Finding Strength in Community, Faith, and Prayer

00:00 - Speaker 1
Luke, chapter 15, the prodigal son ended up in the pig pen, and it says he came to himself. No man comes to God until he first appears to himself, and life becomes a reflective mirror that only shows the image of the one looking into it and the consequences of your own selfish actions that have brought you to such a place, and it is there that many will then turn to Christ and be saved.

00:26 - Speaker 2
Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom. That's CityLightNYCcom. Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

01:02 - Speaker 1
That he has a real hope and a future for you. The Lord is good amen. Happy Mother's Day, mommies. So I didn't know I was going to be here today, you know. So I'm like, you know I got my running suit on but I don't run. So you know, obviously I'm a fat guy. But um, you know, man, I met Jesus here 51 years ago, uh, when I wasn't looking for him, and uh, he was looking for me, and uh, he called me to preach. I was saved at 19,. Ordained at 21. Don't do that unless the Lord has definitely called you, because you have to be out of your mind to be a pastor or called of God. I'm dead serious, that's crazy.

01:56
I've been pastor in Elmas 40 years, you know Florida. So I didn't know I was preaching today. And you know, my son and my wife, mother and my children died here 20 some years ago and that kind of broke me, you know. So I needed a sabbatical and what have you. It's a long story. So I went to Florida and the Lord was good. You know, after years of being alone, the Lord sent me a woman and my only prayer was Lord, give me someone that will love me, that will love you more than she loves me and God gave me Bella, and Bella has been the love of my life and good. The Lord is good, amen. And so I thought that the sword had not pierced my soul anymore with death. And then last week my daughter was killed here, killed in Florida. She was struck by a motorcycle. She was struck by a motorcycle.

03:04
And so, the Lord, come here. This is a little boy. Look at this little face. Look at this little face, it said. Some face, turn around so they can see you. What's your name? Look at that face on Calvin, you know, look at that. You know angels. Angels are very big but they have the face of children. That's correct, calvin.

03:33
You're going to bring Jesus to people when you get older, like Pastor Tommy here. Do you know that? You knew that already, didn't you? So you don't have to work at that. The Lord is going to put his hand upon you and he'll give you words and you'll speak effortlessly to people about the Lord. So I'm going to do what I did for your pastor's son when he went to wherever they were last time, building houses.

04:03
Where were you guys? Nicaragua, guatemala. And I sowed what's into Pastor's son, the little boys over there ministering. So I sent, I cashed after him some bucks Victor, yeah, I'm sowing into his ministry. So I'm sowing that into your ministry, amen.

04:30
So my daughter is in heaven, amen. And my son's in heaven and the mother of my children are in heaven, and I'm here praising Jesus. I'm not in denial, I'm in grace. The supernatural presence of almighty God, that is more than a match for any situation. But you have to stay very close to Jesus. We're not following a man, we're not following a religion. We have met Jesus and he is alive, my friends. I know he is because I talked to him this morning and he answered me Amen.

05:03
We live in a society. Right now we are witnessing the meltdown of a western civilization. We are seeing the rise of something that I don't want to talk about. This time passed off to bring me back for that another time. But I want to say this to you, my friends we need to be community. This is we are living in a go-to society. We go to the movies, we go to the. You know we go to work, right. You know we go to 7-Eleven. We go here, we go there. You know we go to a ball game and we go to church, it's a go-to society. Church is never meant to be a go-to. Church is your community. It's a community.

05:46
And if you want to know what a real church looks like, paul draws a biological sketch in Ephesians 4, and he tells us we're bone and marrow and we're joints that are supplying each other with love. And how about you? I need love. I need love, my friends, and I'm witness. I'm here right now, standing before you, having buried two children, and I'm healthy, mentally. Well, my wife would question that, but I may be nuts, but I'm screwed on the right bolts, amen. But here I am emotionally, viscerally healthy. You know, I'm cerebrally, I'm like happy, I'm like geez Jesus, I should be falling apart, but I'm sustained by the grace of God and by the comfort of my people, my people, the church of Jesus Christ.

06:36
If I didn't have Brother George and the community of the church around me, thousands and thousands on Long Island that are my family, when my wife passed away, there was a little over 2,000 people at the funeral. My son massed thousands of people. This is my family. New York is my family. That's not something I go to. We're not day tripping here. We go to church.

06:59
You want to go? I don't know. No, this is our life. Become integrated into this church, integrate into this. You have to integrate into the church. The church is your family.

07:14
You know we say but I love God, but I don't like people. You ever hear that I like people. You don't want to go to heaven? There's going to be some folks there, you know. I mean it's crazy Because you're in the church. The church is right now. Church is like cereal, froot, loops and nuts. We got them all. And some people sitting here right now they're like. You know, they're giving me that. Look like I've been kidnapped and dragged here. What time does this thing get over? But I can assure you, man, this is real. This is real. What we're talking about is real. I need to get to my message, but it's real. But the problem is we have to learn.

07:45
Jesus only gave us one commandment I got a newsflash One he gave the Israelites 10. They couldn't keep any of them. So he said let me redefine this for you in John 13, 34 and 35. A new commandment I give to you here. It is cut and dry Love one another as I have loved you. By this shall all men know you're my disciples If you have agape love. If you love one another, care for one another. Love when one cries, the other tastes salt. Love one another. That's the only command he gave. That's on his hands. Every other teaching In fact. The apostle said everything is summed up in the Bible in these words have a fervent love for one another. Jesus said all men will know you're my disciples, not because you speak in tongues. Raise the dead, heal the sick. Hallelujah, glory to God. Yeah, no, that's not how.

08:32
Listen. I've been all over the world. I've studied Shintoism, taoism, confucianism, deeply into the occult of Ramalangshan, the third eye, ekata, paul Twinchel. I've been heavily into the Koran, the Kabbalah, the Bhagavad Gita. I've lectured and spoken all over this world. People. I've met people of every kind of faith and I'm going to tell you the greatest, most distinctive thing wherever I've been around the world, I know Christians, true Christians, because they love one another. I've been in Russia preaching all over the world. I mean people, I don't even know.

09:03
I'm in a meeting. Come on, I love you. I love you too. People don't even know me. We're in love. You know it's crazy, but that's how you know that you're a Christian. Because in the days that are coming, and listen to me, the great and terrible day of the Lord is around the corner. I'm telling you this Things are changing very quickly and will continue to change, because everything in the Bible that's said is going to happen is going to happen, and so I'm not gonna get into that right now. We're going to need one another. Okay, I didn't get a standing ovation. I'm gonna say this again You're going to need one another, and I'm not talking about getting into little groups, you know, with ethnicists.

09:46
If I go to a church, it's all white people. I don't want to go there. Something's wrong. I'm not telling you the truth. I preach a thousand churches all over the world and if I go there, it's all one ethnic. Unless it's in China or something, they're all Chinese folks, whatever. But in America, if you come that, you got one ethnicity. You got a problem. Now give me a little sign of life here this morning. You've got a problem if it's all white folks, black folks, something's wrong. People Like De Niro said something's wrong over here, something is wrong In heaven. You're going to have everybody's going to be there, all kinds of people.

10:31
I was witnessing to a dude this morning in one of these bodegas. I said, dude, jesus loves you, he goes. Yeah, I know man. He said, but you know, jesus is black. I said let me tell you something, son. I said he may be, I don't know, maybe you know, maybe he's flushed, he's black. I said, but I'll tell's a spirit. God is a spirit and those that worship him must worship him in spirit. You are in the right church, because what I see out here is all different ethnicities, but when God looks on the earth, he doesn't see black, white, red, yellow and green. He sees saved and unsafe. That's it. That's it. So let me tell you this Can I preach for a second? Okay? So let me tell you this. Can I preach for a second? Okay, let me just get this, because this ain't my message in passage. I'm just saying, hollihan, you better wrap this up and remember sermons do not have to be eternal to be immortal. So I'll make this as quick as possible.

11:15
There was an argument one day in the carpenter's shop and the latter said to the ruler. He said I don't like you. So the ruler said what's your problem, mr High and Mighty? The latter said you know you're always judging people by your own standards. To which the hammer said you know both of you need to be quiet. And you know. The ruler said you always making noise, having to bang everything. The sandpaper said you know you all are waking me up. Oh yeah, mr Sandpaper, you're always rubbing people the wrong way. So which jumped in the level and the level said I can't stand any of you. So yeah, you missed a balance on everything. At which point, you know, in walked the carpenter and the saw got involved. Right as the carpenter was walking in, the saw said you guys, I can't stand any of you. And they said would you shut up? You're always cutting people off.

12:31
How many swords do we have? New Yorkers? Where's swords? You know what I'm talking about. Try to have a conversation in New York. Forget about it. It ain't going to happen. How are you doing? You start telling somebody you know I'm going through this. Yeah, anyway, hey, look at the bird over there. Where am I? I got to look at the bird. So you know, my ear fell off last night. Don't worry about it. Here's some super glue. Get it on. Don't worry about it, let's go, let's catch the subway.

13:00
New Yorkers, new Yorkers, we're crazy here, bro. I've been all preaching over in Russia after Perestroika. The walls had come down to communism and I said to my son, who was alive at the time, I said, dude, I can find a New Yorker anywhere. He's like daddy, it's been 70 years of Bolshevism here and there's no New Yorkers. I said hang loose.

13:17
About a 15-hour late this guy comes walking down the road. I said, guys, a New Yorker's pop, come on. I walked. I said excuse me, sir, where are you from? He goes the Bronx. Where are you from? I said I'm from Brooklyn, new York. Yeah, oh, brooklyn, forget about it. I'll forgive you for that. I'm from the Bronx, yeah. And so my son walks away. He's like Daddy, how did you know the guy was from the Bronx? I said, well, we walk to do. What do you mean? What am I doing? Let's go get that thing over here. Let's move that. Hey, come on, come on down. We're like traffic cops, although we're running the world. It's crazy. So New Yorkers are some New Yorkers, my God man, we're. You know, new York is something else Mark Twain said.

14:02
He said New York is not a place. That's a state of mind, and that's the truth. He also said the only people that like change are wet babies. Mark Twain was smart, so it took you a delay, right? Some of you are going to get that when you go home, you go. I get it change a wet baby. I got it now. That's okay. That was bad acid you took years ago. It's going to kick in with you. It now. That's okay. That was bad acid you took years ago. It's going to kick in with you, though. Stay with me.

14:27
So what happens is, you know, into the carpenter's shop walks the carpenter right, you know the tools are arguing and fighting. In walks the carpenter. He picks up the sword and he begins to cut with it and he cuts some boards with it. He picks up the hammer and he begins to nail with it. He picks up the sandpaper, begins to smooth it, he takes the level, he makes sure everything is balanced, uses the ruler to cut it up, and the carpenter builds out of all the tools in the shop, he builds a pulpit from which the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached around the world. God needs every one of you to get the gospel out of this place to a world that needs good news of you, to get the gospel out of this place to a world that needs good news. Bring this up. God needs the saws, he needs the hammers, he needs the sandpaper.

15:12
We're all different man. Some are loud, some are quiet, some are introverted, some are extroverted. It doesn't matter, it's whatever you are. You are important. You are valuable. Are you listening to me? You are valuable. You are very, very important to this place, this place. If God puts you here, you gotta love the sandpaper people.

15:39
Jesus, I'm telling you right now, do I know some sandpaper people you know, especially New York? I gotta tell you something, brother, but I gotta tell you this in love, that's when you know you're about to get it. When a Christian says, brother, you know I love you, right, I'm like no, you know what, go talk to somebody else. I gotta, you know, you know it's like you know, but we need everybody. You need me, whether you like me or not, because I got something you don't have and you got something I don't have Right now.

16:09
I'm going through the most difficult times of my life with the loss of my second child. But you know how I'm being sustained by the body of Christ People calling me, loving me, tommy, I love you, tommy, you know this that Picking me up at the airport, george driving me here today, my wife and my grandson. I've been raising my grandson since he's this big Now he's like this and so man, but I'm not being sustainable. I'm a great man of God. There are no great men of God, there are just men who belong to a great God. And I want to tell you something Don't think you're going to make this on your own.

16:42
You're not all that and a bag of chips man. You're not big enough, you're not tough enough, you're not intellectualist I've got my PhD I'm not smart enough, you're not bright enough, strong enough to make it through this world without Jesus Christ and a personal. I'm not talking about religion oh honey. I like the church. Who's up? I'm not talking about a religion. I'm talking about a relationship of knowing him.

17:03
You will end up bitter. You will end up with some type of weird proclivity in your life. You'll end up just going to something that nobody knows about to relieve your stress. You'll end up a prisoner of something that's gonna imprison you, which you'll hate yourself for, while at the same time showing the whole world a facade. You need Jesus Christ, a real relationship. He wants to take the anger out of you. He wants to take the self-loathing or the grandioseness where you think you're all that God wants to deliver. He wants to set you free. So I wanted to say that to you. That's my introduction and, uh, but that's not really my message. I just love every one of you. I love Pastor.

17:43
If he's watching, wherever he is, I don't know where the guy is, you know, but he's hurting. And this guy, I'll tell you right now he's not telling you the truth. I'll tell you that right now he's a lot worse than he's telling you, because he is in severe pain and he needs a miracle in his hip. Okay, so if he's not going to go into it, I'm not going to go into it either, but he's really in a lot of pain right now and he really, really needs us to believe God for a real touch in his life, or else he'd be here, right. Okay, give the Lord some praise in the house, would you please?

18:23
I want to talk to you this morning about the importance of short prayers. Everybody say short prayers, short prayers, just short prayers. You know I'm not going to come and say God wants you to pray a long time. I want to talk about the power of just the effectiveness of short. Watch this meaningful prayers, meaningful short prayers.

18:43
There's many kinds of prayers in the Bible, in fact in the book of Ephesians, chapter six. I love how many love the book of Ephesians. Oh my God, read the book of Ephesians. I mean, man, it's crazy.

18:55
And if you don't want to read the Bible, ask God to give you a love for his word. Just say I don't really want to read this book. Ask God to give you a library. And all of a sudden you'll be like I want to read the Bible. He starts giving you hunger for it.

19:05
And you know I used to have a library bigger than this, this bigger, super bigger. You ready for this? Now here's my library. What do you do, pastor? I have Brother Google. I love Brother Google. Hey, google, give me the transliteration of the Hebrew word Joshua. Show it to me in the Koine Greek. How was it actually used in Greek literature, brother Google? He knows that would have taken me an hour to pluck all of that out. But now, brother Google, who can be used for bad or good right. You can also say, brother, google, google is a holy shimole. No, but I use technology. I love technology because I use it for God's glory. So I'm getting off the track here but to say to you, where was I? I don't know. So, man, you know the book of Ephesians. Oh, what a book, what a book.

20:05
But he says put on the armor of God. Chapter one, two and three is how to sit and rest in Christ. Chapter four and five is how to walk with Christ. Chapter six is how to stand for Christ. So in chapter six he says put on the full armor of God that you may be able to stand up against all of these strategies of the devil. I have met God, my friends. Be able to stand up against all of these strategies of the devil. I have met God, my friends, and I've also met Satan. I've met him twice and I tell you he's alive. It's not a concept, he's real. He's real. The devil is real and the Bible says put on the armor of God that you may be able to stand up against all the tricks and strategies of the devil. I don't have time to get into all that. But he ends by saying put on the last piece of armor, you know, whatever the shoes, the helmet.

20:46
But he says, and then he goes right into praying with all kinds of prayers. What? All kinds of prayers? How many know there's many different kinds of prayers, right, amen. But here's what God is trying to get across to us. God is desiring that we learn how to communicate with him, and I don't want to get into too much detail. Desiring that we learn how to communicate with them, and I don't want to get into too much detail.

21:07
But there's the prayer of intercession. What is that? That's when you, god, said in Ezekiel I looked for a man or a woman that would stand in the gap and make up the space and build a wall for Israel, but I couldn't find any Israel. Excuse me, intercession is when you get between God and somebody else, between God and a situation, and you come and you begin to pray and you pull the two of them together. Give me a vital sign of life, say amen, nod your head, shake your toes, something here, let me know you're alive, all right. So listen, man. I mean, you know that's intercession. That's God.

21:40
My aunt right now is going through so much. Or my husband, lord, he's being besieged at work. Oh my God, he's getting weak. Oh God, what happened to father? I begin to pray for him. Jesus, touch him, draw him, pull him in, or you pray, you're between God. Here's them, here's God, here's the situation, here's you. God is seeking for you right now to make up the gap and for sometimes you have to build a wall of protection around people when you pray. You, you have to build a wall of protection around people when you pray. You've got to learn how to build a wall. I wish I had time to get into it. Maybe Pastor will have me back and I'll teach you about how to build a wall around people.

22:12
You say, well, that obviously didn't work for you. You lost two children. Let me say something to you, my good friend. God did not take my daughter from me. He took her from her pain and I am glad she is with my master right now. Give the Lord some praise in his name. How many are glad you're here this morning? Amen, are you really glad? Let your face know about it over here. If you knew what I gotta to look at right now.

22:46
This is difficult. I thank God that the older I get, the more nearsighted I am, I'm like they must be all smiling. Hey, listen, man, I'm telling you God is so good, amen. It's crazy. So intercession, but I've got to move on. You pray for people. Then there's supplication. You plead for people. Oh God, please touch my husband, my wife, whatever You're pleading, it's supplicatory. Then there's communion with the Holy Ghost. That's just. You know, you're in the car. Hallelujah, glory to God, lord, I just pray. I love you, jesus, I praise you Father. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Oh, you're so good today. That's just what's called the communion of the Holy Ghost. Right, and let me say something.

23:25
Paul prayed long, but he mostly prayed very short prayers. I mean, he actually said things where, like he says you know how you guys doing, I make mention of you in my prayers. You think, paul, I must pray nine hours a day. I'm going to show you something they didn't, they did not. I'm going to show to blow your mind. Are you ready for this? We also need to learn how to pray the prayer of repentance. What, yeah, the prayer of repentance. What is that all about? I'll tell you what it's all about.

23:58
God says Jonah, yes, lord, go to Nineveh. They're whacked out, full of sin, and go tell them to repent. Jonah says yeah, get somebody else. He said I'm not going there. He turns around and goes to what? Tarshish. He said I'm not going to Nineveh. They're crazy. So I was like go to New York City and preach and somebody goes I ain't going there, I'm going to the Virgin Islands. He turns around and turns to Tarshish, which is basically the club med of those days. He's going to. He's going to wolf down a few margaritas. He said I'm not going to Denver. Get somebody else. God says oh really. He gets on a boat. You know the story Big hurricane comes, they throw the dude overboard, a whale swallows him and it says in the belly of hell.

24:35
He called it hell. He said I cried out to the Lord and I asked God's forgiveness For every one of you that run from God. There is a whale, a situation that will swallow you and you will not come out until you turn to God. You ain't big enough, you're not smart enough, you're not good looking enough, you're not talented enough. You will be brought to a place where there's a place where you're not getting out, until you humble yourself and say Lord, I need you. Real bad For me. I had to end up in prison.

25:05
I was a drug runner other things I don't want to talk about and get into but I was a tough guy, a trained fighter, running things. I don't even want to talk about what I was into many, many years ago. I was also a designer and it's a crazy story that they make movies out of. I'm not proud of it and I don't want the glory in my shame, but I thought I was better than everybody else because I was 19 years old. My girlfriend was a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. I'm partying with the jet set. I don't even want to get into everything I had in life, but when the music stopped I was miserable because there was a God-shaped hole in my heart that no amount of women, no amount of dope, no amount of partying, no amount of success could fill that up in my life Nothing.

25:44
And I got into the Shintoism, taoism, confucianism, ramalanshan, the Koran, the Kabbalah, the Baba Vigita. I went through every religion there was until one day I said God, if you're up there, I'm tired of reading what people think about you. Tell me, if you're up there, who you are. And it was the next day that somebody told me Jesus Christ is alive. Not a religion, not a church. The Son of God, that's for another day, amen. So you know, man.

26:09
So you know there's different kinds of prayers, people, and I gotta stay with my prayer more. There's prayers of repentance. You've gotta get before the Lord and admit where you're wrong. You say, well, I'm not wrong about anything. Oh, really, ask the Lord what he thinks about that. David said search me and test me and try me, lord, to see if there's any wicked way in me. I worry about people that never do anything wrong. It freaks me out, man, when it's like you know, they get crazy like I didn't do anything. I'm like, oh Samole, what are you gonna do for this person?

26:40
The Holy Spirit will bring you to a place where you see yourself, and you cannot come to God until you come to yourself. Luke, chapter 15, the prodigal son ended up in the pig pen and it says he came to himself. No man comes to God until he first appears to himself, and life becomes a reflective mirror that only shows the image of the one looking into it and the consequences of your own selfish actions that have brought you to such a place, and it is there that many will then turn to Christ and be saved, but we must be humble and pray prayers of repentance. Amen, amen, prayers of repentance. So if you've sinned, admit it here. Are you ready for my big theological twist on this? If you've sinned, are you ready? Yes, admit it, quit it and forget it. That's it, that's my message. I'll see you guys next time.

27:45
There's also the layaway prayer. What the heck is that Layaway prayer? That's, when you buy something like a house, you know you buy it. You got a 30 year mortgage. Boom, you're given $2,000 a month. $2,000 a month for 30 years. You forget about it, you're just like. Then one day, 30 years is gone, you get a notice in the mail. By the way, you own your house. What? No more mortgage payments.

28:04
That prayer happened in Acts, chapter 10. There was an Italian guy. His name was Cornelius. The guy wasn't even a Christian. He didn't have any. He didn't have a pastor, he didn't have brother James, he didn't have a church to go to. He didn't have a Christian bookstore. He couldn't order from Amazon, let me see. Couldn't go to his phone. Okay, so give me the word for today. I need an app on prayer with Mark Wahlberg. That is tough. Nobody. Nobody to help him, nobody. The guy was just by himself. He's an Italian dude, his name was Cornelius.

28:32
Read in the book Don't trust me, read your Bible. And so one day you know he's just man, he's probably eating some pasta. He's hanging out with the family. Boom man, an angel shows up. He falls down, starts worshiping. He said don't do that man, I'm just an angel. He said well, what's up? The angel says God, your prayers, your prayers. He's looking up what me? Yeah, cornelius, your prayers, my, what Everybody say, prayers, prayers. Are you getting anything out of this? Yeah, I mean, come, your prayers have made a memorial in heaven. You guys got these statues.

29:12
When I walked out, I've never seen a naked woman until I walked in this church. I said what the heck is this? She's got this woman. There's two things out there. I said what is that? It looksian anyway. So I says um, so I'll tell you. I'll tell you you're gonna put a bra on that thing out there. So anyway, I know some of you can't laugh. It amazes me. I worry about people that can't laugh. Man, you go home, we put stuff on on. You know, on youtube, you know stuff is so wild. Come to church, you know we put the mask on and sure don't do that, man. Don't do it. I put this in my book Be careful of the masks you wear. They soon begin to fit. Where was I? I don't know who the heck knows.

29:58
At this point, pastor Boyan's probably having a breakdown. Cornelius and his pasta. Cornelius and the pasta over here. So anyway, yeah, man, so he's, you know. No, seriously, cornelius, we did Acts 10. Don't believe me. He's in Acts 10 and the angel shows up and the angel says hey, cornelius, yes, your prayers and your giving have come up as a memorial before God and I've been sent to tell you you're gonna be used to open up the doors to the whole world for the Gentiles to get saved.

30:29
This dude's prayers went up every day. How did he know how to pray? The guy wasn't even a Jew. He sure as heck wasn't a Christian. He was a Roman centurion. These dudes were bad. They were into all kinds of polytheism. It was crazy in those days and I don't know what happened. Maybe he had a little slave girl Jewish slave girl that used to pray, and he heard it and was like, ah, maybe God's name is, you know, yahweh, I don't know. Maybe when he walked past the temple where the Ark of the Covenant was, he could feel the presence of God. He's, oh, I feel this Ashtroth or Dagon or any of the Persian or the Samaritan gods when I worship those statues. But when I pass the temple, ooh, I can feel joy. Talk to me, somebody. Talk to me.

31:11
I don't know how that man began to pray. He didn't have a pastor boy on to say, brother, keep up. James says there's quite a lot of your brother we haven't seen in church. He didn't have any of that nonsense. He didn't have no Bible, he didn't have the word of the Lord, he didn't have no prophecy. He didn't have nothing that you got. But the Bible says he prayed.

31:27
He met with God and he prayed and one day the angel showed up and said Son, your prayers have built a memorial. You've been praying and praying, and praying, and now the time has come. You're about to get an answer. Some of your prayers are going to go up for years, days, months. You'll get no answer. Then, all of a sudden, suddenly, god brings the blessing. Suddenly, that addicted daughter shows up. Suddenly, that son comes home. Suddenly, your breakthrough comes financially. But it's the layaway prayer. Jump to your feet and give God some praise. I feel a preaching spirit. Come along, praise. I feel a preaching spirit, come on.

32:11
I had somebody come into my church one day and say we're not letting down. Why are you making all this noise? Why are you making all this noise? I said you know it's interesting.

32:17
You go to a football game. They got the fat people there no shirts on. They got painted green, red orange, jumping up and down, people screaming for their side. People go to the football game. They scream like insane Indians. Come to church and sit like wooden Indians. Hey, listen, man, I got a newsflash for you that football is made of cowhide. It's injected with air. It goes over a goal post. Not one of those footballs has ever brought a marriage together. Not one football has ever delivered a child from addiction. Not one of those footballs has ever brought a lunatic into his right mind. Not one of those footballs has ever taken racism and hatred out of a man's heart and put love in.

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But Jesus Christ is in this building and brother, he has set me free and he can set you free. You want to be on your feet giving God the praise. I feel a preaching spirit coming on me right now. Woo, jesus name. You see, teaching will get you a miracle. Preaching will show you how to keep it. Give God praise. Hug somebody before you seat it. Tell somebody before you seat it.

33:33
I'm sure glad I didn't miss service this morning. Did you hear me out there? Did you hear me? If you heard me again, give me a vital sign of life. Give God some praise. Woo. Let me just check something out here. Let me lift my foot. How we doing devil? Jesus said you'll tread on him. I used to have my church stand up on a Sunday morning, thousands of them. I used to say write a scripture on your foot, this way the devil can read it. Tell you right now, man, I love you. I'm almost done. Somebody said thank God. Hey, how about Acts 27? The Heraclidon major storm hits. I'm almost done. Somebody said thank God. Hey, how about Acts 27,? The Heraclodon major storm hits.

34:29
Boom, paul. I mean the guy's on a boat. He's ticked off enough because he already told him don't leave. He said don't sail. He said that's not a good idea. They hit a hurricane. They're out there at sea. It's a mess. Paul disappears. Where the heck is Paul? Where's that little Jew? Nobody can find the little guy. What happened to that? He's a little Jew. What happened to the Jew? I don't know. The guy's crazy because he's a Jew talking about the Messiah dead rising. I don't know, who knows, maybe he jumped off the ship.

35:01
Paul stands up a couple of days later. Oh, here he is, paul, where you been, don't worry about it. I've been in the belly of the ship down below. I've been meeting with God. We have to learn how to meet with God in our storms, otherwise you're going to meet with medication. You'll meet with the booze again. Yeah, we're getting quiet here, so we meet.

35:29
I know I've been down the road, I've got a degree in all that sipping saint stuff, but hear me out. So you know what happened. Man, listen, you have got to have me back. Yeah, where's Boyana? Pastor Boyana? No, listen, man, I am so serious.

35:52
God set me free not long ago from condemnation and I I mean, you know, I'm one of the fathers here in new york we call them fathers as fibers, like the mob, you know and um, and I went through a burnout see pastors burnout and the lord had to bring me back. Amen, and restore me, restore me, but I was so bound with condemnation, which is self-hatred and not liking yourself. You're not going to walk around like I want to kill myself. But do you know that, according to clinical psychologists, 82% of people live with what's called by the clinical psychologist it's called the demon at noon day and they're not even Christians. That's a phrase they coined, which is a phraseology used to describe people who self-loathe themselves.

36:34
And we walk around, almost every one of us, with a gray cloud of self-denunciation. We really don't like ourselves, you see. And so, even if you're raised in almost a perfect environment, sociologically, in every way, they found out through studies that people can be raised in almost a perfect environment and still grow up thinking they're losers, or still grow up not forgiving themselves or walking around. Oh my God, if everybody knew who I really was. And we go through this thing.

37:00
I don't have time to really do any justice, but as Christians, we do things we shouldn't do. As Christians, you are all going to do them, and then we carry that load with us for the rest of our life, faking it till we make it, because we are condemned. God gave me a word called freedom from all condemnation. Oh, my Lord, when you hear what God has given me on how to be absolutely free of all condemnation, no matter what you've done. You are going to, I'm telling you right now, you're going to run straight up this building into a wall. You're going to run straight up this building into a store where you will, there, get me a cup of coffee in the big alley.

37:42
All right, so, so anyway, man, you know the Southern is down there. They don't know nothing about you know bagels and stuff, these people. Like you know, my wife is a southerner, right, I married this southern Italian girl. She knows nothing about us. I brought her up here to New York, you know, to meet my friends the first time. And I walk in. You know how we are in New York. We're always teasing each other, right? So I walk in my and she said, okay, tell me what the heck happened. You blew up like a tick. I said you talking to me. I said, dude, you're wider than you are tall. I said you've got to be kidding me. You're calling me names and my wife disappears.

38:19
I'm like Bella, where are you, where's my wife? I go downstairs. She's crying in the basement. I said Bella, what are you doing? She says y'all, y'all, y'all.

38:30
She said you know, when I was fixing to come, I said, bella, don't use this fixing stuff. I said listen, in New York we fix things right Like washing machines and cars. We don't go fixing to go places. I said these people think you're nuts. You know she'll say well, golly, you know, golly, mackerel, golly. I said what do we got the Beverly Hillbillies over here? Golly, you know what I'm talking about. So she didn't get us. You know like it took a long time to indoctrinate her into our ways over here. Now she kind of gets us. I don't even know where I was going with that. I don't know where I was going with that story. I better stay with this man. I got to close out. I'm telling you, boy, new York is a something else. I'm telling you Closing it right now. You ready? Are you ready?

39:31
Short prayers produce great results. My objective is not to get you to pray a long time here for hours. That day may come if God calls you to be an intercessor, because the more time you spend with Jesus, the more time you want to be with him. My subject is the essence of brief prayers. Elijah the prophet prayed a 61, 64 word prayer. Fire fell from heaven and killed 450 prophets of baal. 64 where it was brief and to the point. You don't have to pray a long prayer to be heard, but you have to pray to be heard. Peter prayed amen. Peter prayed a one-sentence prayer.

40:16
The apostle Peter prayed a one-sentence prayer and a man sitting there that couldn't walk, he was born crippled, jumped up and ran to City Light Church, leaping and praising God. One sentence, are you all not hearing me? I'm going to the Catholic Church right now to preach to them if you guys don't do something. Peter prayed a one-sentence prayer. Still don't go. I have a nonsense. I have to give it on to you. Rise up and walk. Boom Gets healed and you go. Thou mightiest God that dwellest in the heavens, oh, thou mightiest God that dwellest in the heavens. Oh thou mightiest God. It says in the Greek, the Aramaic, oh. It says in the Hebrew, if thou shalt come with thy mighty power and touchest this mighty man who is cripplest, thou willest do a great favor for us all. Lord Didn't do it, I'm sorry. Just said get up in Jesus' name. Boom, power of God, hit the guy and he starts running around. Hallelujah, glory to God. That's what it takes. Paul the apostle was having a fortune teller following him all over Asia. She's crying out, crazy woman and Paul turns around and just says a 14-word prayer. The demon comes out of her and she gets set free and revival breaks out in Asia. Somebody talk to me please.

41:35
In Isaiah 38, hezekiah prayed a 29 word prayer. He's on his deathbed dying. It's over for the guy. He's got his, everything's late, he's gone. The prophet walks in and says get your house in order and you're going to die. And the prophet walks out. Hezekiah rolls over and faces the wall, says God, please remember me. I've been pretty good. Lord, please help me, I don't want to die. God stops the prophet and says go, tell them. I just given 15 more years. Somebody needs to praise God. It was a 29-word prayer. Don't let the devil deceive you. You don't pray enough. Shut up, devil. You can't pray at all. Paul said I make mention of you in my prayers.

42:17 - Speaker 2
Amen.

42:18 - Speaker 1
He said I make mention of you. Say what he made mention of the Lord, god, touch Eunice Father. I pray that you would touch Timothy Father. Fill him up today. Thank you, master. Lord, I pray that you touch a little sister over here that we left in the revival. Just, father, lift her up, bring her husband and her together. Father we.

42:34
He said I simply make mention. Can I make this any easier for you? Can I make this any easier? This is simple. All you have to do is pray and stick with it long enough, where you'll be like something's happening here. He's answering my prayers. You know my son. I haven't heard from him in 20 years. He calls me. Oh yeah, you wait. You wait, jesus, I'm closing with this. Right? You? Okay, I'm closing. Right, you know what closing means, right? You? Okay, I'm closing. Right, you know what closing means. Right, it means nothing. Man, I'd love to call NBC and tell them to close down the football game. It's going too long. That ain't gonna happen.

43:26
When they asked Jesus, they said John's disciples said Lord, would you teach us how to pray? John the Baptist, his disciples are making us look bad. Jesus said okay. And Jesus gave them are you ready for this? A 68 word prayer and said if you're going to pray, pray like this Our Father, lord in heaven, 68 words. He made it simple. There is no reason, no reason for any one of us. By the Holy Spirit's strength, if you'll ask him to begin to make prayer your life, you can touch him in the morning on the subway. You better be praying on the subway. My people won't even let me in. See, I got people in New York A lot of them are from the mob.

44:16
The Gambino family Right, you know the Gambino family. You know who the Gambino family is, right, one of the five families. Right, one of my best friends, full of the Holy Ghost on fire of God, andrew Gambino. You think I'm kidding. He was there last night in the funeral. He walks up to you and says Pastor, how you doing? I said I'm doing good, bro, how you doing? You need anything? Let me know? You understand. I said okay, I'll let you know. Dead, serious man, so serious man.

44:46
So many mobsters got saved in my church in the 80s, 90s. Forget about it was crazy, you know. They stabbed my secretary 22 times in her bed because they hated us, because we bought the blacks and whites, hispanics together in the 70s. She might have been the one that stabbed, I don't know. They told me. They said, Hollihan, you're not going to live to be 30 years old if you keep this stuff up. I said really. And so they stopped us from putting up a building. They were going nuts because we brought everybody together. You understand, we brought everybody together and my secretary got stabbed 22 times with a butcher knife, ripped her what you call it the comforter she was in, completely off her body, cotton all over the wall with the guy stabbing her, and the miracle is she was released from the hospital that night because only two times did it penetrate her body about a centimeter. The cops said we've never seen the like in our life. It was crazy, crazy. I've got to stay with my point on this, but we prayed for her. Was that? It was the cops that we've never seen in our life? It was crazy, crazy. All right, I gotta stay with my point on this, but we prayed for her.

45:53
So crazy things started happening and they're going nuts, nuts, trying to stop us from building. These people are full of hatred, full of hatred for ethnicity, man, and we said you know what we're gonna do, what God tells us to do. So what happened was man, they just went nuts. They dragged us to court and they wouldn't let us put up the building. They tried to get a lot of nonsense in there, but it was all about the black white issue in Hispanic. They didn't want us all together. It's the devil. The devil divides God's heads, right. So what happened was. I'm like you know what, lord, you got to do something.

46:31
I get a phone call from the Caroleo family. He says Pastor, who do you know in the mob? I said I know some people in the mob. Yeah, but who do you really know? I said I'm going to tell you who I know why. He says because a limo pulls up yesterday to the board. You know, in Long Island you have to have a board to prove you freaking build anything.

46:43
He said this big guy gets out of the. Should I tell this? You know what? I shouldn't tell this story because some of you can only remember it. Some of you are going to say what did he preach about? I don't know, but he's talking about the mob, you know. Did he talk about prayer? I don't know. I just like the story about the mob. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I hope that guy comes back. Why? Because I like the stories about a mob. Yeah, everybody doesn't preach to tell mob stories. So you know it's crazy stuff, man.

47:15
So this guy gets out of his car. The guy's in the mob. That guy was in the Lucchese family. He knocks on the door of one of the guys that's a board member. That's got to give me approval. I didn't send the guy. He knocks on the door. I didn't send the guy. He knocks on the door. The guy opens up the door. He says are you so-and-so? Guy says yeah. He says Joey says Now who he was talking about was Joey Massaro.

47:41
He owned all the strip clubs in Long Island. He's now doing life. He says Joey says leave Hollihan alone. That's me. He says or you're going to end up in a box. You understand alone, that's me. He says, or you're gonna end up in a box. You understand, dead serious, bro. This is in the 80s.

47:54
So vick tells me. He says pastor. I said listen, I ain't saying nothing, brother. I I have given done nothing for the mob. You need to do something for the mob. You hold them for the rest of your life. You know I'm not. I know, so forget about it. So anyway, I don't know how I got in that story, but the next we've got approval in two weeks, approval came how many of you? God uses the mob. God uses the mob.

48:17
When my son was killed, right, my daughter calls me. She says Daddy, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This was 20-some years ago. The next call, I'm in Florida, they're here. The next call I get is from Roseanne and she says Pastor, we're so sorry your son, we heard about it. I says how did you know? We got it, how'd you know what happened to him? She says Joey Joey. I said Joey Joey's doing life in Marion State Prison in Illinois, next to the Iceman from Bergen County in Noriega. I said how did he? Next to the Iceman from Bergen County in Noriega. I said how did he? She says Tommy, he knows everything. He knows more what's going on there than you guys know here. Oh yeah, Forget about it. The mob, crazy people. All right, I got to close.

49:16
Joey comes to me and says the guy's in doing life now. He said pastor, I killed the guy. I said okay. He said yeah, the feds are on there, the feds, you understand. I said I understand. He says you think I'm a Christian. Now I'm thinking, thinking I hope he is. He had, uh, his buddy got saved with him and somebody hit his motorcycle. He's a pagan. You know the pagans are right. Motorcycle gang, hell's angels guys. Somebody knocked his bike over. Dude, you might as well hang yourself. If you knock one of their bikes, you're dead. It's still over.

49:49
So I get a phone call because a member of my congregation that his bike got knocked over picked up a garbage can and threw it to the guy's living room window while he's watching TV. So the guy calls me and says you, pastor, ali. I said yeah, pastor, you got a guy in your church named Soames. I said yeah, I do. He said he's supposed to be a Christian. You're supposed to be a Christian. I said yeah, he is a Christian. He says he's a Christian. He says I hit his motorcycle. He put my garbage can through the living room window. How is he a Christian? I don't know what I was going to say. I don't know. He says to me you call him a Christian. I said yes, he is.

50:28
I said now think about this If you knocked his bike down and he wasn't a Christian, you would have been in the garbage can with it. Am I right? You don't hit motorcycle gang, listen, you don't do it. You don't hit their bikes. So I said wait a minute. If he did this to you as a Christian, what do you think he would have done to you if he wasn't a Christian? Chop you up, put you in the garbage can over here. Am I right or wrong? Am I right or wrong? Next time I come here I'm coming to the Baptist church. They give a bigger shout out anyway.

51:04
How many words did Jesus tell you to pray? When you pray? 68. Our Father who art in heaven. I pray it every morning. I do. Do I pray? Sometimes? I meet with Jesus in the morning Never.

51:17
I own a very big company in Florida. I can never have enough time with the Lord. I love being in prayer. There's times I can't believe it. Jesus, three hours is gone and I'm just Lord. I can't wait. I'm with you reading the word, worshiping Jesus, hallelujah. And reading the word, not because I'm a great man of God. There are no great men of God. They were just men that belonged to a great God. And I'm not a minister.

51:36
First, I follow Jesus and I'm doing what I did when I got saved at 19. I'm just following Jesus. I'm still dependent on him. I'm still in love with him. He's my joy. I need to stay close to him because I feel so much joy when I'm close to Jesus. I need Jesus. I need his peace. I love him. If I stay loving him, I can love this Schmigiel that's driving me around all over the place, you know. So I got to say I love brother John.

51:59
You know, if I don't stay close to Jesus I'm not going to love you, I'm going to judge you. Let me try to staff the room over here. If I don't stay close to Jesus, I'll be looking at your faults. You see, adam and Eve never knew they were naked until they sinned. You will never see your brother's nakedness. When you're in sin, when you're living for God, you don't see the nakedness. It's only when you're sinned do you see other people's sin. So you've got to stay close to Jesus. The Bible says as in water, face answered to face. So the heart of man to man. What you see in each other is a reflection of what's looking out. You have to stay full of Jesus so you can love people. Love covers a multitude of sin. It covers sin.

52:35
Did you hear that about sister so-and-so? Yes, I did, sister bucket mouth. What else do you want to tell me? One lady used to go to my church. She's like you know, one of your deacons smokes. You know she smokes.

52:46
I said Jesus, the one that's in my neighborhood, she smokes. I said okay, you know what, sweetheart, there's no scripture in the Bible that says you shouldn't smoke. But you shouldn't smoke. I mean, honestly, it's killing, right, I said. But there's a lot of talk in that Bible about the tongue.

53:02
I'd rather have a deacon smoking a cigar over here than a mouth that won't stop gossiping. Holy shmoly over here, than a mouth that won't stop gossiping. Amen, holy shmoly. I mean I'd rather have them. Don't smoke and don't gossip. But yeah, that's where we get up there.

53:20
How many are glad you're here this morning? Hey, listen, man. You know, if this wasn't a great message, I wasn't prepared. I just came to send my daughter to heaven. I didn't know I was preaching today. I had to put this together real quick. But do you think it was from the Lord, are you sure? Then I have to say I think I'm done. All right, Remember, that's it.

53:46
So the heartfelt prayer James 5, 6, tell them I love you, bro. Are we having a good time tonight? Are you learning something over here? Are you learning? I'm walking over here? Are you guys learning something? Are you learning something? Somebody do this. I think the person next to you might have gone home to heaven and you don't even know it. Make sure you're right Now. Listen, jesus, have mercy. Sometimes some of you look like you've been baptized in pickle juice. Listen to me now. Soul is past the core, hold on, stop. So anyway, I'll make this quick. James 5, 16, the heartfelt prayer of a Christian has much power and the Greek, kone Greek, says it has, it's wonderful, brings wonderful results. It just has to come from the heart. It has to come from the heart.

54:44
One day there's a car broken down on the side of the road. Guy couldn't fix it. He's got his kids, his wife's, in the car. It's hot. A limousine pulls up. True story I'm done, I'm actually done. Yet and um, because I'm getting hungry, jesus help me. I don't know, jesus help me, I don't know. So anyway, car put, limousine pulls. This guy gets out three pieces, just start.

55:20
Guy gets out of the car. He walks over to the guy. Guy's covered with grease, so the car won't start. He said, sir, can I look at your engine? Guy says go ahead. He said, you can get stuff all over the guy. He says, don't worry about it. Rolls up his sleeves, begins to work on the engine. Five minutes, boom, it's fixed. Get in there. Guy turns it on, boom, car stops. That's unbelievable, guys. Okay, he starts walking back to him. He said sir, why would you stop and do this? You, he said. You know who are you. He says my name is henry ford. That's one of my cars. I don't like to see my cars on the side of the road broken. I want them fixed.

55:56
God is your fixer. God doesn't want your marriage broken. I need somebody to help me. He doesn't want you broken in your addiction. He doesn't want to leave you in that mess you're in. When he comes by, he sees a broken heart. He sees who's left you, who's walked out on you. He sees who's promised you this but gave you nothing. He knows your heart is hurt. He knows you need fixing. But the Lord will do it. He'll fix you. How many know he's a fixer Sometimes. Sometimes he will put you in a fix. See, god will fix a fix to fix you. But if you fix the fix God put you in to fix you, he'll fix another fix to fix you. So when God puts you in a fix, let God do the fixing in you, because God knows and the closest people know you need some fixing.

56:42
Over here. God pulls up. He don't want to see your life broken down. He's going to fix it. Stand to your feet with me, bower, behead and every eye closed. I'm calling you to Jesus right now.

57:00
You may have walked in this building. You said, mr Hollihan, tommy, I believe in God, but so does the devil. The longest journey is not from here to China, it's the 18 inches from the head to the heart. Whosoever shall believe from their heart on the Lord Jesus. Every head bowed, please. Every eye closed.

57:19
2,000 years ago, on a bloody cross that became an altar, the Son of God was nailed to that cross. Several hours prior, they took his back off with a cat of nine tails, put a bonnet of thorns one inch on his skull and then beat it into his head with a reed, a bat Spit in his face, blindfolded him and tore his beard out, and every moment of that would happen to him. I should have gone through that. Jesus Christ died as me, not just for me, but as me. He died on that cross because of my sins and your sins. Yes, sir, yes, ma'am, I said our sins. You see, something unites every one of us under the sound of my voice, and I preach this in meetings right all over America, to mass thousands, sometimes to hundreds, but every day to a few. I bring the same message.

58:13
We all have a similarity. We all have a common disease. It's called sin. We're born with it. It's what makes us angry when we shouldn't be selfish, when we should be selfless. It makes us hate and it makes us just do the things that we shouldn't do. My God, what is wrong with me? It's sin. It's in our nature. A dog barks by nature, a cat meows by nature. And we, my good friends, we sin by nature. When my children were little nope, they never saw mommy and daddy fighting over anything or saying give me that, give me, give me. But here they were, just one and two years old, fighting over a little toy Give me that, mine, mine, mine Hitting each other. Where'd they get that from? That's not taught. That's their nature.

59:01
What can cleanse your soul from sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is that flow that makes me clean. I know no other felt. I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus, While every head is bowed and every eye is closed.

59:29
I'm asking you to come to Jesus. I may never see you again, and if you forget me, you have forgotten nobody important. But if you walk out of this building and leave your heart empty, trying to fill it over and over again with things that are temporary. You see, friend, there's a God-shaped hole in your heart and only Christ can fill it. All religions reach up for God. Christianity reaches down for man. Would you come to Jesus today? Would you come to Jesus? I'm not here to get you to join a church or religion. There are several people here that used to really walk with Jesus, but you drifted away. You drifted away and you're not happy. Come back to my Jesus. Now.

01:00:23
I'm going to count to three and at the count of three, I want to simply ask those of you that say pastor Tommy, I want to give my life to Jesus. I want you to put your hand up and I'm going to pray for you right now that I'm going to leave. Just, I'm going to pray for you. He dragged you across, up the hill of Calvary. You can surely raise your hands and mean business. You're coming to Jesus right now. It's time, there's no more time left. It's the midnight hour, friend, you have no time left. He'll take you as you are and change your heart and mind. You'll have a miracle where you'll say oh, my God, I feel his presence and power. It's really real. You must be born again. Yes, yes, you must be born again.

01:01:07
Jesus said that I'm going to count to three. At the count of three, I'm going to pray for you. Put your hand up if you want Jesus, get ready. One Father, touch every heart in this building. You touch Every heart, every mind, every life. Get ready, he's speaking to you. Two there's an angel on one shoulder saying give your life to Jesus. There's a devil on the other saying don't do it. Don't do it. It's time for you to come, my friend, to Christ, and ask his forgiveness and invite him in to be your Lord. Get ready with your hands. You're not here to talk to man, you're here to talk to God. Those of you that want to receive Jesus as your own personal Lord and Savior right now. Every head bowed, every eye closed. One, two, three put your hand up right now so I can pray for you. I see that hand. I see that hand. There's others here. There you, come on, come on.

01:01:56
Don't let the enemy, don't let pride keep you where your sin has brought you. You're coming to Jesus. You'll walk out of this building. If you mean it, you'll say oh my God, oh my God. I feel the presence and the power of Jesus Christ, not a religion, a relationship. Every one of you, raise your hand. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. Get them up there. Don't be ashamed. Keep them up. You're not ashamed of Christ. Now, pray this prayer with me, those of you there's three more right now Three more of you that need to surrender. That's all I'm asking you to do Surrender to Jesus. Stop fighting the one that loves you most to Jesus right now. Yes, I heard what the Lord just told me. I don't hear voices, but I heard what the Lord told me. I'm going for souls right now. I don't need anybody's approval, I'm going for souls right now. This decision you're about to make will be the difference whether you go to heaven or hell.

01:02:51
In 1959, a woman driving down the road, 63 years old, driving her car, when a truck got on her bumper and began to blow her horn, every head bowed. He blew the horn over and over. She looked in the rearview mirror and this man was screaming in his truck. So she brought it up to 65, 69. He followed her bumper on her bumper, on her bumper Up to 80, 90,. He's still with this tractor trailer on her bumper blowing and screaming at her.

01:03:22
In a frenzy she found an exit and drove off the highway into a garage and put her head on her steering wheel at a gas station, crying, and next to her, pulled the truck. Out of the truck jumped this maniac trucker with a wrench in his hand. He ran over to her. She looked as he raised the wrench. She fell on the seat. But he opened up the back door and he struck on the head a man with a knife that had been hidden in the back seat. He had been trying to warn her. You have a lunatic in the back seat of your car that's going to kill you.

01:04:03
The one that she thought was going to hurt her was the one that had come to save her. And the maniac in the backseat, my friend, is you. You're destroying your life without Jesus Christ. Christ has come to get the maniac out of your life and to change your life. Are you ready? Are you ready for that?

01:04:27
Pray this prayer Jesus, come on. Jesus, I need you to forgive me for all of my sins. Wash me in your blood, save my soul now. I believe. Lord, lord, two thousand years ago you died on the cross and rose from the grave. You took my judgment. You took what I deserve. Now, save my soul, come into my heart, fill me with your spirit, change my life. I want to belong to you now. Save me, come into my heart, fill me with your spirit, change my life. I want to belong to you now. Save me from myself and my sins. Thank you, jesus, for coming into my heart. One more thing, lord. Should I die? Before you return, remember me when I stand before you, Saved by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone.

01:05:30 - Speaker 2
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