Why don't somebody
give
God praise, hallelujah?
Go ahead, lift your
hands and give
God praise, hallelujah.
I'm gonna warn you,
when we are in the
house of the
Lord,
we are not shy,
amen.
Because we are in the house
of the Lord.
You know, when
I don't,
I never went to
disco in my life,
yeah,
I was never a "disco"
person.
But I see
TV, when
people go
to disco,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
they dance.
When we come
to the
house of the
Lord,
we gotta make a noise,
hallelujah.
Amen.
Don't look at me strange,
yeah, I'm
not a strange
man.
(laughs)
I'm your brother, hallelujah,
amen.
Can I say salut to
Pastor John?
Thank you for
inviting us back
here.
We also appreciate
it.
Thank you,
I've met
Pastor John a long
time ago.
I can't remember
how long now.
10 years ago.
10 years ago, there
you go, wow.
So we come a long way,
and
the sister Anu
wow, wow.
I know many
people
here, who doesn't
know me?
(laughs)
Rachel doesn't
know me.
Okay, all of you
may God bless
you all,
all the wonderful
people here,
may God continue
to
bless you for your
journey.
I salut you all,
and may God honor
us
as we lift up his
name.
Please rise up
with me this
morning.
Rise up with me,
hallelujah.
I need you to
take the
hand off your
neighbor,
go ahead, look at
somebody, go ahead,
go ahead,
don't be shy, go
ahead,
look at your
neighbor,
say neighbor, go
ahead, hey, don't
be shy,
I say neighbor,
I'm about
to hear the word
of God.
Neighbor, don't
disturb me.
Say neighbor, mind
your business.
Amen.
Okay, you may be
seated, hallelujah.
Father, lift
up the
name above all
names.
Father, thank you
because today,
you've all shown
today
for us to come
together.
Father, you've also
to the Lord God
and we may fellowship
as family, as
brethren.
Have your way and
teach us your
word.
Lord, I have
nothing
to share without
you,
so I surrender my
heart to you,
Father.
I pray, bless
your
people with the
word
you've put in my
heart,
that together
we may
understand your
plan
and purposes
in our
lives in Jesus
name.
Somebody say
amen.
People of all,
I've been a
Christian for a very
long time.
Yeah, I don't
look
old, but I'm old.
Yeah, I've been a
Christian for a very
long time.
So in that Christian
journey,
there are so many
things that I
have seen,
I have observed,
and I have
overcome.
So I'm not gonna go
into a sermon
I'm gonna
tell you
some of the
things
that I have seen,
I have observed,
and I have
overcome.
So you may learn,
because we all
need to learn
from each other.
I wanna talk to you
today about
lost in transition,
Lost in transition.
We're gonna read
the
Word of God later
on,
but can I ask anybody
here,
has anybody ever moved
their house
from house to
house?
Yeah, you moved from
one place.
Good, yeah.
You moved from, some
of your names
are very difficult,
but I remember Ernakulam, yeah?
Is it correct?
Yes, sir.
That's correct.
You move from Ernakulam
to, yeah?
So when you're moving,
yeah, you
know that there
are,
when you start
moving,
there are certain
things,
you say, oh, I don't
need this one,
you throw it
away, yeah?
I don't need, you
throw it away.
So because you
know,
you're moving to
a new place.
Friend, for some
reason,
those people that
had the fire of
God in their
lives,
those people that
were faith
in God,
those that knew
what
it means to serve
God,
those that knew what
it means to
worship the
Father
and walk in the
Spirit,
those that really
interceded and
they saw answers.
For some reason, in
our generation,
as they progress
and move on,
some of the power
of
God and the things
of God
did not transcend
down
to the new generation.
Some of the new generation
don't
even know what
it means
to walk in the
Spirit.
They don't even know
what it means
to live in faith,
to move by faith.
So I'm coming
from
that angle this
morning,
or this afternoon,
rather,
but I want to read
the Word
because the
Word is
very important
for us.
There's a lot
in this
Word, Ezra chapter
three,
but I will give you
an assignment.
You read it
yourself, Ezra chapter
three,
from verse three
to verse 13.
But I'm gonna
tell you
a bit of the
story here
so that you can
be able to
understand the
full.
Bible talks about
Nehemiah coming
back
to build the house
of the Lord.
Bible talks about
when they built
the house of the
Lord
and the foundation
was laid.
The foundation of
the house
was laid.
Let's see what it says
in verse 11.
The Bible says, verse
10, rather,
Verse 11,
But this is where
I'm
going now, verse
about 12.
So here you go,
you find
people shouting
for joy
and people
crying.
So this is the
story
I'm bringing to
you today.
This is the new
temple being constructed.
Yet the ancient people
who knew
what the temple
was like,
who knew the
glory
of the former days
who knew what God
was like.
Today I see young
people jumping up
and down
with smoke machine
and
with noise and
everything
and they are all
crying, oh, they're
sad.
And then after
they lift the
church,
they are going
back to
their own old
lifestyle.
I see them, they
come to church,
they are shouting,
bop, bop, bop,
bop, bop,
yeah, have you seen
them, yeah?
And they shout
and
they shout and
they shout.
But after they lift
the church,
they are back
sinning.
They are back fornicatting
they are back lying
because they
don't
know what
it means
to be in the
glory
of the former
days.
Many people
do know
that's not what
it means
to serve God, to
touch
the power and
the anointing
the glory of the
living God.
I don't know
about
India, but I'm gonna
tell you
about Venezuela.
There was a man
of God
that went to
Venezuela
and then he was
passing through
the street
and saw a parrot
speaking some
languages
that was a bit
different.
So nobody understood
the language.
So he went to the
town and asked
the elders
and said, this
parrot is
speaking this
language.
And the people
said,
oh, that used
to be
a particular tribe
in our country,
but they all died
out, they
all died
and they were
not able
to translate the
song
but the language to
the new people.
So that language
was lost.
That is why I
always speak my
language.
And I ask you to
speak your
language
because I don't
want
to lose my
language.
Friend, the
language was lost
forever.
There are so many
people who knew
what God is,
who have tasted
the
goodness of the
Lord,
who have entered
the power of the
Lord,
who stood
with God
and battled in prayer
and they came back
victorious.
And then when they
stand, they
are speaking
today
because many of them
have not been
able to translate
their experience
or what they've got
to the younger generation,
the
younger generation
don't even know what
it means to
walk in the Spirit
anymore.
The younger generation,
the only
thing that going
to church
is what matters.
They don't know
what it means
to fast
and to pray and to
presevere
They don't know what
it means to
walk in the Holy
Spirit.
And that is where
I'm coming from.
So what is happening
is that church
had become a head
knowledge or a
ritual that we go
through.
It wasn't like
that before.
It was a lifestyle.
It was what
you do
every day of your
life.
You know today
people
put on the cloth
of church.
It wasn't like
that before.
It was walking
with God.
It was walking in
the Spirit.
It was seeing God
in action.
It was praying
until you see God
move.
When your daughter
come to you
and your daughter
starts speaking
some things
because you are a
effective man
of God,
you know what it
means to pray.
You begin to pray
and declare.
You speaking out,
you declare
because you know
the
God that you
serve.
You know how powerful
He is.
Today God, we will bribe God.
God if I give you
10 rupees, will
you answer my
prayer?
God I just, no God
you know what,
I go to church
every Sunday.
So God you know
what, give me a
new car.
That's what we
do today.
We try to bargain and
make God fill
in our own space.
It was not like
that before.
For some reason,
the
face of the Lord,
the power,
the anointing,
the
glory, the grace
of our God.
We don't reflect
it anymore.
It's very rare today
to see people
carrying the power
of God.
It's very rare
today to see
churches or men
of God
stand and
declare.
It's very rare.
People of God I come
with love in
my heart to encourage
you.
I come to tell
you today
that we must
never lose
the language
and the
power and the
presence
of the Holy
Spirit.
We must never let
go of what the
Holy Spirit
can do.
People of God
when the
Holy Spirit touch
your life
and ministers to
you, you can't
see it.
You can't keep it
inside.
There is a fire,
there is an
anointing,
there is a
bublling,
You gonna
share it.
You are meeting
your boss, you
meeting your
auntie,
you meeting your
uncle, whether
they like you
or not
because there is super
fire burning
on the inside
of you.
They must know
something is
happening to you.
Come on people,
give them the
hallelujah, go
ahead.
People of God I
want to
explain to you this moment
that you can carry
that power.
Because enough is
enough.
God is calling us
out of our mask.
Take the mask off,
be a real
believer
Lett Jesus shine
through you.
You know I believe,
my belief,
I believe if we walk
with God like
we never did
before,
I believe if we experience
the power of
God in our
nation,
people will come
and knock at our
doors and ask for
prayer.
They will
come and
knock at our doors
and ask,
what is your
hope?
Why are you always
smiling?
Why are you always
happy?
But today in the Christian
world,
it is sad that the
divorce rates
is even worse in the church.
It's sad that the
rate of promiscuity,
the rate of suicide
is even worse.
Why?
Why?
You know what
happened?
In the process of
trying to make
ourselves
conform to the
world,
in the process of
trying to make
everybody,
the government
happy, the society
happy,
don't offend Joe,
don't offend the
lesbian,
don't offend that
one,
don't offend that
one.
Oh no, no,
no, you
don't offend
anybody.
In the process of
doing that,
we have lost the
power and the
anointing
of the Holy
Spirit.
And that is why
God is saying
to you
"Rise up, turn around
and repent."
Because you know
what friends?
People are
scared.
A pastor told me,
pastor, why
do you
preach against homosexuality?
I said it is a sin
That's why I preach
he said, "No, no,
me, I
don't touch that
area."
I said, "Why
not?"
He said, "Because
the hall we are
using
is a government
hall.
The government will
kick us out.
I said, "Oh,
okay.
If I come to your
church, I will
preach against
it.
So don't invite me
to your church."
He will be
because
we become too
careful.
Too careful.
But I'm coming to
everyone to give
me time.
Too careful.
And because of that,
we are not
seeing victories.
Christians have become
depressed,
oppressed and
abandoned.
It was never meant
to be like that.
The Bible says,
I'm trying not to
be fast.
Are you
understanding me,
everybody?
No.
I'm struggling not
to be fast.
I'm struggling to
be very, very
fast,
but I'm trying.
So friend, Bible
is telling you
that the day
you took
on the cross of
Jesus.
the day you took
on and you say
you are a Christian.
That there you carried
the cross.
Ah, it is time to
lay it down.
It is time
to say,
Lord, this is my
surrender.
I will let down my
life for you.
Oh God, I am not
prepared to allow
anything else.
I want to
serve you
with all my
heart,
with all my mind, with
all my soul,
with everything
within me.
God touch
my life.
Lord God Almighty,
I don't want to
put my feet in
the church
and in the house.
No, no, no.
I want to
serve you
with everything
that I've got
God, if there's
a holy
fire, bring it on
my life.
It is an anointing,
fill me up.
But we don't have
time to do that.
We are too busy
these days,
too busy to call
upon God.
You know?
One of the
greatest
mysteries of the
Christendom
is that a,
I think
William Booth
said that.
William Booth
said
in the 18th
century,
is that my greatest
fear, would be
a church
without repentance,
Christianity without
power,
heaven without
hell.
We are seeing it
today.
So we've seen all
around people
calling themselves
Christians
who do not
have the
power of God in
their lives.
We're seeing
people, if
you turn your
YouTube on,
you see all those nasty
things they
are saying about God.
It's just
pathetic.
We're going to go back
to where God
wants us to have.
full of the
Holy Spirit.
You know, friends,
I
remember in those
days,
the businessman,
we
call all his
workers,
and say workers,
before we start
work today,
we're going to
pray first.
So they have
a morning
devotion, they
pray,
and they sing praise
to God.
They lead up the
worship
before they start
work.
Today, the love of
money has bled a
Christian businessman.
They don't have
time to pray.
They are just like
the world.
What makes you different
from your
friend in the
world?
What makes you different
from your
neighbor in the
world?
What makes you
different from everybody
else?
unless the power of the
Holy
Spirit is upon
your life.
You are just like
them, unless you
embrace and allow
God
to fill you up again,
to bring you
to a closer walk
within.
Friend my
cry for
the people of
God is God
touch each generation
to
realize and to
wake up.
To wake up because
there's somebody
in your working
place
who is sick,
has got
cancer, and you
say,
"Oh, I'm so
sorry,
what are you
sorry for?"
Lay hands on the
sick,
lay hands on the
cancer
in the name of
Jesus.
I say, "I coomand you to go"
that's why you
are there.
"Oh, my husband, he's
not good, I
want to divorce."
"Oh, wait, wait, wait,
I've got to
divorce lawyer
contact."
"Why are you giving
the contact,
of a divorce lawyer
to somebody? You
are a beleiver
"Why don't
you pray
and bring
the power
"in the name of
Jesus
in your working
place?"
You want to share
the light, and
let the Lord know
you are different.
Somebody shall
hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Come
on, shout hallelujah.
Hallelujah. That's
the only way
we can influence our
world.
Because friend, I'm
truly tired.
When I look, like
I said here
before,
I'm speaking to you
from my journey
in the Christendom,
over 50 years in the
Christendom,
I'm speaking to you
from what I
have seen and
experienced.
I'm talking
to you
that there is
still power
in the name of
Jesus.
There is still
power
in the name of
Jesus.
Demons, sick, come
out
in the name of
Jesus.
I don't care how
many
big demos there
are.
I don't care what
is happening in
your working
place.
If you fast,
if you
pray and have
the fire
of the Holy Spirit
in you,
something must
happen,
because God cannot
lie.
Amen. He will not
lie for anybody.
God says, "These signs
shall follow
them that was
believe."
Broyher Charles,
if you
believe, God
said,
"These signs shall
follow you."
Brother Renjith, if
you believe, God
said,
"These signs shall
follow you."
He said, "Oh,
no, no."
Because you are
from Northern
India,
no, no, "These signs
shall follow
South India
only."
They will say
that, "No."
He said, "All who
believe."
He said, "Everyone,
that
means you, me,
anybody."
But you know
what,
friends, we are
coming out.
So, you know
what, neighbour
I'm coming out.
Go ahead, tell your neighbour
I'm coming out,
hallelujah. I'm
coming out.
Because, friend, this
is what God
is bringing again
our generation.
Look at these
people.
They are rejoicing.
I see these young
people,
and I'm looking,
I mean, I was
speaking to a
young guy,
and I said to him,
"Oh, hey, you
just came back
from church."
I said, "Yeah, it
was good."
I said, "What was
good about the
church?"
"The music, ah,
the smoke."
I said, "Yeah,
come on, yeah,
what?"
"Oh, it was good,
yeah, what was
good?"
He didn't even
remember the
message.
And I said, "Where
are you going?"
I said, "Oh, I'm going
to meet up
with my girlfriend.
We're going to watch
a movie."
And I said to him,
I said, "But you
just came back
from church."
He said, "Yeah, yeah,
we had this."
He gave me a movie's
name,
and the movie's
name I
don't want to
mention,
it's a terrible
movie.
So I'm saying to
myself,
"You've just come
out of church.
The church has no
influence in you
whatsoever.
You've just gone out
from there
as a normal
person
It shouldn't be
like that.
We should be able
to come out
from a Holy Ghost
move of God,
and be able to
affect
the people around
us.
I am not going to
give up on that
message.
I believe the time
has come for us
to get back what
we've
lost, lost in
transition.
Maybe you are here
right now,
and you don't
know
anymore what the
Holy Spirit is.
You say, "What is this
Holy Spirit?
Can I tell you
something?"
The Bible says,
"and the disciples."
They went
house to
house sharing the
gospel
because they were
full of
power and the
Holy Spirit.
The Bible says,
"I'm
going to show them mightly
My brother
is like,
"God is still the
same."
Amen.
Ah, shall I take
it easy? Hallelujah.
He is not
going to
change from
any man
if the same God that
delivered that
that deformed man
in those days,
that same God can
deliver him
today.
What are the missionaries?
What are the
pastors?
What are the prophets
that will go
to that crazy man
in the street and
say, "Come and
lay hands
and pray in
Jesus'
name. You do not
go."
Why aren't we seeing
that today?
Why aren't we
demonstrating the
power of God?
"Oh, Pastor, I don't
know. You know
why you don't
know?
Because we
are not
living the full
life
of what God wants
us to live.
But the day you fall
in love with
the Holy Spirit
power,
the day, oh, don't
let me start,
the day you are so
full of God,
you will lay hands
on the sick.
You don't have to
wait for one
pastor or one
bishop.
No, you, you, you
lay hands on the
sick
and the sick
recover.
In the supermarket,
in
the mall, you're
walking.
And somebody is
complaining.
Why don't
you say,
"Oh, oh, I don't
know.
Call the guy and
pray
for him right
there.
You many a person,
yes, I mean it."
Because that's
how we
know we are Christians.
I don't know about
this country,
but in my
country,
the gay people, the
lesbian people,
they don't
hide it.
They show it.
You see them
kissing
in the supermarket.
You see them holding
hands.
Television is full
of what they...
Ah!
I hate those
things.
But you see, people,
we're
Christians, we
are shy.
We can't even
talk
about the love
of God
because we are
so shy.
People of
God, the
days of shyness
is over.
Amen.
You and I got to rise
and carry the
power of the Holy
Spirit.
I want to see men
and women in this
house
challenging,
declaring.
Before I go to
work today,
family gather
your
wife, your
children,
and pray, lift
up your
hands, make a
declaration,
sing a new song.
Oh, my brother,
my sister,
I'm going to tell
you something
that will change
your heart right
now.
Everybody in this
world,
whether they're a
banker, whether
they're an
engineer,
whether they're a
multi-millionaire,
everybody needs Jesus,
hallelujah.
Everybody
is crying
out for that
hope.
They need
the hope,
and you have that
hope.
I want to challenge
you today.
Rise up!
I'm going to go
to the Word,
and God has called
upon you to do.
Let the fire fall
upon you.
Oh, but pastor,
William
I don't know.
Yes, you know,
because the Bible
says,
we all should go.
But if they don't
like me, get
real.
Because they didn't
like Jesus,
but they say the
King of
kings, the Lord
of lords.
The Bible says,
every knee shall
bow,
every tongue
confess
that Jesus
is Lord.
I made up my mind
at my age.
I have nothing
to lose.
I have nobody
to, I
have nobody to
impress.
I don't impress
nobody.
I don't care what
you think
about me.
I don't care.
Really don't
care.
You can like me
or hate me.
I just don't
care.
I will speak the
Word of God,
and I will tell
you the truth.
You know how many
churches have
told me,
don't come back
here.
Hallelujah.
Because I'm not going
to change the
message of the
gospel.
We're going
to come
back to that
place
where every believer,
they were in
the day of
Pentecost.
So they like this
one.
And they were
filled
with power from
on high.
Where are those
days?
It's calling us again
to rise up.
It's don't blame
your pastor.
Don't blame your
church.
You rise up and begin
to seek God.
I say, God, fresh
fire upon
my life.
I need it again
Lord.
I cannot breathe
without you.
I cannot breathe
without you.
I will lay down.
I will shut down
the gate of
oppression and
religion.
Go and let me move
on and do the
work that God has
come in to do.
I am not going to
keep quiet.
I'm going to bust out
of my box and
be, and be
that man
and that woman that
God called me.
Pastor William,
This is India.
India is different.
Who told you?
It's not true.
Everywhere the people
are sinners,
it's the here
as well.
It's the same.
Do you not have
sinners here?
You have them
here.
You demonstrate
the
power of God to
the sinners.
Oh, but pastor,
then
we think I'm
crazy.
Welcome to the
club.
They thought that Jesus
was crazy
as well.
They did all those
to Jesus.
They call Him names.
So friends, it is
time for us to
rise up.
You know, I want
to challenge
everybody in this
house.
Let's get
back the
power from on high.
Let's get back the
anointing.
Let's ask God, God,
I'm not going
to leave here just
as I came,
There are two people
in my working
place who are
struggling
with a sickness
or a disease.
I am there as a
Christian.
I will pray for
them.
Oh, pastor, they
will
sack me from the
job.
Well, they'll sack
you, God will
give you a better
place.
Because you never
know
what God has in
plan for you.
Let us demonstrate
what God has.
The only thing I
fear, my fear
is this.
You cannot give
what you don't
have.
Because how can
you pray
for me when you
are not
a prayer yourself?
When I told my brother,
pastor Bright
in these days,
we carry church
people.
We carry evangelists.
We carry this
one.
Oh, let everybody
start walking on
their own.
Walk on your own.
Seek the God who
saved you.
Who is that God?
What can he do?
He's got power.
You know, friends,
when you are a
nurse or a
doctor,
you study a lot.
And then I teach
you.
And what did they
do?
They ask you to
do PD.
I know what you
call PD, yeah?
Professional
development every
year in PD.
So you can learn
new tactics.
People of
God, let
us go into the
world
and see what God
has in store
for us.
We are more than
creative.
We are more than
conquerors.
We are the victors'
crown.
We wear that
crown.
You know what the
crown?
He wore the
crown.
Hallelujah.
He has overcome.
He overcome for you
and for us.
My sister, don't
just sit down
there and look at
me and say,
what you are saying
is true.
I don't want to
hear your compliments.
I don't want to
rise up.
I say, from
today,
I challenge
myself.
I'm going to do
God's work.
I'm going to be
bold as time.
Wherever I go,
everybody
must know I'm a
Christian.
Amen.
They must know.
I can't hide
anymore.
Oh, no.
Oh, pastor, there
are so many
things, so many
things.
My fear, again, for
the church is
that we've come
to a place
now whereby words
like
forgiveness, restitution,
servanthood,
God's
will, forgiveness
have been lost in
the pulpit.
Words like heaven
and hell have
been lost
to live for
today.
Only they don't
care about
tomorrow.
They don't care about
your-- what
do you call that?
They don't care
about
salvation or
holiness.
No, don't care
about that.
Why should I live
holy?
People in the church,
a very
powerful man
of God
was telling
me, he
said, pastor
William,
one of the most notable
churches
have asked me to counsel
their young girls
and young
boys before they
get married.
He said, I sat down
and I was
inviting many
of them.
He said, pastor William,
out of
everyone I counseled
there was no one
that wasn't
sleeping together.
But they were in
the choir.
They were playing
drums.
They were singing,
shouting, but
they were having
fornication.
Is that what
they're
sinning in the house
of God?
Why?
Because there is
no more fire of
God to recognize
this thing.
We all jump and down
to go home.
It has become a
social club.
Church was not
meant
to be a social
club.
Jesus says, my
house
will be called
what?
A house or
prayer.
Can I tell you
something?
If we pray, when
an unbeleiver and
when a sinner come,
they will
bow down.
They cannot even
touch the equipment.
They can't tou
the instrument
because the fire
of God
will be so burning
up on them.
They will repent
and
they will turn
around.
A man told me, he
said, pastor, I'm
tired.
He said, on
Saturday
night, I go and
play a gig.
And I'm playing all
those gigs.
And everybody does
it on the night
at the disco
house.
He said, on a Sunday,
I come to
church and play
God's music.
He said, I'm so
tired, I have to
leave.
Frien, what I'm saying
to you is
that these are
things
that are happening
today.
Now let me come down
to our own
because you may
say,
pastor, this
is not
happening
in India.
Well, allow me to
bring to your
attention
one of the
greatest
challenges this country
has got.
This country, the
missionary that
came here,
they planted something
here.
Mission work.
Friend, now God
is asking
you, take up your
cross.
Follow me.
The people around
you.
Let them see Jesus
in you.
Do people in full
know you are a
Christian?
You say, well,
I don't
want them to kill
me.
You know what?
I want to tell you
something.
What you compromise
to keep, you
will eventually
lose.
Let people see
Jesus in you.
Let them know
that
they can call
upon you
because you know
what?
The Hindus are
tired.
The Sikh are
tired.
The Muslims are
tired.
They are looking
for a way out.
You know how many
Muslims are
giving their life
to Christ?
You know how
many of
them ask to pray
for them?
They are tired.
They know, they know,
they know,
they know, they
know.
They know that there
is something
about the name
of Jesus.
But you and I, we
look at them
like, we are
scared.
Our company, our
friends, let's
shout it.
Let's make them
know
that there is
something
about the name
of Jesus.
You are having
coffee with your
boss
and he's talking about
the rugby.
Oh, the cricket.
Yeah, cricket,
yeah.
The live cricket,
yeah, cricket.
Oh, in the other,
Pakistan, no.
Pakistan, no.
In the other, Sri
Lanka, yeah.
Oh, they say, they
play cricket.
And you enjoy the
cricket talk.
But you never tell
him about the
love of God in
your heart.
You never
tell him
about God change
your life.
You are chattering
about the
cricket.
Let's go and watch
cricket.
Why don't you tell
him, next
Sunday, I'm going
to church.
Please come with
me.
Because we are so
scared.
Our children, our
loved ones, they
are dying.
They are going
to hell.
And we, we are busy
playing church.
We are busy walking
in the flesh.
It was not
supposed to be
like that.
A young man walked
into my church.
He was delivering.
He looked at me.
He said, he
kept on
delivering some
food to us.
He said, is this
the church?
I said, yeah, it's
the church.
He said, what do
you do here?
I said, we pray
here.
He said, oh,
I don't
believe in those
things.
I said, I understand
you don't
believe in those
things.
Then I sat him
down.
In the next 15
minutes,
I began to talk
to him
about what Lord
was showing me, before I
knew it,
this man could not
shed a tear.
He was rolling in tears now
He sat down and we
prayed and he
gave his life to
Jesus.
Just like that.
Just like that.
And if it
was, some
of you, oh, you
don't,
if he said,
I don't
believe in those
things,
you're okay, okay,
you leave.
No, I won't let it
go because God
put that man in
my path.
There are so many
of you
that have that
experience.
Why don't we tell
you then?
Why don't we show
them?
We're gonna go
back.
Lost in transition.
Those things that
have lost.
I want to see
again.
I feel in
my heart
that the church
of God,
I want to have again
that full
force and that
full power.
You know I'm amazed
Some days I'm
amazed how great
God is.
I'm amazed how
great God is.
Preaching one day,
preaching very
nice, beautiful
young girl.
Couldn't stand it
anymore.
She came to the
front.
She said, "Pastor,
I need to
surrender everything
to God."
He said, "People
look at me,
but I couldn't
stand
when we're preaching.
Holy Ghost arrested
already,
brought a
cigarette
and would destroy
that cigarette.
We broke them
down 40
years ago, smoking
gone. Just like that
People of God,
We have no time
to waste.
We don't have to please
everybody.
We're gonna tell
them the truth
because when we
tell them the truth,
God Almighty will
set them free.
Hallelujah.
Come on, give the
little big clap
everybody.
Go ahead.
Make it loud, make
it loud.
Hallelujah.
Give it to Jesus.
Give it to Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
We're gonna rise up,
people of God.
God Almighty is
calling you.
You and I.
He's calling you.
He's calling me.
He's calling us.
And He's saying,
"I want to transform
your life.
I know you are
a worker.
I know you are
working
for so and so
company,
but I want to do
something in your
life.
I want to minister
to you.
I want to change
you.
I want to change
you.
It is time that
you be an
influence in your
society.
Pastor William, I
don't know.
There are
too many
people who are
against me.
That's okay.
Cause the Bible
tells us,
all you need
is for
one to be
with you.
5,000 can be against
you.
But if God is
with you,
that's all that
matters.
That's all.
So let there be
against you.
Let there not laugh
at you.
Let God be on
your side.
So this afternoon,
before you leave
here,
begin to ask God,
"God, I don't
want to leave here
the same.
I want something
to burn in my
heart, in my
spirit,
that I may carry
this fire
with me."
That when I meet that
prostitute,
that devilish person,
When they see
me, they
will see the glory
of God.
And I can bring
back
because I have received
power
from on high
Because today I'm
going to come
out.
I'm fully free.
You know, sometimes
people will
knock at your
door.
They just want to
talk to you.
You say, "What
are
you talking
about?
They just want to
talk to you."
You know why?
Because they can see
Jesus in you.
It's time for us
to have that
again.
We have a, you have
a big country
here, big
country.
But friend, one
by one,
we can make an
effect.
Starting from
your
working place
tomorrow,
you can make an
effect.
You know that
man is
going through a
tough time.
You've seen him.
You see the way he's
crying to you.
You see the way
he talks.
Now it's time to
reach out your
hand.
You see, you know
what I've been
meaning to tell
you,
Jesus can change
you.
He can touch you.
You know why?
He did it for me.
He can do it for
you.
And you begin to
testify.
Because you know
what
1 John chapter
1 says,
from verse 4 to
6 says,
"That which we have
seen, that
which we have
handled,
will tell you of the
grace of God."
You can only tell
people what you
have seen,
handled and
tested.
You cannot tell
somebody
about a chicken
biryani.
If you have never
eaten chicken
biryani,
you only tell
them when
you eat a chicken
biryani.
If you are
telling
them about corn
or that,
they don't know,
but you have
to tell
them what
you know.
When you have tasted
Jesus and you
really know who
Jesus is,
it's so easy to share
that love and
the power of God.
Church of God, this
is our time.
Church of God, this
is our time.
Maybe God brought
me here to
encourage you
today.
I don't know why
God put this
message in my
heart.
Because I wasn't, I
don't know what
to put this
message.
But God said,
"Tell
them, lost in
transition.
They're going to
go back and
recover and
recover.
This is the good
news.
I went to the
enemy's
camp and I took
back,
I took back, I took
back everything
he stole from me.
I'm ready.
Oh, hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
I'm ready to go.
And the devil, enough
is enough.
You stole my joy.
I'm already sad.
You stole
my peace.
I'm already sad.
I'm going to take
it back because
I'm a child
of God.
I begin to declare,
gather your
family, your wife,
your children
every evening, every
day and pray,
and pray,
and pray.
And you begin
to see a
shift in the house
of God,
in the house
of God.
Before you go to work,
before your
children go to
school,
pray for them.
They'll say, "Oh, okay,
here's your
dinner, your
lunch."
Yeah, yes, no.
Pray for them.
Pour the power of
God about
your life
because you don't
know they're
going to meet in
school.
Many, many young
people are
shining.
Can I tell you
something?
In this country,
God
is doing great
things.
In this country,
God
want to use you
and I.
You say, "But I'm
ordinary."
Yes.
That's what God
uses, ordinary
people.
He's not looking
for a super
professor,
he's looking for people
like Steve,
people like
Michael,
just ordinary people
like us.
And God will say,
"Yes, you're ready,
my son.
Here is my fire
upon your life.
Here is my anointing
upon your life."
And you go,
and you
begin to do
things
for the Kingdom
of God.
Somebody shout,
"Amen."
Amen.
And nobody don't
like to preach
long,
but I'm going to
go for
one minute, hallelujah.
People, give me
a few
minutes, hallelujah.
Now you say to
me, Pastor,
but I don't even
know where to
start.
You know what I
come to
understand with
God, yeah?
Please look at me,
hallelujah.
What I come to
understand with
God is this.
God is no respecter
of persons.
You don't
even need
to know where to
start.
You don't even
need,
all you need is
to be full
of the Holy Ghost
and power.
And you'll be
amazed how
He will touch
your life.
You'll be amazed how
He will bring
deliverance to you.
There was a day,
I had gone to a
church in London,
I had gone to do
some shopping,
and I came back,
it was
six o'clock in
the evening,
and I said to go
to church.
So I went to the church
and I sat
there like everybody
else.
And the pastor,
he called me,
oh yeah, it's Pastor
William.
And he said,
"Pastor
William," he brought
me out,
they were clapping,
and he
whispered in
my ear,
"You are preaching."
Huh?
Just there and
there.
He didn't eat
them before.
So I took up a
microphone
and said, "I'll preach it."
People were
getting
delivered
and free.
People were
getting,
there was a woman
there
that had had the
demon possession for
25 years.
She was about
to pass
away and God delivered
her.
That is how I come
to know it's not
about you
and that,
it's about Jesus.
Amen.
Because when he's
upon your life,
when he put his power
upon your
life, nothing shall
be impossible.
But are you
ready?
Are you ready
tonight?
I said, "God, I'm
ready."
Oh, but I'm an
Indian.
We are quiet.
Is it true?
We're very quiet people,
not like
you, noise-maker.
No, no.
You have the
anointing.
You got the power
upon your life.
When you begin
to speak,
you can do it in
quietness.
the devil will bow down.
Hallelujah.
Somebody shout amen
I don't want to
continue hallelujah.
Stand on your
feet in
the house, hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
I don't like to preach
too long.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Pastor John,
can I
pray for people
today?
Yeah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
You know what I want
to do tonight?
Hallelujah.
If you are hungry
for God,
you are hungry
for the
power of the Holy
Spirit,
don't bother
coming
if you are not
hungry.
If you are hungry,
just come out.
Quickly, just
come.
If you are, say, "God,
aye, today I
need a fresh
anointing
If that's you,
you can come,
and I don't know
how
we're gonna do
this,
but you can come,
hallelujah.
Holy Spirit, go ahead,
play the keyboard.
Come, Pastor Claire
sing this song
again.
Is that okay?