Barbara: There’s going to be a revival in your family, there’s going to be a revival in your household because you’re going to be transformed, and as you’re transformed you not going to be able to keep your mouth shut– you’re just going to become contagious.) And see that’s what’s going to happen. That when God begins to move upon us and move through us we become contagious. People want to be with us. I just got back from a cruise, and went with a good friend of mine, everybody wanted to be with us. It was like we’d go somewhere and all the waiters would gather around us, we’d go out to the pool and they’d all gather around us, they’d say “oh, we’ve been looking for you.” Why were they looking for us? It was they sensed a presence that drew them. You and I, when God said ‘let there be light” you are filled with the glory of God. You’ve got to understand that. When you walk into a room, glory walks into a room. When glory walks into a room, anything can happen. You can even get really happy! (Barbara has a word of knowledge: And I just say: God, give her more, more, more, more, more.) Because there is an anointing of joy that is contagious. That there is a new joy [like what] broke out in Toronto that’s going to break out again. And you can just keep talking and, you know, it’s just going to happen– What is that? That’s the joy of the Lord. I believe anywhere God is moving joy is going to break out. Where revival is happening joy is a natural counterpart. You know that because in the New Testament remember when they had imprisoned Peter– it was at the point where the disciples, the followers of Jesus– there weren’t many, some have already been killed– they weren’t upset. We get upset if we stub our toe. You know we get upset if we can’t pay the bill one month. All the apostles were being killed but they were still radically in prayer, they were radically moving forward, the gospel was advancing. They didn’t let every little “whip-snit” of some stupid problem hold them down and keep them back. And I say whatever problem you have it wasn’t as bad as the disciples back then. Have all your pastors and friends been killed? And you know you’re just left, and Nero’s burning a lot of people, tarring them and burning them. NO–we’re upset if we lose our white house with the picket fence –when just think you’re free of all the confinements of having to pay a monthly mortgage. You’ve just gotten out of everything. Now you can go anywhere, just find some ship and work for it and go to outer Slobodia and preach the gospel. But we look at what we are losing rather than what we are gaining. And I believe that there is a change in perspective, that the New Testament church had a perspective. They didn’t have wealth. The United States is filled with wealth. We’re not happy unless we have wealth. I don’t believe God wants us poor, but neither is wealth the answer. God is the answer. And we can get trapped by wealth. And I’m not against wealth at all, in fact I just believe we’re on the verge of coming into wealth, the Lord said I’m getting ready to bless you beyond what you can think or imagine. He said that to me and he said something to me that made me a nervous wreck, except that I knew that it was God. He said “I want you to give away your car.”
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