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Brother Yun

Brother Yun (1958–present). Born Liu Zhenying on January 1, 1958, in Nanyang, Henan, China, Brother Yun is a Chinese house church leader, evangelist, and author, renowned for his role in the Back to Jerusalem movement. Raised in poverty, he converted to Christianity at 16 in 1974 after his mother’s renewed faith led to his father’s miraculous healing from lung cancer, sparking a family revival. Lacking a Bible, Yun fasted and prayed for one, receiving it after a divine vision guided evangelists to deliver it. He memorized Scripture, including the Gospel of Matthew, and began preaching at 16, reciting entire chapters to villagers, leading to widespread conversions despite China’s clampdown on Christianity in the 1980s and 1990s. As a house church leader, he faced severe persecution, arrested multiple times, tortured, and imprisoned for over seven years, including a 74-day fast he claims sustained him miraculously. In 1997, he escaped Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison, attributing it to divine intervention, and fled to Germany, where he gained asylum. Yun authored The Heavenly Man (2002) with Paul Hattaway, detailing his persecution and miracles, and Living Water (2008), sharing his teachings; the former won the UK Christian Book of the Year in 2003. Married to Deling, with two children, he now ministers globally, advocating missions to unevangelized nations. He said, “We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure!”
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In this sermon, the speaker shares a personal testimony of being locked in a security prison with no hope of escape. Despite physical limitations, the speaker cries out to God for healing and freedom. Through worship and prayer, the speaker receives a message from the Lord that they have the ability to receive dreams and visions to transform their nation. The sermon concludes with a call to worship and thanksgiving, as well as a testimony of God's transformative power in the lives of others.
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Our cry is that you would be glorified through their life, that you would defend them, that the gospel would be promoted, released throughout the nation, because of their conversion, because of the stance that they've taken. We pray for a real spirit of boldness to come upon the body of believers there, and a great wisdom. We pray for this, that the name of Jesus would be exalted throughout that nation. Everybody said? Amen, amen, amen. All right. Yeah, amen. All right, just so that you guys know, this is streaming all over the world, and if you want something, just warn us, and we'll shut her down. Otherwise, this is free speech centered. That's right. Wow. We never worship people, but without apology, we celebrate. We celebrate God in people and people in God. We celebrate what they've done in his name. We celebrate how people has honored them, has worked in them and through them. Brother Yoon is one of our great, great heroes. He's truly a modern-day hero of the faith. His wife, what they've done, the stance that they've taken for the cause of Christ. The whole tribe here is just such a gift and a blessing to us, and they come here more than once. They actually like coming back, so I feel like they've made us like the richest people on the planet. So right now, I want you to welcome Brother Yoon and Ty Stills. They come to minister the gospel. Bless them good. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. And now with Chinese say to people next to you, fluently yes oh I mean Jesus loves you and then you are free to sit down yes three yes oh yes oh Jesus yeah I this is I need yes oh I need yes oh I we all pop yes who are you don't be afraid Jesus loves you sorry I twist over the sweetest way I tell that yeah so I'm still telling you a good yes who are you today I'll tell you what's in to nothing it'll show you to watch out who we all pop last time I shared with you that very important verse Jesus loves you and this time I'm going to teach you in Chinese and other sentence which is as important don't be afraid I mean we are part you don't wanna jump who y'all now let's say that in Chinese who y'all pop wonderful hallelujah who y'all pop who y'all pop who y'all pop yes who I need yes who I need who y'all pop yes who I need who y'all pop yes who I need who y'all pop yes who I need who y'all pop yes who I need amen hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah The coming glory is mightier than the previous glory. Amen. How many of you believe like myself, Bible is the living word of God and it has been given to us. Amen. Hallelujah. I have an ongoing desire to receive more of God's word. And as I knew that we are going to come here and visit this church, I was praying to God, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord. I was praying to God, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message from the Lord, what is the word you want to release to that church during our visit and I get the message And I started my ministry, and I got this name brother in brother cloud in China from the church Don't tell him come on. Tell you to do your food agenda. How many of you want to be continue to be a witness for Jesus Christ Hallelujah That would have been single. You'll send us off a tongue. Don't ya there are three things that I've been me Are very important in my life. We are part wife Do not fear Yes, who don't want the super quantity general之前我聽到主對我來講話說孩子 What's about we are part? When I was first time captured and on the way in the prison that truck to the prison The Lord said my son. I know what you are going through right now. Do not fear Just anger to follow the war easy easy to say we all pass And we all have to sit down We will enjoy general in a number for you to thank us for that we have throughout all those more than ten years In different prisons in China those three words follow me Everywhere do not fear See that you know what I said to me and can't I talk all you saw what I did it What would you like it's you're gonna tell her you're similar on the one and of course I was under stress Knowing that we're going to revisit battle. We've been here a couple of times Already, and I said Lord is there something new you want to say to this church through your servants? Who do you think you've got? Don't take that. Do we all go through today? Kong-Kong You mean who y'all are and this is the all what I got from the Lord do not fear Do not fear those who you eat in There's a you eat in the region some moose Joseph eating Don't hang on to our Center don't y'all how we teach you the truth that they when Pastor bill is Glorified and he goes to be in heaven the glory of God still remain upon the church Hallelujah, hallelujah You wish and What was that song a libby? You know Pakistan is all what you don't know. Did it all kind of you? Do come and die watch your back on you got go away. You can touch that you do to last week we visited Pakistan and They were so excited about Chinese to come to visit that I brought us to visit some of the senators and congressmen Not to go. No, go for you. You're not what you know She's a little bit of what we're you and you'll go through all my soul. What's it? You do to what's it? What we're you and what we should go through? You know, what? I'm going out of San Francisco and One of the congressman he was a Christian and he said that I'm a Christian and I just want to share with you 14 we were 14 Chinese and Visiting at the Congress and he said what is other bylaws of our nation? How do you mean to tell you crazy? I'm Judo to transfer in Jango. We will follow you man. You may be a part cousin. You may be a poor Muslim How do you and he told us something we knew already? He said you have full freedom to share the gospel to those who are Christians You should not share anything to the Muslims How do we make a Muslim time for you? They should go sit in see you so that goes to see him now May you learn to do you mean that and they said if you convert one Muslim when you are visiting our country You are going to be executed for that Don't have to young Johnny's old woman can tell that was you know, you are and as he shared that to me There was a word of God. That's just burst it out from my soul. Well, so you found with your woman I said that I don't care if you cannot say on that day when they start to execute Well, she didn't have a while from tonight. I'll call soon I have a word from living God to you my brother No, there's also she will teach you what you don't sing. You know, sorry, Charlie Yeah, so that this is done the deal. You can teach you and Lord gave me an other word From Sakaraya T-john this is on the who was a little kid yet and Verses six and seven so he said to me. This is the word of the Lord to set a popple Not by my not nor by power, but mine by spirit says the Lord Almighty Are you my mighty mountain before certain father you will become level ground Then he will bring out The capstone to shout of God bless it. God bless it Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Well, you're free time. Can you see people Johnson? They got Those are tongue-tangled Routine to go see yet. He's a whole day. We're superb. Do we have another bundle? I thank brother bill for writing it that book when heaven invites the earth But it has been a great help for me in my ministry I'm sending a boy our routine that you could go down there. So go down there. You should eat. It's a政府月草法律宪法 Folly don't believe it. Don't wait a bit because when the fullness of kingdom of God can upon any location or any country the entire Society will be transformed by the glory of God Hallelujah. Hallelujah Hallelujah What don't you go go to the guy you and sure what what's wrong? And Brother We should put our trust of the living world It's in the name and in a by the mighty power of God These things are going to happen in your country Don't send a book. I should tell you know so they do a passion for you Okay, the and a Bible promises when God is Establishing his glorious presence the big mountains are leveled down What you guys are told you can't remove so for finishing hero Don't tell me what you're telling you so that you know some agent And I sing that book I read about that there are no cancer in heaven Amen, hallelujah Let's go. How does it seem to see your agent? What do I have for you? Yes? What do you say? I'll tell you I see Bob and it happened to be that the wife of this congressman. She had cancer So I prayed over her in the name of Jesus, and I released the power of kingdom of God upon this Pakistani and congressman's wife Hallelujah She started to pour out all the pain and agony of her life in tears, and I prayed for her Hallelujah I Arrived back home to Germany 11th of March on the 13th of March The local brothers and sisters they called me we have taken hold of that prophetic word You proclaim over Pakistan and in the middle of April We are going to have a crusade for the power of God in our neighborhoods The Lord sent his word Do not fear And the fear was removed from their hearts and the local Believers are encouraged and they are good to proclaim the kingdom of God Hi, I'll pay her son. Why didn't y'all said it? He'll talk like a little change in total. How will I know you? Do you know for sure that we all change? Don't put one in ching ching. Ha ching matey Oh, what made you ching? Sure? Yeah, so that's what you're telling me. Okay, but and this congressman was so excited about this I'm going to command all the police force to attend that crusade and All the lawmakers are going to attend that sir that crusade And all the hospital personnel are going to attend that church and every teacher is going to come to that meeting Hallelujah Come and give me a woman. We haven't all gone. Come on. Come on. Send a boy. I'll tell you I'll tell you that Lord We want to see your mighty glory to come up on Pakistan and you've got to move this hindrance of religion so that people are free to come into kingdom of God Hallelujah, amen You know, I don't want me. How's about for you? Come with you. Los Alamos. There's a house. You're pretty sure that's awful. I know that we yell. Oh, sorry. I'm choking on Send you to look at me when you can see she send that Boom-boom be true. You'll show you a friend. Yeah, darling. Yeah, I'm good. Take a Muslim. It's all right. I said, ah and We are so thankful to the Lord when the Lord spoke to us about the vision to bring the gospel to every nation every people go between China and Jerusalem We have always prayed for peace over Jerusalem by what God send a Spirit or splintering split among the Muslims. So one House at one school they started to walk fight against one and others hallelujah Amen, amen Come with you. We are going to tell you come in. We'll buy my come in. We'll do it. You're dying. It's a layla and because of this Hatred among the different tribes in the Muslim world. They cannot come together in one force to attack Israel Hallelujah And this is the wisdom of God You thought her call on Senegal. What I tell you that may go Tell you that also tell you that don't don't don't go you thought I don't call on Senegal. Tell me that do you hope and pray? That the same presence of kingdom of God that is upon this city in Northern, California that the same presence will be upon the Middle East and Central Asia Let us shout out to the Lord and ask him to send his glory upon Middle East and Central Asia Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We pray together Hallelujah Oh Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ By the eyes of faith we will see your glory to come upon Middle East and Central Asia And Lord your glory, your kingdom presence come upon us here in this city and in this country, but in the same manner up in Middle East and Central Asia. And may your will be done in our church, in our city, in our country and in Middle East so as it is done in heaven. And we pray this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And now one more sentence in Chinese. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I already sense and I feel the presence of God's glory in this building. When we read the Bible from Haggai, do you still remember the date of Haggai on the 21st day of the 7th month of the 21st day of the 7th month of the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai? During the morning services, we were listening to Pastor Eric, and he was sharing, if you have an encounter with God, you never forget it. It's a treasure of your life. It follows you the rest of your life. And you have to, you have to understand this. Whenever God speaks to you, he speaks totally his own way. You don't even understand what he means, what he's talking about. And this day is the same day, and it's written in the New Testament that Jesus stood up at the last day of the festival, and he called people, if somebody is hungry, come to me. If somebody is thirsty, come to me and drink, the very same day. And the religious festival had not met the need, the thirst of the people, and people were still thirsty at the last day of the festival. And Haggai got this message during the last day of the festival, and the Lord said to him, I have a message for you to deliver to my people. And the Lord's message was to him, tell this to the leadership, to the high priests, all the leaders, and the entire people of Israel, I am going to reestablish my kingdom presence upon this nation. The situation in reality was impossible. How is this going to happen in this situation for people of Israel? But the Lord already spoke out his word. And he started to share to the nation that you have to be strong, you have to be, do not fear, I am going to do it. Hallelujah. And we are going to shake all the nations. Do not fear, let us join hands together and pray for this miracle to happen in Middle East and in Central Asia. Hallelujah. I have already experienced that circumstances are not important to me anymore. I do not pay any attention to circumstances in my life. Hallelujah. I have heard May 5, 1997, when I was in the solitary confinement in the number one security prison in China, I heard with my own ears Jesus say, Brother, do not be afraid, the new day has arrived for you. Hallelujah. And the Lord said to me, all the doors have already been opened for you, the darkness of the night has passed, a new day has dawn for you. Hallelujah. I was locked inside the very core of the security prison. There were four iron gates between me and freedom. It was totally impossible for me to walk out from my cell. My both legs had been crushed from ankles, I was not able to stand up, I was not able to walk. Jesus shouted this very same day, if somebody is thirsty, come to me and drink. And from within those who believe in this, there will be streams of living water flowing out from their inner being. Hallelujah. I have so much desire, Lord, I want to be set free, Lord, I want you to heal me, that was the prayer on my heart. And I said, Lord, I am so afraid. The Lord said, be strong, do not fear. As we were worshipping together, the Lord spoke to me through one of the melodies that the worship team was playing. I did not understand what he was saying, but the Lord told me in Chinese. You are the beginning, you are the end. I do not know what you were singing, but I was singing, Lord, you are the beginning and the end. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And the name of the Lord will be glorified. Amen. That moment when Jesus challenged me in the mightiest way in my life, I knew that my life is totally captured in the hands of the Almighty God. And I said, Lord, even my name you have given it to me. If this is the last day of my life, if they shoot me when I try to move out from myself, my life belongs to you. Receive my spirit. Lord, my life is in your hands. You are the beginning of my life and you are the end of my life. I worship your name. Hallelujah. Amen. Do not dwell in fear anymore. Because Lord, I said, I will be with you every day. These churches have already entered into the glorious presence of God. And do not be afraid that maybe we already have received our measure. No, you have not. There is more to come. Hallelujah. Amen. I was really moved because when we came to the church tonight, Deborah and Les, they had arranged that the team that's on the way to Israel, that they wanted to be prayed. So we were praying, laying hands upon them in the corridor here behind. And Lord really speak to my heart. In that very moment that the Lord supernaturally opened the doors for the top security person for me to walk out from that prison totally healed. I was like a person walking in dreams. I did not understand how the closing system was reversed. So every door was open for me supernaturally with any human intervention. And I totally agree with Brother Eric when you talk about the angels. Because I have seen what the angels are able to do. They were the one who reversed the doors and opened them for me to walk out. And can you imagine that the last door that was open was the main gate of that security person. It was open to me. And I was so surprised that there was a red colored taxi waiting for me outside. You do not stop your taxi outside the security prison door. But it was standing there and I jumped into the taxi. And I was 100% sure it was my accordion angel who had called to the taxi company and ordered the taxi. So it was waiting for me. Hallelujah! Glory to Jesus! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And I am as innocent as Brother Eric. I do not know how this happened but I saw it happened. And I came to understand that the miracle will follow after those who are obedient. So when I have to take the decision of obedience, I did not know how is this going to go. I cannot walk. My legs are scratched. I just obeyed because he said stand up and walk. I obeyed and I walked out. And all the other brothers who did not get this permission to leave the prison that morning. They told me that five minutes after you disappeared from the prison. The guards, they started to research every cell. Where is the crippled man? Where is the man who cannot walk? How is it possible he has disappeared? Hallelujah! Glory to Jesus! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I was completely in shock. I did not have any words to describe what happened. I was sitting on the back seat of the taxi. I mean speed off on the highway, off from the prison. There was a key hanging from the mirror of that taxi. And the Holy Spirit started to speak to me through that key. I am holy and I am the truly. I have the keys of David in my hands. The doors that I opened, no man is able to stop. And the Holy Spirit gave me a message. He said, in the same manner that I opened the doors of number one security prison in China for you. I am going to open the great door for the gospel through your ministry to the Middle East, Central Asia and the whole China. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! To believe in the Word of God is very important. Raise up your hand if you truly believe in the power of the Word of God. Amen! Jesus have said, those who believe, they will experience even greater miracles than I ever did on the earth. Jesus loves you so much. Do not allow anything from your past to hinder you to develop your relationship with Jesus. And my deepest prayer for you is, not only that you receive my personal testimony, but you will go out and you will bring your testimony back to church, what God is doing through your life as you walk in obedience. And tonight, we just want to do one thing in your life. We are going to cast out the demons of fear from your life. Amen! I am totally fearless. I don't matter where I am, I'm going to give the glory to Jesus. And I'm going to witness it. It doesn't matter who that person and situation is. And to give a testimony about Jesus, it doesn't mean that you will become a preacher. Wherever you are, your whole life will become a living testimony about power of Jesus Christ. And as a closure, I will share one testimony. This happened already a couple of years ago, but the result of this became the salvation for that person. It happened the time when the guards in the prison, they were mocking every day my Jesus. I didn't care they torture me every day. I didn't care the pain they gave to my body in questioning every day. But I was totally upset then mocking Jesus who gave his life for my salvation. So I said to this guard, would you mind stop saying bad things about my Jesus? I said, don't mock my Jesus because he loves me so much. And I started, I burst in tears and I begged him. He died for my sins on the cross. Don't mock my Jesus. And as I continued to beg and beg again, suddenly the Spirit of God touched the heart of that guard and he became a believer of Jesus. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I really ask you, according to the Bible, do not be ashamed of the gospel. Because the gospel is power of God for salvation for those who believe. I finished with another testimony. I heard that some group is going to Israel. Every time I prepare to go to Israel, I pray, God, what do you want to achieve? What do you want me to do when I'm in Israel? I'm not just going there to look around and see if there are any holy places. I said, Lord, give me your living word so that I can start to proclaim as your prophet a new word from you to this nation. You know, there are a lot of people going to Jerusalem, to Israel, like John chapter 12 says, a lot of people come to see where Jesus is. They don't believe in Jesus. They are resurrected because of Lazarus. It even happened today. Many people go to Israel, it's like it happened during the time of Jesus. It was said that people became very interested. They wanted to go and visit Lazarus because they had heard that Jesus had raised him from the dead. There are many people who are non-believers who become very interested about the history of the nation of Israel. And people are amazed of the transition of the nation of Israel. After almost 2,000 years, that nation was re-established, and they are leading in technology, in agriculture, and many different fields. They are becoming leaders in the world. And of course, there is a big group of people who their wives, who happen to be a believer, they force their husbands to join, so they come as together, and the other partner is not a believer, or children are not a believer. I remember a story of one 77-year-old man from Shenzhen in China. And his wife and daughter were believers, and everybody was trying to convert his brother, but he was totally against the gospel. But he decided to join his wife and came to Israel. And I remember that morning, we were in the breakfast room of the hotel, and his wife, she just lost it totally. She started to say aloud, everybody heard, my husband, you are going to go to hell, because you don't want to believe in Jesus. And she was really upset, so I said, what are you fighting about? I became very curious, how did she send me to hell? And the wife said, brother, we were at the Jordan River, and me and my daughter, we were baptized, and I was begging my husband, believe in Jesus, so we can be baptized together. And he said, even if I have to die, I never believe in Jesus. But I knew that the word of God, the gospel is power of God. So I said, Lord, give me that word, and this man will believe. And I said, Lord, I already know, that if your Holy Spirit does not speak into his heart, he will never return to Jesus. And I said this old man, yesterday when I was preaching, and you were sitting in the meeting, and I prayed over you during my preaching. And I said that I saw that you kneeled down, like everybody else was kneeling down, so they are not to sit. So you kneeled down, so I prayed for you yesterday. And I said, when I prayed over you yesterday, without you knowing it, you already became a son of living God. And this old man said, brother, I cannot deceive you anymore. I only half-kneeled, one leg was down, the other one was still up. And I said this old man, not only that you are going to kneel with your both knees, but God is going to give the rest of your life, it's going to be filled with joy and peace of God. And he said, I really need that, I really want to get the peace, and I really want to get the joy. And this old man said to me, not only that I'm ready to kneel down and receive Jesus, I want us to go immediately to Jordan River, so you can baptize me to become a disciple of Jesus. Oh, I still have one more testimony to share with you. I came to September last year, I was supposed to join some of your workers, Deborah and others, to India in September, but the day that we were supposed to depart to go to India, the visa did not appear, so we have to change the plans. I was not able to go to India. And that very day, Dennis Falcom, an old friend of mine from Hong Kong, called me and said, Brother, we really need you in Jerusalem. And I said, Brother Dennis, it's a very tight call, your meeting has already started, and I don't even have a visa to Israel, I'm not sure if this is going to work. And he said, you have to come. I'm a worshipper of the Living God, and I'm a person who believes in the Almighty God, and I personally pray. And I said, Brother, if it works out with my visa, I don't want to be a speaker in your conference, but I can lead, 4 o'clock every morning, I can bring the whole group to prayer, and I will pray with them 4 hours every morning. We started from 5 to 8, and the second day we started from 4 to 8, and the third day we started from 3 to 8, every morning we were praying together. And one morning, we had just finished the prayer meeting, and we got upstairs to the dining room for breakfast, and there was another Chinese group, who were not part of this whole set up, and they came to that same hotel to have breakfast, and they all waved their hands and said hello to everybody. I'm sure you have to be very, you have to be very aware of the possibilities to share the Gospel, to have the right temperature. When I heard this woman to shout hello, immediately the Holy Spirit started to speak to me about that woman. And Lord said to me, go immediately and take hold of that woman, she does not know me, and she needs desperately me. And I asked the same question, I asked everybody, I asked, are you a believer of Jesus Christ? And when I took a hold of her hand, she could not get rid of me. But you know, there was a power of the Kingdom of God that went into her body through my hand. I said, I'm sorry Pastor, I am not a believer of Jesus. I said, when I take hold of your hand, God's Kingdom already touched your life, you are changed. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And he looked very closely to me. And those started to reveal some mysteries of her life that no man on the earth knew. I said, when I look you into your eyes, your life story, when you write it down, it's going to become a mighty testimony and blessing for this generation. And she said, how did you know that I'm writing my life story? And I said, you have already decided you have a name for that book, and you are writing all the mysteries of your life. But today, you are going to start to write a new book. It has a new name, and that book is going to influence the world. And I said to this woman, you are going to be a mighty blessing for this generation, like King Solomon, with the wisdom and all that God has given to you. And you are going to get a new name. From now on, you are called Ruth. God has given you an ability to receive dreams and visions, and through those dreams and visions, God will transform your nation. And she started to cry. And I said, if people want to cry, let them cry. There were 500 people watching this woman to cry at 8 o'clock in the morning in the busy morning breakfast room. And when the mother started to cry loudly, daughter, 18 years old, she rushed, mother, what's happening? What is he doing to you? Mother, why are you crying so much? I said, don't cry anymore. I pray, and you repeat after me, and this prayer is going to change your life. And before I started to lead the prayer, a man rushed out from the other side of the dining room, and he came to look. I did not know that that was actually her still legal husband. They haven't had anything to do with one another more than 10 years, and they did not know that they both happened to be in Jerusalem that very same day, and they ended up in the same hotel that very breakfast. The mother was there in the business to get her daughter to enroll to the Jerusalem University, and the husband had a totally different business to do in Jerusalem. The last 10 years, the husband and the daughter and the wife have not shared one word. They haven't been in the same location at the same time. And for the last 10 years, the daughter, who was 18 years old, she hadn't even once called that man as her father. And that day, after we prayed, we went together and walked to those places, and we went to the pool in Siloam. And I said to these people, I said that this pool has in the past been a place of transformation for many people. God has transformed people in this pool. So I took the microphone in my hand, and I shouted to all those hundreds of Chinese who were there in that tour. And I said, this location is a location where God is going to transform the destiny and the life of many people. And I was sharing the testimony about the blind man, who had been blind from birth. And people were discussing, is it because of the sin of the parents? And I said, we don't have a possibility to choose what family we are born into, what are the circumstances of our lives. And this man, he doesn't have a choice to be blind. He was born as a blind man, but Jesus was in the business to transform people's destinies, people's lives. And I asked, how many of you want God to transform your life destiny today? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And many people raised up their hands and they wanted God to change their lives. And I said, Jesus just asked us to go to this place and wash their eyes with the water, and they will see. The whole world has been blinded by Satan. Jesus has come to transform our lives. As they started to obey the Lord. And I did the most impossible. I said, we don't need to wait to go to Jordan River. I can baptize you right here, and it was very little water in that pool. And the mother of this family, she said, Pastor, I really wanted to be baptized, but you don't know the past, all the hurt in my life. And I said, Sister, you don't need to worry about the past. Jesus has erased your past, and it's all about now, and about tomorrow with Jesus. She said, are you serious? I can sign you a promise. And the daughter became really upset. Pastor, you should not cheat us. God cannot help us. We don't need God. Don't cheat us. I'm not cheating you. And then you say that you don't need God, but I tell you the truth, God needs you. And then God said to me, I said to this girl, God does not only need you, He will give a new name for you. And she said, what new name? She said, I was kneeling in the water, and then the mother decided to join me. So she kneeled in the water. And as the mother, I was baptizing the mother somehow, the daughter joined, and I was baptizing her also somehow. And the whole family was baptized that morning. Hallelujah. And afterwards they gave me a wonderful testimony. For the past ten years, the devil has destroyed everything in our family. But by the grace of God and the blood of Jesus, our family was re-established that day. Hallelujah. Brother, he was a doctor, a university doctor, and his major is in Judaism. So he went back to his university in Shanghai, and he started his first lecture two hours after he landed to Shanghai. And he shared in five minutes his testimony, what God did in his life in Israel. And twelve people from the lecture, they come forward, we need Jesus. Hallelujah. And I, let us all stand up, and I will pray, and then brother Bill will still come up, and we will continue the meeting. Jesus loves you. Don't allow your past to hinder you anymore. How many Christians do we have here tonight? Amen. And then anyone who is not a Christian, a believer of Jesus, follower of Jesus, raise up your hand, and I will pray first for you. Amen. And those of you who raise your hands, you are not yet a believer, you can come here to this spot, and pastors will pray for you. Your family is going to be transformed. Your life will be transformed. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We are just having a little worship meeting here. Excuse us. We are going to do something right now. They are heading up a ministry of raising up great numbers of Chinese people to go back to Jerusalem and to bring the gospel to Israel. If I have heard correctly, there is 100,000, or you are trying to raise up 100,000 people that would go back to Israel, back to Jerusalem. It is just called the Back to the Jerusalem Project. We have already presented a wonderful gift to our brother and to this ministry, but I just think it would be the coolest thing in the world. We are turning him loose for ministry to all of you in just a moment, but I thought it would be pretty cool if we just gave an offering right now. You have heard, you have seen. I think we ought to do something. That is all I am thinking. I am interrupting everything to give you a chance to worship God in this way. What I am going to do is I am going to have you actually bring gifts up here to the platform. I need ushers with envelopes, if you want an envelope. If you just want to bring a cash gift, you can start coming right now. If you want to do a credit card gift, we have got envelopes. I want you to put your hand up and we will get ushers. We are going to take just a few minutes for this, and then I am turning them loose. Who knows what is going to happen? A reminder, anyone here tonight that does not know Jesus, we have got teams. We have got somebody receiving the Lord right now. Come right up here to my left. We have got a couple of our folks. If you are doing a check right into Bethel, everything that comes in here will go to this project. We never keep anything. We never keep any of it. If you want to do a credit card gift, don't go into debt, please. Don't go into debt to give. But we have got ushers with envelopes, and I need one. If we have an usher that can bring one in my direction, I would really appreciate it. There are some other folks here that need to receive the Lord. I want you to come over here. Ben, would you put your hand up high so they can see right down here. I want to make sure that those who are receiving the Lord, come right up here because a great miracle of transformation is happening. Just worship the Lord as you give. This is just wonderful. I love to see people do this. Is anyone else happy they came tonight? We still have some ushers with envelopes. I have got one. Thank you. We still have ushers with envelopes. If you want one of those, my goodness, go for it. Let's do it while it's hot. I had somebody write me from Australia maybe 3 or 4 months ago. They said on the news down there was a report of someone in Reading who paid for everyone's room that was staying at the Hilton down here. Somebody anonymously just paid for everyone who was staying in the hotel. This act of generosity the news spread all the way down to Australia. They were sending me reports of what happened in Reading. I thought that was pretty good. I know a time where everyone in a restaurant, their meal was paid for. Just the generosity of you guys, how you do life. I just heard someone this morning, and it was one of you who did it. A homeless person in town, a couple was at the library and they were discussing their needs, and one of you heard them and gave them, you just bought a car. Someone here just bought a car. The registration hadn't even gone through yet, and you gave the car to that person. It released such favor on their life. They've since got jobs, a job, they've since got a home to live in. It's just this radical generosity thing. You guys are amazing. I love this so much. I love, I love, I love this so much. This is Christian recreation at its finest. We are sending our dollars out to war to shape the course of history and this is good. Wow, wow, wow. We've got a whole group going to China too from here. How many of you? We have, Brother Tysto, we have a group from China here, a whole bunch going to China. So make sure they get waxed sometime in the evening. How many of you are just ready for a whole bunch more of Jesus? How many of you would like how many of you would like a bit of what's on these guys lives to affect yours? Oh my goodness. Wow. Yeah, there are people receiving Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? You know what? You've honored the men of God as is appropriate for us. I want you to stand. Let's take a moment just to worship the Lord. Let's give Him thanks together for the incredible word and gift that God has given to us tonight. Lift your voices in praise. Lift your voices in joyful expressions of thanksgiving for God's goodness. Lift your voices. Declare His greatness. Lift your voice again. Lift your voice again. Lift your voice again. Hallelujah. Lord Jesus, as we in your mighty name raise up our hands in the name of Jesus we release the healing power of kingdom of God upon your life. And in the name of Jesus we set you free from hopelessness. And Lord I pray that the fire for gospel that is in my heart will go into every heart in this building today. That there would be a mighty grace and glory upon their lives. Lord give your compassion. Give your love to us. Lord you are calling many to me. Tonight to go to locations where the name of Jesus has not yet been proclaimed within this generation and they will bring Jesus to those places. In the name of Jesus we release a apostolic anointing upon the messengers. In the name of Jesus we send you to the Middle East. We send you to Central Asia. We send you to the Far East to establish a new presence of kingdom of God. Lord give them an anointing to preach the gospel. A prophetic anointing Lord. And Lord as your kingdom is established in our meeting tonight. And Lord your word will bring harvests from the hearts of people who are here in the meeting tonight. Or listening and following us through internet or TV. And we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Amen. And now with great confidence say to one another I believe I got it. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. And then we are going to have some practical information about the prayer time. Who will do that? Are we Deborah? Do you know anything? What's going to happen now? Okay. The brothers will take over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We pray. I think they just line up. Yeah. Yeah. And we will walk through and pray. Fire tunnel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Alright. Let's have our ministry team. Why don't you give it up for Brother Yoon and our friend. Hallelujah. Ministry team if you could come we are going to do a fire tunnel. And they requested to go through it. So we are going to let them go first. They said we want a fire tunnel and we want to go through it. So ministry team come up to the front. And if I could have give us a few moments to get set up here. Yeah. We need two lines down the middle so if you could kind of sort yourselves out. Okay let's go ahead and start a fire tunnel. One way to go this way. The other one go this way.
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Brother Yun (1958–present). Born Liu Zhenying on January 1, 1958, in Nanyang, Henan, China, Brother Yun is a Chinese house church leader, evangelist, and author, renowned for his role in the Back to Jerusalem movement. Raised in poverty, he converted to Christianity at 16 in 1974 after his mother’s renewed faith led to his father’s miraculous healing from lung cancer, sparking a family revival. Lacking a Bible, Yun fasted and prayed for one, receiving it after a divine vision guided evangelists to deliver it. He memorized Scripture, including the Gospel of Matthew, and began preaching at 16, reciting entire chapters to villagers, leading to widespread conversions despite China’s clampdown on Christianity in the 1980s and 1990s. As a house church leader, he faced severe persecution, arrested multiple times, tortured, and imprisoned for over seven years, including a 74-day fast he claims sustained him miraculously. In 1997, he escaped Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison, attributing it to divine intervention, and fled to Germany, where he gained asylum. Yun authored The Heavenly Man (2002) with Paul Hattaway, detailing his persecution and miracles, and Living Water (2008), sharing his teachings; the former won the UK Christian Book of the Year in 2003. Married to Deling, with two children, he now ministers globally, advocating missions to unevangelized nations. He said, “We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure!”