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The Story Of The Stones Pastor Steve Epley — Transcript

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  1. 0:00SK all this
  2. 0:01reading in the fourth chapter of the
  3. 0:04Book of
  4. 0:06Joshua Joshua chapter
  5. 0:114 and I'm going to go down to verse 20
  6. 0:14and
  7. 0:1621 I read 20 through
  8. 0:1924 and then
  9. 0:22I'll do what I feel like do
  10. 0:25it they had just crossed the Jordan
  11. 0:28River going into the promised
  12. 0:31land the water stood up on its sides in
  13. 0:35Jordan
  14. 0:36River and uh he told them to take a
  15. 0:41stone put it on their
  16. 0:44shoulder matter of fact it said in verse
  17. 0:46six there shall be a
  18. 0:48sign among you that when your children
  19. 0:51ask their fathers in time to come saying
  20. 0:54what mean ye
  21. 0:56these Stones verse 20
  22. 1:00and they took the 12 Stones and he took
  23. 1:02them out of
  24. 1:04Jordan and did Joshua pitching
  25. 1:09gilgal and said unto the people of
  26. 1:12Israel saying when your children shall
  27. 1:15ask their fathers in time to come what
  28. 1:18mean these
  29. 1:20Stones then you shall let your children
  30. 1:22know saying Israel came up over Jordan
  31. 1:27upon dry ground
  32. 1:30the Lord dried up the Waters of Jordan
  33. 1:34from before you until you passed over as
  34. 1:37the Lord your God did the Red Sea which
  35. 1:41he dried up from before us until we were
  36. 1:44gone over that all the people of the
  37. 1:47earth might know the hand of the Lord
  38. 1:50that it is mighty that you may fear the
  39. 1:53lord your God
  40. 1:55forever I want talk to you today for a
  41. 1:58little while
  42. 2:00on the story of the
  43. 2:03stones on the
  44. 2:06story of the stones we pray with me
  45. 2:10eternal God we're so thankful oh Jesus
  46. 2:14we exalt you today thank you for your
  47. 2:17precious presence
  48. 2:19God Jesus
  49. 2:23name
  50. 2:24W Holy
  51. 2:28Ghost
  52. 2:49glory to
  53. 2:51God I have no doubt in my mind folks are
  54. 2:54going to leave here healed
  55. 2:56today no doubt in my mind folks are
  56. 3:00going to leave here healed in this
  57. 3:01building
  58. 3:02today other folks are going to leave
  59. 3:06here right on the
  60. 3:09threshold of a miracle they need in
  61. 3:11their life might be a financial Miracle
  62. 3:14might be a miracle in their home might
  63. 3:17be a domestic Miracle whatever but I
  64. 3:22have no doubt that God is going to work
  65. 3:24here today I feel it in the Holy Ghost
  66. 3:27you may be seated
  67. 3:34matter of fact these stones are here
  68. 3:35from the last time that I I preached
  69. 3:37this that that that that they were going
  70. 3:40to set these
  71. 3:45up that there was going to come a
  72. 3:47generation
  73. 3:49up there was going to come a generation
  74. 3:52that uh wasn't there in Egypt sister
  75. 3:56tripa they wasn't there they didn't see
  76. 3:58they didn't see the hand of God deliver
  77. 4:01them where hell Stones fell everywhere
  78. 4:04but in
  79. 4:05Goan there was Darkness everywhere but
  80. 4:08in Goan how God even came and severed
  81. 4:12between the cattle of the Egyptian and
  82. 4:14the cattle of the Hebrews and they were
  83. 4:18and the cattle of the Hebrews were
  84. 4:20spared how that all them noisome plagues
  85. 4:24that took
  86. 4:25place uh the children of God were spared
  87. 4:29them
  88. 4:30and the wicked had them then when God
  89. 4:34brought them through the Red
  90. 4:37Sea now what a what a
  91. 4:40what
  92. 4:46what know years ago CE so be de Mills
  93. 4:50made a movie called The 10
  94. 4:53Commandments and uh I hadn't been in
  95. 4:56church all my life so uh I remember
  96. 4:59seeing that and even even in the back of
  97. 5:01my mind today I can see
  98. 5:07that whatever was in his mind to have
  99. 5:09done that at the
  100. 5:14time standing there and children of
  101. 5:17Israel going through on dry ground and
  102. 5:19then their enemy coming behind them and
  103. 5:21God destroying their enemy and then you
  104. 5:24know they get they don't go very far and
  105. 5:27and and they're thirsty and water comes
  106. 5:30out of a rock not some little old stream
  107. 5:33there's somewhere between three to six
  108. 5:35million people there that God caused
  109. 5:38enough water to take care of them then
  110. 5:41uh uh daily he fed them with Mana and
  111. 5:46and and all the Miracles that he
  112. 5:48performed along the way then here
  113. 5:50they're going through Jordan River and
  114. 5:53all of those all the doubters and all
  115. 5:55the grumblers and all the complainers
  116. 5:58that we preached about a Wednesday night
  117. 6:01they're all gone they're all dead in the
  118. 6:03wilderness none of them are being
  119. 6:04allowed to go across now they're walking
  120. 6:07through on dry ground and and and
  121. 6:13uh uh God
  122. 6:15told uh Joshua to tell the priest to go
  123. 6:19stand in the middle of the
  124. 6:21river they stood on these 12 Stones as
  125. 6:25Israel passed over I don't know how long
  126. 6:26it would take them to pass over that
  127. 6:29great multitude passed over and the and
  128. 6:32the Bible said and they stood
  129. 6:35firm amen oh give Us Men that'll stand
  130. 6:39firm he stood firm and then he told him
  131. 6:42take those rocks you you stood
  132. 6:46on and pile them up here all 12 of these
  133. 6:50rocks because there's going to be a
  134. 6:53generation that's not going
  135. 6:56to they're not going to have been there
  136. 6:59all they're want to see is this big
  137. 7:01Memorial of stones that that is there
  138. 7:05that will tell what what God did and how
  139. 7:09God worked and and
  140. 7:12uh I want to have a a a story of Stone
  141. 7:15Service here
  142. 7:17today amen I I want I want I want to
  143. 7:21challenge our our younger
  144. 7:23Saints I want to challenge our younger
  145. 7:26saints that you know they've been born
  146. 7:29in in a different time I was talking to
  147. 7:31brother joanes yesterday you
  148. 7:33know we have such free worship here you
  149. 7:37know there there we have such Freedom
  150. 7:40worship here I a lot of folks visit us
  151. 7:43they they they they come away they don't
  152. 7:45you know they're not used to that matter
  153. 7:47of fact they they can sit in week in and
  154. 7:49week out and not ever have any kind of
  155. 7:51Freedom no kind of move no kind of we
  156. 7:55take all that for granted but it wasn't
  157. 7:57always that way even here because
  158. 8:00somebody had to just push and work and
  159. 8:02push so we take that for
  160. 8:04GR and and and and and our our our our
  161. 8:09children that are being born these young
  162. 8:12boys and even even folks to uh Adam's
  163. 8:17Age and and Mitchell age and Tori and
  164. 8:21and and and some of these younger guys
  165. 8:23you
  166. 8:25know they really not been faced with
  167. 8:28real
  168. 8:30real real hardship real real hard their
  169. 8:32trials may seem hard but real real
  170. 8:36hardships where folks really just they
  171. 8:38just had to pray they had to pray for
  172. 8:41miracles for and and and I'm not asking
  173. 8:45for the Lord to put them in that type of
  174. 8:48situation but I'm trying to accumulate
  175. 8:51and bring some Fai alive in them where
  176. 8:55when they come up against some obstacle
  177. 8:57in their life that they won't feel like
  178. 8:59my Lord what AM we going to do ain't
  179. 9:01nobody ever faced this before and I feel
  180. 9:05like the Lord just pred me to to to to
  181. 9:08have this type of service today to
  182. 9:11inspire somebody's
  183. 9:13Faith so I'm going to be giving some
  184. 9:15test I'm going to be doing more
  185. 9:17testifying than I'm preaching but I'm
  186. 9:19going to be giving some testimonies
  187. 9:21today of things that I've either I've
  188. 9:23either saw done or or I've heard testify
  189. 9:27about but I w't tell just a couple
  190. 9:29three that has happened to me I I've
  191. 9:33I've told this several time but I
  192. 9:34telling I was telling brother Jones
  193. 9:36about it yesterday when I was visiting
  194. 9:38them I started preaching when I was
  195. 9:40young and 15 years old I started
  196. 9:43preaching and I know we'll forget they
  197. 9:45asked me to come preach over a little
  198. 9:46old church called MacIntosh and it's
  199. 9:49right over there way in the middle
  200. 9:50matter of fact I think when the highway
  201. 9:52went through there tore all down and and
  202. 9:54uh some folks called it booger Branch
  203. 9:57now that's not a joke but that's that's
  204. 9:58that's serious that's what that's that's
  205. 10:00what it was called and I never I I I
  206. 10:03never will forget I was going up there
  207. 10:05and for some reason this night uh you I
  208. 10:09could always get a crew of folks go with
  209. 10:10me but I went by myself and I never will
  210. 10:13forget such trip driving up through
  211. 10:16there uh when I left the house my my gas
  212. 10:20tank was on empty when I left the house
  213. 10:23well it wasn't no great distance maybe
  214. 10:24about probably 10 12 miles but it's out
  215. 10:28in the middle of nowhere
  216. 10:30and I got there I'd never preached there
  217. 10:31before and I got there to preach and
  218. 10:33sitting on the platform was two or three
  219. 10:36coffee cans where they were spitting
  220. 10:38their tobacco juice in it I mean they
  221. 10:41was they were they was talking in
  222. 10:43tongues
  223. 10:45and right over there and there and uh
  224. 10:49well I don't know I just felt like
  225. 10:51somebody all say
  226. 10:54something so I I preached against your
  227. 10:56tobacco Chun I mean I I worked it over
  228. 10:59pretty
  229. 10:59good and so when service was over nobody
  230. 11:03said nothing to me I mean goodbye hello
  231. 11:05praise the Lord
  232. 11:06nothing so I got to my car and and I was
  233. 11:09hoping at least they'd give me a couple
  234. 11:10dollars down there at Nortonville the
  235. 11:12little place called the Apple house kind
  236. 11:15of a general store had a little grocery
  237. 11:16store and I I could get me some gas and
  238. 11:20uh uh uh but nothing there I was I
  239. 11:24didn't I didn't have one I didn't have
  240. 11:25I'm talking about I didn't have one dime
  241. 11:27not even a dime did I have
  242. 11:29and I was I I drove in
  243. 11:32there I didn't know what to do boy when
  244. 11:35I was driving back at all them back
  245. 11:37roads and hills and they wasn't the
  246. 11:39light nowhere to be seen I'm going to
  247. 11:41tell you what I was I was afraid I'm
  248. 11:43going to tell you what man if I break
  249. 11:44down here I don't know if anybody ever
  250. 11:45find me back here or not finally I did
  251. 11:48make it on the main highway there on
  252. 11:50Highway
  253. 11:5141 and as I uh so I stopped there at the
  254. 11:55Apple house it was open at
  255. 11:5710:00 and I didn't know what what I was
  256. 11:59going to do there I thought well maybe
  257. 12:01maybe I can go in there and they'll let
  258. 12:03me get a little gas and let me come back
  259. 12:05and pay them if I tell them what
  260. 12:06happened and I walked in the door of the
  261. 12:09Apple
  262. 12:10house and there
  263. 12:12sat Barney
  264. 12:15saterfield and he he's a preacher in
  265. 12:18that part of the country and his wife
  266. 12:20she started cutting her hair back when
  267. 12:22nobody cut their hair Barney's wife
  268. 12:24started cutting her her hair and Barney
  269. 12:27couldn't do nothing with her and uh uh
  270. 12:29so she flat didn't like me and uh he
  271. 12:32wasn't very fond of me and he and he
  272. 12:36he's sitting in there in the Apple house
  273. 12:38and when I walked in the door he said my
  274. 12:42God I can't believe
  275. 12:44this I got out of bed for this but he
  276. 12:48said he was in
  277. 12:49bed he was in
  278. 12:51bed and said the Lord spoke to him and
  279. 12:54said Barney get up and go down to the
  280. 12:56Apple
  281. 12:57house my servant is going to come by
  282. 13:01there and you're going to buy him some
  283. 13:05gas Glory praise the
  284. 13:09Lord
  285. 13:12amen so he got up got putting his
  286. 13:14clothes on wife said what are you doing
  287. 13:16I don't know honey all I know is God
  288. 13:18told me to get up and go down to the
  289. 13:20Apple house and uh said that uh uh uh
  290. 13:26man of God
  291. 13:27spoke come come by I and said he said
  292. 13:31well it's almost time for it to close it
  293. 13:34close at 10:00 he said I've been here
  294. 13:35since
  295. 13:369 Lord told me get up I've been here
  296. 13:38since nine: and I thought I may missed
  297. 13:41the Lord go here's almost 10 I know
  298. 13:43another one ain't coming he said have
  299. 13:45you got any gas said no I ain't got no
  300. 13:48gas where have you been I've been up
  301. 13:50McIntosh preaching he said we go get you
  302. 13:52some gas so he filled it up back in
  303. 13:54about $10 if I'm not mistaken I know I
  304. 13:57remember him buying me a Dr Pepper maybe
  305. 14:00this you they made a little sandwich
  306. 14:01maybe a sandwich or pack of potato chips
  307. 14:03or something but I I thought you know
  308. 14:06here I was doing God's service well
  309. 14:09praise the Lord here was a guy in bed
  310. 14:12that didn't even like
  311. 14:14[Applause]
  312. 14:15me if he had known who it was he
  313. 14:18wouldn't have got out of bed and come
  314. 14:20down
  315. 14:21there but you know
  316. 14:24what
  317. 14:26Hallelujah I got a stone
  318. 14:29I got a story of a
  319. 14:31stone I know God will take care I know
  320. 14:35God will even use somebody don't even
  321. 14:37like you to take care of you because God
  322. 14:40knows where you're at and what you're
  323. 14:44doing well praise the
  324. 14:47Lord amen I I got I I got I got several
  325. 14:51the got several of these Tails I'm going
  326. 14:53to have some of y'all tell some I almost
  327. 14:55called some of you but I I wanted to
  328. 14:57come fresh he maybe Lord just just just
  329. 15:00freshen your mind and inspire
  330. 15:03you here we just preaching c meeting
  331. 15:05here I was doing day service and brother
  332. 15:07rig is do a night service how many
  333. 15:08remembers that amen and and brother
  334. 15:11rigan preached
  335. 15:13on God is able to do exceedingly does
  336. 15:16anybody remember that he preached on God
  337. 15:18as able to do exceedingly and abundantly
  338. 15:22above all that you could ask or than y
  339. 15:25do y'all remember him preaching that he
  340. 15:27preached that on a Friday night at Camp
  341. 15:29meting well we we just pulled our motor
  342. 15:32home around and when we bought our our
  343. 15:34motor home uh there was a little old
  344. 15:37Saturn car that come behind it and I
  345. 15:39mean them little old Saturns almost sit
  346. 15:41on the ground they were so they were so
  347. 15:44uh uh
  348. 15:46low and uh
  349. 15:49uh I'm you know it just they just keep
  350. 15:52on running but they was
  351. 15:53rough and it it was during that service
  352. 15:57brother rig was preaching and it was
  353. 15:59challenging folks said you need to
  354. 16:02believe God you need you want God to do
  355. 16:04something for you you need to believe
  356. 16:06God and uh and and my my wife was there
  357. 16:10sitting with
  358. 16:12sister uh uh Emerson and sister rigan
  359. 16:15and and she got out of that seat and she
  360. 16:17come and stood right about
  361. 16:20here and uh she said God give us give us
  362. 16:24give us another give us another vehicle
  363. 16:27that cuz anybody knows saw her condition
  364. 16:29from that wreck I mean if we drove very
  365. 16:31far at all I mean she couldn't hardly
  366. 16:34get in and out of the thing and she
  367. 16:37stood there weeping and praying and that
  368. 16:39was in uh July that was in July and
  369. 16:44somewhere like about a month or two
  370. 16:47later I don't know
  371. 16:48why how how all that were or maybe it
  372. 16:51was in December I don't remember how how
  373. 16:54it worked but uh uh you just have to
  374. 16:57know how my dad was you know my dad if
  375. 17:00my dad thought of something he might do
  376. 17:02it if he didn't think about something
  377. 17:03you know he wasn't going to be
  378. 17:04somebody's going to ask to do anything
  379. 17:06but uh we went we went down to visit him
  380. 17:09and he asked how everything was do and
  381. 17:11and and and we told him and and
  382. 17:15uh he just come up off the blue or
  383. 17:17something he had just asked sure said
  384. 17:18what y'all needing anything and Cher
  385. 17:21began to tell him about the you know how
  386. 17:24hard it was getting in and out of that
  387. 17:25car for her and everything and it was
  388. 17:29just like I I just can't describe it if
  389. 17:31you just know Dad Dad wasn't the type
  390. 17:34person to just say well let's go do
  391. 17:36something that just wasn't his way if
  392. 17:38you're going to get something out of him
  393. 17:39you need to start pleading you know
  394. 17:42weeks before and plead to the end that's
  395. 17:44just how he was but just I tell he said
  396. 17:48well go down and find you
  397. 17:49something and and we walked down there
  398. 17:52of course the best thing to pull by a
  399. 17:53motor home back that time was Saturn
  400. 17:56because way the transmission is you just
  401. 17:58did un plug this you can go on and I'm
  402. 18:00going to tell you what well we walked
  403. 18:02down there in that in that and I went in
  404. 18:04there I I confess I went in there to
  405. 18:07look for a you a nice used Saturn I
  406. 18:12wasn't even going in the new lot I'm I'm
  407. 18:14over here looking at the old
  408. 18:16lot and she's over there looking at the
  409. 18:18new
  410. 18:21lot and she said well if your dad's
  411. 18:23going to buy it it'd be just as easy for
  412. 18:26him to buy a new one as it would be to
  413. 18:28buy a US
  414. 18:30[Applause]
  415. 18:33he said she said and they got a warranty
  416. 18:34on them so she pulled me over there and
  417. 18:37and and and and and we found that one
  418. 18:41and I said and if I'm not mistaken I I
  419. 18:44could be wrong but if I'm not mistaken
  420. 18:46at that time I think was
  421. 18:48$188,000 well brother I'm going to tell
  422. 18:50you what getting $1,800 out of my dad
  423. 18:54almost as an act of
  424. 18:56Congress I mean 18 18 about
  425. 19:00$18,000 and and and and for some reason
  426. 19:04because everybody knows what deal we've
  427. 19:05had with our family come over our
  428. 19:07inheritance and everything they they
  429. 19:09took all that from us but something just
  430. 19:11hit my hit my hit my
  431. 19:14sister and and and she said uh well
  432. 19:18Steve that's what you ought to get you
  433. 19:20know I told her about it yeah well it's
  434. 19:22nice it it'll work and I asked Dad said
  435. 19:25dad you do you want to go see that oh no
  436. 19:28I don't feel feel like going saying that
  437. 19:29and he he just told her said you just
  438. 19:31write out of
  439. 19:35check she just roll out a check that's
  440. 19:38the car sister Juan was driving now she
  441. 19:41just she just roll out a check for
  442. 19:44$18,000 now that may not mean a whole
  443. 19:46lot to
  444. 19:57you
  445. 19:59I'm I come preach somebody
  446. 20:02[Applause]
  447. 20:05today somebody needs to hear
  448. 20:08this hey God's going to work for
  449. 20:11somebody here
  450. 20:14today oh glory to
  451. 20:17God while I'm in the middle of
  452. 20:21this somebody needs a healing right now
  453. 20:23come come get this Sanctuary
  454. 20:27h
  455. 20:30hallu
  456. 20:32God
  457. 20:34hallelu
  458. 20:37hallu
  459. 20:47hu
  460. 20:50Lord
  461. 20:52Lord hallelujah
  462. 20:55God
  463. 20:57lord
  464. 21:01[Applause]
  465. 21:15[Music]
  466. 21:15[Applause]
  467. 21:26Glory you Lord Jesus
  468. 21:29Hallelujah
  469. 21:31Jesus
  470. 21:33Jesus Jesus name
  471. 21:41[Music]
  472. 21:52[Applause]
  473. 21:57Jesus
  474. 21:59[Applause]
  475. 22:02[Music]
  476. 22:15hallu hallelujah hallelujah
  477. 22:19hallu
  478. 22:21Glory can you praise him thank you
  479. 22:24Jesus thank you
  480. 22:27Jesus thank you
  481. 22:30Jesus thank you
  482. 22:33Jesus thank you
  483. 22:36Jesus thank you
  484. 22:39Jesus thank
  485. 22:44[Laughter]
  486. 22:48you brother Andy lay your hand on this
  487. 22:51foot right now God in Jesus
  488. 22:54name
  489. 22:57hey
  490. 23:07Jesus
  491. 23:09name Jesus
  492. 23:11name
  493. 23:13Jesus we believe you father
  494. 23:18Glory
  495. 23:20Glory
  496. 23:23Glory uh you may be seated heard my
  497. 23:27pastor
  498. 23:29my pastor give this testimony and and he
  499. 23:33wasn't want
  500. 23:34to exaggerate or flatter or thing but he
  501. 23:38gave this testimony he said there's a a
  502. 23:43little lady in there in their home
  503. 23:46church
  504. 23:47and I'm thinking she had five children
  505. 23:50she's had four or five I don't exactly
  506. 23:53remember and
  507. 23:56uh uh I I don't know what about her
  508. 23:59husband I don't know whether if her
  509. 24:00husband was dead or had left her anyhow
  510. 24:03there was no man in the picture and
  511. 24:07uh she said they were down sister tripet
  512. 24:10there was no food in the house no food
  513. 24:14nothing there was nothing to make
  514. 24:16nothing with they had done ate all of it
  515. 24:19there was nothing in the
  516. 24:22house and said she down
  517. 24:25praying talking to the Lord about it I'm
  518. 24:28glad you you can tell Jesus about
  519. 24:31it glory to
  520. 24:35God somebody needs this story right now
  521. 24:38you're facing a dilemma in your life you
  522. 24:40need this story right
  523. 24:42now and she said she was praying and
  524. 24:45said the Holy Ghost spoke to her said
  525. 24:48get up and go to the grocery
  526. 24:50store fill your basket
  527. 24:53up and I'll take care of it see she got
  528. 24:57her kids ready May way to grocery store
  529. 25:00got in there got feeling her filling her
  530. 25:02basket up said her kids put stuff in
  531. 25:04there and said when she got to the
  532. 25:07counter she's waiting for somebody to be
  533. 25:08there to pay
  534. 25:10it and it wasn't nobody there she she
  535. 25:13was just there they W they wasn't they
  536. 25:15wasn't anybody there
  537. 25:23and glory to God
  538. 25:27and said she didn't know what to do she
  539. 25:29had a basket full of
  540. 25:31groceries and said she just kind of laid
  541. 25:34her her uh hand on that
  542. 25:38basket when she did she kind of raised
  543. 25:42up
  544. 25:44and somebody that was behind her said
  545. 25:48ma'am ma'am said you must have dropped
  546. 25:51this on the bottom of her shoe was a
  547. 25:53piece of gum and that piece of gum stuck
  548. 25:57to that piece of gum was a $20
  549. 26:02bill there been there's been years
  550. 26:06ago and when they figured up that
  551. 26:09grocery oh I feel
  552. 26:11this when they figured up that grocery
  553. 26:14bill it was $20 on the
  554. 26:18penny I mean there wasn't that there
  555. 26:21wasn't any left over it wasn't La it
  556. 26:26woo Hallelujah
  557. 26:36thank you
  558. 26:38Lord thank you
  559. 26:41Lord he's a way maker thank you
  560. 26:46Lord thank you Lord he's a way
  561. 26:57maker
  562. 26:58that stone is lodged in my and my memory
  563. 27:02is right there I know it know it's
  564. 27:06there I've reached back and got that
  565. 27:09before I never have been I never been in
  566. 27:12that situation where there wasn't
  567. 27:14anything to eat might have been low but
  568. 27:16there wasn't anything to eat but but but
  569. 27:19I know that I know that that if God do
  570. 27:23that for that
  571. 27:25woman then he's no respector of persons
  572. 27:31God do it for
  573. 27:33you
  574. 27:37amen
  575. 27:40hallelujah don't you tell me something
  576. 27:42you prayed
  577. 27:43about and the Lord just done it for you
  578. 27:46you know you know there was no way on
  579. 27:48Earth anybody could have done it but the
  580. 27:49Lord but the Lord done it for
  581. 27:57you
  582. 28:01well I remember one back years
  583. 28:06ago I was going to make a
  584. 28:08trip to
  585. 28:13Virginia and we drove for I think it was
  586. 28:1718 hours no nonstop Just Me and
  587. 28:21Jackie and she called me this
  588. 28:23morning to wish me happy birthday told
  589. 28:27me how she you love
  590. 28:31me anyhow oh we had a Olivia and Olivia
  591. 28:37was nine months
  592. 28:39old and we had that baby and we took
  593. 28:42turns none of neither one of us
  594. 28:46slept she watched the baby while I drive
  595. 28:50drove and we just swap up no
  596. 28:55rest but anyhow we got to a in the a
  597. 28:59mountain town
  598. 29:01Resort and uh I told Jackie I was just
  599. 29:04trembling and Jackie was worse than
  600. 29:06shape than me and I said we're not going
  601. 29:10any further brother Lawhorn was supposed
  602. 29:13to pick me up the next morning I said
  603. 29:17we're going to spend the night
  604. 29:19here and they was having a
  605. 29:24convention in that Resort and they had
  606. 29:28about five motels I think it was there
  607. 29:31and we went to
  608. 29:32three and I couldn't get a room and
  609. 29:36there was a guard uh a security man
  610. 29:38standing there and uh he said ma'am
  611. 29:42where you're going we was going to I
  612. 29:44think it's Lexington if I remember
  613. 29:49Virginia and anyhow wherever brother law
  614. 29:52hor
  615. 29:53said and
  616. 29:55uh he said that I think it's it's 120
  617. 29:59mies and said there's not a station
  618. 30:02through them mountains we was on top of
  619. 30:04the mountain and uh said there's no
  620. 30:07stations and there's no motels in that
  621. 30:10direction he said and the woman got uh
  622. 30:14at that place she got on the telephone
  623. 30:17and she called all the motels for
  624. 30:21me and no nobody had a room but in
  625. 30:24another Direction which not was going to
  626. 30:27be out of our
  627. 30:28way uh they had a motel down there and
  628. 30:32they had a room and so I told Jackie
  629. 30:36well we got to take it
  630. 30:38because we can't go no
  631. 30:40further so I told her I said we going to
  632. 30:43get us something to eat and we're going
  633. 30:46to go get that
  634. 30:47room and so we found a little place to
  635. 30:50get us something to
  636. 30:52eat and I told Jackie I said I'm going
  637. 30:54to take the
  638. 30:56wheel and you watch the
  639. 30:59baby so I got we got in the
  640. 31:03car and we struck
  641. 31:06out and I was we was coming to the
  642. 31:10end of the
  643. 31:13town and all I could see was
  644. 31:16darkness and I knew there was and I
  645. 31:18looked at my gas needle and it was high
  646. 31:22the
  647. 31:23tank and we had 120 miles to go and uh
  648. 31:28and I told
  649. 31:31myself I'll get G in the morning after
  650. 31:34we you know go to the motel but when I
  651. 31:38got to the end of
  652. 31:43it well I couldn't go that last exit
  653. 31:47there was something just just moving
  654. 31:50inside of me and whenever I got to that
  655. 31:53exit I just turned it exit I couldn't
  656. 31:56pass it up
  657. 31:59well I passed up the exit you know to go
  658. 32:02the motel that's what I meant and I was
  659. 32:04going out of the
  660. 32:06mountain and so I told Jackie I said I
  661. 32:10didn't tell her nothing right then I
  662. 32:12just went down made the circle to that
  663. 32:16uh Days end it
  664. 32:20said was it days in no not days in but
  665. 32:23anyhow sleep in so I went down there
  666. 32:28there and I went in there and I told
  667. 32:30that woman she had just come on shift
  668. 32:34and I told it was one o00 by
  669. 32:38then and I told her I said we've got to
  670. 32:41have a room I've got my daughter-in-law
  671. 32:43and a baby and we're completely
  672. 32:46exhausted and I got to have room I'll
  673. 32:49take anything you got it don't matter
  674. 32:51what it is just so we can rest a while
  675. 32:54she said
  676. 32:55I she said uh well I just got on and
  677. 32:59said we don't have a room but she said
  678. 33:03uh she had a piece of paper there and
  679. 33:06she said
  680. 33:08I that I got a reservation here for uh
  681. 33:13James
  682. 33:15Harris that uh and he said she said I
  683. 33:18don't know of anybody that stays in
  684. 33:21church till 1:00 in the morning and she
  685. 33:25said she said I'm G to let you have that
  686. 33:29room and I said lady I said Reverend
  687. 33:33James Harris was my is my deceased
  688. 33:37husband glory and I said God
  689. 33:42knew God knew that was a specific
  690. 33:46because God used brother Harris's
  691. 33:50name and he made them reservations for
  692. 33:53me you couldn't go no fur I said the
  693. 33:57Lord knew that I was going to be here
  694. 34:00and God had reservations for me and I
  695. 34:04tell you what that is special yes sir
  696. 34:08whenever God calls your name he's
  697. 34:10talking to you yes yes and whenever he
  698. 34:13called brother Harris's name I knew he'd
  699. 34:16I knew we' done touch the glory world
  700. 34:19that was special oh hallelujah
  701. 34:22hallelujah praise
  702. 34:23him thank you
  703. 34:26Jesus
  704. 34:29hey hey hey
  705. 34:32hey God thank you glory to God thank you
  706. 34:37Lord thank you
  707. 34:39Lord thank you
  708. 34:44Lord that's
  709. 34:46Stone that's Stone somebody going to
  710. 34:49somebody going to use that said man God
  711. 34:53well if God Did It for sister
  712. 34:56trip
  713. 34:58he'll do it for me can you praise
  714. 35:07Him Glory to
  715. 35:09God glory to God he's a way
  716. 35:16maker he's a way
  717. 35:20maker amen I don't know nothing about
  718. 35:23y'all's business but Oren I want to pray
  719. 35:25for you and Ariel right now
  720. 35:28hey I'm going to pray for y'all right
  721. 35:31now come on
  722. 35:33up glory to
  723. 35:39God
  724. 35:48Amen well you know I ain't talk to them
  725. 35:50CU they they don't talk to nobody praise
  726. 35:52the Lord they not going to get in
  727. 35:54trouble for talking too much that's good
  728. 35:57amen
  729. 35:58but I I I felt like when I was telling
  730. 36:00that testimony about that woman and
  731. 36:04being in such need and and uh the Lord
  732. 36:07moving for her I I felt Faith come alive
  733. 36:11in you it was just like you was saying
  734. 36:15Lord if you've done it for
  735. 36:18her then you'll do this for
  736. 36:21me amen I'm not saying it's the same
  737. 36:24situation it's whatever whatever is
  738. 36:26facing you right now now I felt I felt
  739. 36:29something come alive in you but God I
  740. 36:32believe you'll do it so I don't I don't
  741. 36:36know what y'all facing but I know I know
  742. 36:39God's able to make a way and I believe
  743. 36:42that he
  744. 36:43will
  745. 36:45amen you take
  746. 36:47one one want stretch your hand forth
  747. 36:51this way Saints let's pray God in Jesus
  748. 36:55name sh
  749. 37:19[Laughter]
  750. 37:26shy
  751. 37:32yeah if y'all give all this to the Lord
  752. 37:35if y'all give all this to the Lord so
  753. 37:38Lord there it is there's nothing I can
  754. 37:40do about it amen God will make a way for
  755. 37:44you yeah I see a door opening a great
  756. 37:49door opening amen y'all walking through
  757. 37:52it God blessing
  758. 37:55y'all Shand
  759. 38:03glory to God bless this little home God
  760. 38:08Jesus name Jesus
  761. 38:11name Amen brother and sister right won't
  762. 38:13you come stand behind them glory to God
  763. 38:17God In The Name of
  764. 38:19Jesus name of Jesus we love you
  765. 38:23father God in Jesus
  766. 38:26name
  767. 38:30amen amen God in Jesus name Lord I know
  768. 38:34you're able Jesus
  769. 38:38name Amen brother Kim I want you come as
  770. 38:42his
  771. 38:44amen this boy's great uncle Heen I want
  772. 38:47you guys to
  773. 38:50join
  774. 38:56woo
  775. 39:04[Laughter]
  776. 39:17[Laughter]
  777. 39:22yeah yeah y Holy Ghost come
  778. 39:34Jesus
  779. 39:36[Music]
  780. 39:42name
  781. 39:44Jesus
  782. 39:50[Laughter]
  783. 39:52sh glory to
  784. 39:55God Jesus name
  785. 39:58glory to God lord I praise
  786. 40:02[Music]
  787. 40:03you father I Praise
  788. 40:07You Jesus I praise
  789. 40:10you glory to God I love you Lord can you
  790. 40:15magnify the
  791. 40:17Lord
  792. 40:19amen glory to
  793. 40:22God Ye hey hold just one minute amen
  794. 40:28want you guys to hold this in your
  795. 40:31hand God's going to give y'all
  796. 40:35Stone he going to give y'all
  797. 40:38testimony y'all going to be telling
  798. 40:39folks
  799. 40:41about so we right up against her but the
  800. 40:44Lord on a Sunday
  801. 40:46morning woo came through and gave us a
  802. 40:50miracle Jesus name glory to God
  803. 40:56hallelujah
  804. 40:58woo thank you
  805. 41:04Jesus
  806. 41:06amen glory anybody want a miracle
  807. 41:09testify
  808. 41:13about anybody want
  809. 41:16to that's heavy says watch it Jesus name
  810. 41:20yes
  811. 41:22Lord nothing too hard for
  812. 41:26you
  813. 41:28ooh we want this test to turn in to a
  814. 41:32testimony
  815. 41:34[Music]
  816. 41:36ooh Jesus
  817. 41:39name Jesus
  818. 41:42name glory to God hallelujah hallelujah
  819. 41:48hallelujah
  820. 41:50amen amen
  821. 41:52amen glory to
  822. 41:55God glory to God
  823. 41:58God can you say praise the
  824. 42:02Lord amen the Holy Ghost is
  825. 42:06here amen you may be
  826. 42:08seated it's cotton I'm getting these
  827. 42:12prayer warriors out here these ladies
  828. 42:14felt led to have this they're having
  829. 42:17this 11:00 Tuesday ladies
  830. 42:20permit talking to the Lord bombarding
  831. 42:22Heaven tell us something that the Lord
  832. 42:25done for you sister Cott oh brother
  833. 42:27there so many things you know I was just
  834. 42:29thinking about this morning though that
  835. 42:31when Tracy was a toddler you know we
  836. 42:34totally trusted God I mean totally we I
  837. 42:38mean just totally anyway he had been
  838. 42:41sick for days and days and running a
  839. 42:43high fever and not eaten a bite in seven
  840. 42:46days and I was getting real concerned
  841. 42:48thanel was a little bitty baby and uh I
  842. 42:51just we just prayed Lord if you don't
  843. 42:53come to the rescue we just don't know
  844. 42:55what's going to happen in one day
  845. 42:56brother came home from work and he came
  846. 42:58in with a big old red apple and I
  847. 43:00thought well that's odd and he said Mama
  848. 43:02he said I just feel led to wash this
  849. 43:04apple and cut it up real small he said
  850. 43:08I'm going to feed it to Tracy and I
  851. 43:09thought my as little as he is and gone
  852. 43:12that long without anything to eat you
  853. 43:14wouldn't start out with an apple but
  854. 43:16that's what he felt led to do brother
  855. 43:18Epley so he came in there and nailed
  856. 43:20down beside Tracy's bed well that was
  857. 43:22our bed and Tracy was in it and I kned
  858. 43:24down there with him and we prayed and
  859. 43:26Daddy had that out Apple just cut up in
  860. 43:28a little bitty cubes and he said son he
  861. 43:30said I'm going to give you a bite of
  862. 43:31Apple in Jesus name and Tracy opened his
  863. 43:34mouth and up until then he was refusing
  864. 43:36to eat he gave Tracy a bite and he took
  865. 43:38a bite he gave Tracy a bite they kept on
  866. 43:40till they ate that old Apple and after
  867. 43:42that Tracy just ate and and he was
  868. 43:45healed for whatever it was and I give
  869. 43:47God the praise that was a miracle
  870. 43:50praise praise
  871. 43:54God oh can you love him
  872. 43:59glory to God can you love
  873. 44:02him
  874. 44:04hallelujah
  875. 44:07hallelujah
  876. 44:08[Music]
  877. 44:09hallelujah
  878. 44:10[Music]
  879. 44:11hallelujah glory to
  880. 44:15God
  881. 44:17Amen somebody need a miracle in your
  882. 44:20life you want you want a you on a stone
  883. 44:24testimony
  884. 44:26sh
  885. 44:32Jesus
  886. 44:39Jesus
  887. 44:41amen amen glory to
  888. 44:47God sister Hawkins the Lord like to move
  889. 44:49in you and your sister's
  890. 44:52home thank you Lord he like to work your
  891. 44:55situations out for you Lord sent you
  892. 44:58this today for this service
  893. 45:00today I want you to hold this Stone Lord
  894. 45:03God in Jesus
  895. 45:06name you see all the different Miracles
  896. 45:09she needs in her home God home of her
  897. 45:12sister
  898. 45:14God you're able to God move every
  899. 45:17obstacle God every
  900. 45:19barrier God in Jesus name able to do
  901. 45:23this work Lord on her faith God
  902. 45:33[Music]
  903. 45:54Jesus
  904. 45:55sh
  905. 46:03Lord Jesus Lord Jesus I love
  906. 46:09you
  907. 46:13Lord let's Worship the
  908. 46:25Lord
  909. 46:39in Jesus
  910. 46:44[Music]
  911. 46:55name
  912. 46:59do this do this for sister Brandy and
  913. 47:02her motherinlaw do this
  914. 47:05God o yes
  915. 47:08Lord
  916. 47:12sh Jesus name you're you're able God
  917. 47:17nothing too hard for you o our
  918. 47:21confidence is in
  919. 47:23you Jesus
  920. 47:25name Jes Jesus name Holy
  921. 47:29Ghost Holy
  922. 47:33Ghost anybody else need a need a
  923. 47:37miracle want a
  924. 47:40testimony
  925. 47:41amen God in
  926. 47:44Jesus Jesus name you're able Lord I join
  927. 47:48my faith even today God do this work
  928. 47:52Lord help this test turn into a
  929. 47:55testimony do this work
  930. 48:04Lord do it God in Jesus name do the work
  931. 48:09Lord every bit of it we trust you God
  932. 48:12our confidence is in you a God that
  933. 48:15cannot fail Jesus
  934. 48:18name Jesus
  935. 48:22name oh yes Lord yes Lord hallu God yes
  936. 48:28Lord yes
  937. 48:31Lord yes
  938. 48:34Lord can you raise your hands and love
  939. 48:36him let's wait on the Lord here just a
  940. 48:38moment oh I love you
  941. 48:41Jesus I love you Jesus I love you
  942. 48:46Jesus yes
  943. 48:50Lord oh yes Lord
  944. 48:54hallelujah holy ghost
  945. 48:58M Holy Ghost Holy
  946. 49:01Ghost Jesus
  947. 49:07[Music]
  948. 49:09name I love you Lord I love you Lord we
  949. 49:13used to sang a little old chorus in
  950. 49:15Kentucky went like this I can I will I
  951. 49:21do
  952. 49:23believe I can I will will I do
  953. 49:29believe I can I will I do believe that
  954. 49:37Jesus heals me
  955. 49:40now I can I will I do believe I can I
  956. 49:49will I do believe I can I will I do
  957. 49:58believe that Jes P me
  958. 50:04now I can I will I do
  959. 50:10believe I can I will I do believe I can
  960. 50:19I will I do believe that Jesus hears me
  961. 50:28now oh I can I will I do
  962. 50:35believe I can I will I do
  963. 50:41believe I can I will I do
  964. 50:48believe that Jesus hears me
  965. 50:53now oh I can I will I do
  966. 51:00believe I can I will I do
  967. 51:07believe I can I will I do
  968. 51:13believe that Jesus hears me
  969. 51:18now oh I can I will I do believe I can I
  970. 51:28will I
  971. 51:31do I can I will I do believe that
  972. 51:40Jesus
  973. 51:41me oh I can I will
  974. 51:47[Music]
  975. 51:50I will I
  976. 51:53do oh I can will I
  977. 51:59do that
  978. 52:02[Music]
  979. 52:04Jes
  980. 52:05[Music]
  981. 52:07oh listen
  982. 52:09[Music]
  983. 52:10listen when you and I think of the word
  984. 52:13saved we think of the Salvation of our
  985. 52:16soul Redemption that's in his blood but
  986. 52:19everywhere in the Old Testament the word
  987. 52:21save is used it's never used in that
  988. 52:24connotation that's a new testament con
  989. 52:54[Music]
  990. 53:00[Music]
  991. 53:26I do believe that
  992. 53:30J me
  993. 53:35now
  994. 53:40will
  995. 53:42[Music]
  996. 53:46will
  997. 53:48[Music]
  998. 53:52will me
  999. 53:55now
  1000. 53:57I will
  1001. 54:00I I I will
  1002. 54:05[Music]
  1003. 54:07I
  1004. 54:08[Music]
  1005. 54:18will
  1006. 54:20[Music]
  1007. 54:25will
  1008. 54:27[Music]
  1009. 54:31I

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