lens of how people could get to know Jesus. Well, June 1982, the story picks up. I'm going to pick it up there. I'm in st. Louis pastoring a man named Augustina Cola with a strong proven prophetic ministry who I'd never heard of comes through town. And he gives me a prophecy. He said that he heard the audible voice of the Lord about my life. Now, of course, I had no way to interpret that I'd never heard such a claim. And the long and the short of it was that God had a new direction. And in essence, he was sending me to Kansas City. That was a disturbing word and I didn't know how to interpret a person who claimed he heard the audible voice of God. No one in my background had ever heard the audible voice of God. He gave me four words. It's a very important words in October 1982. He said when you go to Kansas City, which we went the next month in November. He said I want to tell you four things. There's going to be thousands of young people gather from even around the world over time. There will be a full manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in God's timing. He said watch out. There'll be a false prophet in your midst in the early days, which by the way, we discovered it and discerned it. And so there's no mystery about that. And then he said a kind of a strange word. He said there will be a resistance a controversy. There will be people standing against you and the Lord says don't answer him. But the Lord himself will answer them. Roman numeral three. My first dramatic life-changing encounter related to this movement was in Cairo Egypt in 1982. Now we moved to Kansas City in November. So this is two months before we moved. I'm in Cairo Egypt and a hotel room and I had a life-altering dramatic experience where the fear of the Lord fell on me in a in a literal way of the only time awake. I've ever experienced the fear of the Lord of that level of that magnitude and the Lord said I will change the understanding and expression of Christianity in the whole earth in one generation. Not this movement or that movement, but God himself the wall the thousands of movements and millions of ministries. He said I am going to do this across the whole earth in one generation and the my spirit trembled in the fear of the Lord fell on me and I give some of the details on the notes that I'm not going to go into paragraph B and the Lord spoke clearly what I call a four heart standards. These were four values the Lord cemented in me in Cairo Egypt. Now some people have misquoted us. I mean in our midst and said these are our four values. I go. No, we have about 20 values. We don't have only four values, but these are the four that are the most neglected in Church history. We have many more values besides these four and the Lord insisted on these that the work must be built on these four values and everything is measured in terms of our faithfulness to believe God for the future. Are we holding the line on these four values in our individual lives and as a ministry he said it would be built on night and day prayer. He said it would be built on holiness of heart. This is essential on extravagant giving offerings for the poor and on the activity of the Holy Spirit that it we would have faith in what the Spirit is saying and what the Spirit is doing and believe it or not. That's the most challenging of all to take a stand on what the Spirit is saying and what the Spirit is doing and I have some more notes on that here that you can read on your own. Well, when the Lord says I'm going to change the understanding and expression of Christianity the whole earth in one generation. My spirit trembles the fear of the Lord comes on me. I've never had anything like this happen to me before the Lord says I'm inviting you to be a part of a work that will touch the ends of the earth. This was my first insight into this young adult movement that Bob Jones would articulate so clearly when I met him some months later. I didn't know anything about a young adult movement, but the Lord says I will do it and I'm inviting you when you go to Kansas City to be involved in a work that will touch the ends of the earth. And I said, yes, I was crying and weeping. Yes, Lord. Yes. He said you've only said yes, you have not yet done it. I said yes Lord. He says many have said yes. I heard this crystal clear many have said yes, but they did not do it. And then he gives me one more word. He said beware lest your brethren still these things from your heart and they were the four standards in reality. Those were the things and in the 25 plus years since this experience. I have had constant challenges in my own weakness and by the brethren to lower those standards and to let go and to quit being intense about them. Even my own flesh and weakness challenges me just to back off and the Lord says you cannot back off of these realities. Be aware. Yes, lest your brethren still these from your heart and that and that's one of the main reasons God raised up Bob Jones was that he took a stand on these four things and spoke over and over the word of the Lord that confirmed that there was a move of God that was built on that would be built on many values. But these four values the most neglected values would be paramount to this work. Roman numeral for we moved to Kansas City in November 1982. We start our church. We have a little home meeting the week before the church starts December 5th. And in this little home meeting just about 50 of us the week before the church starts. It was surprising significant gathering because the Lord redirected that gathering and he spoke to us. It was unplanned prophetically. He broke in and said you would be like a Gideon's army and there was weeping and and we waited on the Lord and a number of people I would say a good percentage of in the room were weeping. And there was a tenderizing that came in the room and the Lord spoke about Gideon's army throughout the thing and I was a little bit mystified by that some years later. It would make a lot more sense. Paragraph B our first Sunday or still on paragraph 8 December 5th 82. I spoke on Luke 18 night and day prayer and Isaiah 62 night and day prayer and I remember some guys came up to me afterwards and they said I don't have a clue what you just said and my and I don't say this to be a strange but I said I was saying it as a testimony to God. I wasn't even saying it to make sense to the people the brand new church a hundred people most of them go. We don't even know what you're talking about night and day prayer justice and tell Watchman on the wall. We thought this was going to be a family church and I said no I gave the message as a statement to the heavens of what I was putting my flag on the hill in Kansas City about paragraph C. I meet Bob Jones on March 7th and we'll look at this in the next session more the first encounter he had where the Lord sent him back from death in August 1975. We'll look at that at the next session in some detail and the Lord he died had a death experience stood before the Lord the Lord says go back. He says I want you to touch some of the initial leaders of a youth movement. I'm going to raise up in Kansas City to touch the ends of the earth. And so Bob came back and when I first met him that was one of the first things he told me because I came back from death. To strengthen some young leaders for a purpose that would unfold over decades and he said there's so much you don't understand and the Lord has set me at your side and we'll talk about that more paragraph C. He told me on March 7th. I'm giving you a summary of a couple hour meeting two or three hour meeting. He gave me so many dreams and visions in the first two meeting of two three hours, but the essence of it. He said you're an intercessor. He said you're a youth pastor. You're going to lead a worldwide youth movement of singers and musicians. You're going to be used in he says this whole movement will be used in power evangelism that excited me and you would mobilize people to pray for the nation of Israel that I didn't understand that and he said there would be an abundant grace on intercession and prophetic. He said there's a banner over this movement that's yet to unfold that they will have an abundant grace in prophetic and intercession. Now. He said are you a singer? I said no. He said are you a musician? I said no. He said do you ever pray for Israel? I said no. He said do you know about this youth movement? He goes, you know, you're a youth pastor. I said no. I'm not a youth pastor. I used to be one. I'm not a youth pastor anymore. He says yes, you are. He says so you don't know anything that I'm talking about right now. I said no, but it's funny now, but he it wasn't so funny to him. He said this and he meant it. He said the Lord told me you would be dull, but I did not think you would be this dull and he said to me he goes at the first of spring when the snow melts they will accept me. Now the first of spring happens in two weeks from this initial meeting on March 7th. I said the first of spring when the snow melts. They will accept you. I go who is who are they? He said you will accept me with your own lips around the communion table on the first day of spring with the snow melts. He said let me explain this to you. Acts chapter 2 verse 17. He says God pours out visions. I mean pours out his spirit. He gives dreams and visions. He goes. Let me explain the principle and God will send signs in the heavens comets weather patterns are the kind of the lower realm of the signs of the heavens the signs of the heavens are going to pick up far beyond that before the Lord returns. He says and there'll be signs on the earth. He goes what happens is the prophet will give you a vision you won't be sure if the vision is true, but they will say they will declare a sign in the heaven that God told him about and then when that sign in the heaven that can't be manipulated by anybody when that sign takes place, then you will go back and say what was that vision again because the sign verified it. He says I'm giving you a sign right now. There's going to be a snow that will come at the first of spring because it had been 60 and 70 degrees for about a week and they were saying that the spring has already come. I says I don't think it's going to snow yet a winter coat on on this day. It's been 60 and 70 throughout the week for about seven or eight days. I said you think it's going to snow. He says I'm positive. It will snow on the first day of spring and I will sit across the table and you will accept me with your own lips. You will know the things that I'm telling you are true paragraph II. He went on to tell me right in this meeting as well as subsequent future meetings. Some of these words. I'm pulling together from three or four different conversations. He said this movement will have an intercessory ministry like Harry S. Truman and I've I couldn't understand Harry S. Truman. How did he get in this story? We're in Oval and Park what 15 or 20 minutes from here and he said that's where the church is for two years. He goes we're going to move to Grandview next to Harry S. Truman. That was the I had again. That was such a random thing to say he said Harry S. Truman was the president and he stood for Israel and I have some notes as to why that's important. I won't go into that right now. He said but this movement and not just I hop I'm talking about the movement is bigger than I hop the movement is bigger than our influence. It's the people that are saying yes to these values that were given in Cairo these Cairo values the movements bigger than people who officially connect to us. It's God's movement. It's not our movement. Our part in the movement is a smaller part than the contribution of many others. He said this movement will have an intercessory ministry like Harry S. Truman and for those that don't understand the significance of Israel and the generation the Lord returns again. You can just read a little bit on the notes, but I challenge you to study. I do nothing about this when he told me this he goes to but you'll be next to him in Grandview. You'll be next to Harry S. Truman. It will be a sign in a wonder when you are next to him that this movement really is an intercessory movement and it will touch the nation of Israel like Harry S. Truman did but Harry S. Truman touched it in a spirit political way. This movement will touch it in a spiritual way and I told him my one statement I said, well, I don't know. You know, we're in a very upscale side of town. I said over and over in Park. I said our people don't really shop over in Grandview. I don't really see us moving over there and he said you will mark my word and you will be next to Harry S. Truman that you can be sure of paragraph F. Most of you know January 27th in 2008. We purchased the Harry S. Truman farm 125 acres exactly on the 50 year day that he sold it to a Jewish family exactly 50 years to the day that Jewish family sold it to us. And of course, you know the story God raised up a man that paid it off and we received a debt free on the 50 year day Jubilee celebration and we are now next to Harry S. Truman as the word spoke 25 years ago. Bob's walking out the door and he stops and he says let me tell you one more thing. I almost forgot. He said the Lord told me you like things 1 2 3 4. He said so I'm going to tell it to you. 1 2 3 4 says number one. There's going to be thousands of young people gathered to this movement number two. There's going to be a full manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit of the Lord's timing number three said there'll be a false prophet in the midst. Keep your eyes open. And number four there will be a resistance. There will be a controversy. There will be a stand against you even in this town and you're not to answer it, but you said you're just to let the Lord answer it. He gave me the exact same four words that Augustine had given me about six months earlier and they had never met each other or every neither of them knew the other person's ministry or words at all. So I walk out of the meeting and at that that jolts me that perplexes me. I don't know what to do with that. How did he know the same four words that a man gave me in another city that were not public words at all. They were private words. Well, two weeks go by and our cats comes in town and he asked if we could meet with if he could meet with Bob Jones and nine o'clock one night just kind of suddenly because there was a change of plans throughout that day. Was it planned? I call Bob Jones about between 8-9 at night. I says, can we meet because I don't know him yet. I you know, I had that meeting with him and was mystified by him, but he was interesting, but I was not at all convinced. So our cat says could we meet with this prophet guy that I met earlier today. It was a Sunday morning meeting now to Sunday night. So I call up. I go, it's late. You know, it's almost nine o'clock at night. So I call it Bob and Bob says I've been waiting for you all day to call me and so he came over to our house. There were six of us around the table. We met from nine about 10 9 or 10 o'clock at night till 4 in the morning and Bob begin to tell stories and the Spirit of the Lord descended three or four times and all six of us were weeping in the room that happened three times or four it was something remarkable and our cats looks at him and Bob had given him a couple of words and the market says you are truly a prophet of God a couple hours pass and Bob says let me tell you what the angel told me last night and he told me the most intimate piece of information that any person could give me he told me the sentence that I made a covenant before God to my father just before my father died. I spoke a specific sentence very very important to my life. My father dies suddenly were the only two who know that sentence besides God and he looked at me and he said the angel of the Lord visited me last night and he said this and he told me the sentence that shook me I begin to weep my wife Diane said what I've never heard this sentence. I says nobody has ever heard this sentence and I looked at Bob and I said you were surely truly a prophet of God no man could have known this and Bob says today is the first day of spring. He goes look out the window. The snow had come just that one day and it was melting. He says I told you when I met you at the first of spring with the snow melts. We would sit around the table and you would accept me with your own mouth. You have done it just now paragraph G August 13 three weeks later. We're meeting every night for prayer meeting 7 to 10 every night. It's something the Lord's put in our heart from the beginning because he said in Cairo build it on night and day prayer. So we said three hours a night to beginning. He said literally build it on night and day prayer not that every church is going to have a 24 hour. That's not what I'm saying at all but together connected with others in their area. The prayer will go up morning noon and night at least and at one of the evening prayer meetings on a Wednesday night. The Holy Spirit spoke to me in the same level not the same drama, but the same level of clarity that he spoke to me in Cairo Egypt. I call it the internal audible voice of the Lord. I've heard that several times in the last 30 plus years a small amount of times where I heard the exact phrase from the Lord and he spoke about Daniel 9 and Daniel 10 in this prayer meeting to me directly and in Daniel 9 and Daniel 10 the angel Gabriel appeared spoke to Daniel about the end times. There was a 21 day fast and the Lord said call 21 day fast. It's related to Daniel 9 Daniel 10 the angel Gabriel the end times and they went on and there was clarity in my heart. I won't go into all the details. It was a remarkable concept to me. It was so presumptuous to utter such a thing publicly to announce this to a church because I've only been in the church for four months five months. I said I Lord I can't even think of saying what you told me last night to people Daniel 9 and 10 and the angel Gabriel started 21 day fast and we set the date May 7th to May 28th. So I'd have only now believe that Bob was from the Lord for a few weeks now. So I call him on the phone the next morning. And I said Bob I said I really need to hear from God. He says I've already heard. No, I said no, no, no, you don't know what happens. He goes. Oh, yes, I do know what happened. He goes come over. Whoa, that was it. Just a few seconds conversation. I didn't tell him I was going to ask you if I was going to tell it to him and ask you for counsel. I had no idea how this was going to work. Put a couple guys in the car. I said I need some witnesses. Something remarkable might happen. And I said last night at the prayer meeting God talked to me about Daniel chapter 9 the angel Gabriel a 21-day fast start on May 7th, and I mean something that would end up leading to the return of the Lord one day. I don't know when these guys their eyes are real big. They said what and I said, I'm not really asking you for counsel. I'm asking you to be a witness. We got to Bob's house. Walked in Bob said sit down. He says, let me tell you I hadn't said a word. He said I saw the angel Gabriel. He said give the young man Daniel chapter 9 and he will understand. I mean, it was like the I lost my breath and so did the two guys with me. It was stunning. And he said and you're to begin on May 7th. I went this is inconceivable that a man has heard this no, it was inconceivable to me. I mean the snowstorm that was pretty intense that on a snowstorm the first of spring when the snow came down was intense and he told me the secret. I told my father that was really intense but he saw Gabriel. He said Daniel 9 and told him to tell me Daniel. I thought and Bob said it's more than that. He said on May 7th when you start there will come across the nations a comet unpredicted by scientists one that nobody can know about at this point in time, but it's coming and that comment will come and it will verify the truth that I have really seen Gabriel and you're really supposed to do Daniel 9 and God's really get a birth of youth movement of singers and musicians that will touch the ends of the earth. I said I was so touched just by the fact he told me Daniel 9 so I call the fast and it creates a bit of a stir in the city because I've been only been in the city five six months. I'm 27 years old. I have no credibility with anybody and I'm calling a fast comet Gabriel the Lord returned. I mean that's intense. That's why I needed Bob Jones. I could never ever have had the courage or even the confidence to say such things May 7th. We gather we got about a 700 seat sanctuary in our new little church. It's packed people from all around the city. Bob Jones brings the newspaper on May 7th. It says comet unpredicted by scientists comes across the America. He goes, this is the comment. I told you about three weeks ago. You can read a little bit of the details on that here in the notes. Well, we're in the 21 day fast paragraph. I and the Lord gives us two main prophetic words that 25 years later. We they're still very very important to us. About 10 days into the fast. We have the solemn assembly. We call it the solemn assembly that we always refer to it. We met from 6 in the morning till 12 at night 18 hours a day and we cried out for the breaking end of God. Now, what was on my heart was revival for America. No, no, that's not revival for Kansas City a little bit overflow to America. I was locked in Lord of our church. If we could see a thousand new converts. I mean by the power of God souls get safe. I would be the happiest guy be told. I'm happy. Not told that the Bobby says it's it's not that's not even you're not even thinking in the right direction. What it be? He made that clear to me. He goes. It's so much more than what you're thinking. So I'm one of these prayer meetings. We had maybe a thousand people involved in it at various ways. This 21 day fast. About 500 more intense than the other 500. So one day about the 10th day into it again. We're 6 a.m. To 8 to 12 at night 18 hours a day long days. Not there wasn't a lot of the presence of God in the room or it was a pretty oppressed difficult time to be really honest. But we had two high marks. Maybe another one or two but two main high marks. One day. I'm in the prayer room. And that which is the church sanctuary. And I'm pacing back and forth and the Lord puts in my spirit. Psalm 27 for this one thing all the days of my life. I'll gaze on the beauty of the Lord. Now, I don't pray that on the microphone. I pray on the microphone. It's 18 hours a day. So I pray on the microphone. I don't know five or ten times a day. I didn't count but you know, you got to keep the thing going all day long. And I never pray that on the microphone because I asked them on the microphone to pray Revival prayers and that seemed like a devotional prayer to me. So all day long. I had this unusual gripping and I said this one thing all the days of my life. This one thing all the days of my life this one thing all the days, but I said it throughout the day. It was just like resting on my heart. I was so gripped by this prayer. Psalm 27 for Bob Jones comes to me the next day. And he says, let's go to the back room. He goes, I heard from the Lord the audible voice of the Lord and he told me the answer is yes. This is good. Actually, I said yes to what? He said to the prayer you prayed. I said, well Bob, I prayed five or ten prayers yesterday on the microphone. He goes, I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about the one the Lord gave you. And I'm not connecting. I'm not following. He said Psalm 27 for this one thing all the days of my life. I said, oh, wow. Yeah, I prayed that all day because I know the Lord spoke to me said he put it in your heart and the answer is yes. It's good. I go. What's that mean? I must see his beauty. I love that he goes. No, he goes. Yes, you know. You'll see the Lord will touch you. That's he said this is talking about 24-hour prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle of David. That was the oddest phrase. He said the Lord said 24-hour prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle of David. That's what he is saying. Yes to that's what this 21 days is birthing. It's birthing a youth movement that will touch the edge of the earth. There will be 24 hours with singers and musicians that will mobilize people. Of course, many ministries will do this for the nation of Israel and they'll have power evangelism and you will be next to Harry is Truman. I said 24-hour. I remember I said, what would we do all day? No, I remember I said, I don't even know what we would do. I'm an evangelist in my thinking. My heroes are evangelists. They're not they're evangelists. Let's put it that way. All my heroes. And he says the I saw the angel of the Lord and the angel of the Lord. I saw him with my eyes. He says when you get to 500 you will go to 5,000 overnight by a flood of the spirit. I said we get to 500 what he said full-time intercessors. I said we will have 500 full-time intercessors. He goes now you'll have 5,000 full-time intercessors. I said full-time like it's their job. He goes. Yes. That's what I said. What will we do? He says you will sort that out when you get there. He said watch Mississippi. Watch Mississippi. That's a sign. I said, what does that mean? He goes? I do not know what that means the angel. I saw him with my eyes. He said watch Mississippi. He said but here's the word 5,000 people will come relocate find a new home in Kansas City by a flood of the spirit. Watch Mississippi within the without the flood of the spirit within a week or so. He brought the newspaper in and the article tells the story 5,000 people moved overnight because of a flood hitting Jackson, Mississippi. He goes. This is what I was telling you about a week ago. The angel said when this sign happens, you will know for sure it may be decades from now before this 500 turns to 5,000 but one day you will know with certainty. There's a flood of the spirit coming and there will be a sudden growth to 5,000 and that's critical for God's purposes for this youth movement. He says but don't be too encouraged because when you go to 5,000 there will be more conflict than you can imagine when that happens. He said it will be glorious on one side, but it will bring more trouble in conflict that you've ever imagined in your life. The second word and I'll give more details on this in a in a one of the following sessions. We're doing eight sessions. This is just the first one. He promised a healing anointing. By saying that there would be no disease known to man that would stand before this people now so that you know this that anointing of healing will be upon the body of Christ across the nation's those that are pressing into the Lord. I've heard some people through the 25 years. They stress the phrase this people. Here's how they say it. No to the no disease known to man will stand before this people. And here's how it's supposed to be no disease known to man will stand before this people. The point is no disease will stand before the authority of Jesus on the end time Church and this anointing will be on many streams that say yes to the purposes of God with all their heart that some people say I'm moving there because of that anointing. I don't know that anointing will be wherever there are people pressing into God. You don't have to move here for that paragraph J at the end of the 21 days Bob Jones stands up. Now. This is where things turn everything so far. It's like wow. I mean audible voice comet Gabriel Daniel 9 Mississippi Flood predicted a week ahead of time. I mean this same numbers 5,000 people. I thought this is really neat. Bob stands up at the end of the 21 day fast. And he said I have good news and I have bad news. We're all out there. I mean, we're rung out. He said here's the bad news. The Revival is not coming right away. But rather there is a spiritual drought that's been on this nation for a long time and that spiritual drought over America is going to continue for yet another season. He said but God has a determined day where he will break the drought in this nation. The spiritual drought. I'm talking about the lack of the full Revival. There's refreshing here and there in pockets of the body of Christ and I honor that and I want more from anywhere that God's moving because the Lord's moving in other places more than he's moving here. I want to receive from him, but no matter where he's moving nothing is compared to what God is saying. He's going to do the church in this nation and the nations of the earth. He said that we're in a spiritual drought. We have been for some time for some many decades. He was describing that's been a prolonged condition, but he said I want to tell you there is a moment in time where the drought will break in this nation. The spiritual drought I'm talking about and there will be a outpouring of Revival that will be dramatic. He said that's going to happen. He said here's a sign. There'll be a three-month natural drought in this city. He said thus says the Lord there will be a three-month natural drought and that natural droughts going to happen. It's going to convince you what I'm telling you about the spiritual drought because there is an appointed day. He says this at the end of May. He goes on August 23rd. He says this publicly with several hundred people listening. He goes on August 23rd. Thus says the Lord the rains will come. I thought that is bold. I mean, I was bold. Well, you can look at the handout the the note. I mean there was a drought the worst drought minus one year in recorded history in Kansas City for just three months plus a week and on August 23rd on a Tuesday night. We gathered at several months later because this is the end of May. He says in August August we gather and the rains came. I mean, it was a downpour. It only rained about a third of an inch, but it all came down in 20-30 minutes. It came like a storm at 7 o'clock right when we were meeting at 7 o'clock. We were gathering before the Lord and this downpour came that people had to stay in their car. So the very time of the of the meeting the thing comes at this torrential downpour for 10 15 20 minutes. However long it lasted we were shouting we were happy because what it meant to us that if this man heard with that kind of precision at the end of May that on August 23rd precisely on that day the rains would come in the midst of a drought then it means if that sign happened in the heavens, then that means the vision and the dream is true as well and the vision that the sign backed up was simply this the revival is not coming yet, but be of good cheer. There is an appointed hour. There is a pointed hour that God will break the drought in this nation and that could be said of the nations of the earth. Every nation has its own time calendar with God. And I don't know when that day is coming but beloved don't get used to business as usual because there is going to be a radical breaking in of God and not just power demonstrations, but of a requirement of abandonment in our private lives to the Holy Spirit. I'm talking about obedience at a new level. Some folks get excited about the revival, but the revival has meaning to it. The Lord will be jealous for radical obedience in our inward life, our private lives. I have here in paragraph K now between March and August. Look at this. There's an unusual snow. A comet a flood a drought and a rain five things this prophetic man says and it doesn't look like any of them would happen before he said them and he attached a vision or a word from the Lord with each one of them and these five different signs of the heavens five of them in about a six-month period of time. I mean up there's never been it's never been like that since that six-month period of time. I mean that was a one-time deal, but Bob told me has told me through the years. You're going to see this kind of thing happen at a far greater level as we get closer to the coming of the Lord the signs in the heavens but these five things are not just good stories. They speak of great responsibility. They speak of being faithful and not backing away and staying true to the purpose. Let's go to November 7th paragraph L Bob Jones comes to me on November 7th. Now, it's been six months now since this 21 day fast that began on May 7th where the comet came. It's been six months. It's been a pretty weary six months, but we did have the rain of August 23rd. We have that rain that came predicted. So it gave our it boosted boost bolstered our confidence, but still the it's pretty rough. The prayer meetings are really dull. The church is dull. Nobody's excited. It's kind of like what happened in May in six months was already kind of a faint memory to some of the people November 7th Bob comes to me and he said on November 15th and eight days you're going to have a revelation directly from the throne of God. He said and when you have this revelation you will never doubt again that this 21 day fast that started on May 7th was the birthing of an end time move a youth group of singers and musicians that would move in power evangelism and all the things he said he goes you're doubting it right now. You will never doubt again after November 15th. I said a direct revelation from heaven. He said yes. I said then that means I'm going up or somebody's coming down. He said exactly I said really this is real. He goes. Yes. Well, his credibility was so great the last six months the things that God did through him and he uttered and they came to pass were so astounding. I was excited. Well, November 15th comes the whole day passes. It's 1115 at night. Nothing has happened yet. But it Bob's track record is astoundingly accurate and that season and I mean many things since it many many things the some of the things that we'll look at in the next couple days astounding accuracy. Not just that a man had an accurate prophetic ministry, but there was a message that went with the accurate prophecy. That's the part I care about is the meaning the message behind the accurate sign. So it's 1115. Nothing's happening. It's November 15th. I got 45 minutes to go. I'm at my office. I'm going to go ahead and wait till midnight and I thumbing through the mail and I look at a book that I'd never heard of this man. Howard Pittman. It's just a little 50 page book called placebo. Somebody sends it to me some woman from out in Kansas said here read this. I thought let's see. I didn't know what a placebo was. I said, what is this? And it said in the description man has death experience. I thought well, that's interesting. I got 45 minutes 50 pages. I can do that in 45 minutes. So I'm just kind of scanning through it reading. It's kind of interesting and I get in what happens Howard Pittman some of you we have the book in our bookstore. You really want to get it. Howard Pittman in August 1979. He has a death experience. Now. This is four years before where I'm at here in November 15th 83 four years early. I'm reading about this man. He's a policeman from Louisiana. He has a death experiences. He hemorrhages and bleeds and dies. His spirit goes before the Lord. I thought how fascinating he stands before the Lord and God gives him five messages and you really want to read this little book placebo and in this five messages the Lord tells him the church in the Western world is is in the Laodicean our they are in Laodicean Church the church in the Western world makes it clear to him. That's not a popular message because I heard that I was in the presence of God directly. The Lord told Howard to go back. He says I'm sending you back. Howard had a very negative experience because the Lord rebuked him for his lifestyle. The Lord was not pleased with him and he asked for mercy to have another chance in the Lord says yes, but here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you a five-point message. You're going to go back. And he was in pain over the rebuke. He received. He says I was literally right outside the city gate and the thunderous voice of God came over the walls that city and he rebuked me several different times. It was painful. And then he healed my heart at that time is now go back speak this word. He said there's going to be a Gideon army raised up in the end times that got my attention. I thought I like that. He goes to they want to move in signs and wonders beyond what the early Apostles did and even some beyond where Elijah operated in power and God would raise up a Gideon army. And at the very end of the book, there's several different editions. So you might not end up with the right one. There's several different editions in the book. This is written in May 1980. It talks about the Lord said on May 7th, 1983. Now, that's the day. We started the fast. That's the day. The comet came across the sky May 7th, 1983. That was the day where the 21-day fast. That's the day that Bob Jones says God's going to talk to you about May 7th, 1983 when you stand a direct revelation from heaven. He's going to confirm that that day was really an important day to him. So I'm reading this in the book. It says on May 7th, 1983. I'm going to summarize it. Not quoted. He came to visit us two or three times and we talked many hours. I talked to him for an hour on the phone just a couple days ago. We were rehearsing it all again. But I'm reading this. It says on May 7th, the meaning of it again. I'm not a quote. There will be a heavenly sign in the sky and on May 7th, 1983. The Lord is going to begin to recruit in earnest his Gideon army for the return of the Lord. I said May 7th. I looked at the book. I said this was written three years before May 7th, 83. How did what he wrote this book in 1980? I go, how did he know what would happen on May 7th, three years ahead of time? And Howard says, well, the Lord made it clear to me on May 7th, 1983. He was going to begin to recruit in earnest his Gideon army that would lead to the return of the Lord. And he said there would be a sign in the heavens. I said, what's the sign? He goes, I've even done this phone call. He goes, I don't know you got, you know, you're the one that has more inside that I do. I never knew what the sign was. So I finished this. I am so excited. I look at the clock. It's like one or two minutes till 12. It is true. I heard from heaven on November 15th, two minutes till 12 or one minute till 12. I call it Bob Jones. Bob. He goes, did you go up or did somebody come down? I said somebody came down. He goes, well, that's just as good. It's the word of the Lord. I go up man had a death experience in 1979. And the Lord throughout the entire experience made it clear to him. He wrote a book on it the next year in 1980 that on May 7th, 1983, God was going to recruit his Gideon army. We are part of that Gideon army. This is the word the Lord gave us. And Bob says, I told you you would hear from heaven on this day. I said, this is impossible that this guy could get this. I said it has to be real. Bob says, I think you have it. You've got it now. Roman number 5, 16 years goes by. It's January 1999. Again, we got more detail on the notes here. A man comes to me on a Sunday morning. January 24th, and he says Haggai chapter 1 verse 2 and let's read it. It says this people says in their heart. The time has not yet come that the house of the Lord should be built. He looked at me and he said, do not say in your heart from Haggai chapter 1 verse 2 do not say he opened the Bible pointed. He goes do not say it's not time to build this 24-hour house of prayer. And I said, well, I don't think it's time. He said, yeah, but you're not supposed to say that. I said, well, it doesn't really work that way. I said, you know, I appreciate your sincerity. No, I don't think so. I mean, I was thinking of the just the immense amount of work and labor. I said, no, no, no, no, no in the future for sure. We're going to do it because we have a sign on the wall for most of the 16 years that said 24-hour prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle David. We had on the wall and everybody saw it from for years and years and he said it's time to build it. I said, I don't know. I don't think so. Then I went on the got on the airplane that day and went to Colorado Springs and there's a prophetic conference and that Wednesday in Colorado Springs a man named Kingsley Fletcher comes to me. I don't know him heard of him, but I'd never met him. He comes up to me and I'm with a group of guys talking and he points his finger at me like this. And he's smiling and you know, and I know he's prophetic. So, you know, he's doing that and I'm going I'm smiling and he's just doing this. And he said because his eyes he goes do not say in your heart. It's not time to build the house of the Lord. Haggai chapter 1 verse 2 and I went whoa. Now, I don't say nothing because I'm not I'm not, you know, I said wait, it's going to take more than this. But I said this is an amazing thing. I was just in consternation about I thought these guys don't know each other there. This is this is too random, but still so I asked the Lord paragraph B. I said I need three confirmations and the Lord won't always honor these but sometimes he does I said Lord if you will provide a building for me that I don't I won't mention this. I won't say a word to anyone that I'm looking for one have somebody give me a building number two. I'm pastoring a 3,000 member Church. So I need a senior pastor and I need one that all the leaders will be in perfect unity. I need a hundred percent unity and I'm not going to go recruit one. I'm going to do nothing and number three. I said Lord my partner Noel Alexander all the years and we'll talk more about know that we labored in prayer together. I said tell know in a supernatural way just tell him said that in Colorado Springs and the month of February all three of them happened without me doing anything Bob Hartley came to me and said hey I want to make available a building the trailers he goes if you want prayer or training or just outreach just whatever prayer meetings, whatever you want to do. I just want to make it available to you said, okay, that was the easy one of the three I said, okay, if it happens if I need it, I'll let you know. Thanks. Floyd McClung a friend brings him by my house unplanned in February Friday night unplanned. He's sitting across me in the living room. Floyd's a powerful man of God and I said he said well, I'm in a transition. I said wow because I got a man. I have great respect for mature in the Lord the tour in leadership and I said well, what's your transition because I'm going to build a church. I said where he goes, I don't know but I believe it's going to be in a major city. I don't have one picked out. I said, what are your key ideas? I it's not even on my mind yet. So I'm talking to him. I mean, I'm not connecting at this instantly. So what's going on? He said well, I want a church that's built on that loves missions that loves prayer that sell groups and he listed a couple days. I go. Wow, that's perfect. I go. Where are you are going? He goes. I don't know. I'm open to go anywhere. It became clear. He was coming here and our leadership was in full unity that has happened suddenly. So I did not ask him to come to my house. It happened to somebody brought him and just came by to say hi and then on February 20th Noel Alexander. I went to be with him to speak to his men's group on Saturday morning. I got Ed Hackett. I said Ed I'm going to go talk to Noel. I said I got a private thing with me and God going on that nobody knows about but I want to tell you about it. I'm thinking of starting the house of prayer. Of course, Ed went wow. That's awesome. I go, let's not be excited yet. I said going to but it's looking ominous. It's looking like it's really going to happen because it was it made me nervous. I wasn't it was exciting after I settled it, but it was a little bit for a while. I wasn't quite ready. I don't know that you're ever ready for a transition. So I said and I told the Lord he has to tell Noel Alexander. I go no hasn't I haven't talked to know in a couple years and he just randomly called me. I don't think this is that but it is random. So I said but I want you to be a witness. So we drove over there and so talk to Noel and no says I got to tell you something because I was just in England and I was doing a conference and a man came to me and I guess again some of the details on the page here to wear it who won when and he said a man came to me who I did not know and said he had the word of the Lord. He said go home call Mike Bickle and tell him it's time to build the 24-hour house of prayer. Noel said, you know, I wouldn't bother you with a prophecy because I went somewhere and somebody gave me a prophecy to give you I wouldn't even bother you but he goes the next day. I went to a city far away. They didn't know each other a man. I did not know came to me. After I got through preaching and said I have the word of the Lord go home and tell Mike Bickle. It's time to build the house of prayer. So Noel said I'm here to tell you it's time to build the house of prayer went. I mean, it's February. I've only had the conditions out for less than 30 days. They've all been met but the senior pastor one took a little while to lead but it was looking pretty clear. It was going to land and it did I said, oh my goodness. Then here was the commitment. I made to the Lord the agreement. I'll end with this and I say this just for some of you in your ministries in the future whether you're part of IHOP or another place. Here's I said Lord, I got to be serious about this number one. Here's my commitment. I'm not going to travel to go recruit leaders. I'm not going to get on the airplane and go recruit people. I'm not going to do it. Number one number two. I'm not going to go raise money. I'm just not going to do it. And number three, I'm not going to stress and strain to come up with creative ideas where we're supposed to move how it's supposed to have it. I'm not even going to think about it to be honest. That's my I'm not going to do any of those three. I mean, I think it's important to have leadership meetings, but I said I can't figure out how to get next to Harry S. Truman. I'm not even going to try and I said, but here's what I will do. I'll work long hours. I'll say really unpopular things. If you say things to me to say, I'll say them. I'm a grimace, but I'll say it and I won't quit in the pressure of growth or the pressure of resistance or criticism. I won't quit. I go. So that's the deal. You send me leaders. You send me money. You give me great ideas. I'm not going to do those three things. I work long hard hours. I say unpopular things that I don't quit. You do your part. I do my part. If that's the deal, I'll do it. But in the reason that was important. I said if I hop dives of starvation, I'm not going to go raise money. I'm just not going to ever do it. So I said if you care about leaders money and divine ideas send them. If you don't then I'm innocent. But I'll do hard work. I'll save unpopular things and I won't quit. I felt the pleasure of the Lord and he's honored that for 10 years. Amen. So we're all here. We're all here tonight. I'll say one more thing. Then we're going to have a Bob Jones video and then Matt Gilman is going to come up and lead worship. And we're going to be back here tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning to jump right into another session. And I'm going to say one more thing. Just stay seated. If you would. I've had people over the years that have come to me and they said we saw that sign on the wall at 24-hour prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle David. We had that sign for nearly 16 years. Not exactly but nearly and people would say what is that and I for years, you know, 10-15 years. I would say I really don't know 24-hour prayer. This is it is what it is. They said, what does it mean? I go? I don't really know singers musicians something. I said, I can't picture it in my brain. I just can't picture it. And so when I have started started and then it's it began to get established through the years people would come to me last couple years four or five years and and they would say wow, this is your dream. It's happening. Look, it's what Bob Jones said 25 years ago. It's what the angel of the Lord said. It's happening. Your dreams coming. I said, no, it's not. They said, what do you mean? I have this full and the Lord's blessed it economically and there's leaders excellent leaders and people with humility and good. I said, no, I said I hop is not my dream. I said I hop is my assignment. I said the dream of my heart is what happens in between my heart and Jesus. I go nobody can touch the dream of my heart. What I dream about at night. Isn't a big I hop. What I dream about at night is the anointing to connect with God's heart in the deepest way that God will give the human spirit. I go, that's my dream. And if I hop gets real big, my dream doesn't get helped at all. If I hop disappears, my dreams not hurt at all. This is not my dream. This is my assignment. I appreciate it. I'll do it hard, but I'm not going to recruit leaders raise money or think all night about what to do. I'm going to connect with God. Amen. I'll end with that. Let's break Bob video Bob Jones on the video and then Matt Gilman coming up.