We Need the Power of the Spirit

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network will call me to the power of the Spirit to do his ministry while we need the power the spirit stage for the line of fire with your host activist all the international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown was the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire valves like always 866-34-TRUTH that's 866-34-TRUTH Bureau Jacob is Dr. Michael Brown to tell you what, let's not debate tongues, prophecy, things like that.

Let's not debate cessation us versus continuation NIST anti-charismatic versus pro-charismatic. This is think about this topic biblically as I think it will really be important for you today hey friends, welcome to broadcast this is Michael Brown. 866-34-TRUTH is never the call 866-34-TRUTH 7884 before we dive into the subject as to why we need the power of the spirit, then either be speaking to a guest about this at the bottom of the hour I just wanted to stop again and say that as things unfold in Afghanistan that the horror of what happened the degree to which we mismanage things in America. And yes, the buck stops with Pres. Biden on this, the degree to which this is bringing international shame and humiliation.

The degree to which this is opening up Afghanistan. Once again, as a haven for terrorists, including the potential rise of Al Qaeda with it even means to Israel which is a lot closer to Afghanistan and we are will talk about that gobbling tomorrow and thoroughly Jewish Thursday that the tragic scenes of bloodshed already. The reports of Christians and others in hiding the degree to which America right now our government is really not prioritizing the way we ought to get our citizens out there and others that have helped the the horrific video image you know from inside the planes leaving people hanging onto the plains of of now official reports that human remains have been found, like in the landing gears and try to hold on and it is is absolutely tragic in the fact that it's it's closing in on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is all the more tragic. So this is ever before us just reading a post from John Erickson taught early about how rapidly the church in Afghanistan is growing. Obviously all underground. Remember we are very familiar now with the growth of the church in China in the multiplied tens of millions of Christians in China. We are very familiar with that now.

But that was a shock that was a revelation because when when China fell to mounts atonement to communism and in the bamboo curtain closed off China from the outside world. People had no idea what was happening to the Christians there considered in strong Christian presence for for centuries and then rising specially with such child, Hudson Taylor China inland Mission and others in the blood of martyrs being shed.

The church was growing and now suddenly no contact, persecuted and imprisoned, killed underground when China opened up again.

It was a shock to find out that there were tens of these believers.

What will be shocked if I was happening in North Korea under underground behind the scenes as the church of Jesus continues to grow the same in Afghanistan, but it's a very dire and difficult time that the Taliban are as ruthless sharia radical Muslims as you find this draconian is primitive, especially when comes to women in education and training and rights things like that so this is ever before us, we need to continue to pray and and pray somehow that God will redeem a very messy ugly situation but were just not focusing on it again today. If you miss my article yesterday 10 reflections on the disaster in Afghanistan and we talked about in the air yesterday and catches this broadcast or read my article and asked Dr. Brown.org or whatever you normally read article sort let's go over to first Corinthians chapter 2 first Corinthians chapter 2, I want to read the words of Paul. There he sees ready laid out in the first chapter how God works through through the week and God works through the foolish of this world and how the preaching of the cross is foolish this to those who perish, but to those are being saved is the power of God. The second look. First Corinthians chapter 2 and and see what Paul says there is a comes to car NTE says this and I I was with you in weakness and fear in much trembling. And he said it in my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom. I thought your all start reading right from the beginning and end.

I when I came two brothers did not come proclaiming to the testimony God with lofty speech or wisdom broadsided to know nothing among you except Jesus the Messiah crucified there was, I wasn't going to impress you with my rhetorical flourish wasn't going to impress you with all he's an amazing speak, or what rhetoric or what logical and philosophical depth. No reprieve. Simple message, Jesus the Messiah crucified and I was with you in weakness and fear much trembling. Remember Lysistrata he stole. Basically to death that's acts chapter 14 acts 16. He and Silas are terribly whipped and flogged in Philippi. 17 they refuse to try to turn the world upside down. There's a riot there now comes to Corinth.

In instances, acts 18 so ask, 14, 16, 17, now acts 18. I was with you weakness and fear much trembling. And my speech and my message were not implausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Okay, so here's my question for you. If Paul could not minister effectively outside of the power of the spirit.

What makes us think we can get on not debating tongues, prophecy, healing miracles today, although I'm convinced by Scripture. They remain to this very day and I'm an eyewitness to those gifts in operation and yes that is an aspect of the power the spirit of speaking more broadly.

It is the devil different today with demonic strongholds different today is the power of sin different today is the power of the world different today are human beings different today if Paul ministered by the power of the spirit if if the apostles were told by Jesus himself after being with the master for three and half years being taught by him being mentored by him having their eyes and minds and understanding open to understand the Scriptures after being sent out practical ministry by him was a silly 2449 stay in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.don't leave until you have this.

Why did they need the power the Holy Spirit to do the work of the gospel, but we sometimes act as if we can just rip our own power. The latest church growth strategy. The least effective evangelism method is working harder trying harder.

Why don't we think that we don't need the same power that that they ministered serenity apostles. I know without the apostles without writing the Bible we don't have the authority of the apostles had understand that we were not claiming to be apostles like they were A apostles, the people of apostolic ministry takes me that would be Hudson Taylor that I just mentioned as modern-day apostolic ministry. My friend Lisa Potter in India planted 70,000 churches in tribal regions and goes into places where the gospel is not gone, builds a pole works there and and changes that the society around them through the gospel.

That's apostolic but no, we don't have apostles like the 12 apostles.

Remember this powers not just for them.

This this powers for everyone. The Holy Spirit poured out on all flesh acts. The second chapter from four went on in these last days from now. For from then until Jesus returns. Or, for example in in ask the six chapter Stephen is going on tables. Philip is going on tables but they were men full of the spirit that they could not even do that unless they were full of the spirit and when Stephen ministered God's grace and powers upon grace meeting entombment there Evan, Philip, and asked the eighth chapter he ministers in the power of the spirit and the Samaritans are saved and delivered from demons and heal from sicknesses, social why do we think that we can do the work without being is dependent on the Holy Spirit. No AW toes who said this will over 50 years ago. He said in the early church of the Holy Spirit had left the earth that 95% of the work would stop and everyone would see the difference.

The contemporary church and again he said this over 50 years ago, the Holy Spirit left the earth. 95% of the work would continue on affected and nobody would notice the difference here. For example, I could get on the radio and just do a good show good in terms of human evaluation without the power the Holy Spirit on talking to a talker you call in.

We talk back and forth. I play news clips. We have special guests I could do all that without the anointing without the grace and power of God, and it would be interesting and informative, but it wouldn't eternally change peoples lives cynically jumping, shouting don't have to be prophesying you have to be gone through all kinds of gestures to operate in the power. The spirit and by the way, I am not saying do you feel it right.

You could feel the power of spirit.I'm not saying that I'm just saying that a lot of what we do we can do without spirits help and in fact before one on radio 13 years ago. Nancy sits me.

You gotta be really careful because there's a real danger. You could do good radio without God right there. There plenty of good radio hosts that unbelievers. They do a great job there entertaining and fascinating, and they've got met your listenership's massively bigger than my soul. Even just getting on the radio talk I will pray God made the words be effective with words be backed with with your spirit.

When we speak truth that will change people's lives so in the same way we know how to do church today. You can have a good service got good music will organize children's programs, free creative pastor great communicator. You can have good services and churches that outwardly seem healthy, but if the presence and power of God or not there lies will not be radically changed and lasting ways people will not be genuinely set free and transformed and ultimately when shaking comes many of the people, if not most won't make it so simple question why is it that the early church was so deeply dependent on the power the Holy Spirit and sought God earnestly in prayer for God's intervention, God's hand and get today.

So many of us seem more interested in programs than the palace. What did they know that were missing file light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown is rejoining his friends, 8664 truth do you get my emails. Not sure you probably don't. So when encourage you to go to my website ask Dr. Brown delegates at your websites there for you. SK DR Brown.org. Take a moment and putting your email address first and last name address. If you like and immediately will send you a really neat free many books of the secrets of the real Messiah will also send you some emails just give you more background my own testimony from us to the PhD of the 3Rs of our ministry and how we can serve you how we can help equip you to be strong in the midst of the craziness in which we live today there are so many resources waiting for you there. We love to make them available to so much free material than you can get our books and other things. If there of interest to you, but only disconnect and then this week is an only write about five articles a week at the at the end of every week will send your summary of each article. So if you missed anything.

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I want talk about mindset. I want to talk about attitude. I know when I'm asked to go into a church and they say hey Dr. Brown were really struggling with questions about activism in some kids in the church since a transgender and how we deal with this intricately teaching other than to a Q&A, you bet. So I take that seriously right pray for God's wisdom in the message sensitivity forgot to bring the right people out.

I pray for the Lord to work but I'm doing it teaching their right. If if I'm about to debate a rabbi and messianic prophecy. Of course we pray for the Lord to speak and work through it, but I'm really preparing my notes and in thinking through where things are going to debate, etc. if someone says Dr. Brown, or are churches hungering and thirsting for fresh encounter with God. We we are longing for revival fire fallen amiss.

Could you come and preach on revival. Maybe minister trust you open the authors for prayer and I going to that of the very different way. Because there is something that people are expecting me to bring that in myself. I can't bring. It was like I can debate a rabbi based on the knowledge and information that Cindy may be regifted marital counselor and just by the wisdom you have from decades around counseling you can do a good job in counseling a couple. It's it's another thing when you're faced with impossible situations were or let let's say that that you were known for praying for the sick and you get a call for offensive hate. Just want to prepare you that there are there are five people than the last six months have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. There there all supposed to be dead within three months.

They're all going to be there. The families are praying for America. What we want this, stroll in there think I got the wisdom of no use at all. God oh God, if you don't touch if you don't move if you don't act these people to die so this is greater sense of dependence on the Lord, do you do we have that sense of dependence on the spirit. God, you have to move God our work in itself is not getting the job done.

There must be more think of this vast young generation millions and millions of people.

The millennial's, the generation sees and then even younger. So many of never had an encounter with God. So many of heard about the message but never encountered God's this is the end of Joshua 24 that the children of Israel serve the Lord during the days of Joshua.

During the days of the elders would experience the Lord and then after that when they all died, Israel Foley because no one was alive carrying the testimony of firsthand encounter on a national level.

Every generation must encounter God for itself. Otherwise, the fall away. Grandpa stories mom stories will not will not save Junior list Junior encounters the God of mom and the God of grandpa or we were lying on the power the Holy Spirit.

You say Michael believe in tongues for today Otto I don't believe that that we pray for miracles of healing to okay fine. Are you deeply dependent on the Lord in your preaching and teaching. Are you deeply dependent on the power the spirit. When you go out and evangelize even put those other things aside in timeout mindset. What I can tell you is around the world for many decades now with the gospel is pretty most powerfully it's was sons with miracles. I was just as God did in the book of acts same God. Same principles same power where is the evidence the power of the Holy Spirit in your life in my life. Your ministry in my ministry. That's what I ask you to think about and trust me it's something I often think about my own life. All right, let's not go to the phones Mark insolently city, Utah. Welcome to the line of fire.

All you are talking about the current approach and attitude of the parking God anarchic, we would agree on about how do we confront different out guys because I think the market size and market market market. I ask you question of do you feel that it's a good thing to call a Christian radio broadcast under completely false pretenses to give false information to our call screener than to start something off only to say something, profane, ugly, and actually kind of sick you think that's a good civil thing to do not know what you do it yeah so so Mark 11 then cut you off your how can I help you get your own life right controversy messed up if if you find it enjoyable to do something that perverse an entity within a publicly UMC have some real needs in your life.

How can I help, the amount marked up with them yet so so Mark tell you what I would help if if you let me soak just an example of why people really need Jesus.

So here someone calls in and for whatever reason.

Once I started exposing sexual perversion society.

The people that enjoy that perversion and celebrated attack my mustache figure that one out yet. Trust me when I say we get it from all sides.

We do what it makes me feel bad that this is someone actually took the time to call lied to her call screener started talking to me about complete laws in the Lord's nothing to do with what he wants to sit to then make some ridiculous statement. Children are lost people are without the Lord so Mark which he didn't intend this now you get a bunch of people praying for you that that suddenly you get people praying for you that didn't even know you have and what is your name or not. God knows who you are so it's an interesting thing. I was sharing my testimony earlier today a podcast explaining how when I was shooting heroin speed using LSD living it up in, and playing drums in a rock band and thinking I was super cool and all this people muscle church. Older people, traditional people, jackets, ties, they began praying for me and the Holy Spirit brought me in the conviction out.

You may have been resisting the gospel for 20 years. You. You may have hardened your heart a long time ago doesn't. God can't break through, but listless.

Pray for the soul. If Marx's actual name and goggles. Let's pray for him, that God will bring under conviction will show him the depth of the sinfulness which is the depth of all human sinfulness outside of God's grace will bring into a place of of conviction and transformation, and salvation is a what that abuse we call we get a call if it happens, we shall see. Oh few months or a few years from the say. How was the guy the call I was that jerk and Jesus really change me and had mercy on me, so may that be so, and for those that want to call in and be gross up just tell a call screener I'm going to call in and be gross.

I think I think this Brown guy's a jerk and an idiot and I will insult them publicly.

Hey, I'll push on no reason to lie about it. Just don't use profanity and if if you can try to avoid perverse statements that's that's wonderful be the Lord have mercy on you, bring you to repentance. Mark and others that are listening and watching that you must not write an become one. What's going on hey you're listening you're watching for reason with the Lord work in your life and by the way, I got no problem with a mustache quite at home with it's been fixed here for long time. Okay, we come back on the other side of the break we are going to talk with David Edwards. He's a graduate from our ministry school at the heart of a revivalist and he's written a fascinating book called mystified as to tie in directly with what were talking about his first power error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown.

Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown x-rays for joining us on the lawn, a 4866-34-TRUTH is the number to call, but right now to focus on the special guest of a been asking the question if Paul, Peter Phillips, Stephen early church leaders of the church service needed the power of the Holy Spirit to minister to advance the gospel of the kingdom of God. Why don't we need same power of the spirit today and my guess David Edwards has a book called mystified and open up the contents of that book in a moment, but we get stacks of books sent to us constantly from different publishers and media agents ask if we have guests on the area we went to a lot of interviews I could swear that we do a couple of the weekly did one yesterday, another today and got a list of new books that have come out from one of the publishers that we work with and was looking at some of the names us away David Edwards. He's a grad in this because Bernie was revival five. He's got a book I want them on the air with us so that's that's why were talking about this event, fact, my subject matter from the first half of the broadcast. Before some of you just tuning in my subject matter tie the end with this free content.

For this reason so David, great to have you on the line of fire. Thanks for joining us, Dr. Brown and honor are really excited about the high privilege will great so so tell me about what revival means to you and and impact it's had in your own life all about me after I got back to our route at Brownsville. You know I remember being a student and I wake up in the morning and it wasn't like oh I'm bombed, I have to go to school they would like oh my gosh, what a guy going to do.

We lived right next door to the ER at me and walked to the wood almost running, eager to get into the present of the Lord, and you know what Brown fully followed for me. I characterize it at the amazing level of pregnant and the amazing level of repentance every night hundreds of people are coming to know Jesus and to give their lives to the Lord.

But then they would experience in prayer time after that, the power of the Holy Spirit and how was your own life impacted in a lasting way, how is it impacted who you are and what you do today absolutely no, I take everything from that experience at Brown Drive everyday book fuel for the fire. You know I remember spinning in your giant of the eight class when I began to hear about his amazing man and women of God to experience God in meeting natural way.

I did know that was available. I remember the story of praying I know I got the one bright and he got so intense that people actually had to leave the room that I Jesus I want to know you in the way that Dr. Brown teaching I want to know you, Lord, in the way that I'm hearing about the revival of the path and note fire burned brighter. I had a couple off in a trial. They focused on Jesus in our day and age, body walk through it. Not That fire burning at My lamp lit and yet just going for clinical that that is I'm smiling as you speak because it's a wonderful you have a second invoice that you accept school where your teaching and and training the next generation right, we are we arguing a lot of it based on my experience from Brown and from fire bore down here and get and revise the school called school of revivalist and or just wanting to be the kingdom of heaven, and transform our city and transform our nation unbelieving for you know the audacity that God can actually even in the state of the world and the power can touch me can transform the claimant, you know, one of our main message of the kingdom family and you have father X on unlimited spirit, spirit, loving father and she just made a way for us to be adopted into the amazing family for our heart cry to raise up a generation of believers who can demonstrate the power the law and the wisdom of the gospel in any spirit society where their ministry weathers their business or anything at all to do.our heart out here to do that to take the baton of what we learned fire and hopefully to be a conduit to pathological next generation.

Jan and Dave. This is this is the hour for those Americans being shaken as people are in so much pain and uncertainty as things are just not the way they normally are.

It's it's a difficult time but it's the best time for the gospel to advance and around the country. I'm getting reports of God really moving of people having extended meanings of many lost people being converted and transform so thank you training people send them out.

This is so wonderful, so out of the overflow of your burden your vision of the fire of revival and and and touching this this lost and dying world with the the power and truth of the gospel. You are the called mystified and you're challenging us to prepare to be mystified. So what, what's the mystery whether we be mystified by and about word and first Corinthians or one of the mystery of God, the old upper to our profit. I determined to know nothing among you, I crucified but among which are among the mature of the Holy Spirit started the thing given the depth of God cutting their pain pattern in Scripture were man and woman have gone beyond the natural into the super natural to discover everything that God had for the fire really came out of it even began to work, namely Hetland and he semi-fell about five years ago ministry in the southeast region, the first time we are really in out by someone who really carried the apostolic mantle and as we began to go out on the experiences we had when nobody was looking at was just in Jesus began to happen around us, and we noticed a pattern that even God was living through the elements of creation. You know, we experience visible.

Lightning and fire a couple of different occasions. One time I was praying and you know I was doing my due diligence, seek the Lord and suddenly my whole house began to shake and I thought wait a minute. I write about the book of acts.

Oh wait a minute I read about it in the South African revival Andrew Murray under prayer meeting it with your bike away and coming way off in the distant would come to their church.

Just like it did on the day of chemical souls. Yet these revival where we are people so there's an earthquake is the refrain. One night, and until Camarillo's export to the woman they prayed that the house was shaking so are our use. Are you saying that that God will do certain things at certain times of the Woodfield preaching one of his famous sermons and some of the judgment of God and suddenly the thunder comes in them is talk about the mercy of God, the light in the rainbow, the, the local newspapers asked if they can print to sermons at all. If you can print the thunder and the rain, but whatever you do some comment like that so.it is is a just God the glory of God being manifest through nature and creation, or something more specific. No roaming paver all creation grown daughter God to be revealed. And I think again. Harking back to the pattern creation, it fell groaning for or that something daughters of God to arrive to reveal his glory, and I think it if you look at the Bible enough like it was on the mountain.

The wind blew the rocks began to shake and all of that experience on that mountain led him to something new that God was speaking to his generation for my talk about God moving through the elements. I know that you taking something new is calling his family together.

He taught calling his family to arrive. Yes, it is wonderful to glory Dutch touch creation, but I think it reveals what Jesus is doing and how our in our generation and how how is it that after being in the Lord now for several decades being in the midst of a bona fide revival. Authoring and school and now use a ministry married family. All of that. How is it that there still that element of mystery and awe in your own relationship with God, and even more importantly, David Siefert folks reading your book mystified.

What would you tell someone who just feels dull, stale. There's no mystery there is no wonder there is no all in their own relationship with God. We have all of cry and we should after all, I eat really good meal. It makes me hungry could come back to that restaurant and eat again. I don't you want my call. The rest of my life that there is no going back. That one. You have the Lord show me one time, like a I bionic hey I'm here and oh that there's riches individual in the Nike book. I caved to mount beeping. You know, 15 miles wide. It could take me the rest of my life to discover and to explore all of the mysteries contained within the cave. Even though I already own it all and I already have asked her to allow for the very fact that we have all of Jesus.

He created a whole you never write my natural experience, combined with the supernatural presence of the Holy Spirit. If I experience him one day that my appetite for even more of God. You know he is limitless, easy is everlasting, eternal love you now outshines the farthing account burned and so if you get. Not feeling that fire you know when you things you can do is try to remember in the past where you had a good meal. Remember how God touched you in the past and go back and revisit that memory. I often I can't. I can escape what God did browse the Bible getting down here the beach and in and it's only about an hour from the: now because remember everything that God is there enough for God to leave. I know that wasn't the end what you're doing another coat got stuck on the move again. Not only the way that you did bang.the move more powerfully.

God, because definitive touched all the cities in order of the fire spread throughout the nation. You know, I believe there are the that you planted even in the midst of the world today. It easy to look at what God is doing the equivalent look at what God is doing. I'd be there at the grassroots revival that are coming. I believe it is a good sewer Jesus himself had been filling the network and the generation began to emerge that the law must be like Jack and between Dr. heaven and earth with the greater glory doing Stephen Haverty. My favorite revival of steaming whale you even weeping in acts because asked for the foundation. Number 2000 years later you felt I love what you're doing and in the fact that we can just calm talking here and talk about revival hey David, thanks. Thanks for joining us and I'm sitting here I'm just smiling on the inside of the outside because the hunger, the passion, the fire is contagious. Friends you'll find that on the pages of the book mystified by David Edwards.

Check it out and and relisten to it to what he said because friends Jesus will refresh us, renew us forever. Hey David, thanks for joining us. You bless me for sure. And you must… Really appreciate it all right to the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the light of ironbound by calling 664 through here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks friends for joining us on the line of fire Michael Brown delighted to be with you and again I am still smiling on the inside. After talking to David Edwards since it is so what happens in revival meetings is a lot of emotional friends emotionalism does not burn for 20+ years of emotionalism does not bring me to tears. 20 years after the fact.

You think back to the goodness of God in the past and his present goodness, emotionalism is is terribly destructive. Why because it gives you the feeling of something happening and it really cites you up into an outward frenzy. So for example if if you are if you're listening to this broadcast but let's say for example your you're morbidly obese and and you are you desperate to to make a change and you kind of lost hope and I'm's I'm talking about the other dangers of obesity in some programs the kind of help in an syllable is listening is like me know whatever you're not getting your hopes up.

You're not. You're not thinking this is going to change from getting a good diet know you dislike you heard all that.

But if I get you psyched up with emotionalism.

All I'm telling you this new pill. This new pits could do it all. If you just get all come on, you get your hopes up. It's like wow but I'm just on benefits in the flesh. If it's just empty words for me. Okay, I get you all psyched up a like, okay, you tell your family make the changes I get to be healthy and overcome this and and then a few days later, maybe a few hours later you come crashing down, since now you're worse than when you start now you're more hopeless now you're more discouraged and in fact questioning me for good reason, but but if if let's just say this, I'm just giving an example, try to create anything of this, give an example. Let's just say the Holy Spirit moved on right and and I said hey I don't know who you are, but I just see the song I'm just making this up by claiming this is a word of knowledge.

Okay, I ice I see you sitting there.

Your name is is is Alan you're 53 years old. I see you sitting there on your couch. It's too hard for you to get up and even walked to the kitchen and and in you because you're so heavy and the doctors tell you killing yourself and you've just been praying, God is there any hope.

Is there any hope.

Is there any help. Is there anything Anna and God told me to tell you these in a come through and if you just take these steps today and take them the next day.

The next and next he likes getting changed and that's really the Lord Paul that if you take all of its like SS that Lord that was made a madman that was me and that I meet you. Three years later you see Dr. Brown, I met man how I was 470 pounds of hundred 60 pounds. Now I'm off all meds. I jog regular adjusted 5K. My families got a new husband and a new dad in MN Avenue, Mandan will that's the Lord right that's that's lasting because it's God emotionalism Siegel church service and look people in that minister professionally worship teams, preachers, a lot of them know how to push the right buttons and they don't even do it consciously look up. I was listening to Guy preaching the other day and he was railing a minute limit was bad stuff. It wasn't gospel.

It was political. It was bad.

It was nasty but he gets a certain tone and starts yelling a certain way the people.

Amen brother, amen. But you just push buttons gets it results play certain kind of music at the whole place, jumping and hopping revenues.

It is okay to cry.

Tell stories old clothes and it's just a motion.

It goes nowhere doesn't last. Does no good. In fact it's destructive because now you're high up for a little while also delivering Lori or Troy from poor Logan to be whole and in the just come crashing down crashing down now because that was a religious experience.

Now you question the whole thing. You question a church or the preacher or were still God in the Bible so emotionalism is not just unproductive, it's downright dangerous. Then people encounter with God and I title my own account to the transform me going 50 years ago now, but around the world.

I know people that encountered God in dramatic ways in their been the same as the 10 years 20 or 30 years 40 is 50 years longer than that and they've never gone back there changed and I am an eyewitness to God knows how many hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions who been dramatically touched in meetings and then you hear from them. I heard from many of these that I was an eyewitness to the been touched in here for them years later. That's not to change my life.

That's the message of change my life that God met so this is some of the lasting fruit seminar carrying this message to another generation.

So the book by David Edwards mystify check it out all right friends in a little over 20 minutes so for 15 Eastern time for 15 Eastern time and I be right back on YouTube so when you write back measure listed by podcast listening on radio listening through other means you'll know that we do a live video feed every day, so I'm waiting at the cameras right now and we do a live feed on her Facebook page asking your Brown S. Dr. Brown and a live feed our YouTube channel also asked Dr. Brent SK DR Brown blue if you watching on Facebook and have never like that page please.

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I write articles most days, but not every day and then I'm almost working on on books to get several books coming out and working on the books that that are not finished yet in the long-term academic projects like Isaiah, commentary, etc. and some days are still burning in my heart. I've got a right on this got a deal with this someone sends me a link. It's like oh my God address this, but it was on 45 of the late night person go to sleep around three in the morning so's plenty of time ahead, and I said listener is missing on the right and instantly the words jumped in my head no time for passive and took about a half-hour to pour my heart out, write an article in the witches came pouring out of me so perhaps when you read it you'll be stirred the same way I was.

Perhaps you'll find it relevant and helpful as well. You can find that article over@esthertobrown.org or wherever you read article screamed out our Christian post of the places of the article should be up now or up later today. No time for passivity and as I was writing the article. I was reminded of the example of John and Betty Stamm.

In the words of John Stamm when he preached to the Bible Institute is the graduating class speaker in 1932 and said, what shall we be to retreat when things get hard or difficult business. Rather, what we were promised trials and tribulations test but with it victory and and he got to China he had been in school with Betty Stamm. She was your head. She went over to China's missionary we prepare. It's been there before he gets to try the meet up again. They get married 1933 have their first child, little girl, Priscilla, and they are martyred. In 1934. It's quite disturbing story and and their mortgage and produced a wave of mission nursing hey we want we want to follow. We we want to take your place. We want want to get on the mission field and they knew they were going into dangerous areas of their testimony remains their blood still speaks to the state so check out the article no time for passivity.

The articles there for you. We produce these things for for your benefit in your edification and then yet just go back to a call I got the first after the broadcast.

It was a marker and called in under false pretenses and then proceeded to just say some ridiculous things on the air and into me but I feel bad for him and I said hey let's let's pray for him and I tried to talk to a bit more, but he had no intention of being serious even even the least of but the fact he called love eczema prayer target in the good says those people praying so my team shot me a note and this was so nice to hear us all of you watching you two so I know this not podcast or privacy on the radio of various means that you taken the broadcast book were monitoring chats and comments on Facebook and YouTube and immediately before even call for prayer. People began to pray from say were praying from our chat so that you are a great great team. Yeah, I know you're listening and viewing audience but your team bring this together and and is you pray you pray for me. It makes a difference. Pray for others it makes a difference.

You pray for the city which you live in a country which you live.

It makes a difference. Let us continue to cry out and believe God for the greatest outpouring the greatest awakening our nation in this world and servicing the glory of Jesus, right over 15 minutes right back with you on the another program powered by the Truth Network