Summer Camp Meeting

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Program transcript

Participants:

Series Code: SCM

00:01 The hour is urgent as darkness is dispelled by the light of
00:07 God's Word.
00:08 A new day begins.
00:10 Jesus, the light of the world is shining.
00:13 Prepare your hearts to proclaim the final cry.
00:17 This is 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting.
00:24 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting 2025.
00:31 What a joy to be here.
00:32 Have you guys been blessed?
00:34 Amen.
00:35 The speakers, the singers, what a blessing this has been.
00:40 The Spirit of God is truly here.
00:43 So today I have the privilege of introducing a wonderful man
00:47 of God.
00:48 When I told him that he was introducing him, he said, I am
00:50 a man of God.
00:52 Just say I'm a husband and a father of two.
00:54 And I'm like, I have to say a little bit more than that.
00:59 So I want to only add that a couple of years ago, I had the
01:05 privilege of finding Pastor Goya on YouTube and his
01:11 teachings on prayer revolutionized my prayer life.
01:15 It has changed my prayer life forever.
01:19 So what a blessing it is for me to introduce him to you today.
01:24 You are going to truly be blessed.
01:27 After the lovely music ministry of Celestine Dickens, the next
01:31 voice you'll hear is that of Dr. Pavel Goya.
01:36 You will be blessed.
01:52 Come to my knees and pray.
02:00 Come, Jesus, come.
02:06 Let today be the day.
02:11 Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna break.
02:21 But I'm holding on to a hope that won't fade.
02:32 Come, Jesus, come.
02:37 We've been waiting so long.
02:41 For the day you return to heal every hurt and right every
02:50 wrong.
02:53 We need you right now.
02:58 Come and turn this around.
03:03 Deep down I know this world isn't home.
03:09 Come, Jesus, come.
03:15 There'll be no war and there'll be no shame when Jesus comes.
03:29 Let today be the day.
03:35 He'll come for the weak and the strong just the same.
03:46 And all will believe in the power of His name.
03:56 Come, Jesus, come.
04:02 We've been waiting so long.
04:07 For the day you return to heal every hurt and right every
04:14 wrong.
04:16 We need you right now.
04:23 Come and turn this around.
04:29 Deep down I know this world isn't home.
04:34 Come, Jesus, come.
04:38 Come, Jesus, come.
04:45 One day He'll come.
04:50 And worse than face to face.
04:55 Come on all, lay it all down.
04:59 Cause it might be today.
05:06 The time is right now.
05:11 There's no need to wait.
05:16 Your past will be washed to a river by grace.
05:27 Come, Jesus, come.
05:32 We've been waiting so long.
05:37 For the day you return to heal every hurt and right every
05:44 wrong.
05:47 We need you right now.
05:53 Come and turn this around.
05:59 Deep down I know this world isn't home.
06:04 Come, Jesus, come.
06:07 Come, Jesus, come.
06:14 Come, Jesus, come.
06:30 Are
06:36 you ready to study?
06:39 Hallelujah!
06:43 Jesus is coming soon.
06:46 So let me ask you a question before we pray and start.
06:51 Are you transformed?
06:56 Because we have listened a million sermons.
06:59 And we go home after another one.
07:02 And what is the change?
07:03 Because if there is no change, why listen to another sermon?
07:07 What's the point?
07:08 Just because you like it?
07:09 It's fun.
07:14 Because if we are not doers, we lose our time.
07:18 We fool ourselves.
07:19 Hey, what Christians, you know, we go to church, we sing
07:22 Kumbaya, we lose our time.
07:25 Jesus is coming and we must be ready.
07:30 Because our eternity is at stake.
07:34 Let's pray together.
07:36 Father in heaven, how can we?
07:41 How can we prepare?
07:43 How can we grow?
07:45 How can we really change our heart?
07:50 We can change our external behavior at times, but only you
07:54 can change our nature.
07:57 How can we prepare, Lord?
08:00 It's only you that can do that.
08:02 We ask for your Holy Spirit right now in Jesus' name.
08:06 Amen.
08:08 I'm torn between two subjects that I believe, well, there are
08:12 eight in the series, but two of them I believe that are
08:15 absolutely, absolutely essential.
08:19 One of them that I believe is the foundation is that if I had
08:22 another one hour, you know, another seven actually, but
08:25 anyway, one of them is the foundation of everything in the
08:29 spiritual life.
08:30 Literally, you don't get that one.
08:32 You don't get anything.
08:33 Literally, because we talk about to know God.
08:37 What is eternal life?
08:40 To know God, to know God.
08:43 We talk about that, but we really have no clue what that
08:45 means.
08:46 I myself either.
08:48 No understanding.
08:50 The spirit of prophecy says that if we could see God for a
08:52 second, we'd be ashamed of ourselves.
08:56 We would never doubt him again.
08:58 Angels wonder, how can we doubt God?
09:02 In eternity, we'll never understand a drop of his love.
09:05 It will be the science of eternity.
09:09 And we talk about knowing God.
09:10 The disciples spent three years and a half with him, day and
09:14 night walking with him, eating with him, sleeping at the same
09:16 spot, watching him day and night, three years and a half,
09:19 and they still didn't know him.
09:20 And they had no clue.
09:22 Basically, Jesus told them a million times, I will die.
09:25 And when he died, they were like, Whoa, we didn't expect
09:27 that.
09:28 We never heard that.
09:31 People have filters.
09:32 They hear what they want to hear.
09:33 Like in politics, they understand what they want to
09:35 answer.
09:40 And we think we hear the gospel, go home and practice.
09:43 We hear what we think we hear, not what actually God is trying
09:46 to tell us.
09:48 And then we think we are OK and we don't even know how we are.
09:51 We are blind and we don't know that we are blind.
09:55 And it is something to be outside the church and not
09:57 know.
10:01 know and not practice and not experience it.
10:07 How do you experience lasting transformation?
10:12 Real transformation, real preparation, real growth.
10:16 How do you grow the individual?
10:17 How do you grow the family?
10:19 How do you grow the church?
10:21 And we work through this and that.
10:24 If you do this and if you do that, we plan revival.
10:27 Nothing wrong with that.
10:28 But revival you cannot plan.
10:31 It's the Holy Spirit who does revival.
10:34 If you do step one, two, three, four, let's right now we meet
10:38 for four hours and have more meeting to plan revival.
10:44 Never in the history a revival happened without serious
10:48 prayer.
10:49 When people get together and pray, revival happens.
10:53 But yet, how many people do you see in the prayer room?
10:57 You understand what I am talking about?
10:59 Because you are a little quiet right now.
11:03 So how do you experience lasting change?
11:05 One subject has to do with to know God.
11:08 Because if we really understood a drop, a drop of how God is,
11:13 it would change everything.
11:14 It would give us absolute peace, absolute joy, absolute
11:17 assurance.
11:18 We would pray with a different perspective in mind.
11:21 We would go joyfully in His presence if we knew God.
11:24 We would not go with doubt and leaving prayer without even
11:28 knowing if He answered unsecured.
11:30 To know God, it would give us joy and power in the preaching
11:34 of the Gospel.
11:36 How can you tell them to experience it if you have not
11:39 experienced it?
11:40 Jesus says you are my witnesses.
11:43 I've never in my life seen a witness in the court of law
11:47 that would say, Jimmy told John, John told Mary, Mary told
11:50 me, and I am a witness.
11:53 To be a witness, you need to have witnessed.
11:57 That's the reason John says what we have seen, that's what
12:01 we tell.
12:02 You need to see it and experience it in order to tell
12:05 it.
12:06 You understand?
12:09 You cannot witness successfully before you experience it.
12:15 I remember we were in College Day 30 years ago when we came
12:17 to this country.
12:18 We were in Southern Adventist University and in Romania we
12:22 used to, and I am not going to go into that story, we used to
12:24 have a business, in fact several businesses, and then we
12:28 gave up the business to be in ministry because the church
12:30 called us.
12:31 And then we came to this country to go to school and
12:36 when we were in school we dropped income-wise from
12:40 business to pastor, from pastor to student.
12:42 You understand what I say?
12:45 And when you are used to be here it's a little challenging
12:47 to be here.
12:48 And so when we came we had no English.
12:51 I mean yes, I did speak but more with my hands than my
12:54 mouth.
12:56 hands.
13:00 No English, no insurance, I mean a little English, a few
13:03 words.
13:03 No insurance, no work permit.
13:06 You understand, you get the picture.
13:08 My wife worked three jobs a day.
13:11 In the morning she would clean for an old lady, in the
13:15 afternoon for an old man, and then in the night she would
13:20 clean a house for somebody else.
13:22 She worked three jobs.
13:23 I took three years and a half in one and had two jobs.
13:28 It sounds easy but I tell you it's not easy, it's killing.
13:32 And during the night I would learn on my physically,
13:37 literally on my knees.
13:40 Read one word and then go to the dictionary to see what that
13:43 means in English.
13:44 And then pray, Lord give me wisdom to learn this crazy
13:47 language.
13:49 No offense, it is.
13:51 You write in a way and read in a different way and then some
13:54 words you write the same and read differently.
13:57 It's nonsense, sorry.
14:00 And people in Southern, when they talk, they swallow half of
14:04 the words.
14:05 It's like, whoa, what are they saying?
14:08 And so I, Lord you need to help me to get English, you know.
14:12 Praying and having no food.
14:14 And you know my wife can go three weeks without food.
14:17 I can go four hours, that's it.
14:21 It was not easy.
14:23 And then you pray and God doesn't answer.
14:26 Did it ever happen to you?
14:29 God doesn't seem to answer and we know.
14:32 She says to every honest prayer an answer will come.
14:40 Where is the answer?
14:41 I mean Abraham, 25 years for an answer?
14:46 How many of you can wait or are happy to wait 25 years to get
14:49 an answer to prayer?
14:54 And so we prayed and God knows what we need and when we need
14:58 it.
15:01 purpose of the plan that he has for us, we would choose the
15:03 same path.
15:05 You understand?
15:06 If we knew the big picture, if we see the heavenly picture,
15:09 not the day to day picture.
15:12 You understand?
15:13 And so we prayed and nothing happened.
15:16 And in all that picture, if you think about it, it was
15:21 challenging to survive from day to day.
15:25 And that's how we do.
15:26 We see today.
15:28 We don't see the eternal picture and we think that
15:32 doesn't care.
15:33 But did it ever happen to you?
15:35 You look back 10 years ago and you say, actually that trial,
15:39 it was for my benefit.
15:41 Because looking back, all that hot temper, short fuse, anger,
15:48 pride, ambition, stubbornness, all that started to diminish
15:53 through that experience.
15:54 You understand?
15:58 business, to I am nobody.
16:00 I cannot even talk.
16:03 And by the way, some people, when you don't understand, they
16:06 come close to your mouth and they scream, hoping that if
16:08 they talk loud, you understand better English, you know.
16:12 That's offensive.
16:14 But anyway, and so in all that picture, we had to learn to
16:21 humble ourselves.
16:22 We had no choice because before God can use you, he has to
16:25 break you.
16:26 As long as you are somebody, God is nobody.
16:29 And you need to become nobody and to the degree that you die
16:32 to self, to that very specific degree, God can lead your life.
16:36 He will never be able to work in your life, to grow you, to
16:40 develop you, to prepare you and to use you before you die to
16:42 self.
16:46 control.
16:47 By the way, this is not yet the subject, unfortunately.
16:50 There is nothing God can do for you and for me.
16:54 And it's easy to keep sabbath.
16:56 Lazy people enjoy keeping every day.
17:00 But it's extremely difficult to die to self and to die to
17:06 control.
17:07 We like to control ourselves and control everybody around
17:10 us.
17:12 And God wants us to die.
17:15 And Paul says, I've been crucified, I no longer live.
17:18 And then in a different verse he says, I actually die daily.
17:23 And God wants us to die.
17:26 And unless a grain would die, it will never produce fruit.
17:29 So if you wonder why no fruit, this is it.
17:32 Because there is no death.
17:35 The reason you argue with people, your spouse or in the
17:37 church or at work, is because you are alive.
17:39 Dead people don't argue.
17:44 When you argue, you need to remember it's you that are not
17:48 dead yet.
17:49 Even if you are right, nobody is right except God.
17:55 Even if you are right, the fact that you argue or you are upset
17:58 or you are offended, it means that you are alive.
18:00 Dead people don't get offended.
18:04 And so that means that you need to die.
18:07 And that God is trying desperately to kill you in
18:09 order to give you a new birth and a new heart.
18:12 God will never fix a broken heart.
18:14 He just replaces it.
18:18 And so that's the reason we don't experience power and
18:21 transformation and have no power to help others experience
18:23 God.
18:24 Because we hate death.
18:27 You understand?
18:30 He doesn't say with his blessings what we say in our
18:33 prayers.
18:37 Let me be one with your death.
18:39 So then I may be one with your resurrection and your life.
18:42 Because that's the way.
18:45 Unless you desire to be one with his suffering and his
18:48 death, you will never experience heaven.
18:52 So when you say, Lord, help me to grow in faith, you say,
18:54 Lord, send me some suffering to develop my character and my
18:58 humbleness and my patience and my trust and my...
19:00 You follow me?
19:01 And then when God sends you the trials, you say, Lord, will you
19:04 please remove the trials?
19:06 Nonsense.
19:08 And so then if you really want to be in heaven and to prepare,
19:14 that's where it starts.
19:17 So now go into the subject.
19:18 I'm torn between talking about this and talking about how
19:21 revival happens.
19:23 Now, talking about revival, I gave you the introduction for
19:27 the first one.
19:29 Talking about revival, you need to remember, Jesus, please
19:34 watch carefully.
19:36 What is the Great Commission?
19:39 Uh-huh.
19:40 Go and preach.
19:40 Am I right?
19:41 From Jerusalem to Judea to the whole world.
19:44 Jesus clearly in the Great Commission, before he told them
19:47 to go, he clearly, strongly told them to wait, to tear a
19:53 little longer in the city.
19:55 He said, do not go, but wait a little longer.
19:58 And I could give you the Bible verses and the quotations from
20:00 the Book of Acts of the Apostles starting at page 32
20:03 all to page 50 in the mid-50s, 54-55.
20:06 If you read carefully, Ellen White says, and please hear
20:09 what I say.
20:11 She says, in obedience, quote, in obedience to Christ's
20:15 command, it was not a suggestion.
20:17 It was a command.
20:19 In obedience, she says, to Christ's command, they did not
20:22 go, but remain in the city and prayed and waited and prayed
20:25 and waited for the opening of the Holy Spirit.
20:27 And she says, they knew, they knew that they could never do
20:31 the work in their own power.
20:33 And they humble themselves, expressing their total
20:37 dependence on God, and they pleaded for the quote, promised
20:41 blessing, the comforter.
20:44 They knew that in their power, they may make plans, they may
20:47 do evangelist Bible studies, yet they will never reach the
20:50 goal.
20:53 every second than people we baptize every second?
20:57 We get farther and farther away from the goal.
21:01 Unless the Holy Spirit works, because this work is not going
21:04 to be closed by mind, by power, by planning.
21:07 We do need to plan.
21:09 Don't get me wrong.
21:10 But we need the outpouring of the latter rain.
21:14 We need, it is by my spirit, says the Lord.
21:18 The work could not have started without the early rain, and the
21:22 work cannot close without the latter rain.
21:25 And therefore our greatest need is revival, and revival happens
21:28 when people pray.
21:32 And the Bible is very clear.
21:34 If my people who are called by my name would humble
21:39 themselves, please remember,
21:45 pray, sing my face, and turn.
21:50 What means to turn around?
21:53 Repent!
21:54 It's not repaint, it's repent.
22:00 You know, it says, the guy, probably I should not tell it,
22:04 wanted to save money, so he diluted the paint with water.
22:07 When the rain came, it washed the paint, and the pastor says
22:10 to the painter, Repaint and sing no more.
22:17 Repent!
22:26 relationship with me, to know me, like Moses, Lord I want to
22:30 know, I want to see you, please show me, tell me who you are,
22:33 like David, show me your face.
22:37 You understand?
22:38 If they know me, if they seek my face, start seeking
22:44 blessings, seek relationship.
22:48 We got to the point that what God intended to be blessings,
22:50 have become curses, because we worship blessings, instead of
22:53 worshiping the blesser.
22:56 Seek my face, make it a priority, and repent.
23:01 If people do that, he says, I will answer their prayers, I
23:04 will heal the land.
23:07 He says that the eyes of the Lord, they go to the earth,
23:13 looking for somebody fully committed, and God can use one
23:18 to save a nation.
23:20 That means that he cannot find one fully committed who would
23:23 humble Moses.
23:25 Moses was a human being, he was not Superman eating super food,
23:29 using super glue, and driving super car.
23:31 Moses was a normal human being, attacked by Satan like you and
23:35 me.
23:37 But because he fully died to self, and by the way, he
23:40 refused to do that in the beginning, he wanted to use his
23:43 own way, and God had to humble him forty years, it took God
23:47 forty years to make Moses nothing so God could be
23:50 something.
23:54 And every single one in the Bible, Joseph, prison, Daniel,
23:59 slave in Babylon, in order to be used, they had to be made
24:02 nothing so God could be something in them and through
24:04 them.
24:05 If my people humble, now think about the disciples, Illinois
24:08 says, they, listen carefully, humble themselves,
24:16 acknowledging their total dependence.
24:18 They knew that they can never finish the work, and she says,
24:21 when they humble themselves and pray and receive the Holy
24:23 Spirit, she says, they did in a short time quote what they
24:26 could not have done in a life.
24:30 And she says, through the power of the Holy Spirit, quote, they
24:32 turn the world, listen, this is a quote, upside down.
24:37 God can do things above human expectation or planning, way
24:41 above and beyond anything that we can plan in our committees.
24:45 Don't get me wrong again, we should, Illinois says, plan,
24:49 pray and work.
24:51 The problem is that sometimes we just plan or we just pray or
24:55 we just work.
24:55 We never put them together.
24:59 And she says, people who only pray and never work, they will
25:02 soon start to pray or pray to become routine.
25:04 People who always just pray, they pray, pray for six months
25:08 and nothing happens.
25:09 And I ask them, did you do something about it?
25:12 If God, if you want God to bless your work, you do need to
25:15 work.
25:16 Otherwise, there is nothing to bless.
25:18 God bless my garden, but by the way, I don't have a garden.
25:24 Also, the Spirit probably says, work according to your prayers.
25:32 By the way, I remember specifically, I was in Spain
25:39 preaching way back, 2004, way back.
25:44 Then, that's 2004.
25:46 Then in 2017, that's 13 years later, I'm in Czech Republic
25:52 talking to the division.
25:54 And the man from the division comes and says, Pastor, I'm
25:57 going to put you on the spot.
25:59 I said, nothing new.
26:02 What have I done?
26:03 He says, well, nothing bad.
26:05 He says, you know what happened in Italy, in Bergamo?
26:09 I said, I've never been in Bergamo.
26:10 I don't even know where it is.
26:12 Well, it's next to Milan.
26:13 I said, okay, what happened?
26:15 I thought he would tell me earthquake or something.
26:17 He says, no, no, no, there is revival.
26:20 He says, Italy is very, very, very, very secular.
26:24 And Italians are Catholics, but they don't go to church, except
26:26 tourists and old people, you know, they don't go to church.
26:30 And he says, a lady went in 2004 to Madrid, Spain, and she
26:36 listened to your sermons.
26:37 And that's what he told me.
26:38 I did not check it too much.
26:40 That's I tell you what he told me.
26:42 He says, she went to the prayer seminar that you gave in Spain,
26:46 and then she practiced what she heard.
26:50 Oh, that's a beautiful thing.
26:52 Otherwise, I could stay home with my wife.
26:54 I like her way more than I like you.
26:59 In the prayer and the hope that people do what they hear, we
27:03 preach.
27:04 Am I right?
27:06 And so, the men from the division said, she practiced
27:10 what she heard.
27:11 She recorded everything on a cell phone, and then she wrote
27:14 it in a small booklet, and then she gave it to another five,
27:16 six ladies from the church that were friends.
27:18 And she says, I want you to read this two, three times.
27:21 And then I want us to meet together, because our church
27:24 has just about 40 people.
27:26 Our church has nothing going on.
27:28 We are dying.
27:29 I want us to experience revival.
27:32 And she said, can we meet in the mornings and pray?
27:37 Can we meet in the mornings and pray?
27:40 And they listened, they read, and then they met.
27:44 Every morning at 6.30.
27:46 And after a few weeks, months, I don't know, I get a phone
27:49 call, and I get like a million phone calls a day.
27:53 Not a million, but you know.
27:55 And some people don't know how to tell you short what they
27:58 want to say, so they talk one hour to say nothing, you know,
28:00 and just after one hour you wonder exactly where do they
28:03 go.
28:06 for me.
28:09 because I, you know, I have things to do.
28:13 And so she talks, and she talks.
28:15 I said, can you please tell me what is the subject?
28:18 She said, well, we have been praying for so long and nothing
28:20 happened.
28:20 God didn't answer.
28:21 I said, yep, me too.
28:22 I've been going to school for three weeks, and they didn't
28:25 give me a degree, you know.
28:27 Nothing happened.
28:28 She said, well, how long do you want us to pray?
28:30 I said, sister, prayer is not an event, it's a lifestyle.
28:36 You don't pray for a month.
28:38 It's like prayer is the breath of the soul.
28:39 You don't breathe for one month and expect it's sufficient.
28:43 If you want to stay spiritually alive, you need to keep
28:46 praying.
28:47 And you need to get it.
28:48 Prayer is a way of life.
28:51 You should always pray, not for miracles, not for answers, not
28:55 for results, but because you need God.
28:58 You need to stay connected.
29:01 So don't look for anything.
29:02 Look for God.
29:04 Seek my faith.
29:06 And I said, if you really want to grow, spend time with him.
29:12 I just read in the morning, the more time you spend in his
29:16 presence, in prayer and study and meditation of the world,
29:19 the more time you spend, the more you are transformed
29:22 without you knowing.
29:25 And I said, you should pray for the sake of Jesus.
29:29 Number one.
29:36 God wants to answer your prayer, but he needs to prepare
29:40 you, prepare the community, so when he gives you a baby, the
29:45 baby doesn't die.
29:48 You need to be ready for the baby.
29:50 So the reason God doesn't answer, it means that either
29:52 you or the community or both are not ready.
29:55 So you need to keep praying because if God, if Noah prayed
29:59 one prayer in his life and God told him to build an ark, Noah
30:02 thought that he ate too much pizza.
30:05 Noah had to be a man of prayer, so when God told him to build
30:09 an ark, he didn't comment.
30:11 He did it.
30:13 Abraham had to be a man of prayer when God said, move from
30:16 your country or sacrifice your son.
30:18 He did it.
30:19 You need to know God's voice and to know God enough to trust
30:22 God to do what he says because God never talks small.
30:26 We plan small.
30:28 God plans big.
30:30 God told Gideon, go to war and he said, we have 32,000 people
30:35 and God says, too many, you have too many, you need just
30:38 300 people.
30:40 If God told Gideon that or told you, you go to war with 300
30:44 people, and then God says, by the way, you don't need
30:47 weapons, you need a light and a trumpet.
30:49 I've never heard anybody fighting with a light, you
30:52 know?
30:55 That's suicide mission.
30:56 It's mission impossible.
31:00 You need to be a man of prayer, a woman of prayer in order to
31:04 trust God enough when he gives you the plan, you do it.
31:07 And so I told the lady, pray until you are ready and then
31:13 pray until God gives you the plan and then follow the plan
31:16 and keep praying so God would go with you through the
31:19 accomplishments.
31:21 You understand?
31:22 So I said, keep praying because Satan wants you to stop.
31:27 If you really want to grow, keep praying and then keep
31:32 working.
31:35 So they say, ah, I said, hallelujah.
31:39 When people say, ah, click, you know, good.
31:44 And then the lady didn't call me back but then in 2017 the
31:47 man says, they got together at 6.30.
31:51 A few old ladies they started to pray.
31:53 And they prayed and they prayed and they prayed and they prayed
31:56 and they prayed and they prayed and they said, Lord, we are not
31:59 going to let you go before you transform us and you prepare us
32:02 and you use us and we ask for the Holy Spirit and we ask you
32:05 to grow our church and we ask you to help us reach the
32:07 community because there are many people there and you told
32:10 us to reach the community but you told us to wait and pray
32:14 until we receive the Holy Spirit and then go and preach.
32:18 So Lord, we are not going to stop.
32:20 And God loves those prayers.
32:23 I'm not going to let you go before you bless me.
32:25 God loves that.
32:27 And so they prayed and they prayed and they prayed about 6,
32:30 7, 8 months later, I don't know precisely how much, somebody
32:33 knocks in the door at 6.30 a.m.
32:35 They opened the door, they were praying and the guy says, guys,
32:38 what's wrong with you?
32:40 I am the neighbor across the street we have no parking on
32:42 this street and it used to be that you come one day a week
32:45 for two hours Saturday morning and that's when the street is
32:49 all parked.
32:50 Otherwise every day we have parking on the street.
32:53 Right now you come every day.
32:55 When I work night shift, I come in the morning, I have no
32:58 parking because you guys you take the parking in front of my
33:00 house.
33:01 Why are you here every day?
33:03 You should come one hour a week.
33:07 And they say, we come together to pray.
33:10 What?
33:11 What do you pray for?
33:12 For the community.
33:13 I never heard of a church to pray for the community.
33:16 Isn't that sad?
33:19 My house shall be a house of prayer.
33:21 So he says, well, my wife has terminal cancer.
33:25 The doctor gave her three months.
33:26 Would you consider praying for my wife?
33:30 I said, sure.
33:31 So they started to pray for his wife.
33:34 A week later he comes with his wife hand in hand and says, we
33:36 want to be baptized.
33:38 And they say, but we don't worship Sunday.
33:40 He says, I don't care when you worship.
33:42 Whenever you worship, I worship.
33:43 But we don't eat pork.
33:45 I eat whatever you eat.
33:46 I don't care those things.
33:48 When people want Jesus, they don't care those things.
33:52 Instead of trying to convince them to care about those
33:54 things, first you need to help them see Jesus.
33:56 See the cross.
33:57 But anyway, he says, I don't care those things.
34:00 I want what you have.
34:02 They said, why?
34:03 He says, well, we went to the doctor yesterday and my wife is
34:06 cancer free.
34:07 You are the single church to pray, to care.
34:09 You are the single church where God is real, present and
34:12 working.
34:14 That's what prayer did to that group.
34:18 Do you follow me?
34:20 And he says, I want to join.
34:21 When people see God real and the church that is spiritually
34:25 profound and works with God, people want that.
34:33 So they gave them Bible studies, baptized them, but he
34:35 talks to the neighbor and he says, they pray for my wife,
34:38 she is cancer free.
34:39 The neighbor comes, my kids are in prison.
34:40 Would you pray for my kids?
34:41 And then the word of mouth.
34:42 No money spent on advertising.
34:44 The word of mouth.
34:46 Two, three months later, every morning in front of the church
34:50 at 630, there was a line of people waiting to be prayed
34:53 for.
34:54 Isn't that beautiful?
34:57 Isn't that beautiful, the church, to be, to have a line
35:00 of people waiting to be prayed for?
35:04 And then more and more people baptized.
35:06 Long story short, the church grew to about 250.
35:11 And then they planted another church and they started to do
35:13 Bible expo, they call it, and Bible studies and seminars on
35:17 health and seminars on this and seminars on that and
35:19 evangelism, the church exploded.
35:22 Because a group of ladies, if my people who are called by my
35:26 name, imagine if every church did that.
35:30 Can you imagine how our church would look like?
35:34 And so the disciples obeying Jesus' command, they understood
35:38 that Great Commission doesn't start with go, but it starts to
35:42 wait in the city and pray.
35:45 What to pray for?
35:46 For the promise comforter.
35:49 For the promise comforter.
35:51 It would be ridiculous to believe that a group of people
35:54 could reach the whole Jerusalem, moreover the whole
35:57 Israel, moreover the whole Asia or Europe or the whole world.
36:01 Can you even reach New York, one city?
36:04 Moreover, to reach the whole America, every city, every
36:07 street, every family, every household, every business.
36:09 Moreover, can you reach the whole Germany or the whole
36:11 Japan or the whole France or the whole Africa or the whole
36:15 Australia?
36:15 Can we?
36:18 We cannot, but we can through the Holy Spirit to put it that
36:22 way, okay?
36:23 And so they understood that they could never, ever, ever do
36:26 that.
36:29 He can do it in a short time through means that we don't
36:31 even know what we cannot do ever.
36:34 So they prayed and the Spirit of Christ says they humble
36:38 themselves, acknowledging their total, total, absolute
36:41 dependence on God.
36:42 Lord, we cannot do it.
36:44 We pray for the Holy Spirit.
36:47 What if the church would do that?
36:49 Number one, they humble themselves, acknowledging their
36:51 total dependence.
36:52 Number one, they did what?
36:55 They did what?
36:56 Humble themselves, acknowledging their total
36:59 dependence.
37:00 Number two, I want you to remember these steps.
37:03 Number two, they prayed together.
37:06 Jesus says, whenever two or three doesn't say 230, Pastor,
37:10 our church has only 40 people.
37:12 That's good enough for Jesus.
37:15 He says two or three.
37:18 Do you have three people in the church?
37:20 Then you can experience power.
37:23 Whenever two or three get together, he says, I am God.
37:29 Honors the little group with his very presence.
37:34 Grasp that.
37:36 And then he says more than that, not only that I am with
37:39 them, but he says for whenever two or three pray in one
37:43 accord, by the way, that doesn't mean to be in a Honda
37:45 accord.
37:48 request, unity of purpose.
37:51 Ellen White says, quote, the disciples didn't merely pray
37:55 asking for a blessing for themselves.
37:57 They had needs, but they did not pray for their needs.
38:03 Oh, let's pray for one another.
38:05 Those are real needs, but they didn't do that.
38:08 They were willing to sacrifice self, to forget self, to forget
38:12 their needs, forget their cancer, forget their
38:14 foreclosure, forget their no job, forget it, and they did
38:17 not even ask a blessing or help for themselves.
38:21 She says they all united in unity for one purpose, praying
38:25 for the Holy Spirit.
38:28 God loves that.
38:30 When we unite and we, and by the way, we don't have time
38:34 right now, but in the prayer seminar, I show from Bible and
38:36 spiritual prophecy that you can pray private prayer.
38:39 The Bible says, go into your room, close the door.
38:42 And Ellen White says, that's where you open the heart and
38:44 talk to God about anything.
38:47 But then she says, the Bible says, whenever two or three,
38:50 and Ellen White says, small group.
38:51 And she says, that's important.
38:53 It's the life of the church.
38:54 It has been shown to me by the one who cannot hear, that the
38:57 formation of small companies.
38:58 Do you remember the paragraph?
38:59 Small groups.
39:00 And she talks about small groups.
39:01 And she says, that's when you encourage one another, support
39:05 one another emotionally, cry together.
39:07 But then she says, when they pray in the church, they get
39:10 together groups from the church.
39:13 Then she says they should pray for the vision, for the Holy
39:15 Spirit, for the growth of the church, for the community.
39:18 You follow me?
39:20 Because sometimes you meet in the church at 11 o'clock, they
39:24 start, and I have this problem, and I have that, and there is
39:27 nothing wrong with that, but imagine if you had a 2000
39:30 people church, and everybody wants to share what to pray
39:33 for.
39:34 When do you preach, you know?
39:37 The church is the place where you pray for the church, for
39:40 the vision, for the growth, for the Holy Spirit.
39:42 Small groups.
39:43 You follow me?
39:44 But going back, the disciples met together, and they prayed
39:48 in unity of purpose, for one request, and only one purpose.
39:54 One.
39:57 the promise blessing, that's what she says.
39:59 The promise blessing.
40:00 They say, Lord, you promised the Holy Spirit, you said you
40:03 will not leave us.
40:04 How?
40:09 Exactly.
40:10 You promised we are waiting for the promise.
40:12 Fulfill your promise.
40:14 We are not orphans.
40:16 When you left, you promised that you are going to send us
40:18 the comforter.
40:19 Please do what you said.
40:20 You said that if you who are evil give your children bread,
40:23 how much more your father in heaven will give the Holy
40:25 Spirit to those who?
40:26 Ask.
40:28 So ask.
40:31 And then she says, well, you pray 10 prayers, expecting
40:35 nothing.
40:36 God is offended.
40:37 She says, expect an answer in faith based not on what you
40:41 understand, but based on God's word, because God doesn't lie.
40:46 Have faith.
40:47 Crazy faith.
40:49 And she says, faith is not an emotion.
40:53 Emotions have to do with our chemistry and moods.
40:55 God doesn't depend on your feelings.
40:58 I don't feel that God forgave me.
41:00 Hello?
41:02 You don't feel forgiveness.
41:04 I feel forgiveness here.
41:06 It's tickling.
41:08 You don't feel forgiveness.
41:12 You don't feel, you know, God's grace.
41:20 You believe it is by faith.
41:23 You take God's word.
41:25 God promised.
41:26 He doesn't lie.
41:28 Not based on me, not based on my logic impossible, based on
41:32 his power, his grace, his promise.
41:34 Period.
41:35 I don't need to understand.
41:37 I need to trust his word.
41:39 It's a mind decision.
41:43 Just as simple as you hear it.
41:45 But I don't believe, brother.
41:47 You need to decide.
41:48 I'm going to decide to trust God.
41:50 Period.
41:50 But I don't understand.
41:51 You don't need to.
41:52 Do you think you can understand God?
41:53 Hello?
41:56 So going back, the disciples prayed in one accord.
42:01 They asked for the Holy Spirit.
42:04 When my people humble themselves, pray.
42:09 They prayed.
42:11 Very interesting.
42:13 Eleanor says that when they prayed in unity, and I want you
42:16 to hear this, she says prayer together is not enough to pray
42:21 alone.
42:22 That's good, necessary.
42:24 You must.
42:27 pray long in the church to compensate the lack of prayer
42:30 at home.
42:31 She says long prayers in the church where even the angels.
42:35 You remember that paragraph?
42:36 She says if you want to pray long, pray at home.
42:40 Not in the church.
42:42 Anyway, going back, she says prayer together.
42:48 I mean, if you and your spouse pray alone, you'll never
42:52 experience that power of praying together.
42:55 You need to pray alone and then pray together.
42:58 She says prayer together brings us closer to God and closer to
43:02 one another, leading to perfect unity.
43:08 Whoa, that's what Jesus prayed for.
43:09 I prayed that they may be one.
43:12 And eventually in the prayer, he says when they are one, then
43:15 the whole world will know.
43:16 Because in this divided, hateful, selfish, self-centered
43:19 world, it's a miracle to see people one.
43:23 Am I right?
43:25 That's a godly intervention.
43:28 And the disciples, she says, they were fighting, bickering,
43:34 she says, the word bickering, and they were divided.
43:37 And when they prayed together in the upper room, she says it
43:40 united them in perfect unity until they became one.
43:43 Thus, she says, preparing the way for the Holy Spirit to
43:47 come.
43:48 And then she says prayer and unity is the condition for the
43:52 outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
43:55 Only when they were one, the Holy Spirit could come.
43:57 So what does he tell you?
43:58 What should you do?
44:00 You understand?
44:02 Prayer brought them together.
44:03 Being united allowed the Holy Spirit to come.
44:07 So number one, they humbled themselves.
44:08 Number two, they prayed together.
44:13 Together.
44:18 You follow me?
44:20 But then she says something that is extreme.
44:23 She says when they prayed for the Holy Spirit, they did
44:28 something else.
44:30 They repeated Jesus' teachings and the prophecies.
44:36 Basically, prayer, she says in Testimony 6, prayer and study
44:39 should never be separated.
44:40 They go only together.
44:42 To pray we talk to God and to the world.
44:43 God talks to us as just he was face to face next to us.
44:48 They repeated Jesus' teachings and the prophecy.
44:50 They went back to the world, to the scripture.
44:53 You follow me?
44:55 Because God wants to talk to you, but you need to study and
44:58 pray and not just pray and then study.
45:00 No.
45:01 Dialogue.
45:04 you talk.
45:04 You follow me?
45:05 Pray and then study and then pray and then think and then
45:08 study and then pray.
45:10 Mix prayer with a lot of study.
45:12 Mix study with a lot of prayer.
45:13 Pray in between lines.
45:15 You follow me?
45:17 So God can talk to you, can impress your mind through the
45:20 Holy Spirit.
45:22 He says that they repeated Jesus' teachings and the
45:25 prophecies.
45:26 They humbled themselves.
45:28 They prayed together.
45:31 They prayed for the Holy Spirit.
45:33 They repeated Jesus' teachings and the prophecies.
45:35 They studied the scripture.
45:36 But now listen carefully.
45:37 What happened after these four conditions?
45:41 So basically they became one, but that's a result.
45:43 It's not a condition.
45:44 It's not what they did.
45:45 It's what happened because of what they did.
45:48 You follow me?
45:49 Now listen carefully what happened.
45:51 In that moment, when they prayed and they were united,
45:55 the Holy Spirit came and the Lenoises illuminated their mind
45:58 and they finally understood what?
46:02 The prophecies?
46:02 No.
46:03 The sanctuary?
46:04 No.
46:04 They understood what?
46:06 The 2300?
46:07 They understood the state of the dead?
46:08 No.
46:09 What does she say?
46:10 Those are all good things.
46:12 But that's not what she says.
46:13 She says they finally understood the cross.
46:17 Can it be that you are in a church for so many years and
46:20 you have not yet understood the cross?
46:23 And she says when they understood the cross, they were
46:26 absolutely overwhelmed.
46:28 She says they realized that God himself, the one who split the
46:33 sea, the one that got them out of Egypt and stroke Egypt with
46:35 plagues, the one that was a pillar of fire in the cloud,
46:39 the one that gave them manna, the one that split the rock and
46:41 gave them water from the rock, the one that kept the sun still
46:45 for so many hours, the one that took the walls of Jericho, God
46:48 himself, the creator that angels cover themselves and
46:51 sing, Holy, Holy, the mighty one, God himself came down and
46:55 took your sins and your sins and your sins and my sins and
46:58 God himself died on the cross and she says that blew their
47:02 mind to the degree that they finally finally what does it
47:06 mean finally that means that it didn't happen before it just
47:10 happened now they finally loved him more than anything else
47:14 that means that they loved him before but they loved other
47:17 things more they love themselves more because if
47:21 there is anything in your life that you are not willing to
47:23 surrender or to sacrifice that's what you love more than
47:26 God because if you loved him more you would be willing to
47:29 sacrifice anything no comments no hesitation if there is
47:34 something that you are that's your god where is your treasure
47:39 that's where your heart is and so they finally when they
47:42 understood the cross they were ready to sacrifice and she says
47:45 everything joyfully and they said no sacrifice was too great
47:49 they joyfully sacrificed everything they knew that their
47:52 testimony is going to cost them their life yet they preached
47:55 with boldness And she says they're ready to lay down their
47:58 lives for Him joyfully.
47:59 He died for me.
48:01 I died for Him.
48:03 The reason we have no sacrifice, no dedication in the
48:05 church is because we don't understand the cross.
48:07 If you would put your eyes on the cross and understand what
48:11 God did for you, you would have no problem to sacrifice.
48:16 And that's what she says it would be good for us to spend
48:19 at least she says one nope thoughtful To spend one
48:26 thoughtful hour every day Reflecting on Jesus life
48:31 specifically the last part of his life She says his cross his
48:34 sacrifice and in the different perhaps says at the foot of the
48:37 cross as we reflect that Without human effort we are
48:40 changed from glory to glory into his image because we are
48:42 changed by beholding That's how transformation happens They
48:49 finally understood the cross Wow, and they're so overwhelmed
48:54 Jesus God died for Pavel.
48:58 Jesus died for Jimmy, for many.
49:00 Who do you think you are, that God himself would die for you?
49:06 That's where transformation happens at the foot of the
49:08 cross.
49:11 You spend time at the cross, at the cross.
49:15 You spend time at the cross and you will never be the same.
49:19 Your family will never be the same.
49:20 Your church will never be the same.
49:22 That's what Ellen White says.
49:24 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
49:25 He sacrificed His righteousness, His cross.
49:28 It's the third angel message.
49:29 She says in a long paragraph, I'm going to put it in short.
49:31 She says if this message is properly understood and
49:34 preached, it will illuminate the whole world and finish the
49:36 work.
49:37 If this message is understood, she says this message will
49:40 never be understood in eternity.
49:42 Forever and ever we will study the cross.
49:44 She says it's going to be the science of all ages, all
49:47 eternity.
49:56 When they grasped a glimpse of the cross, they're like, wow.
50:02 So what happened?
50:04 They humbled themselves.
50:07 They prayed together.
50:10 They prayed for the Holy Spirit.
50:11 It led them to unity.
50:13 The Holy Spirit came, illuminated their mind and they
50:15 understood what?
50:16 The cross.
50:18 Oh, by the way, I forgot they repeated Jesus' teachings on
50:20 the prophecies.
50:21 Don't ignore that part.
50:22 Okay.
50:23 They understood the cross.
50:24 And then she says, what happened after?
50:26 She says, number one, you're totally transformed.
50:29 Number two, they got joy.
50:32 I go to church.
50:34 They got joy.
50:37 And then she says, they were anointed to the Holy Spirit
50:40 with fire and power and enthusiasm.
50:44 And they were like, I cannot hold it.
50:48 And she says, they went preaching boldly, telling
50:51 everybody the cross.
50:57 And she says, in a short time, they evangelized the whole
51:00 known world.
51:03 And then she says, many got baptized.
51:06 Miracles happened.
51:08 The sick were healed.
51:09 The dead was resurrected.
51:10 The Holy Spirit, when you do that, the Holy Spirit is going
51:13 to empower you.
51:14 Isn't that absolutely amazing?
51:17 The greatest and most urgent among all our needs, she says,
51:22 is revival.
51:23 And then she says, revival, at the end of the paragraph, comes
51:26 as an answer to prayer.
51:31 How desperately, moreover, in the times we live, how
51:35 desperately we need prayer.
51:40 Am I right?
51:41 No, I don't need to be right.
51:42 I don't even care.
51:44 That's what it says.
51:50 Now, my brother and my sister, we don't have time.
51:53 My time passed.
51:54 We did not.
51:57 the second sermon.
51:58 We didn't have time to actually go to the sermon.
52:00 I have a bunch of paragraphs that are powerful, extremely
52:04 powerful paragraphs.
52:06 And I also wanted to give you a story, but we don't have time.
52:09 But anyway, paragraphs, for instance, before offering
52:13 himself as a sacrificial victim, Jesus instructed the
52:16 disciples regarding the most essential and the most complete
52:21 gift that he could bestow upon his followers.
52:23 The most complete, the most essential gift that he could
52:27 ever give them.
52:28 The gift that would bring within their reach all the
52:32 boundless resources of his grace.
52:35 Think about boundless resources.
52:39 Think about that.
52:41 I will pray and the Father will give you another comforter.
52:44 Acts of the Apostles, page 47.
52:48 Without the Holy Spirit, their work could have never be
52:51 accomplished.
52:52 Desire of Ages, page 805.
52:55 The preaching of the world would be of absolutely no avail
52:58 without the presence and aid of the Holy Spirit.
53:02 Desire of Ages, 671.
53:04 Powerful.
53:09 not more.
53:12 In obedience to Christ's command, they waited in
53:15 Jerusalem, praying for the promise of the Father.
53:17 Book of Acts, page 35.
53:19 To the gift of the Holy Spirit, the disciples were to receive
53:22 marvelous power.
53:25 Their testimony was to be accomplished by science and
53:27 wonder.
53:28 Desire of Ages, page 821.
53:31 Isn't that powerful?
53:34 The Holy Spirit did for them what they could not have done
53:36 or accomplished for themselves in their life.
53:40 Acts, Book of Acts, page 39.
53:43 Powerful, huh?
53:44 I cannot continue to read, but let me give you another eight
53:49 testimonies, page 19.
53:50 There is no limit.
53:52 Think about that word, no limit.
53:55 There is no limit to the usefulness of one who puts self
53:59 aside, that's death to self, sacrifice, surrender, and makes
54:03 room for the working of the Holy Spirit.
54:06 There is no limit.
54:08 There is no limit for the one who surrenders self and makes
54:12 room for the Holy Spirit to lead and to control.
54:15 That's powerful.
54:22 I'm going to stop here.
54:23 There are many, many, many paragraphs.
54:25 In fact, something that really gets me a paragraph.
54:29 You know the Selected Messages, volume 1, page 121.
54:32 A revival of true goodness is the greatest and most urgent
54:35 need.
54:38 to prayer.
54:40 The outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the days of the
54:42 apostles or the former reign, and glorious was the result.
54:45 But the latter reign will be even more abundant.
54:50 8 Testimonies, page 21.
54:55 In giving the Holy Spirit, it was impossible for God to give
54:58 more.
54:59 To this gift, nothing could be added.
55:02 By this gift, all other needs were supplied.
55:05 The Holy Spirit is the very vital presence of God himself.
55:10 Wow.
55:12 Think about this.
55:13 And I continue the paragraph.
55:15 By the way, you should receive power, page 284, if you want to
55:18 know.
55:22 contained all heavenly sources.
55:24 It's not because of any restriction on the part of God
55:27 that we don't receive the promise.
55:29 If all are willing to receive it, all will be filled.
55:32 Christ Object Lesson, page 419.
55:36 This promise, the Holy Spirit, claimed by faith, would bring
55:38 all other blessings in its strain.
55:41 And it would be given liberally to God's people.
55:45 Since this is the means, the Holy Spirit, by which you
55:48 receive power, why don't we hunger?
55:50 Why don't we pray?
55:51 Why don't we talk?
55:52 Why don't we preach about the Holy Spirit?
55:54 For the daily baptism of the Holy Spirit, every worker
55:58 should offer his petition to God.
56:00 Companies, groups of Christians should get together and pray.
56:03 They should pray that God will baptize his workers and his
56:06 church with the rich measure of the Holy Spirit.
56:07 Book of Acts, page 50.
56:10 The reception of the Holy Spirit is the greatest need of
56:13 the Church today.
56:15 Letter 1781907.
56:20 Okay, I could read forever and you'll never eat and I'm
56:23 hungry.
56:27 Folks, Jesus is coming soon.
56:32 And we desperately need revival.
56:35 And we need the Holy Spirit, the latter rain.
56:39 Not only for personal transformation and church
56:42 transformation, but to finish the work.
56:46 And to experience revival, we need to get together and pray.
56:51 So don't wait.
56:53 Nobody can stop you to pray.
56:55 People may stop you to paint the church or replace the
56:58 carpet.
56:59 You follow me?
57:01 Nobody can stop you.
57:03 Oh, Pastor, we got together and somebody called and said, you
57:06 cannot pray.
57:07 Even so, Daniel still prayed.
57:12 Get together and pray.
57:15 And then I says, do not expect the whole church to be revived.
57:19 She says, and I have the paragraph here.
57:20 She says, quote, it will never happen.
57:23 She said, I've seen groups here and there.
57:25 Don't expect that.
57:26 Hey, Pastor, I'm going to be revived and pray when everybody
57:28 in our church prays.
57:30 Don't wait for anybody.
57:33 God calls you to pray.
57:36 Get busy.
57:38 Call two, three people that you know that are willing to pray
57:41 and start tomorrow morning.
57:44 Start tomorrow morning.
57:47 Start tomorrow morning.
57:48 Now start today.
57:53 And don't plan.
57:55 We are going to pray for a month and then we stop.
57:58 Let's say we are going to pray until Jesus comes and then
58:02 we'll continue in heaven.
58:05 Because God can and he will because he promised do things
58:09 that would pass any human planning or imagination when we
58:14 call his presence.
58:17 If my people were called by my name would humble themselves
58:20 and pray.
58:24 Let's bow our heads.
58:25 Father in heaven, these promises are so great, so rich,
58:33 so big beyond what we can really grasp.
58:38 And they are waiting for us to pray.
58:41 And you have been waiting for us and for your church, Father.
58:45 Please help us to understand the privilege, the joy, the
58:48 power of prayer, the desperate need we have for the Holy
58:51 Spirit.
58:52 Please help us to start this today.
58:59 We pray in Jesus precious name and thank you for answering.
59:02 Amen.

Home

Revised 2025-06-07