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The 100-Day Miracle | January 21, 2024 · First Love Revolution

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another Revolution Church message.
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  Speaker 2: You can find our entire library of messages in video and podcast format at firstloverevolutioncom.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's Pastor Shane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, welcome church.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to be in the house of God together.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to everyone joining from Colorado Springs and those of you who are listening online as well.
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  Speaker 2: Warm welcome to all of you, and certainly I'm very excited to share with you today some things that we've been hearing God speak about 2024 and some things we've already been seeing him do in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: But before we jump into that, just one quick announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Today, this Sunday, january 21st, is the last day to register your students for the winter retreat, which is coming up right around the corner, february 2nd to 4th.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be taking place in Colorado Springs.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have six to 12th graders, you haven't signed them up.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, they need the spiritual shot in the arm middle of the year, and you know it.
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  Speaker 2: You know that they do, and so please encourage you.
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  Speaker 2: Jump online firstloverevolutioncom, forward slash students and you can get them registered today.
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  Speaker 2: So for today's message, we are going to be pressing pause on the new series that we started just last weekend because, as I mentioned, we're going to be talking about the new series.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, we're going to be talking about some special things that God's doing in our midst as we jump into it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to begin in the book of Nehemiah, nehemiah 6,.
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  Speaker 2: If you have your Bibles, you can go ahead and turn there.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't, I'll be putting the scriptures up on screen for you.
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  Speaker 2: But in the book of Nehemiah we read about this miracle, and it's a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard to understand as a miracle without a little bit of context, because it's a miracle of people building a wall and it's like, come on, I mean people build walls all the time.
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  Speaker 2: People build walls every day.
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  Speaker 2: A few people would hear about a wall being built and say, wow, only God, what a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: You built a wall.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something about how this wall was built that led people to realize that it certainly was an act of God.
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  Speaker 2: It's in Nehemiah, chapter 6, verse 15 and 16.
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  Speaker 2: It says the wall was completed on the 25th of the month of Elo, in 52 days, and when all of our enemies heard of it and all the nations surrounding us saw it, they lost their confidence, for they recognized that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
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  Speaker 2: So it wasn't precisely what happened that led to this result.
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  Speaker 2: It was how it happened, and in this instance it was about the timeframe in which it happened that really sent shivers down people's spines.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, there's another place in Scripture where, because of how something happened, people realized what a miracle it was.
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  Speaker 2: So, before Israel possessed Jericho, rahab, who lived in Jericho, spoke to the spies that were sent into the land ahead of the conquest, and she says in Joshua, chapter 2, starting in verse 10, we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you whenever you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: And when we heard it, our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you, for the Lord, your God.
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  Speaker 2: He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.
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  Speaker 2: So, god leading his people out of Egypt into the promise, it was this testimony of God's might, of his power, and the way that he brought his slaves out from under this harsh dictatorship of a megalomaniac, the way that he piled up the waters, the way that he led these untrained slaves into victory in war.
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  Speaker 2: All of that makes Rahab and the people of the land, who were the enemies of God, say only God, which is kind of crazy because now we've got the enemies of God and they're hearing about what God has done for the Israelites and they're acknowledging he's the real God and they believe.
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  Speaker 2: And yet when Israel saw the same things, they did not believe.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes those in the midst of a miracle become the most blind to the miracle.
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  Speaker 2: But still, rahab and the others, they saw and they said this is of God, this is absolutely of God.
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  Speaker 2: The enemies of God also recognize the same thing with the rebuilding of the wall, except the how that opened people's eyes to that particular miracle.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the might with which it was done, but it was the speed at which it was done.
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  Speaker 2: There are certain times and certain things that, when they happen so quickly, people know there's just no natural explanation for this.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot account for this by human means.
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  Speaker 2: Only God, only God and church.
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  Speaker 2: We are in the midst of this same kind of miracle right now happening today, and I want to talk to you a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 2: I and the elders, we've been in prayer and we've just continued to hear the Lord say that we're in the midst of a hundred day miracle and he's writing this miracle faster than we can even read about it.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: He's doing more than any of us could have imagined and I'm just so excited to tell you about it.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to hear about it?
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty exciting, I'm just going to warn you.
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  Speaker 2: So it starts with some context, and this context goes back a couple of years ago, something that we haven't talked about much because, well, it's a little unbelievable.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: But God gave us some prayer goals two years ago and he said to pray for these things that are so big and so unbelievable that it's embarrassing to tell people about.
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  Speaker 2: Like you've lost your ever loving mind, you've gone crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But we know what we've heard, and what we heard was to begin praying for this 10 year goal that in 10 years time, god would plant 25 Revolution Church campuses here on the front range, which is already insane, but that's just a small part of it and 10X that internationally 250 campuses in 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: I warned you it was unbelievable and you'd think we're crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is crazy, and these are not even independent churches.
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  Speaker 2: Not that that's easy, but that's much easier.
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  Speaker 2: You can give a relatively small amount of money and a little bit of training in some places around the world and you can say we planted a church and that's a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: We did a lot of that in our past, but this isn't that.
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  Speaker 2: These are actual international Revolution Church campuses.
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  Speaker 2: These are all churches of worship and prayer, of word and spirit.
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  Speaker 2: These are returned to our first love churches that are actual campuses, meaning they are watching the exact same teaching, unified, that the rest of the church is, although with a translation voiceover.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: This model is unprecedented.
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  Speaker 2: So we heard to pray for this wild thing, and so we've been doing that.
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  Speaker 2: We've just been praying daily as a team that God would provide for all 275 campuses in 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: The pastors, the provision, the people and, most importantly, his presence poured out upon them all.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: And then, a handful of months ago, last fall, we heard for the first time that it's go time and we heard the Lord call us to be praying to plant five churches internationally in the year 2024.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Then, in mid-November this is only weeks ago he specifically revealed that they would all be in Latin America this first year.
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  Speaker 2: He did not reveal every location, but he did speak about the first one, which was going to be the training and sending and streaming hub for the other Latin American campuses, and that this first one would be in Mexico City.
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  Speaker 2: You've been hearing a little bit about this.
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  Speaker 2: So after we heard that, we just immediately got to work.
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: We started to research the city and the parts of the city and we just started to pray from a desperate place because it's like God, we can't, we obviously can't do this, we can't even come close to this.
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  Speaker 2: But, lord, we do know that you can.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: But one of the things that we were praying for simply is God, we can't follow a natural process and step into what we're hearing you say.
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: We need to hear from you precisely who and how and where and when and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And we just ask God, would you reveal the exact crosshairs of where you're wanting this first campus to be in that city?
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  Speaker 2: Because this is a huge city.
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  Speaker 2: It's over 22 million people the most conservative estimates.
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  Speaker 2: It's the largest city in North America.
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  Speaker 2: Without him, we would have no idea where to go, no idea where to start, and it could take years simply to get a grasp of the city.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: And so we were praying and we weren't hearing him give us crosshairs, just kept leading us to research more parts of the city and the plan to go and see more parts of the city.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: But there was this one thing that we heard when we were asking God exactly where, one of our elders got a vision of an orange tree and it was like, zoomed in on the orange which doesn't seem like it's exactly an address, maybe not what I was hoping for, but I got kind of hopeful like, oh, this could be the key.
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: And I actually found there's this part of the city and it has a bunch of fruity names for the streets and so I got very excited, like there's going to be an orange street.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: And I started looking and I found a lime street and I found a strawberry, I even found a pomegranate street, but there was no orange street and the name of the neighborhood was called Florida.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, how can you not have an orange street in Florida?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody should be fired.
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: But nevertheless there was no orange street.
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: As I scoured the map, technically we had been praying God, we're going to need a campus pastor, as you know, lord, we don't even know where to begin.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing we heard was to reach out to the YWAM base in Mexico City.
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: I honestly was like, oh, I would have never thought that there'd be a YWAM base there and God forgive me, it came out of my mouth.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: Do we really want a hippie kid right out of college to be our campus pastor?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I sent the email some combination of obedience and disobedience in the heart at the same time.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: But I sent the email but I didn't hear anything back.
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  Speaker 2: So no orange street, no contact back from YWAM.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: But I did feel God impressed something on me.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: We had planned to take our first research trip on January 8 to go and to begin to research these areas, but I just had this impression like that's too late.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: We have to make time to go in December, which, as you know, is very hard to make time to do anything extra in the month of December.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: But we did start to plan for that.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: The Lord led us to reach out and get a driver to take us around and a tour guide who could take us to these places and a realtor.
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: And so we just asked the realtor would you research, in all of this list of areas, any place that could meet these qualifications for a church, Like how the buildings laid out in a space where you're able to do gatherings and those kinds of things?
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: And she said to us well, that's going to be very hard to find something with those kind of ceilings and sight lines in the city.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: And she said it even harder to find places that are zoned for churches in Mexico City.
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: But she said if it's there, I'll find it.
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: And so we just felt like we need to start to wrap our mind around having some understanding of the costs of real estate in this city and what we should be expecting.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: And so we said do what you can.
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  Speaker 2: So by the time we left for Mexico, we had a few things.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: We had a growing knowledge of the city.
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  Speaker 2: We did have a driver and a tour guide lined up to take us to the places we requested, and we had this realtor on the ground who was researching and just planning to show us anything that she could find.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: But that was it.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: We're going.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: We have no contacts, no one is going to meet us there, we don't have any hot leads, and now it's Monday, the week before Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: So we head to the airport and while we're sitting on the runway at the airport I then get an email back from the YWIM base founder and director and he said he'd be happy to hop on a call with us and get to know us.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe he could make a better recommendation about this campus pastor search that we were doing, and I said well, actually, we're on a plane and we're headed your way right now.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: You want to do dinner tonight?
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: And he actually said, well, yes, but he invited us to a dinner party they already had planned for their staff and for their neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: And so here we are Now we have a contact and we have someone in the city to go and meet with.
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  Speaker 2: So, praise the Lord, this is a good sign.
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  Speaker 2: Then the plane takes off and as the plane takes off, we're sitting next to a man named Carlos.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos is from Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: His daughter lives in Mexico City and he visits her often.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: He's lived in Denver for 25 years and he just becomes this three-hour generous source of information on all things Mexico and Mexico City and Mexican culture.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was priceless information.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: He was not a believer, but he just had this heart to help us.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: And at the end he actually asked well, what's your church's name?
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: And we said the church's name is Revolution Church.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: And I kid you not, he looked at us and he said who knows, you may just start a revolution in Mexico.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: And the hairs on my arms kind of went up and I just felt like sometimes God is prophesying through a person and they don't even realize it, but I believed it was one of those times.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: So he offers to be a source of information and help for us anytime we exchange information.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: So we got on the plane without a contact and without a relationship between the tarmac and the time we landed.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Now we had two.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: God is good.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Later I actually learned that Michelle booked our seats and when she did, she actually prayed and she got an impression of exactly where to seat us and I just thought, man, that's so incredible.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Praise the Lord.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Then, as soon as we landed, we loaded up and now we're going straight to this party.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: It's filled with locals and with missionaries and on the way there we actually got to pray for our cab driver and share the gospel with him, and he was so receptive and open.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: It was an awesome first drive somewhere.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Then we sit down over dinner and Eli Sama, the YWAM base founder and director.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: He starts to ask us about our church and I just started to share some of the things that God had spoken to us, specifically about Mexico City and this campus being this hub for these other plants that would be in Mexico and in Central and in South America and that, as part of that, one of the things that God has shown is that the language, the worship, needed to be in the heart language of the people, not just kind of English world songs being translated, but with actual Latino instrumentation and that sort of thing.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: But it would be streamed out from there to these other newer locations in Latin America so that newly forming campuses they could use that for their worship, while they were in the process of getting their own worship teams up and off the ground and all of that.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: And so immediately as I was sharing about that, eli Sama, he started to pull out his phone and he said well, this reminds me of this prophetic vision that God gave to one of our team members on the YWAM team, and someone actually drew it for us and so he showed it to us, and it was this prophetic picture they got of people being sent out of Mexico City.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: And of course, as we looked at it, the music notes and the guitar certainly caught our attention as well as this vision featuring both the water and the Bible, both the spirit and the word.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: And so then, at some point over dinner, eli Sama mentioned that when they planted the base in Mexico City.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: God had given them three pillars to build this YWAM base on, and that what those pillars were were worship and prayer and the word.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: And that certainly caught our attention as well.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: If you know, we are built on worship, prayer, word and spirit.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: So here's someone who's asking God to speak by spirit.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: They're listening to the voice of God, they're following his voice and the three pillars of the ministry of worship, prayer and the word.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: So then Eli Sama asked well, how did you find us?
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Because we're relatively unknown, we're hard to find.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: And we just smiled.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And well, we prayed, and God told us to reach out to the YWAM base in Mexico City, and God knows where his seekers are.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: He knows where his seekers are, and I began to become aware of that at this time.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Later, someone on the team came up to me and said I'm just hearing the Lord say we're supposed to invite him to come with us as we go, look at properties.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to myself I mean, this guy already has been over backwards.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: We're eating his tamales, we're crashing their party, he's being generous with their time, and now you want me to ask him hey, come and spend the whole day with us as we go around and look at a bunch of places in the city.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: But I did pray and I sensed the Lord was actually in it, and so I mustered up the courage to say hey, would you be willing to come around with us?
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Very obnoxious ask.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the Lord will call you to make obnoxious asks.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Just do it when he does.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: So I did.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: He said well, let me check some things out by the next morning.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: He said actually Wednesday, I'm able to work things out and I could join you guys on Wednesday.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: So, praise the Lord, that very first day, monday, was quite a day, and now our first full day on the ground is Tuesday.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So each morning, before we would take off, we would get together and have an hour of prayer as a team.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I spent some time interceding, spent some time inquiring.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't have a God in a situation like this, you have absolutely nothing.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And so the loudest thing that was heard that morning was a scripture reference.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: None of us had the reference memorized, but we looked it up it was Deuteronomy 30, verse 9 and 10.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: It says the Lord, your God, will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and the produce of your ground, for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as he rejoiced over your fathers, if you obey the Lord, your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes, which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the Lord, your God, with all of your heart and your soul.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: And so we prayerfully interpreted this as like this is a promise from the Lord, like that he's going to abundantly prosper this work and this offspring of this body of Revolution Church if we will just stay in step with Him.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: So from there we went and we looked at our whole first batch of places.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: They were all lined up very quickly, our tour guide Ari and our driver Ulysses.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: They really became allies.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Neither of them were believers walking from the Lord, but they were just helping us to spot every possible property that they saw.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: They were even making phone calls, finding, I mean, none of this was their job.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They just really wanted to help us.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: It was incredible and it was obvious God was giving us favor.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: So on day one we spent a lot of time in places called Novarte, delvalle, cueca, alamos, portales.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Anyways, we went to this whole kind of region of the city and we didn't hear anything specific.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Certainly, we had a long list of potential places we could go see on Thursday, which was going to be the realtor day.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: There were some areas that we liked more, some areas that we liked less, but there just wasn't anything concrete.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And then comes Wednesday.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So Wednesday we've got our second list of places to go and see.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Alisama is joining us on that day and as we made our way through the different areas of the city which were kind of to the west, the north and the northwest of where we had been the day before Mid-afternoon, we only have two towns left to see.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: So these towns are San Rafael and Santa Maria.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: These were further north than everything else that we had gone and researched and seen.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: In fact, we hadn't even researched these two.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: They were the only two places we didn't research ahead of time.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: The reason we went to them is because, when we had finished putting together the itinerary and sending it off to the realtor and tour guide, we just asked God, is there anywhere else that we need to go and we need to see while we're in the city?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And he just led us to two other places Specifically.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: We heard that San Rafael and Santa Maria were must see, and so we just tagged them onto the list and we added them on.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: And now we're at that point and as we're driving up and down the streets, our tour guide sees this property in Santa Maria, and so we actually stopped and we tried to see in.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: So in Mexico City almost all the properties have this kind of bland exterior, this giant garage door looking thing, and you really just don't know what's behind it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: It could be very vast back there.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: You just don't know because you cannot see anything.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And so our driver made a call to the number on the building unprompted, to be able to get some information about it, and we got out to look around and as we did, the property manager just happened to walk up.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been vacant for years.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: There's no one in it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: It's crazy timing.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: He agreed to let us in and I started to wonder if the must see of San Rafael because we actually stopped and we spent a lot of time at this place in San Rafael Maybe I was all just to line up the timing of this place, just right.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: The other place that God had said was a must see.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And as soon as we walked in, it was kind of like when we walked into the first two properties that God miraculously provided for this church in the first two years of our existence.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: You know when God tells you to plant somewhere and you're looking at dozens of buildings and most of them you just can't even possibly imagine how it would ever be able to work out for a church.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And then you walk into a place and it's like, oh, this is perfect.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: You know it was like that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So we walk in in the lobby, like, right as you enter in, it's this great open space.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: You could create an incredibly hospitable entrance into the church.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Right beyond that, the doors would lead right into the worship center.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You can see that it was previously a cooking school, but all of that, yeah, it was a house of bread.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: It could be a house of bread now, but all that equipment is freestanding, meaning it's a wide open space with very tall ceilings.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: It's the main space of the entire facility.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: There's zero columns in it, so there's no sight line issues for a church.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: And then, right off the main floor, there are these bathrooms that have multiple fixtures, on both the men's side and the women's side, and there's other restrooms throughout the facility that are in excellent condition as well.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Most facilities that we ended up seeing in the city.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: They would just have like a single bathroom or maybe two single bathrooms nothing that would be appropriate for an assembly kind of gathering that a church does.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Then, on top of that, there was a food preparation area with all the kind of plumbing and stuff for sinks.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: There's this really large walk-in fridge and at the back of it a large walk-in freezer.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Whenever you host a weekly feeding of small groups every midweek, as we do, that's a very amazing thing to have, not to mention all that you could do to serve this community through a facility with these resources, being able to prepare the meals for the under-resourced and do so right there on campus.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: So then we go upstairs to the second floor and we found this entire perimeter of the worship center space to have rooms in excellent condition.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Right above the lobby there was this perfect fellowship hall space.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It's got a bathroom, it had a kitchen, perfect size for midsize community events.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: And then, as we walked around the three sides of the worship center, there were many of these classrooms that were just already set up.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: They have the half-glass tops on them, which, as you know, is huge in terms of child protection and children's ministry.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Each of these rooms have their own air conditioning units, which is something you rarely see in Mexico City.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And then a number of them were office spaces, and a number of them were office spaces that had their own restrooms, which creates an opportunity to be able to rent them out to offset operating expenses.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: On top of that, it's like half a block from the metro, which is huge for accessibility in the city and something God had said was important.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: It's one of the major lines of the metro in the city.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: It also had an unusually large amount of parking on the road due to this large school being directly across the street versus houses with driveways.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: The water, the power big concerns in many places of the city.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Really great at this building and it was extremely well cared for and it was extremely well kept.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Like we didn't see anything even close to the kind of shape that this building was in, so naturally we loved it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: But that's just step one.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: But we did ask our realtor could you get us back in here on an official capacity tomorrow when we're going around and looking at places?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: So that happened on Wednesday, and then we go to lunch, which is usually like four in the afternoon, and so we're having lunch and Rebecca heard the Lord remind her, saying I said orange, and she was like, oh yeah, I mean we kind of forgotten a little bit about that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: And I guess like, yeah, that big open space was painted orange and it was like, ok, so the Lord's like making a connection somehow.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: This is that we didn't realize.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: She didn't realize something, I didn't, and we didn't realize something either.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: But our tour guide heard us talking about this vision of an orange on an orange tree that God had given, and she said, oh, don't you know?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: That building is on Niranjo Street, literally Orange Tree Street.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: So we got the orange building on Orange Tree Street.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, we were asking for a vicinity.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: God did give us an exact address Only God.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: And so we're sitting at lunch, we're also talking to Elisama and he's saying some more things that are just catching our attention.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: We're kind of spiritually curious at this point.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: But he said that YWAM has this culture of inquiring in prayer, but that when they planted the base they heard the Lord say to double it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: And he said so we just pray about everything, everything that we do, we just try to hear him and stay and step with him.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Now, if you know anything about this church, one of the unique things that God's led us into is just being submitted to the Spirit of God and following him, praying, listening, waiting to hear, not stepping out on our own ideas, but just staying and step with him.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: And it's a really rare thing and yet here we're seeing it in another person.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: So the commonalities with this base director were uncanny.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: He also shared at that launch that God had been speaking to their team about next steps for Mexico City and that, of the three ways that God had been speaking to them about their next steps in the city, one was planting a church.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But he said they were kind of hung up and praying about what that would look like.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Because he said I'm not a pastor in the sense of like I'm not the person to get up and teach every week.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I'm an apostle, I'm called the plant churches.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: And at that point one of our elders just heard the Lord say what if I provided you both in one day, so Wednesday, meaning both the property and the person in the same day?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Wednesday was an incredible day.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: As you can see.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Now it's Thursday.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Thursday's the day we're meeting with our realtor.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: She had lined up and been researching for weeks all these properties in these target areas.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Her bottom line was to get at least 10,000 square feet, have an open space for gatherings, tall enough ceilings to have your sightlines, as you described, and stuff like that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: She just couldn't find very much.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: There were only two properties in all that list of areas out of the hundreds that they looked at, which got close to our needs and also had the land use permissions for a church.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: She explained to us that it was extremely time consuming and difficult to get something rezoned or reclassified in the city, and particularly for a church.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: So much so she didn't think it was worth taking us to those other places.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: But she did have these two that had that land use and had the property that could potentially work.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: But when she checked on the Orange Tree Street warehouse that we had given her, it had the correct zoning, also already for a church.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, they hadn't found this property before.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: It wasn't listed in the main commercial database that they were using, and so if we hadn't driven by it we would have never found it, and it was our tour guide who spotted it, and it was the driver who called and got the details about it.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: The other two properties that we saw they were in very bad shape, they needed a lot of renovation, they cost two to three times more up front as well, and so in a sense, this was the only viable place we found.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: But we knew that, like there's more going on than just that.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: We actually found out from our realtor that this there was another party who had expressed interest in the Orange Property, and they said that they were going to get their earnest money to the seller on January 8th, the exact day that our first trip was originally supposed to be, but God had impressed on us to go in December instead.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: So God is on the move, that much is clear.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: But you got to get together and make sure you really hear from the Lord.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: So we got our elders together that evening and we began to ask the Lord if this was in fact the exact place which was more than we were expecting on this first trip that he really wanted this first international campus to be.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And as we prayed, the team were unanimously hearing in various ways that God was speaking yes, and to go.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: So there's nothing normal.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: There's nothing natural about this week.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: We really felt like we are walking in God's favor.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: It was like every step we took as he led us, the waters would just part as we stepped and it was amazing.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's like, well, what do you do with this?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: How do you move on something you know like this this quickly?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: This is all so much faster than we expected.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: We thought God was going slower than we needed.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Now he's going faster than we needed and of course, it requires, you know, a board vote and things like that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: So we're like God.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: What do you want us to do?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Her to invite the accountability board to a formal meeting that night.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: So we're still in Mexico.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Invite them to a meeting that night to hear about the property.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: So I reached out before our flight left and invited the board members to a meeting specifically for this purpose.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: 100% of them were able to come, which is crazy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Again, this is the week before Christmas.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: When we landed, we just went right to an evening board meeting.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: As elders, we shared what we were hearing with the board and what we were proposing, and we just asked the board if they would then pray as well they did and they all heard very quickly and very unanimously the same thing to move ahead.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: So my head is still spinning at this point, but we put together an offer.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: The offer was accepted Praise the Lord, and yeah, you can give him a hand.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: But he did more.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I got to warn you, as if God's not showing off enough already.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: We also heard the Lord say before we left, to invite Eliasama to prayerfully consider the campus pastor position.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: In truth, we heard the Lord say he is your guy.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: We didn't tell him that because it would kind of be maybe prophetically abusive or something you know, but we just invited him the final morning before catching the flight then.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: So we met with Eliasama, asked him to pray about becoming the campus pastor.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: He said he would pray, reached out a week later saying I'm hearing enough already, I need to take this serious.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: So we invited him out.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: He actually came out and visited us on revival weekend and through both his own prayer process and our own, we have offered him the role and he has accepted the role.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: This is beyond believable, but God has done it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I've never witnessed this kind of speed of favor before.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I think I've always wanted this kind of speed and for the first time, I'm like God.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: This is a little fast even for me, but praise the Lord.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: So, to show up somewhere internationally, you have a language barrier, no pastor, no place to meet.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You arrive Monday night, you leave Friday by midday and by the end of that time God has provided both.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, believer, let it sink into our souls.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: The more impossible the thing that God calls you to do or us to do, the more impossible the thing we will see God do.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: If we tried to do this on our own, there's no way.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: If we tried to invent it up and create it in our own minds, there's no way.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: But when it's his way, there is a way.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: And the greater the impossibility of the thing that God does, then the greater the testimony that is told and only he gets the glory.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: You see, when something is humanly possible, people say good job to you.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: But when they know it's only him, he gets the credit and he gets the praise.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And that's the idea we believe that we are witnessing.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: God do a miracle right in front of our eyes, and the question, of course, is would you be willing to be a part of this testimony and this miracle story that will be told for his glory.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: So I want to tell you a little bit more about the area, what God has shown that we could do through this facility.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: So Santa Maria is a neighborhood that had experienced a lot of decline.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: It had become considered one of those places that you don't want to go to in the city, but over the last decade it's had this remarkable turnaround.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: It's even been called the new condesa due to its charming architecture and its walkable streets.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: It's really thought of as a popular place for locals, meaning it's not the place that foreigners have caught on to and that they go, but the locals say about it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: This is real Mexico.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: It's one of those places that people travel to from outside of that neighborhood to come frequently.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: It's mostly middle class economically, but there are many with some expendable income, while there are also many who are in a very financially tight circumstance and they are in real need.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It's part of what's called the Cuatamac borough.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: That's the historical and the cultural center of Mexico City, and Mexico City is the historical and cultural center of Mexico itself.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: It's the place that God has given us a vision for, in addition to planting a first love revolution church that seeks to love the Lord with all of our hearts and our souls and our minds and our strength in the place of word and spirit, worship and prayer.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: The Lord has shown sending in this newly created nonprofit organization called the English Advantage.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: The English Advantage, or T for short, exists to have native English speakers teaching English to under-resourced populations, which statistically increases their earnings by 25%, lifting many out of poverty, and it also fights against the exploitation of women and the most vulnerable by opening up doors for them to be able to serve in professional, local roles versus having to travel outside of the city to find jobs.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: So this opportunity to receive English training and through a native English speaking missionary, it's just absolutely a huge opportunity for this community.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, and another miracle if you can handle another one is God's already provided the English speaking missionary.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Someone who studied linguistics in college for this very purpose is a part of our church body and has been hearing for two years that in 2024 God was going to send them and they were going to be a joint to the body, connecting one part to another.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: This is Jillian Smith and she's planning to move in March.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: God is on the move.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: So, through offering English courses and English kids camps to the community, the church is going to be able to serve that neighborhood in an extremely helpful way.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: On top of that, the church, of course, will be providing a free dinner for all the small groups for the midweek gathering, just before the gathering takes place, and this is an area where, for many, a weekly free meal is genuine blessing to them.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Third, it's going to be an incredible place for highly effective mission trips, with a facility that can provide free housing to those that are traveling there.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: The cost of the mission can be kept low but also the opportunities to put on kids camps and medical clinics and outreach events and provide prayer ministry and to serve the poor, I mean they're just endless.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: They're endless, in fact.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I want you to be aware of this.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Students, those of you who are currently in eighth grade through twelfth grade we have an opportunity for you to go and to serve this summer, leading our first ever kids camp in Mexico City.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: And are you guys on testimony overload?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, but can you handle a few more?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It's just a few more, it can't be skipped.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: So on the second trip, the January eighth trip, our driver, ulysses, accepts Christ on this last trip so cool, and I mean he got filled, and I mean filled, filled with the Holy Spirit.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Right afterwards, as we prayed for him, he encountered God in a way that, in his own words, completely overwhelmed him.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Would you like to hear his own testimony from his own words?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: All right, check this out.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I have known them and I have been told a prayer through them and I was able to physically feel the Spirit of your Holy Spirit.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: I have been praying for a few days, but at that time the Lord has done an incredible work in his life, and so this is that story.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: He is going into the part where we prayed for him.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: There was a moment where we felt like we needed to lay hands on him, and so all of us are around him, laying our hands on him and praying.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Once I received this prayer, I felt a material form, because it was materialized in the Spirit of your Holy Spirit.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: While we were praying for him, he felt the materialization of the Holy Spirit, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in which he had never felt in his life before.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I have felt so many changes.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: He has given me peace.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I have just been relaxed, the state of relaxation.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Today I was talking to a friend and he said you sound really relaxed.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I feel that energy.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: The most important thing is the synthesis.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: He has been so impressed how we have come and all of this has happened and opened up and he has had the first row seat to see miracles unfolding before his eyes, this particular prayer where a team had our hands around him you said in the prayer that you felt like you were in a state of relaxation.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: There were two prayers.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: While we were praying, he felt really dizzy.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: He said that his left leg was hurting him.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: He felt dizzy he was feeling like his hands were cold and tingling.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: After that we had asked him how he was feeling.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: We prayed over him again.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: That's where he felt somebody touched the top of his head.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: There was an electric shock that went from the top of his head all the way down his spine.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to cry and cry.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: After that prayer, after the second prayer, I felt really light.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: After that prayer I felt a peace.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: After that prayer he felt like the disneyus went away, the pain his leg went away and everything went away.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: After that prayer people were walking by the building and praying and doing some planning things.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: It shocked him that that came out of his mouth.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: He never said anything like that.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: It was the first fruit of this prayer.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: That happened moments ago.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: He is already evangelizing to people.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Do you feel that the Lord has a purpose in your life?
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm not confused about helping him, but I'm confused to decide if he is the moment or the today.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Yulisi is on a journey.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: He is still very shocked.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I signed up to be a driver and now I'm in it with these guys.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Yulisi is already driving the steering wheel and driving people into the presence of God.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Glory to God, amen.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: God is on the move.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: We asked him if he would join the core team.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: He took a day and prayed about it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: He said I'm all in.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Our driver is insisting that he does it as a volunteer now because he is one of the first members of the core team.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: In addition to that, god has brought Eli Sama's mom and dad, jose and Marea, to the team.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: They have decades of ministry experience.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: He is going to serve as the outreach director.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: He is a volunteer staff member.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: She is going to be the hospitality manager.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Apparently, she is quite skilled at cooking for hundreds of people.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: They are going to relocate and live on the premises in that city.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: That is a critical component of your building protection.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Praise the Lord, he just keeps piling it on and piling it on.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: That's not all.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: They have a couple dozen people in their house church network who have been hearing that they are supposed to be a part of planting a church again.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: They have been praying together twice a day for years.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: They have been praying for this.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: They have heard in prayer that this is the answer to that prayer.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: There is all these volunteer army that has been waiting and praying for this.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Now they are ready to go On top of that there are a number of people from the YWIN base that hear God calling them to become core team members and to help plant the church as well.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: God just keeps piling it on and piling it.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: On On top of that, we meet with the principals of the nearby school.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: They were so overwhelmingly excited to hear about the English advantage.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: In their own words, the English language schools are very high priced and they are only accessible for the elite and for the privilege of their society.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: The principal said I cannot afford myself to send my own children to be able to get that.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: In many parts of the world English is like a barrier now to get into the office jobs, any kind of white collar work.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Without that it is very difficult to pierce through.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: It is a really big deal for them.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: He said this service has come to give an English advantage to the under resourced in our population.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: He said it is a massive.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: He even used the word blessing.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: I think he could tell where we were coming from.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: On top of that, we left the trip with this lead for a children's pastor that we are so excited about.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: This couple have been leading a children's ministry, a very successful one, with virtually no resources.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: They got their calling from the Lord in terms of a vision, but they had already said we feel like the Lord wants us to move in March to the city and they have been saying that for months but they didn't know why.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: We got put in touch with them and we really sense God is at work in it.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: It is still in process.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: It is not done, but there is just a time where I am like, but it is kind of done.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: We learned also that Eli Salman is his team.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: They have been hearing the Lord speak for over a year about these other places in Mexico and also some places internationally where the Lord has been leading them, and they have been doing all these trips and laying foundations and building relationships and outreach and discipleship sort of stuff.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: But they have been feeling like they were called to minister in these areas and in a number of the places there is believers and even pastors who have been asking will you plant a church here?
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: We need a church in this community and Eli Salman has been saying, well, why isn't we a church?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: But then, after he prayed and then after we have prayed, we have just received confirmation that three of those five places they have been targeting in Mexico are going to be three of the other plants that God has in his heart to do in Latin America in 2024, and the foundation has already been laid and they are already asking and praying for a church.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I mean only God.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Come on, expect to hear more about that soon.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: The Lord also revealed where the fifth location will be in Ecuador, either in Cuito or Santa Domingo, so that one is probably the least developed of them at this point in time, but nevertheless, he recently shared that as well.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: So another testimony Eli Salman and the team.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: They expressed how important it was for them that the core team that is there on the ground planting this church, that they share with us in the sacrifice of planting this church.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: He said it cannot be our house of worship if it costs us nothing.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: We must have this opportunity to bring a sacrifice.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: I'm just like praise the Lord.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: I mean God is good.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: On top of all that, there was a friend that I worked with in Chicago Brandon and Wendy and I all did and I had forgotten that he actually was originally from Mexico City, but I reached out to him and he was able to come on this January trip with us and I learned a lot more about how significant that connection is, because he was a very famous, very well-known musician in Latin America.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: He was the music director for Luis Miguel Before he came to Christ.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Luis Miguel would be like whatever the biggest American western artist is of all time.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: That's who Luis Miguel is to the Latin American world.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: He also was the founder and member of the band Torre Fuerte that's my best R-Rolls I can do One of the most well-known Christian bands in Mexico's history.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: So everywhere we go, he's just this magnet for musicians and he is signed on as a volunteer to recruit the musicians, audition the musicians, get the bands trained and write the instrumentation for the worship there.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I mean praise God.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: It's so incredible and I could keep going.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I'm just skimming the surface.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: There's more testimonies to tell and they will be told.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: There's many more that are in process that I can't wait until they're finished.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: But the bottom line is we're in the midst of this miracle and I really believe that this is a time where what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no mind has conceived, I can just tell you my mind has not been able to comprehend it, but that's what God has in his heart to do this year and I'm very excited to be moving into this divine timing of the Lord.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Repeatedly, as we prayed, as I mentioned earlier, we've been hearing this phrase 100-day miracle, and as if it's not overwhelming enough.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: If you're overwhelmed, so am I.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: It's all right, it's okay for God to overwhelm us every once in a while.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: And what we've been hearing is that he has this 100-day miracle for all three campuses and that all three would, in unison, be plowing this field of impossibility that would be instantly filled by his spirit in terms of the trenches.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: So, both in Mexico City, in Colorado Springs and also in Lone Tree, that he has this 100-day miracle at all three.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: So, with Mexico City, by the end of the 100 days, which is toward the end of April, that there would be 100 members of the core team praying, 100 members of that core team crazy, but that they would be praying and serving that campus by that point in time, that the English advantage would be launched and that the church would be launched at Easter, which is late March.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: That's the 100-day miracle, wouldn't you agree?
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: It is, with Lone Tree, something we had been hearing but thought maybe by the end of December this would come into reality, but that there would be this surge of live and five in the 24-7 worship that happens at the Lone Tree campus and that 100 of the 168 hours a week would be live and five by the end of the 100 days.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: That's quite a 100-day miracle.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Only God.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: I always want to remind you.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Prayer and worship are the engine of everything that you see happen at Revolution Church.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Without the ministering to God in the place of worship and in the place of prayer, there's no presence, there's no power, there's no outpouring and with that you just have man running around at man's might, something that we're not interested in.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: So he's saying that and similarly, what he's speaking over Colorado Springs is that they would have this huge miracle surge forward in this 100-day miracle with 24-7 prayer, that there would be 100 intercessors participating each week by the end of this time.
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  Speaker 2: Impossible, impossible, impossible.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: But with God, all things are possible.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: None of what he's done already is possible.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: None of what he's going to do is possible.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: It's all officially in the category of what I would say is the capital I impossible, insanely, ridiculous, melt your face off, kind of impossibility.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: And that is why, when he does it.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: All the glory will go to Him.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: No one will be able to look at us and say, look, what y'all did.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: But he will get the glory, which is what we're jealous for.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: And this brings us back to the walls.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: So, with both the rebuilding of Nehemiah's wall and the Exodus, what happened?
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Well, the news of what God did, it traveled Nehemiah 616, when all of our enemies heard of it, and Rahab says in Joshua 2.11, when we heard it.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: So in both of these instances, the testimony of what God did.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: It actually sent out this shockwave, this tremor of testimony.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: It went out throughout the land and beyond, and the tremor of testimony actually prepared the way for the next thing that God was going to do, and I believe that that is what he is doing here now.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: We shouldn't miss this either.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: In both instances of God doing the impossible, the enemy of God suffered a tremendous setback and I always like to see that.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but when we read Nehemiah 16, that when all of our enemies heard of it and the nation surrounding us saw it, when we read that they lost their confidence.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: That phrase lost confidence, it's literally they fell greatly.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: They fell greatly, in other words, as this wall was built at such a speed, there were other walls that fell greatly.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: So this wasn't just a wall building miracle.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: This was another Jericho wall's falling miracle at the same time as the tremor of testimony went out To all that God is doing.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I believe that there are enemy walls that God wants to fall and I believe that the walls of syncretism which have a grip and a grasp over the country in the city of Mexico City, that he wants those walls of syncretism to fall.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: When we took our first trip, our tour guide, ari, she, took us in.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: She was explaining the history, showing us around the cathedrals in all the ways that the Aztec religion, from the foundation of Catholicism coming into the country, got syncretized into the form of Catholicism that's taking place in the city, and she said they knew there's no other way we could get them to come than to blend these things together.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: There's a long history of compromise for the sake of people's attendance and people's presence, compromising the presence of God in his house, and it sounds like what's still happening today.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: You see, we need a revolution.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: We need a first love revolution all across the world.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: I believe the walls of syncretism are walls that he wants to topple through this testimony, which will be built into the foundation from the beginning.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: I believe, the walls of lies about who he is and how much he is worth that they need to crumble as the matchlessness of who he is is heralded and held on to in our day and in our time.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: What other walls does God want to topple in this hundred day miracle?
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: The walls of impossible.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: How many times are the walls of impossibility blocking God's sons and God's daughters from stepping into what he has for them in their lives?
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: But as they see Him obliterate these walls of impossibility, they will say I serve the God of the impossible and I'm not going to limit Him based on what I can comprehend.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I believe that the walls of not enough need to come down.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Not enough people, we don't have enough funds, we don't have enough, whatever.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: It is, so that people forever hold the testimony that he's always more than enough, especially when we don't have enough.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: The walls of hey, we're just a church plant, what can we do?
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: They need to crumble.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: May they all fall to what he can do for His praise and for His glory, church.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: May God get everything that's in His heart to do in 2024.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Amen, that's my prayer, everything in His heart.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: And for that to happen, we've got to do, we've got to understand something because in each of these instances, even though God did it and even though it's completely impossible apart from God, it didn't mean that it didn't require the people to walk in faith to what he was calling them to do.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: They did have to step into the sea, they actually had to follow His lead.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: They had to march around Jericho's walls.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: They had to build and they had to defend the wall in Jerusalem as it was being built.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: You see, the Nehemiah Wall miracle it's, in large part it's a percentage of participation miracle.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Everyone picked up the shovel and the sword and they got to work building it and defending it as it was built.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: And I just believe that it's the same for us.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: And so the team's gonna start handing out this card that gives you various ways that you could prayerfully respond and participate in the miracle story that God is writing for his glory.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: But as they do, I just want to go back to that verse, deuteronomy 30, verse 9 and 10, the Lord, your God, will prosper you abundantly and all the work of your hand in the offspring of your body, if you'll obey the Lord to keep his commandments and his statutes, which are written in the book of the law, and if you will turn to the Lord, your God, with all of your heart and soul.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: So how do we do that?
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: How do we obey him?
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: How do we turn to him with all of our heart?
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Well, obedience is obviously staying in step with him.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: A very practical way that we can turn to him with all of our heart is we just give our hearts to whatever is in his heart to do.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: If you've been a part of this church for a number of years, you know that we keep seeing a miracle after miracle after miracle in a new thing and what God can do, but it's always lined up to whatever is in his heart to do at that time, and I believe it's the same for this year.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: There are many ways to be involved.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: So on the front of the car that's being distributed, you're going to see some opportunities to pray in both the revolution church column and the English Advantage column.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Nothing of this can happen without concerted prayer and taking up your sword while you're also building.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: That is about prayer.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Does the defensive work as the testimony is evolving.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: So it all starts there.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: There's an opportunity to sign up to serve in that.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Two.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: You're going to see some ways to give to either or both of these things financially.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: As it relates to the campus plant, this one being the hub for the others in Latin America, it needs greater technology to do that, it needs a greater staffing cost than the others will have.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Mexico City also is the most expensive place in Mexico, with very few exceptions, and this one is absorbing the legal cost to establish ourselves in the country.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: So that price for that one is 300,000 more than the others planned in 2024 will be on average.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: So it's a bit of a more significant entry level.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: But, all this to say, we need to raise 575,000 for the one time launch costs and a full year of operating expenses and for that first kids camp.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: So the Lord's been leading us to, you know, raise money for the purchase of the building separately.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: So this is about the launch and the operating costs for getting it off the ground.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: In that first year.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: We need 325,000 of that coming in by the end of March for an Easter launch and the remainder by mid-summer.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Three, there's opportunities to go and serve on mission trips.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: This facility it is as turnkey as a facility gets.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: However, we will be inviting a mission team to go down and assist the court team that's on the ground there with the repainting and the cleaning and the selling off and getting that equipment out of the building, the building of a stage, installing the necessary security and kind of audio visual stuff and all that.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: Also, reminder students, there's a missions trip planned for you as well, so you can sign up for those things on the card.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: There's going to be a mission trip for families.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: It's planned the week of the Douglas County spring break to be a part of launching the English advantage preparing you know, both that and the church for the launch.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: So you may have never considered being a native English speaker, a resource you have, but it is.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: It is and your participation would not only give a strong start to the English advantage but it would really bless the community as well.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: So there's other opportunities to serve on the card translating if you have that ability to translate, or serving on the library, the launch team for the English advantage as well.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Specifically for those of you that are at the Lone Tree campus, on the back of your card there is a place for you to sign up to rally your family or your friends.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: We really had a sense that families would be stepping into this more together, friends, even people who don't attend this church.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: We've had this since he's going to start bringing people in.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: They don't call this their church home, but they have the heart for the ministry to the Lord in our region through this and would have the heart to see this vision of 100 hours a week, live in five by the end of April, come into reality.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: For those of you at Colorado Springs, on the back of your car, there is an opportunity to sign up to serve as an intercessor, growing the army of intercessors there to 100 in 100 days, and it's probably a good chance for us to kind of.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: You know, just I'm going to invite Leah up now at Colorado Springs.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: She's just going to share more about what God's been speaking for you guys.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: So thank you, church.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: And now for all of us, let's just respond to God in a way that he gets all that is in his heart to do Amen, amen.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to invite us to prayerfully respond and because when God has in his heart to do a 100 day miracle, every day is of the essence, and so in this particular case, we want to create a little bit more space to reflect and prayerfully respond before we leave today than we normally would, and so, as we come to the Lord, I would just encourage you to pray and ask God specifically are you calling me to participate in this?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: And, lord, how I do believe it's going to take everyone of us saying yes to just whatever God says.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: And, lord, my prayer is that each one would hear you and hear your voice with the heart to follow.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: However, it is that you would lead them and church as you're praying and responding as the Lord leads you.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: I also want to just share the good news with any of you who may be.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: You're here and you've never experienced what you heard Ulysses testify about.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: You've never experienced receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and your Savior and being filled with the presence of God.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: The good news is that forgiveness of sins, eternal life and the availability of the Holy Spirit are all available through Jesus Christ.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: You see, god reveals in His Word that he loves us and he made us for a relationship with Him.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: You're made for Him, but he's also clear in His Word that we have a problem.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: A problem is what the Bible calls sin ways that we've done wrong, ways that we've been wrong, and that our sin separates us from a holy God.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: And this isn't a separation that we could just solve on our own, by our own good works or our own good deeds.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: We need to be forgiven of our sin, because the standard to be with God is sinlessness.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: That's not something I can do, that's not something you can do, but God, in His love for you, he sent His one and only eternally begotten Son, jesus Christ, who came and he died on the cross in my place for my sin.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: He took the consequence that my sin deserves upon Himself, stretching out His arms and love for me.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: He did the same for you, for every one of you, and yet, dying on the cross, he rose on the third day and he promises life, eternal life in place of death for all who would receive Him, for who he is, who is he, he's Lord and he's Savior.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: To receive Him, you have to put your faith in Him, to become your Lord and your Savior.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: And so if you're here and you would say listen, pastor, I'm not too proud to admit that I've sinned, I know that I need to be forgiven and you believe that Jesus Christ, himself being God.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: He came and he died and he rose so that you could be forgiven and so that you could have everlasting life, which is a relationship with God.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: I want to give you a chance to receive Him today, the way you heard Ulysses testify to as well, with heads bowed and eyes closed.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: If that's you, would you just raise your hand and hold it high for a moment?
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: Pray as the Lord, pray as the Lord.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: So good, this is you saying.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: I want to be included in the prayer that you're about to pray.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: I want to walk out of here knowing Him.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: I want to be filled with this Holy Spirit.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: I want to be forgiven, I want to be at peace with God and I want to have confidence that, even if I were to die today, I would spend all of eternity with Him and not separated from Him.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Is that you?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: Is there anyone else?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: If you're listening online, there's a place for you to indicate that that's the decision you'd like to make as well.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: There is no better decision.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: So good, so good.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: You guys can put your hands down.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to lead you in a prayer to come and say God, I want to know you, I do not want to be separated from you by my sin, and I admit that I've sinned, god.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: I know I need to be forgiven and I believe that you made a way, jesus Christ.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: I believe that you are Lord and the Savior of this world and I'm asking would you become my Lord and my Savior today?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Please forgive me of my sins, please be the Lord of my life.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: I'm turning to you to put my trust in and I want to be filled.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: I want to be filled with your presence.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: I need you in my life.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: So I'm asking Holy Spirit, please come God.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: I pray, father, that you would.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: You would fill them, lord.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: It's your spirit that gives us the ability to do what we could never do on our own.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: We can't turn from our sin.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: We can't say yes to your ways.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Apart from you, come, lord, thank you for forgiving me and thank you for saving me.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: And God, as we celebrate all those who received you today, church, I also again, knowing every day's of the essence, would you just take a couple minutes and fill out that card, as the Lord is leading you, so that you could actually turn it into the greeters before you go.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: The band's just going to play for two more minutes as you're prayerfully responding to the Lord.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: And then we actually we had a family request if they could, you know, get their children baptized today.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: So we're going to have baptisms, a couple baptisms to celebrate as we end.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: And if you're here and you have received the Lord, maybe you just did, but you've never been baptized.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, this public confession that through Jesus Christ you've died, your old self will be raised in your life, you can get baptized today as well.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure we got some extra towels, we got some towels, we got towels.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, you'll still be wet and cold, but you're welcome to come at this time as well.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Just make your way over here and we will add you into the baptism.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Come, lord Jesus, speak to us now.
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  Speaker 2: Your servants are listening.
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  Speaker 1: This has been a Revolution Church Message.
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