Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of prayer and fasting to experience the fear of God, reflecting on a prophetic vision that foretold a global youth movement centered on intercession and worship. He recounts the journey of establishing a ministry that aims to train young people in the ways of God, particularly through the lens of Joel chapter two, which speaks of a united heart and a spirit of trembling before the Lord. Bickle encourages the congregation to actively participate in this movement, highlighting the importance of humility and the power of collective prayer in seeking God's presence and guidance. He believes that through this commitment, God will bring healing, peace, and a renewed fear of the Lord among the youth, ultimately transforming their lives and the lives of future generations.

Let's pray. Father, we come to you and we ask you in the name of Jesus, just release your word to us. In this important season as a spiritual family, we thank you for that. In Jesus' name, amen. What's on my mind is, is, you know, near 22 years, well, 22 years ago this Sunday, but that's not what I'm thinking of right now. I'm thinking of a few months later, in March 83 and March 7th, the day that Bob Jones came and, uh, walked in my office and that life-changing day that didn't seem to be life-changing the day it happened. It seemed just to be weird. I mean, I didn't have any sense that it was a, a defining moment. It just seemed like a strange, some kind of, kind of entertaining, a little confusing, a little exotic, eccentric kind of, uh, afternoon. And Bob Jones walked in and most of you know the story. Some of you that are new with us today might not. So I apologize. I'm not going to go through that. And he talked about, he said, the Lord, uh, spoke about a group of young people that were coming to the South of Kansas city in the spring of 83. This was March, 1983. And he said, fast forward, uh, skip a lot of details. He said, there's going to be a worldwide youth movement. That's going to be raised up. And he said, they're going to be, uh, intercessors, prophets. He said the two main things that the Lord is going to release in them is going to be the prophetic anointing and intercession. He said, they're going to be songbirds. And that was the word he used. He meant prophetic singers. And he used, uh, that kind of a symbolic language that I was not at all accustomed to. I said, songbirds, he goes, yeah, they're going to come from all around the world. He said, the Lord, uh, told me that you're a youth pastor, but this whole movement is going to be, uh, uh, releasing intercession and the prophetic. And it will release evangelism. A lot of things will flow out of that. I didn't know much about the prophetic still don't know that much about it, but, uh, it really said yes to the grace of intercession. I had been, uh, operating in that, or at least, you know, cooperating with it. Let's say it that way for several years before that time. And he said a youth movement, he said, you're a youth pastor. And I remember I thought I'm not a youth pastor. I'm a senior pastor. And he said, no, no, no, not, not, not this thing you're doing right here. He goes, the Lord will even probably bless it. He said, no, it's, it's way down the road. He said, there's a youth movement coming. He goes, you'll be one of the oldest guys in it. I said, really? And he said, yeah, he goes, just don't even worry about it. It will take care of itself. He says, you just walk the Lord and the Lord will, Lord will do his part. Well, fast forward 22 years. And now here we are, I hop and all the different things that are happening. And this, uh, this, the end of this month at the one thing conference, the four day conference that we have at the end of every year, right at ending at new year's Eve. We expect as 16,000 young adults, mostly young adults, of course, everyone's invited. Moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas, the children bring them all, but mostly young adults. And, uh, again, we'll have the two, the three rooms, the big room, the 10,000 seat room and the two overflow rooms. And so we anticipate that, uh, we'll be full before even it opens. And so my point being that there's really 16,000 people gathering, which is only the beginning. It's only the beginning of the beginning, but that's our first large one where the Lord has assembled them from all around. They're coming from a number of different nations, many of them, 21, 22, 18, 19. And they're saying, we want to go hard for God. We want to go hard for God. We want to sing and dance and pray and prophesy and do whatever the Bible says we're supposed to do. They don't even fully understand all the details of it, but they just want to do the total wholehearted thing for God. And they're saying, tell us what it looks like. Tell us how to do it. Show us the way. In other words, don't just tell us, lead us, do it yourself. God's raising up a whole army of moms and dads, not just here all over the world that are doing it as the way of telling how to do it. They're not, they're not just giving sermons. They're actually in the trenches doing the stuff. And so we have, uh, this thing we call the global bridegroom fast started about three years ago, which we take the first Monday to Wednesday of every month, January, February, March, April, May, right through. And we pray and fast for three days as a spiritual family. We shut everything down except for the coffee shop and shut most everything down. And we gather in here and we really focus on praying and fasting because the reason is that if we don't put it on this calendar ahead of time, it doesn't happen. But on the 12th month, December, we do seven days and then collectively it ends up to be 40 days throughout the year of these, uh, global bridegroom fast. But it's, it works out so nice because that final month, the 12th month where we do seven days, which starts tomorrow, we, uh, making a total of 40 for the year. We're targeting the one thing conference. And that's where our, in terms of the human dimension of human beings coming, that's our main window. That's our main door of opportunity. To, uh, uh, begin to steward the thing the Lord called us to do. Cause it's a youth movement. It's a youth movement. Now it's a youth movement that the Lord is leading. And it's in, it has many different, uh, manner of, you know, applications and forms and fashions to it. And we're just one little, infinitesimally small little part, no matter how many thousands gather, it's still very, very, very small, but it's important that we do our part in it. And the last thing I want to do is be presumptuous about this. I don't want to say, wow, you know, it's just gonna, it's all, we're on automatic pilot. Let's do it. And of course we're not, I hop is all about not being presumptuous about it. I mean, we're doing the work of fasting and prayer in our weakness, in our brokenness. It doesn't look like much when we're doing it, but God esteems it. It it's really weak and feeble in the actual operation of it. But in heaven, it's powerful and it's mighty. And it's because of God's editing process is because the way he evaluates things. I mean, our prayers is kind of dribble off our lips and hit the ground. And they don't seem like they'd make much impact. Our songs are, we're sitting in the chair, just kind of agreeing. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Kind of gently just going along silently or gently praying in the spirit or just saying an amen in our spirit. And that is profound though feeble in its outworking among us profound and powerful in the way that God receives it. And so the last thing I want to do at this critical moment, because it's our first large one we've had, you know, six or 7,000, those kinds of numbers, but this is a, this, you know, two to three times the size, just kind of a quantum leap in one year, which to me is not like, oh, isn't this great. It's all happening. It's not so much that I feel more of. Are you understanding that I, the Lord in bringing the thing up a notch? So more than, uh, just, uh, rejoicing in bigness, bigness is in itself is not impressing or even that big a deal. Bigness itself is not besides 16,000, not very big, to be honest, but it's the message of it. This quantum leap of being tripled in its size in one year. And it's not because we're doing it this way or doing it that way. You can do all kinds of things. The Lord's giving it. It is the work of the Lord, but when the Lord's working in our midst, there's a meaning there. There's an understanding we're to have when the Lord's in our midst working. And he's saying, are you paying attention to what I'm doing? Are you paying attention to what I'm doing? I am in your midst working and I want you to cooperate. I want you to give yourself to me fully in this season. I mean, even the, uh, uh, the Lord giving us the Metro building of which, uh, starting next week will be called the forerunner school of ministry building the FSM building. And the little trailer will be called the annex. Alan got to name it. It's called the annex building or the FSM annex, or I guess, but I, or annex, whatever. And, uh, but I remember the first day, the first day Paul came, visited us in 1987. And he had had this vision for many years, an open vision of which I have great confidence in this vision, uh, in its authenticity and its reality for many, many years. He saw an open vision, uh, and it was Joel's army and it was a people who lived the lifestyle of Joel chapter two, Joel's army is not the army in Joel too, because that was actually a negative army brain judgment on Jerusalem, but it was the, like the Joseph company. It was the company of people across the earth that would embrace the principles in Joel chapter two. And, uh, there's certain confusion because there there's, there's the mention of an army in Joel chapter two, but that army is used of the Lord to bring judgment on the nation of Israel in its context. And that's not what the army, the, the, we're talking about here in this vision. Again, it's a people that believe in the prophetic Joel too. I will pour out my spirit. They believe in fasting and prayer Joel too. They will gather. They will assemble solemn assemblies. They will cry out to God. Joel two, they will come with all of their hearts. They will run their hearts, not their garments. There's a whole heartedness. There's many dimensions. I've identified 10 different principles that are all found in Joel chapter two that are related to the, uh, fullness of the spirit. That's a part of this army. But anyway, Paul came and seen this vision many times for, I mean, 25 years, he had seen this vision of Joel's army, uh, raising up all of the earth, mostly of young people all over the earth. And on his very first visit to Kansas city, it was April, 1987. He walks in, uh, actually it was may. Cause I'd met him at the end of April and he came like the next week, May, 1987. He walked, uh, and he says, Mike, he says, I don't know that you can really understand what I'm going to tell you right now, because you don't know me. But, uh, one of the most significant visions I've ever had in my life, I've had two major visions of the stadiums of the earth being filled as vision one and vision two of God raising up a company of people across the earth. I mean, millions all over the earth. I don't mean one organization, one group, just sovereignly in all nations. And he says, and the way the Lord called it, uh, the symbolism, the Lord usually called Joel's army. They would, they would embrace the lifestyle of Joel chapter two. I go fantastic. He goes, those are my two big visions. The stadiums being filled and Joel's army coming forth. And I don't, I don't like to use the term Joel's army, even though the Lord used that term to Paul, the Lord will forgive me for this, but I don't like that term because it's so easily confused with the army in Joel two, which is a negative army of judgment against Jerusalem. And there's lots of confusion. People argue about it all the time and, uh, Joel's army and their misunderstanding. Again, the army of verse of chapter two is not what Paul means by Joel's army. But anyway, he comes on that day, his first visit. And he said, I saw an open vision. He said, as clear as I've seen, I've never seen it ever before. I've never seen a location, but I saw a sign Joel's army in training. He says, Joel's army will be trained in that building. And I just, we just pulled up to it. He goes, is this your building? I said, yeah. He says, well, hang on to it. Well, you know, I don't know if I did that right, but maybe I did. Maybe I did. And he said, hang on to this building. Cause this building, the Lord is called to train Joel's army in. Well, we went right. We went left a few turns in the road and here it is. Here it is. We're back at that building of God's choice. Little tired, but it's still the building of God's choice. Bethlehem stable part two. You know, the little trailer was part one. It's more of the same, but it's the Lord's choice. It's the Lord's choice. The way he gave us that building, uh, in 1985 was so, was so supernaturally ordered. I don't want to go into the story. We have it on the prophetic history tapes on the encountering Jesus series. If you're interested in it, I mean, it was so remarkable how God took us from Overland park and put us and what Bob Jones called the backyard of Kansas city in grand view. We were all in Overland park and a congregation of near a thousand people. And we all uprooted and went to grand view in this broken down little building. And like, why we were so sent there by the Lord with such clarity. Then a year or two later, Paul Cain comes by and says, and now I understand the, the, the fullness of what that meant to him on that day, Joel's army will be trained in this building. And now it's, you know, uh, these many years later, 15 to 18 years later, whatever, uh, from Paul Cain's first visit. And all these years, he, uh, Paul will tell you because I've never seen it. I've never seen a location because I know there's many places it's going to happen, but I've never actually seen it in a vision just one time. So I wasn't sure if that was, you know, kind of Paul's mode of operation everywhere he went. He sold Joel's army is going to be trained here. And now, uh, you know, near going on 20 years later, uh, I understand that was a very unusual, uh, word that the Lord gave him. And it's a word I really believe in. I have lots of reasons for believing it even besides that. So here we are. We're landing, uh, December, 2004. Here we are. Yeah. 2004. Here we are. We're landing in a situation where the building that God called us to train Joel's army. And we get it tomorrow or the next day. And we have a 16,000 member conference and the youth movement in its beginning form. It's only beginning is now being launched. The meaning it's, it began in God's heart. How many, you know, thousand years ago, however long, however, that works in sovereignty. Then it began a little bit when I hop started and began a little bit more when we started this or that or the other, but this is an unveiling. This is the Lord's pulling the curtain off saying, I'm now bringing it into the open. I'm giving you a building to train. It's not our church building. It's not our conference building though. We'll, we'll operate in that way. It's a Bible school to train young people in the message of Joel chapter two. This is an absolute word of the Lord to us. And the Lord says, and just to kind of really bring this thing to the next level, I'm going to bring 16,000 young people, put them in your living room. I'm going to put them in your living room. Now our living room is typically here, but we're shifting our living room down. And we got, uh, you know, the big living room and the two side departments, the two overflow rooms. And I'm going to start, I'm going to pull the curtain off, so to speak. And I'm going to begin this thing openly, meaning I don't mean it's going to be some dot, dot, dot, dot. I don't mean that way, but it's been a hidden promise for these 22 years is my point. And now it's going to be more observably open, more observably open. So that's exciting, but exciting excitement is excitement. That won't get you anything at the end of the day. It's a, it's, it's to motivate us to rise up and take action. That's the point. The prophetic history or prophetic activity, the Holy spirit's activity. It's not just so we can tell a story, make a tape series, tell our friends somewhere else, Hey, guess what's happening. It's not a story. It's a reality that when understood requires action, and it always motivates people to action when it's understood. And the action that we're taking this week is very significant. It's not the big one. I mean, the big one is the fact we're trying to obey God with all of our hearts. That's the big action we're taking, which is a 24, seven, seven days a week, 365 days a year. That's the big thing. But this next week is not small. The Lord is the fact that he's giving us this Bible school right now. It's exactly at this time. The fact he's giving it to saying, I'm about training Joel's army. I'm going to bring 16,000 people. It's all happening in the next few weeks, this whole thing. So my question is, what do we do? And of course it says, the Lord says, you know, do the thing I told you to do. I told you to fast and pray and prophesy. That's what I told you to do. Declare the decree of the Lord prophesy. That's a great part of what intercession is. We're just saying what God says. We're declaring what God says to declare. We're declaring the decree of the Lord. It's interesting. And Psalm two, uh, Jesus, the father says, I've, I've made my son, Jesus. He'll be the king of the nations. He is my king. I've set him on my, my hill. And Jesus comes on the scene to say, you know, the, kind of the, the unspoken, uh, drama of Joel chapter two. I mean, it's clear the drama is there. Jesus is kind of standing there. The father says he is my appointed king. So Jesus stands there. And it's like, what's, what's he going to say now? And Jesus says, I will simply declare the decree of the Lord. Give me the nations. And so when, if the appointed hour, when God's people are functioning, they simply declare the decree of the Lord, we call that intercession, prophetic intercession. And we just, I think we underestimate the power of decreeing what God says to decree. It's prayers. It's prayer and fasting and intercession. So we're going to, I don't want to go into this week and we're not. And at the end of this month, without doing our feeble, weak, massively valuable part, it's feeble, unquestionably, it is weak, unquestionable, but massively important that we do it because it's valuable to God. So we're going to come in and, you know, in our distracted little lives and kind of, uh, scattered minds and tired bodies. I'm not prophesying and declaring that over all of you, but it is mostly true. And our hearts that we're trying not to be divided, but every power of darkness pulls God's people in a hundred directions. And some of them are in areas of darkness. We're coming. We're mustering our strength. We're here. We're here. And the Lord says, good. I like this. Our minds are going right. Left. Our hearts are screaming. There's pain and hurts and agendas and disappointments and excitements and opportunities. But we're here. Beloved. It's like that. All of the earth and all the great revivals in history, the guys that showed up were kind of bouncing all over the walls inside. I mean, honestly, it's weak and broken people. That's how this thing works. So though I'm not writing everybody off and condemning you to that estate. My point is, is if you find yourself in that estate, it works. It still works. We just come and we sit in the chair and we're doing it together. There's a, there's a dimension of doing it together that God really cares about. It's feeble. Lord break in. Do it. Oh, Lord, you said you'd do it. Yes. Yes. Yes. How come they won't let me have coffee in here? Yes, Lord. Whatever. Yes. That works. It really is what all God wants. It's really what works. And we, you know, we, uh, hear the revival stories of history. I'm telling you, they were just dorky little guys like us. Yawning in the prayer meetings, rolling their eyes when the other guy was praying. I guarantee you that's how it was. And their names just happened to be Peter, James and John, but it's exact same setup. All kinds of pain and agendas and confusion and all kinds of dynamics going on. But they showed up and did the simple thing God said to do. That's what's so profound about Joel 2. It's so simple. It's so simple that it's hardly ever done. He says, show up and cry out. It's just that simple. Do it and say no to darkness all along the way. And though darkness runs back and knocks on the door and creeps in at every angle, keep saying no to it. And you're almost there. Just say no with all of your heart. And in time, the darkness will begin to diminish. And many of you have experienced that, the diminishing of darkness. But there's struggles all over this room and our internal man is bouncing all around and this and that and good and bad and all kinds. But beloved, that's the kind of folks God said, show up and do it. And I'm going to release an international youth movement to you. So I don't have much idealism at all. I like this weak, broken human dimension. Well, the truth is that's the only option you get. It's not like it was my first option. It's my last option, but at least I chose it at the end of the day. I tried all the other ones. That's the only option God's giving the human race is weak and broken people working together with him. We want those guys from those exaggerated biographies to walk out of the books and come and lead us. But if they walked out of the pages of scripture, that's not exaggerated, but all the biographies, we would be shocked that they're like us. We would go, no way. You're as weird as we are. I mean, come on. And the guy, you know, you know, here it is, the great guy, ADD, you know, he's like, hi, how you doing? Like, you know, we just imagine they were all Charlton Heston plus some, you know, you know, it's so human. The whole thing is so human. I mean, I just, oh, when we meet Paul in heaven, I might go, no, no, no. I had a total different picture. The power of Paul wasn't Paul. It was the fact that he cooperated with the grace of God and God's call on his life. That was the power of his life. So we're coming Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we're on through next Sunday and we're coming and we're, we're warring together in our feeble way, but in the right way, it's feeble, but it's right. And it's good. And it's powerful when it reaches heaven and it works. Now here's the prayer that I, I'm going to really focus on what we want to pray for whatever the Lord puts on your heart, but I have one very clear, clear, uh, uh, sense from the Lord. I'm just absolutely sure this is from the Lord's heart. I don't want to say the Lord said this, the Lord said that there's a way too much. The Lord said, if it's real, it will register in your heart. When I say it, here it is. Jeremiah chapter 32, Jeremiah chapter 32. What's going on in context to Jeremiah 32, we're going to look at verse 38, but let me tell you what's going on in the context. So you can make sense of it because I'm going to be praying this. I've been praying for a week on the microphone. Most of the prayer meetings that I, that I'm praying publicly on, I pray Jeremiah 32 and Jeremiah 33, and I want to bring us there together. What's happening in Jeremiah 32 is that, uh, it's 588 BC, 588 BC. It's about a year before Jerusalem is decimated. I mean, decimated is one to two years because it was in 586 or 587 there, depending on how you measure the, uh, you, uh, date it there. It's about a year or so away, a year and a half away. The, uh, of, of the armies of Babylon, which is Iraq. Sure. They're right now surrounding Jerusalem in a siege. They're all around Jerusalem. The armies have gathered and the people of Jerusalem are really nervous and they're not doing the Joel two thing. And the armies of the enemy have gathered and they're trying to, uh, you know, get out of it by making alliances with Egypt. Hey, Egypt, we'll give you a lot of money. If you'll come help us. Hey, Syria, Syria, would you help us? We'll give you more money than Egypt in all kinds of, uh, bargaining. And they're doing everything except for what God told them to do, which was Joel to cry out fast and pray. So they're surrounded by the enemy. There's a siege around the city of Jerusalem. It's horrible. This is one of the darkest hours in Israel's history. It really is. Uh, the great old Testament Holocaust is going to happen. I mean, a year or two later, they kill so many people and so much destruction takes place. It's just, it's unprecedented in its damage. And they're about again, 12 to 18 months away from it happening. Jeremiah is saying, troubles coming, troubles coming, cry out. You know what they do? They put Jeremiah in prison. They throw him in prison at the beginning of chapter 32. He's in prison because they said, no, you're disheartening the people. You're making them think it's going to turn out bad. Jeremiah says it is if they don't fast and pray, it is going to be bad. They said, put him in prison, shut him up. So now the word of the Lord comes to Jeremiah in prison. And that's what's happening in chapter 32 and 33. He's in prison. The word of the Lord comes to him twice in that prison time. And the, and the Lord says, trouble, trouble, trouble. You're right. But then now he's giving him the promise of restoration after the trouble. And this is going, this has not been fulfilled in history. The promise little tokens of it have been fulfilled tokens. The promise I'm about to share with you is in its context is for the nation of Israel. By the work of the Holy spirit related to the second coming. But beloved, whatever God is going to do in that hour, God will do the same thing like kind, but a lesser measure. That's the term I use. It's the principle. What God will do in fullness at his coming to the nation of Israel in a positive sense. He will do like kind in lesser measure to the body of Christ, especially as we're getting closer. It's a lesser measure of this, but it's a significant measure as well. As we're getting closer and closer to the second coming of Christ. So the promises of what God has said in his heart to do with human beings that are going to be fully fulfilled in just a few years, some decades down the road, not so far away. The Lord is saying, why don't you look at those promises and get an understanding of what it is that I want to do with my people. And if I never change, there's a half a dozen scriptures where those says, I'm the Lord. Malachi at three verse six, when the famous, when I am the Lord, I change not, I do not change. So what I'm going to do for Israel in a minute, I'll do for the body of Christ right now. Now we understand that Israel can't enter into this purpose apart from Jesus. So therefore they are the body of Christ as well. I mean, they only do it in as much as they say yes to Jesus and then become a part of the body of Christ. So I don't want to make a, a, a, a confusing distinction there. This is what God is going to do with his people in fullness related to the events of his coming. But beloved, this is what he wants to do now, as we're building up to those decades before his coming. Verse 38, he Jeremiah's in prison and the Lord says, go tell them troubles coming, but they are my people. I'm going to remember the good that I promised them. Verse 39, I will give them one heart and one way. Now this happened a little bit in acts chapter two and X chapter four. Remember there was a small number, 3000, then another 5,000 were added a small number of, of 8,000 people had one heart and one way. It's exactly what acts chapter two says at the end of acts two and the end of acts four. It actually is quoting this phrase, but it's only 8,000 people. This is for much more than 8,000 people. God is about bringing this to pass. He gave a token of it related to the early events of the book of acts. He is doing this in the body of Christ. We have every reason to war in the spirit, which means intercession in our weak way to, to believe God, to release this on 16,000 people. This is the verses that I feel real focused on. I will give them one heart and one way. It won't be the fullness of it. And it won't be, uh, uh, you know, even what happened in acts chapter two, the last verse in the acts chapter four, the last verses, it's not the fullness of that's not going to happen in December, but a little bit's going to happen a little bit, but beloved, a little bit of this goes a long way. He says, and here's the reason I'm going to do it, that they would fear me. I'm going to do it. So they will fear me that I, God wants to put a, a, a trembling spirit upon his people, a spirit of trembling and it's all it's majesty. It's dread. It's not just respect. Some people say the fear of God is, is respect. But the fear of God is being afraid of God. People say, well, we don't want to be afraid of God. Well, I don't think that, you know, God, if you don't think that being afraid of him, it's this, it's this strange, uh, uh, paradox of confidence in love, but a trembling spirit that says, oh, I feel love and secure, but you're terrifying. Oh my goodness. Oh, I love you. But you scare me sometimes when you show yours, your power, he is awesome. And the people will be afraid of him in the good sense. Their spirit will tremble. If the people's spirit do not tremble, they actually get off the path really quickly. And that's where the body of Christ is right now in America. There's not a spirit of the fear of the Lord. There's not a trembling spirit on the church. It is a gift of God. It will be imparted supernaturally by the work of God. But that's what we're asking for a spirit of the fear of God to be supernaturally imparted. Now there's a fear of God. There's two dimensions of the fear of God. There's the human dimension where we choose the fear of the Lord. And there's 10 verses on that. That's not actually 10, but a bunch of verses. I can picture about that many of them. And, uh, we choose the fear of God. That's one dimension that is important, but that is not fullness. And the fear of God comes in like a mighty rushing wind, like a, an influence from heaven. The work of the spirit breaks in and gives the fear of God. The spirit breaks in and gives the fear of God to people who didn't even choose it. It kind of slams them up against the wall. Oh my gosh, I got to get serious with God. Or that's one way it happens. Oh, I got to get serious with God. And that's what I'm praying that's going to happen, that the spirit of the fear of the Lord is going to descend in that room. And what I mean is the work of the Holy Spirit, the grace of God to where, you know, a couple thousand of them, at least, who are kind of coming in for good music and, I don't know, anything else to do. And I want to get away from mom and dad over the holidays. So I'll go to the conference. You know, it's kind of my probation. You know, I'm in trouble at home, but they'll let me go to the conference. But so I'll go. There'll be a couple thousand, they'll be coming on probation. That's, their parents are on fire for the Lord. And they're tricking their kids into the conference. Fine, we'll take them. We'll take them because the Lord is going to sneak up on them. And I'm asking the Lord, I don't have a real number, but one or two thousand that the fear of the Lord will seize them. I mean, just throw them up against the wall, not physically. They were, I don't care if it's physical. That's the Lord's deal. But I mean, grab a hold of them. We've seen that happen in the last couple of years. We've got several in our midst even now that the spirit of God snuck up on them. And I mean, descended on them and really got a hold of them. But there's, so there's a breaking into the fear of God upon people who are unaware of it coming. But there's another group, which is the majority. There's many of them, many more who have chosen the fear of God already, but they can't seem to walk it out fully. They really want the fear of God. They've chosen it, but it's not seeming to fully take root in the way they're longing for. And they need help. And that help is in a manifest anointing of the spirit. And I'm asking Lord, break in, break it. And it's not like a meeting. There's not a 30-minute meeting that changes everyone's life. There's a 30-minute moment in God. There's a 10-minute time. I mean, 10-minute time here and there where that spirit begins to move, the Holy Spirit, and that trembling settles in. Those do not change people's lives forever in the like one event. There it is. That's not what I'm asking for because that's not what happens. That's not how it works. But those moments shift people's paradigms. They shift people's expectations and hopes. And they begin to pursue God in a whole different way because now they know that little touch of God, that trembling spirit for 10 minutes, for an hour, for a day, actually will set them on a new course. And it's the new course that will actually bring the transformation. But it's that catalytic touch of the spirit. And then they do things different in January, February, March, April, May, June, and July. And then they need to be touched again. So I don't have this expectation that there's going to be a 10-minute moment because the fear of the Lord enters in. I've been in a few meetings over the years where it's a holy 10, 20, 30 minutes. And we go, oh, man. Did you feel? Yeah, I got, whoa. And I remember feeling those in meetings. I'm only a few times in all the years. And I remember feeling the power of it on my soul for weeks. And I don't mean that now I'm overly motivated in this heightened way. Not just that. That's not exactly what I mean. I mean, I got a new goal. I got a new picture in my mind of what I'm about. And I found a new zeal in the wake of those moments. You know, a couple of months or weeks after, I had a new focus. And this spirit of the fear of the Lord creates that catalytic jump start of which then the means of grace, fasting, prayer, the word, serving, humility, repentance, those things, walking in love, confession of sin, those things produce the transformation and the grace of God. So I'm not, because I don't want you to have a wrong sense of this. We're praying for it. And all of a sudden, it's over. It's like, well, what happened? And I believe we're going to have a few moments in there. There will be those catalytic moments in God. And they will make a difference to thousands of people. Here's what the Lord says. I'm going to give them one heart and one way that they would fear me. And I'm going to do this. Look at verse 39, for their good and the good of their children. Do you know how many 20 and 25 year olds, when this touches them, 18 year olds, and they will have children in a year or in 10 years. It will affect the way they relate and raise. The whole atmosphere of their home will be changed. If these kids are touched, I don't mean just touch this time. This is one of many touchings of the Lord upon their lives. But it's for their good. They will change their goals, the way they spend time, the way they spend money when the fear of God touches them. And it will impact their children dynamically. It's a marathon run, but it really changes the course of their children. Their children aren't even born yet, but it will affect them. And this is an installment, this four day installment. Beloved, I take it. It's only a beginning of the beginning. This isn't the big one. What is the big one? I don't know if there's such a thing as a big one. This is only a beginning, but it's a good beginning. It's a word. We are changing a season. The Lord has given us that building. He's brought, he's tripled the number. He says, it's beginning. I'm taking this thing to the next level. It's not like it's all going to be fullness now. But the Lord's saying, I want IHOP to take this serious. I want your cooperation in this. Well, I'm weak and broken and scattered and kind of bouncing off the walls inside. The Lord says, that's okay. That works. Show up and give yourself to me. And I don't mean just show up at a meeting. That's not exactly what I'm saying. I'm saying something bigger than that. Just do the work of the kingdom with all of your heart, even in our imperfect way. Okay, let's look at verse 40. Now, again, this is going to be fully released to the redeemed in Israel. It will obviously touch the whole body of Christ. There was a down payment of this in the book of Acts, but only a down payment. This was not the fullness in the book of Acts. But it gives us courage to believe for it for now. As it says in verse 40, I'll make an everlasting covenant with them. I will not turn away from doing them good. And here's what I'm going to do. I will put the fear of God into their hearts. Look at that. Look at verse 40. Not unbelievable, but just fantastic is what I want to say. The Lord says, I am going to do good. Now, what is good defined as? The Lord says, here's how I'm going to do good for them. I'm going to set them up in a way inside to where I'm going to put the fear of God. And then good will follow them all other days. It doesn't mean it'll be easy, but it will be what God calls good. So I am praying that God will put the fear of God into the hearts. That is a promise that he gave Jeremiah in prison while the enemy is surrounding Jerusalem. He goes, I'm going to troubles coming first. But Jeremiah, way past your lifetime. It's 588 BC, you know, near 600 BC. So it's 600 years before the book of Acts stuff happens. It says, Jeremiah, I'm going to give a down payment right here in Jerusalem. It's going to be in Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 4. But that's only a down payment. Then I'm going to do in the body of Christ worldwide leading up to the second coming. And then the second coming, I'm going to release the fullness of it upon the redeemed of the body of Christ among the ethnic Israel, among actual Jewish believers who believe in Jesus. I will do this. And the same thing will be happening in the body of Christ worldwide. But beloved, this is a promise. This is really for today, for real. It was meant for today. Not at its fullness in 2004, but the spirit, there's a measure of this. God wants to release. Verse 41. Oh, this dread of God, this fear of God. It's dread. It's a trembling spirit. Verse 41. Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good. And the good is releasing this fear of God. And I look at this. I'm going, he says, assuredly, I will plant them in the land because what's going to happen? Again, they're surrounded by Babylon. About in the next year or two, they're going to be deported. They're going to be taken in a 700-mile march to the slave camps in Iraq. They're going to go there for 70 years. I mean, Jeremiah's got a really heavy job. But there's a reason he's in prison. They do not like his message. So they're going to go for 70 years. And then he says, I'm going to bring them back. But he goes, the real bringing back, the fullness of it is related to my son's coming. Of course, Jeremiah didn't understand all that. He just says what he's told. But we know it now. And he says, here's what I'm going to do in that day. I'm going to plant them in the land. But look at this. I'm going to plant them with all of my heart and all of my soul. I will plant them. Oh, my goodness. What does it look like when God plants a people with all of his heart? I mean, that phrase, you don't need anything else. I mean, you got that verse. If that verse touches your heart with confidence, for you and your family in this city, and this young people, our nation, the young people coming, whatever application you want to put this in, if this is alive in your heart, beloved, you have the title deed of blessing in your spirit. God said, here's what I'm saying, that God's promised. I will plant my people, not just in the land. Let's leave that for a moment. I'm going to establish my people. He's talking specifically in the land to Jews who get saved through Jesus. But backing up and applying it to us, because I want us to pray it with understanding when we pray it. I want to know that we're borrowing a promise that has fullness, you know, just a moment down the road. But it's biblical to borrow it and to apply it in our setting. But I don't want us to confuse it. I don't want in our borrowing of it to dismiss its full context. So that's what the church has been doing for 2,000 years. They're taking promises given the church of Israel, I mean, to the nation of Israel. And they've just dismissed Israel in applying them. We can do both. We can do both. We want to do this thing in a biblical way. Here's what God's saying. I assuredly will plant you with all of my heart. And he says in verse 42, for thus says the Lord, just as I brought all the calamity, just as I let the negative happen, I will bring all the good that I promised. I promise you as surely as I brought the judgment, I will bring the revival. The same God that promises judgment in the book of Revelation is the God that promises revival in the book of Revelation. Let's go to chapter 33. We're in the same flow. Chapter 33, verse 1, the word of the Lord comes to Jeremiah again in the prison. He's still in prison. And it's still the same subject. They're surrounded. It's the same flow. Verse 33. We all know this verse, but I want you to have it in its context. Call to me. Go to prayer meetings. You don't have to. You don't have to go to a prayer meeting to call to God. I call to God a lot alone. But call to me. Pray. Joel 2. Do the prayer meeting thing. And I will show you great and mighty things. Things that which you do not know. In other words, things that you can't comprehend yet. I have surprises for you. And these surprises are called great and mighty. So Jeremiah is in prison again. The city's surrounded. They're going to go to death camps. Prison camps. 70 years. It's going to be a really hard run. It's going to be real tough in terms of Jeremiah's lifetime. But the book of Acts. They're in the upper room in Acts chapter 1. In Acts chapter 1. They're in the upper room. 120 of them for 10 days. Oh God. Oh God. And he broke in. They were crying out for great and mighty things. And actually God gave them the one heart and the one way. Just like Jeremiah 32 just said. And God broke in. And so I have no question in my heart that these kind of ideas are before them. Because the first down payment of these promises are in Acts chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Right in those early books of chapters of Acts. Call for me. Then verse 4 and 5 says trouble's coming. I'm not backing off on the trouble, the Lord says. The trouble is coming. But in the midst of the trouble, call to me. Don't panic in the trouble. Cry out. Do the prayer and fasting thing. You know a lot of folks want great and mighty things. But they don't want to do the calling out. The calling out is dynamically related to the release of the great and the mighty things. But there are things which we don't know. There's so many surprises. Now look at this. Verse 6. Here's what I'm praying for these young people. Of course we're praying it for ourselves. But we're really locked in. We're bringing them to our big living room. Verse 6. I'm going to bring health and healing, the Lord says. That's great and mighty thing one. Part one. I'm going to bring health and healing. Physical healings. Beloved, I would love to see one or two people with blind eyes open. I mean, it's going to happen in a day like today. We kind of have this idea like, you know, first the music has to be just right. And it will happen when we think not. That's the day that the paralytics will walk. The blind eyes will open. It will happen a day like today. We'll be there. We'll be worshiping. And the Spirit of God will do mighty things you know not when you least expect it. When you're not even thinking they will happen. Sometimes we will expect them. But sometimes they will sneak in on us. The suddenly of God will break in. Suddenly, all of a sudden the blind eye opens. Healing. But it's not just healing physical. It's healing of the heart as well. Heart. I want to bring health and healing. I want to deliver them from this. What do you call the encumbrances? These weights and encumbrances. These besetting sins of Hebrews 12 verse 2 and 3. He says, I want to deliver them from besetting sins and encumbrances. Everyone has struggles. Everyone has assignments in their own being of which the Lord says, you know, for you and your personality, you have an assignment to face that Goliath in you. And to resist that Goliath and overcome. Everyone has different assignments internally of what we have to overcome. We all have different giants that are assaulting us. And the Lord wants every one of us, we're not to get preoccupied with somebody else's giant. We are to take that divine assignment, rise up, resist it. And it's called health and healing inside. But that's not all. Look, here's what I'm praying God would reveal. The abundance of peace. You know the verse, peace like a river. Peace like a river. It's one of the famous hymns taken from the scripture, from the, I think it's the book of Isaiah. Peace like a river, peace like a river. I'm saying, Lord, there's a raging storm inside of thousands of these young people, even the really dedicated ones. They still got a storm inside. I ask you, Jesus, when we're singing and prophesying and preaching, laying hands on through us, through all the laying on hands, say through us, peace, be still to the storm and let peace come. Let the issue be settled. These besetting sins, these encumbrances, this chaos. God says, I will release an abundant peace. That's one of the great and mighty things. I'm asking for peace. All of a sudden, you know, the 18-year-old kid came in one way and he leaves. He goes, you know, I just feel really different. You know, I still got problems. I just feel, I feel confidence. This thing's going to work. I'm going God's way all the way. That's what I mean by peace like a river. I don't mean that all the issues are settled, but they've got a different environment in their soul now. What they do in January, February, March, and April is different. Not that all the giants are now gone, but they got a new confidence. They've got a new resolve. They got a new mindset. They got a new environment inside their soul when they do their prayer and obedience. That's what I'm asking for in these catalytic moments. Peace, abundance of peace. Oh, think of your life first. Think of one or two people real close to you. And then think of thousands of people. We don't know their names or their faces. Beloved, they need peace like a mighty river. And, you know, it might be somebody's testimony. Maybe it's one of the young people interns giving a testimony. All of a sudden through that weak testimony, Jesus is speaking to, you know, the young guy way over in the corner. Peace to that storm be still. And all of a sudden the word enters that little guy's heart and he goes, Oh, that's what we're late. That's what we're laboring for. Say words can't do it. We can't get the sermon all right. And, you know, the clever joke and just the exact timing and then the other verse. And that's it. I mean, we got to do the work on all the stuff. We got to do the human part. The horse prepares itself for battle, but the victory is Lord's. We got to prepare ourself. But beloved, this is a supernatural operation of the spirit that happens because of prayer meetings. We will gain whatever victory we get in those four days will be gained throughout this last year. And this is our mighty charge together for seven days. And then we're going to obviously still pray the days after that as well. We whatever victory we gain in the prayer room will be manifest. And I'm telling you, Jesus says you have not because you asked not. There is a dimension that we will get because we asked. You have not because you asked not. I'm asking for the measure of peace that would not have been given if we didn't stop and pray for seven days and fast together. I'm asking for the other than Lord. Give us that which you are going to give us, but more besides that, which is other than what that which is normal today. He will give more because we asked. But look at this. It's more than abundant peace. He's going to release abundant truth. We call that the spirit of revelation. You call that the prophetic anointing, prophetic anointing. This doesn't mean just an open vision, prophetic anointing. It's just the revelatory spirit reading the Bible. The word comes alive. The disciples on the road of Emmaus said, did not our hearts burn within us? When that man told spoke the scriptures, of course, then get any better when Jesus preaches Jesus. You know, it was Jesus talking to them about himself. But the point being, the word was being preached to these two guys on the road of Emmaus in the heartburn. That's the abundance of truth. The spirit of revelation. There it is. Verse seven, because I'm going to turn the captives around. They're going to rebuild the places. Verse eight. Oh, here's what I want. So focused on. I will cleanse and I will pardon. I want shame free worship, meaning I want to eat a one sentence from heaven. One revelation, one phrase that enters the human heart. And all of a sudden they know in God's sight, there is no shame, no condemnation. They are beloved, even in their weakness. And all of a sudden they worship is so different than in turn in their heart. They are forgiven. They're already pardoned. But for them to feel the power of the pardon. They will approach the disciplines of the spirit so different when they feel shameless. They're still weak. Beloved, I read the Bible very different when I feel shame and don't feel shame. Those are same Bible, same person, same struggle, same hassles. Totally different environment in my soul when I'm doing the just the disciplines of the spirit, the sermon on the mount stuff. We want them to feel clean. They may still, they'll still have to struggle against the thing, but I want them to feel clean in God's sight. Oh, that's a good one. Verse nine. We're just coming down to the end here. Then they will be to me a name of joy, a praise and honor. All the nations of the earth will see the fruit of it. Again, that's, that's the, you know, eschatological break in of God upon Israel. But beloved, there will be the testimony of God go forth from the lives of these people. Here's here it is. When the nation's here, all the good that I do to them, even the people that hear the story will fear and tremble because of the goodness. I want a spirit of trembling, the sphere of the Lord to lay hold of people because God breaks in with goodness. And then I can go on and on with this, but look at verse 11 in the middle of the verse. Here's, here's what God's going to awaken. The voice that says this, the voice right in the middle of verse 11, the voice of those who say, praise the Lord for the Lord is good as mercy endures forever. We're asking God to awaken the testimony and thousands of young people. The Lord is good. See, the devil's telling them the Lord's bad. The devil's whispering in their heart, your life isn't going to work. The trials are too intense. God forgot you. It's you have, there is no plan and purpose. And we're saying that's a lie. God is good. God is good. The plan is good. The purpose is good. The trial is going to bring fruit. It is good. We are resisting the greatest accusation of hell against God that God is not good. We're saying he is good, but we want that voice awakened in this conference and their spirit. They go, the Lord is good. But then the next phrase is to his mercy endures forever because the one guy says, okay, God is good. His plan is good. He's paying attention. But I'm disqualified. And we go, no, no, there's a second part. His mercy will endure your weakness. Your weakness cannot short circuit his mercy. It will endure you. Even you, he will endure it. His mercy will. We want that voice awakened in their spirit. That's what the promise is. That the voice of those who say the Lord is good will be loosed. The song, the Lord is good. I don't just want the song in the air. Although I do want to sing it. I want it in that 18 year old boy going home, going, oh, oh, I'm weak, but it's good. Ooh, his whole internal environment changed. The fear of God says in Psalm 86, 11, unite my heart, unite our heart to fear your name, connect our hearts with your heart. So the fear of God, the fear of God is a gift. Yes, there is a choice of the fear of God, but it is a gift. Beloved, I encourage you to read Acts chapter two, Acts chapter four, Acts chapter five, the fear of God broke in like the wind of God. People did choose the fear of God, but the choosing of the fear of God is part of it. And then when the spirit of the fear of the Lord breaks in, it just bolsters our spirit. That's what we're praying for. Amen. We're going to end with that. Let's stand. So we're preparing ourselves for battle the seven days. And it's not over seven days. We're going to do it for decades. But I'm just, I'm just concerned about this next seven days. That's good enough for now. The next seven days to focus on. We're going to labor together in our weakness, our brokenness. I'm going to invite.