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Supernatural Provision and Breakthroughs

i want to get right into the word open your bibles to the 14th chapter of matthew if you will please 14th chapter of matthew and while we're turning there while you're turning there i'm already there i want to share with you a portion of the prophetic word the lord gave me for 2015. how many of you have been watching brother copeland's broadcast the last couple of weeks boy i'm telling you we got into some some deep things and talking about the glory of god and signs and wonders and miracles before evelyn roberts went home to be with the lord and then of course brother roberts later they were in our home and spent a couple of days with us and um i asked brother roberts sitting at the table i said brother roberts what's the last thing the lord has shown you what's the last visitation what was it about and he said this he said the lord said to me oral if you think you saw miracles and healings under the big tent you haven't seen anything yet they're coming back big time everybody say big time boy that blessed me praise god because i am i didn't grow up in oral roberts tent meetings my wife did my wife carolyn uh her mom and dad took her to oral roberts tent meetings when she was just a baby put her on a on a quilt on the sawdust floor she was in his meeting she was in a.a allen meetings she was in jack cole meetings she was in william brennan meetings in fact her pastor jack moore in shreveport louisiana life tabernacle was best friends with william brennan and carolyn's great uncle or her uncle uh a man by the name of young brown if you see a picture of william brennan usually you'll see alongside him gordon lindsay jack moore and this tall native american man by the name of young brown that was carolyn's uncle that traveled with william brannon so she grew up seeing signs and wonders and miracles from a little girl i didn't grow up in those kind of circles and when i finally surrendered my life to the lord in 1969 a few years later i had the privilege of meeting oral roberts and uh became friends and co-laborers in the lord i served on his board for over 25 years and we traveled together not only here in america from time to time but other nations as well and the first time i met him i said brother roberts i feel like i've been robbed he said what do you mean i said well i didn't grow up in your meetings i didn't get to see those signs and wonders and miracles like my wife did he said well you know we have all that on film and uh it's down in the archives and anytime you want to go down there and watch them i'll i'll assign a oru student to go down there with you and you can just watch him as long as you want to i said when he said whenever you want to i said how about right now he said okay so they took me down to the archives and they got out those 16 millimeter film of those crusades and turned them on and i'm telling you i sat there and cried like a baby watching the anointing of god just so amazing and i i and when that one was over i said show another one and they showed another one these were back in the 50s you know and when he got through with that and i said show me another one finally after several hours brother roberts came back down he said you're still here i said yes sir i said can i do this again tomorrow he said yes if you'd like so i went in there and stayed all day the next day just watching all that he came down and he said i've never seen anybody so hungry for this i said you looking at one hungry man i am hungry for the glory of god i'm hungry for the power of god for the anointing of god amen he said well i'll tell you what since you enjoy this so much i'll just have them run them off on vhs back then and you can take them home and watch them and so i did man i took those home and i used to even take them on the road with me when i traveled somewhere and i'd set up in the room and i'd watch those videos of those crusades and sometimes it just gets so strong i'd open the hotel door and take off running around the swimming pool shouting screaming rejoicing come back in and get me another dose and take off running again you know people thought i'd lost my mind and but that's okay praise god i'm jenny the anointing was so amazing and you know a lot of people think well you know that time has come and gone and you know we'll never see that again oh yes we will in fact we're already seeing it again praise god amen we may not be in the full thrust of it but we are in the room and we are headed for the greater glory beyond anything we've ever experienced before and i believe beyond anything any other generation has ever experienced before amen i plan to be right in the middle of it how about you amen so coming into 2015 the lord said this i'm not going to read the whole thing uh i'm just going to read the first part of it he said experiencing the greater glory is still my plan and you'll see the great i am will visit your land manifestations of my spirit as never before and demonstrations of my power from shore to shore supernatural provision and breakthroughs too yes this is my plan and my will for you now there's much more to that but then he said at the end 2015 will be known as the year of visitations manifestations and demonstrations of the holy spirit hallelujah amen visitations manifestations and demonstrations of the holy spirit and you know the lord gave me this october the 18th 2014 as we were coming into 2015 and i'm telling you from the moment i received that from the lord i have been seeing that happen in fact everywhere i've been uh every meeting could turn into an extended meeting i was in canada not too long ago and was there for just supposed to be there for just three nights and i'm telling you the people didn't want it to end they didn't want they didn't want the meetings in they didn't want to go home at night i mean god was showing up doing marvelous things i was in florida just a few days ago three nights four nights in a meeting and the people started praying my flights would be canceled they didn't want the meeting to end you know it almost worked we had ice in dallas fort worth and i couldn't get there so i just flew to california praise the lord you know i was scheduled to be in california in a couple days anyway so it just went early but i'm telling you god is doing some exciting things amen brother copeland and i were in a meeting together here not too long ago and and he started flowing in the gifts of the spirit and i'm flowing in the gifts of the spirit right along with him and we got back to our room afterwards he said man this is like it was when we first started out he said i hadn't sensed this kind of anointing in a long time he said it's back big time hallelujah amen folks we are headed for the supernatural like no other generation has ever experienced praise god you know brother hagin wrote a book entitled tongues beyond the upper room if you haven't read it get it if you haven't read it in a while read it again there's a chapter in there right at the end of the book where he says that the lord said to him that there is going to be a new wave of his glory manifested in the earth and then he said this and i will visit every hungry heart i will visit every hungry heart sounds like to me that's probably the prerequisite is a hungry heart i'm a student of revival i'm a student of awakenings outpourings whatever you want to call them i've studied them for years and years i still study them and every one of them that i have studied there seems to be this this common thread or this this uh common characteristic and that is number one they hungered for it people hungered for it anybody hungry in here tonight they hungered for it number two they believed they would see it in their lifetime how many of you believe you're going to see it in your lifetime praise god number three they prayed it in in fact in brother hagin's book he said praying in the spirit is the impetus to it it it is important that we pray in the spirit if we're going to experience it you find you study any of the previous outpourings of god and people prayed them in hallelujah you see we're not waiting on god god's waiting on us can you say amen so i believe we've entered into a new dimension and the glory of god which is the manifested presence of god the manifested power of god and the manifested goodness of god is about to be displayed like we have never experienced before anybody ready for it praise god once you give the lord a shout in advance can you do that come on you can shout better than that give him a good shout out hallelujah now i want you to look in matthew chapter 14. and i want us to begin in verse 13 and i want you to see a pattern here when jesus heard of it he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart and when the people had heard thereof they followed him on foot out of the cities and jesus went forth and saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion toward them and healed their sick now in luke's account of this in chapter 9 verse 11 in the gospel of luke it says he healed them that had need of healing he healed every person who had need of healing now notice once again there is a multitude of people that have come out to this place where he is and he healed all of them that were in need of healing verse 15 and when it was evening his disciples came to him saying this is a desert place and the time is now past send the multitude away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves vigils but jesus said unto them they need not depart give ye them to eat and they say unto him we have here but five loaves and two fishes he said bring them hither to me and he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves and the two fishes and looking up to heaven he blessed and break and gave the loaves to the disciples and the disciples to the multitude and they did all eat and were filled and they took up the fragments that remained twelve baskets full and they that had eaten were about five thousand men beside women and children now notice all this took place in the same day now notice it's very clear that there were 5 000 men besides the women and children so if every man was married now we've got a crowd of ten thousand if every man and woman had one child now we've got a crowd of fifteen thousand more than likely they had more than one child let's say they had two or three so it's possible that this crowd is close to 35 to 40 000 people are you with me and notice he healed everybody in that crowd who was in need of healing how many people do you suppose in a crowd of 40 000 people needed healing 39 500 and you know huh ask a crowd one night i was in a in a church where there were over 5 000 people and i said how many of you need healing tonight and it'll look like every one of them stood up you get a crowd of people together and the majority of them need healing in some way so the bible says he healed all them that were in need of healing now that would have been a good day right there that had been a marvelous day i mean the disciples could have gone you know to bed that night if they could have slept at all after seeing all the healings and miracles i don't know how they possibly could you know but if they were able to go to sleep that night they went to bed with this on their mind you know man we have seen some things today but he's not through yet that evening after he had healed everybody in that crowd who had need of healing then he performed supernatural provision notice how signs wonders and miracles are not limited to physical healings and many times in our minds we think that way when we think about signs wonders and miracles we're thinking about cripples walking we're thinking about blind singing or uh the deaf hearing of the the the the uh person that's lame leaping and walking and praising god and that's all part of it but signs wonders and miracles are not to be limited to physical healings supernatural provision is very much a part of that and that's what i want to deal with tonight i want to talk to you about supernatural provision the prophetic word the lord gave me was that he would not only visit the land that we would see his power and demonstration beyond anything we've ever seen before but there would be supernatural provision and breakthroughs too how many of you could use some supernatural provision anybody need a breakthrough praise god well i challenge you to mix your faith with what you are about to hear because if you don't mix faith with it then it won't profit you the bible says so set your faith right now that you're going to believe god throughout the course of this year and hereafter but especially beginning this year for supernatural provision and breakthroughs beyond anything you've ever experienced before will anybody set their selves in agreement with me praise god amen look at your neighbor and say i'm setting my faith right now for supernatural provision and breakthroughs beginning this year beyond anything i've ever experienced before give the lord a shout in advance amen hallelujah so notice how they go together in the mind of jesus you heal the sick and you provide whatever else people might need even if it has to be done supernaturally now i like to think of supernatural provision is god doing it in ways that you couldn't dream up in a thousand years amen see if you can dream it up then it might not be supernatural i mean in ways you couldn't dream up in a thousand years like uh when carolyn and i first started in the ministry back there in 1969 and uh we we had an old car that was absolutely worn out had over i don't know nearly 150 000 miles on it engine shot transmission shot everything was shot in fact i found out what kind of faith man kenneth copeland was first time he got in that car he called me one day and said i need you to take me to the airport well my car didn't didn't it didn't respond to putting a key into an ignition and then it just started you prayed in tongues at least 15 minutes before he ever turned the ignition on it only responded to tongues anybody ever had an old car like that and brother copeland wanted me to come take him to the airport so i got out there early because brother copeland don't like being late so i got out there extra early made sure this thing's going to start and it's cold winter day in fort worth and and i drive over to brother copeland's house and go inside and get his luggage and put it in my car left the car running you know didn't want to take a chance the thing might not start again so i left it running and got him in the car and we're driving to the airport and it's so cold brother copeland said jerry turn the heater up i said don't be moved by what you feel it's on high right now [Laughter] he said the heater's on i said on hi look right here hi he said it's not doing anything i said i told you don't be moved by what you feel you don't want to taught me that it's so cold you can see our breath as we're talking to each other you know and so we drive a little further and brother copeland is sitting over there shivering man and finally he said out loud i mean in a loud voice in the name of jesus i command this heater to work and boy that thing came on it got so hot in there i had to turn it off i mean it'd like to run us out of there [Applause] i said brother copeland don't ease up on your faith now because we are approaching an intersection i'm about to turn left the transmission slips sometime and traffic's coming your way you better keep your faith on the line so he continued to pray in tongues you know so i found out what kind of faith man he was in my car well i get invited to come to oklahoma city to do a youth meeting and i'm in that old car and i got i got my daughters with me they're just little girls they're they're probably uh well jerian was born in 68 terry in 69 this is 1971 so they're they're just a couple of years old two three year year old and we're headed to oklahoma city in this whole car the tires are so bad you can see the air in them [Laughter] especially the two on the front and i don't have money for new tires i don't have money for used tires i don't have money for retreads some of you don't even know what retread is and and i'm believing god this thing's going to get us to oklahoma city and get us back i had just enough money to get up there feed my family put some gas in the car and hope to god they're going to give me an offering before i head back because if they don't we go we're going to hitchhike or something you know and so uh we're headed up there and my girl said daddy we're hungry well there's a little dairy queen looking place up here on the on the highway off to the right so i stopped in there and i bought a hamburger and fries and two cokes and we split it between the four of us and then we started to get back up on interstate 35 going north to oklahoma city well i look back to make sure there's no traffic coming because once again i told you this transmission slips they don't always engage when you accelerate and so i made sure i looked all the way back to dallas and nothing was coming and then i i was just about to get on the on the interstate and i looked again and there was a truck coming i guess i didn't see him and so i had to wait for that truck well it went past us this truck must have been doing 75 and we're on the access road waiting to get up and it was a firestone tire company truck loaded with brand new tires and so it flies by us i look back make sure nothing's coming and i get on the highway and we're heading toward oklahoma oklahoma city and uh i had met a man before this uh out in california and he gave how many remember eight tracks and he gave me one of his eight tracks one of his first eight tracks and i put it in my car and carolyn and myself and the girls were all singing along with him and it was andre crouch and he was singing i've learned to trust in jesus i've learned to trust in god through it all and so we're all singing through it all i've learned to trust in jesus through it all i've learned to trust in god and we're all singing all of a sudden i said carolyn what is that coming down the road she said i don't know i said it's coming toward us in our lane she said i don't know i said it looks like two tires she said it is two tires two tires were rolling down the road in our lane together and about a hundred yards before we got to them they rolled off in the ditch on the side of the road well i knew they fell off that truck so i pulled off and i got them and put them in the trunk of my car and i drove to oklahoma city as soon as i got there i called every firestone dealership in oklahoma city to see which one of their stores had two tires fall off the truck and every one of them i talked to they said son nobody's reported any tires missing i said i know they fell off your truck because i saw the truck go by me earlier today and i know they fell off that truck and i called every one of them they none of them reported any tires missing finally the last guy said listen i don't know where they uh what what anything about them nobody's reported any tires missing we've got all our inventory so as far as i'm concerned they're yours i said okay so i went back and i looked in the trunk and wouldn't you know it they were exactly my size amen exactly my size now do you think for one moment i could have dreamed up that scenario now god i've got to have two tires oh god i need two tires oh jesus we need two tires lord how you gonna do it i know have two tires fall off a truck roll down the highway i couldn't dream that up but god dreamed it up why he has no limitations somebody said well how do you think he did it i never asked i don't know as far as i'm concerned an angel came down just thumped two off praise god and then replaced him before they got back to the shop and i wound up with my two tires hallelujah now i call that supernatural provision so i said i don't believe that well if you don't believe that one you're going to struggle with this one you're going to struggle with this one big time another time by this time i've got a better car now this is 1973 and god's blessed me with a 1969 pontiac bonneville it wasn't a new car but it was far better it was like a new car low mileage i mean brand almost like a brand new car and and once again i'm going to oklahoma city but this time i'm going to preach my grandfather's funeral and so we go up to oklahoma city we're driving along there man it's nice driving a nice car you know not have to be concerned about transmission whether it's going to start or not the tires man you know as we say back where i come from we in high cotton now man and so we're driving along there you know and and get to oklahoma city do the funeral well the relatives hadn't seen me in a long time they're begging us to stay i needed to be back in fort worth the next day so we stayed as late as we could and then we got in the car i filled the car up with gas and we started down i-35 south head back to fort worth now by this time it's one o'clock in the morning and we're driving to fort worth my daughters are asleep in the back seat carolyn's asleep uh she brought a pillow with her she leaned up there and she's asleep and i'm driving along here in the boondocks out there on i-35 i don't even have a clue where i'm at right now and i'm just driving along there you know and all of a sudden i heard a loud noise under my car and i ran over something in the road and i didn't see it i didn't know what it was but it was so loud hit the bottom of the car and it woke carolyn up she said what is that i said i don't know i ran over something it's okay just going back to sleep and so i'm driving along there and i just happen to look down at my fuel gauge and it's doing this and then i smell fuel whatever i hit a pipe or something in the road it knocked the gas in my fuel tank so i stopped the car and got over on the side of the road and looked underneath and gas is pouring out of my fuel tank now here it is 1 32 o'clock in the morning out on i-35 i don't remember how far back the last town is i don't know how far it is to the next town and i'm thinking what am i going to do i mean i sit there and watch all the fuel drain out of my car well i don't want to take off walking because i don't want to leave my family out there on the highway by themselves late at night like that and so you know what am i going to do so carol and i just joined hands we said god we need help your el shall die you're the god in whom nothing is impossible send us help and so we sat there in the car and i'm looking in my rear view mirror to see when some headlights might show up it was quite a while there was no traffic out on the highway that night finally i saw some headlights and i got out of the car got my flashlight and i stood in front of my car i didn't want to get out there in the highway and maybe the guy not to see me and run over me so i'm i'm standing out there with my flashlight like this and this pickup truck pulls in behind me a guy gets out of the truck he says um what do you need i told him what had happened i said can you help me he said that's what i'm here for i said great i'm glad you're here for this he went to the back of his truck got a chain hooked it to his rear bumper hooked it to mine front and he told me about 15 miles we got off the interstate went across the interstate and over on the left was a little service station looked like it had been built in the 40s and there was a little cafe next door to it and that's it now i'm sure there was a town a little further down but right there off the interstate that's it this little gas station and this little cafe and so we pull up in there he reaches in his pocket gets out a set of keys and unlocks the door to this service station and then he flips the light on and then he goes into the garage area he opens the overhead door flips the light on we push my car inside the little station he puts it up on the rack and then he repairs my fuel tank we push it out to the pumps he fueled my car with gas and he wouldn't take a dime i said sir you don't understand you were a major blessing to us tonight i don't know what we'd have done without you and he said again the only thing he ever said uh the whole time i was with him he said again that's what i'm here for that's what i'm here for i said sir please let me pay you no that's what i'm here for and he would not take any money so we drove home and of course you know we're rejoicing all the way i mean god just did a major miracle for us well we get home in about i don't know four or five months later i'm asked to come back to oklahoma city to do a meeting and i'm thinking on the way up there i'm going to stop at that little station and thank that man again and see if he won't let me buy him lunch or something you know so i'm watching for that little station i saw it i pulled off the highway there's the little station a little cafe next door i pull up front of that station it's locked up it doesn't look like it's been open at all since the last time i was there so i went next door to the cafe i said sir do you know the man that owns this service station he said son that service station's been closed for years i said no about four months ago six months ago uh there was a man pulled my car up here turned the light on repaired my my my fuel tank and filled my car with gas he said not at this station i said yes sir right here you got to remember your little cafe i saw the name and you're the one this is right next door he said no that's not possible i said yes sir the man flipped the light on repaired my gas tank and filled my car up with gas he said son that station's been closed for years there's no electricity there there's no there's no gas in those tanks not in the pumps nor the tanks underneath it that's impossible i said no sir this is where it happened and he would not believe me that that happened there but i knew that's where it happened and so i finally got my car got on the highway and started toward oklahoma city i said lord i know that's the place he said it was i said then why don't that man understand that this happened there he said because he can understand i said why not he said didn't i tell you there will be times when you might entertain angels [Applause] i said yes sir he said well you entertained an angel don't you remember what he kept saying to you that's what i'm here for that's what i'm here for hebrews says they're all ministering spirits sent forth to minister unto those who were heirs of salvation i found out angels can drive pickups i found out angels have chains in the back of them pickups i found out angels have keys to buildings that don't have keys i found out angels can turn on lights when there's no electricity i found out angels can get gas out of tanks that are empty hallelujah i don't believe that well you're gonna really struggle with this one [Laughter] one time peter needed tax money i said one time peter needed tax money and jesus said go fishing and the first fish you catch take the money out of his mouth pay your taxes and mine now peter before joining jesus christ evangelistic association had been a professional fisherman he james john mr zabadee were all in the fishing business and you know if that had ever happened to peter before he would have immediately said oh yeah yeah i remember a time when that happened once before when i got money out of a fish never happened to him never happened to him and do you think he could have dreamed up that scenario no if he had he wouldn't ask jesus about what to do and he went fishing and the first fish he caught he took the money out of his mouth and did what jesus told him to do with it that's supernatural provision you see that's provision that you couldn't dream up that you couldn't make happen that you couldn't you couldn't possibly dream it up on your own and listen the god who did that is the god who wants to continue doing that if his people will just trust him hallelujah can you say amen now a preacher friend of mine i won't call his name but uh i met him a number of years ago down in south louisiana and he was not brought up in the word of faith in fact the circles he was in they they kind of talked ugly about us who preached faith but somehow he and i wind up being speakers in this conference down in south louisiana and uh he heard me preach that night came up to me afterward he said he said i've never heard anything like this he said i've been wrong about you guys he said if this is the word of faith i want it he said would you teach me i said well yeah i'd be happy to he said can i come visit you sometime and just sit down with you and spend the day with you and you teach me the word of faith he said man this is what i need to get a hold of he said i've never heard anything like this this is not what they told me you guys preach and so he came brought his wife carol and i just fell in love with him and so we invited him to stay in our ministry apartment for a few days and had him over to our home for lunch and we'd go out for dinner and then we'd stay up till one and two o'clock in the morning every night just feeding them the word of faith and they were like little babies i mean they were like little birds just taking it in and they were getting more and more excited about it and he'd say now brother jerry how did you how did you acquire all this your ministry you know you don't have any debt how did you do that uh how did you get your airplane how did you get your buildings how do you do that we don't know how to do that so i taught them on the law of seedtime and harvest i said everything you see came from sowing seed everything has a testimony everything is a harvest from seeds we sow we sowed when we didn't have anything we sowed our way out of debt we sowed our way out of lack we sowed our way out of want and everything we have is paid for and has a testimony to it praise god and so i'm teaching him the law of seedtime and harvest he said but how does god bring the harvest to you i said that part i never know i never know how god's going to do it and really that's not my job to figure out how god's going to do it my job is to believe he can and believe he will hallelujah amen that's all i'm required to do believe he can and believe he will he said but i just don't understand how you can just trust him like that and and i said well when you've done it as long as i have then praise god it just becomes first nature to you you just dare believe i said you know i don't care if god has to use an old dog with a bag full of money to meet my needs if that's how god wants to do it then fine with me i said i have a pond right out here by my house it don't make me any difference if god sends me out there and tells me the first fish i catch out of my pond take the money out he said you really believe that i said well why not it happened to peter he said you're a nut i said i may be but i'm a nut with my needs met you're the nut that don't know how. amen he said you really believe this i said i'm telling you this is the way we've lived i'm not telling you i've got money out of a fish's mouth i'm not telling you an old dog is brought a bag full of money but my attitude is i don't care how god does it my job is just to believe you can believe he will and let god figure it out in fact a lot of times when i go to bed at night last thing i'll say god your word says you never you neither sleep nor slumber i'm human i need sleep i'm going to bed since you're going to be up all night figure it all out and tell me about it in the morning hallelujah amen hallelujah so this preacher friend of mine he left my house and went to alabama to preach a meeting and when he got there the pastor said you don't have anything to do today we don't start preaching till tomorrow he said man i'm a fisherman i love fishing he said you want to go fishing with me he said well i've never fished much you'll have to show me what to do i don't know much about fishing he said that's fine just come out and get in the boat with me we'll sit out there and fellowship and i'll show you how to fix so they're out there in this lake and this got it's full of big mouth bass you know and so this preacher friend of mine that had spent this time with me he cast his rod out there in a little while man this bass hit that thing he reeled it in he got it in the boat and he picked it up and he said pastor what is this what is this in this fish's mouth he said what he said look something yellow wrapped around its lip he said oh my lord you caught the prize he said what do you mean he said they came out here excuse me they came out here and they took several of these bass and they put a yellow band in their mouth and anybody that catches one wins a thousand dollars he said you just won a thousand dollars he got on his cell phone and told me he said brother jerry you're not going to believe this i said i'm the believer you're the non-believer what he said i just caught a fish that's worth a thousand dollars i said i'll expect the tithe in the mail right now that he couldn't dream up that scenario but god did and i think god did it just for him to inspire his faith in fact it wasn't it wasn't too long after that i'm not i'm i'm not talking about days or weeks but it it was less than two years after that that guy learned how to believe god financially and one day he comes to my office and he says this is for teaching me the word of faith and handed me a check for a hundred thousand dollars so it was working for him hallelujah he learned how to tap into supernatural provision can you say amen look at your neighbor and say and god's no respecter of persons the other person on the other side i'm probably next [Applause] can you say amen i know let's go to genesis chapter 1 genesis chapter 1 i'm sorry genesis chapter 17. genesis chapter 17. let's let's look a little deeper in the word about supernatural provision hallelujah you all know the story here god says to abraham when he's 99 years old that i'll make my covenant between me and thee i'll multiply thee exceedingly he'd already told him in genesis chapter 12 that he would bless him and the amplified says not only bless him but give him an abundant increase of favors and don't you know the story of how you know god said they would have a child and from this child would become a mighty nation and of course sarah can't figure out how this could possibly be in fact she laughed when she heard it god said why did your wife sarah laugh and then he says to her is there anything too hard for the lord in the little hebrew it's el shaddai the god in whom nothing is impossible is anything too hard for the god in whom nothing is impossible and of course over a period of time you know it looks like it's not going to work so they lean to the arm of the flesh don't look so holy we've all done it you know god's taken too long so we make things happen and so one day you know abraham comes home from whatever was he was doing and sarah says uh you know i've really been praying about this seeking the lord and uh you know abraham it's just no way that i can have a child you know that i know that i don't know why god even said that but i have figured it out that hagar my handmaiden she can conceive and perhaps that's the way god wants you to have this child did you notice that abraham didn't say i rebuked that devil get off my wife he said that's a wonderful idea and an ishmael was born amen an ishmael paul picks up on this in galatians and he says ishmael was of the flesh so now we're talking about people who have decided that god's taken too long we can't figure out how he's going to do it so we're going to make it happen ourselves and we're also talking about the father of faith except when this all happened he's not the same man that we read about in genesis 17 when he's 99. he's not the same man that we read about in romans chapter 4 where he staggered not at the promise of god he uh was not moved by the deadness of sarah's womb neither his own body now dead being nearly a hundred years old see the man paul's writing about in romans 4 is not the man that had ishmael he is the man but we're not talking about when he was that age he didn't become this great faith hero until he was 99. are you with me and if you study your bible very closely you'll notice that the moment ishmael was born god didn't speak to abraham again for 13 years and when he talks to him again it's genesis 17 where we just read and it's not a casual conversation it was actually a rebuke he says stand before me and walk upright and be perfect in other words he's saying abraham i don't need your help all i need is your faith the bible said he fell on his face and then from that moment he never looks back he's not considering sarah's deadness of her womb nor his own body he staggered not at the promise of god and then ish isaac was born and paul picks up on this once again in galatians and says ishmael was of the flesh but isaac by the spirit there are some things that we make happen for ourselves and then there's things that come by faith supernatural things amen i learned a long time ago you don't want to fly ishmael airplanes you don't want to live in ishmael houses you don't want to drive ishmael cars and you certainly do not want an ishmael wife or an ishmael husband they're hard to get rid of in fact the problem we're having in the world today is an ishmael problem amen see what abraham and sarah did wouldn't have all these wars going on wasn't for them leaning to the flesh okay so the moment that this man settles it in his heart no more leaning to the arm of the flesh i will stagger not at the promise of god i am not going to consider the deadness of her womb nor the oldness of my body and he was fully persuaded that god was able to do what he promised and as a result isaac was born now a few years later go to genesis chapter 22 god now asks abraham to take this faith son and offer him as a sacrifice in genesis chapter 22 he says in verse 2 take now thy son that only son isaac whom thou love us and get thee into the land of moriah and offer him therefore a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which i will tell thee of and abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and isaac his son enclaved the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went into the place which god had told him and then on the third day abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off and abraham said unto his young men abide ye here with the ass now notice read this closely abide ye here with the ass and i and the lad will go yonder and worship and notice it does not say and i and i alone will come again no it is implying i and the lad will go yonder and worship and i and the lad will come again but god's already asked him to offer this boy as a sacrifice and yet abraham says we'll be back amen and you notice also that apparently this is not isaac's first time to be involved in a sacrifice he's familiar with this he's watched his father do this before because on the way up that mountain he says to his father father we have the wood we have the fire but where is the lamb so he knows something about sacrifices and did you notice it didn't say and abraham turned and said you're it. and then you notice the next verse didn't say and three years later they caught up with isaac and egypt no no notice what god's uh what abraham said it was abraham who established the fact that god will provide it wasn't god who said that it was abraham and when god's covenant partner abraham decreed god will provide then as a covenant partner god was obligated from that moment until now and forever to provide when his covenant people are in need hallelujah and notice he said son god will provide look at verse 8 underline that phrase god will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went forth of them together both of them together and you know the story verse 10 abraham stretched forth his hand notice isaac got on that altar man you talk about faith isaac got on that altar he's standing there watching his father raise his knife to slay him but he trusts in what his father said god will provide he doesn't know how you know he didn't dream up the ram in the thicket but god did and he raised his knife to slay him and then the angel of the lord called out and said abraham he said here am i he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou anything unto him and he looked and there was a rim caught in the thicket and abraham called the name of that place jehovah jireh which means god our provider notice god was already a step ahead of abraham he's already a step ahead when you look to him as the one who provides and is capable of doing it supernaturally if necessary he's always a step ahead that realm god prepared because his covenant man said god will provide hallelujah and because he did abraham called that place jehovah jireh it marked him it marked the place it marked god that from here on out when a covenant man a covenant woman trusts god to be their provider then god obligates himself to come through for them as jehovah jireh hallelujah can you say amen hallelujah now what i want you to see is this once again god was already ahead a step ahead of abraham he already had that realm in the thicket you remember the prophet god taught him to go down to the brook cherith and he said i have commanded the ravens to sustain thee and the prophet went down to the brook and sure enough just like god said the ravens brought him food amen and then when the brook dried up god said go to zerephath and there is a widow woman there that i have commanded to sustain thee notice god's already always a step ahead he had the realm in the thicket he had the ravens by the brook he's got the wood a woman in zarephath he's always a step ahead he had the fish in the sea waiting on peter you're sitting here right now needing supernatural provision in your life needing breakthroughs in your life and i just want you to know that god's already a step ahead of you hallelujah say this with me god's got my ram in the thicket waiting on me god's got my ravens by the brook waiting on me god's got my widow woman in xerophath waiting on me god's got my fish in the sea waiting on me amen i don't know who that wooden woman is i don't know that fish's name and i don't know which raven it is and many times they're not fish ravens they can be in the form of people amen i was back in the early 70s i was asked to come into a three-day meeting in peor blooming bloomingdale illinois and the full gospel businessmen had asked me to stay over and do their monthly meeting and banquet for them at this time there was a young man working for me by the name of russ taff anybody heard of rust half this four rush went with the imperials and he was just a young boy and i'm teaching russ the life of faith so we're driving up there and on the way up and i turned and told russ the lord said the entirety of the time that you're in this meeting do not receive one offering i said out loud why would i not want to do that he said because i'm going to show you i can meet your needs beyond the normal way receiving an offering that'd be the normal way you know you go do a meeting receive an offer he said don't receive one offering the entire time you're there i'm doing three services a day for three days in this meeting and he said don't receive one offering i had people come up and said you hadn't yet received an offering i said no well why not i said the lord told me not to wow never heard of that never heard of a preacher not receiving an offering people tried to tried to make me take an offer and i said no the lord told me not to now russ is just learning and he's i know what he's wondering i perceived his thoughts how am i going to get paid you know i said russ you just watched god is going to show us supernatural provision and so we got through with that meeting and the full gospel businessmen said all right you're coming over tomorrow tonight to do our banquet and the president said no brother jerry we don't have a very large chapter here and said we normally don't have over 20 people show up for our banquet not only that our chapter's in the red we don't have any money to give you a dime i said that's fine i didn't come for your money i said in fact the lord told me not to receive any offerings while i'm here i said so i don't want an offering and then the lord said and tell him you're going to pay for the banquet i said and why would i want to do that he said because i'm going to show you i can meet your needs beyond the normal ways i said and by the way i'm going to go ahead and pay for the banquet too so whatever the cost of the banquet is i'm going to pay for that he said really i said yes sir i'm going to pay for the banquet he said there's only 20 people show up you know you know 7 10 12 ahead whatever so i'm going to pay for the banquet too get over there that night and there's 200 people show up that little room i couldn't even move people were sitting i couldn't move it was so thick with people 200 of them i'm paying for it all rusty's eyes got this big i know what he's thinking how am i going to get paid this month and next month you know i said russ you just watched god's god's working on something i don't know how he's going to do it but i know my god will provide so we finished that meeting paid for their banquet i even gave them full gospel businessmen an offering to get them in the black hallelujah they weren't five dollars in the black but they weren't in the red anymore you know and we got in our van and we headed back to fort worth and coming down through there uh in texacana at the state line there's an el chico restaurant if you're coming from the north over on the left-hand side and carolina used to eat there all the time so i said russ let's go to el chico's and get some mexican food so we pulled in there and it was later than noon it was early afternoon so there was only you know two or three people in there so they seated us and i'm looking at the menu and he's looking at the menu and we order and in a little while this elderly couple i saw him sitting over to the side they came over to me and said are you jerry savelle i said yes i am they said well we don't know if you remember us or not but you came to benton arkansas a couple of years ago and the church you were supposed to preach in wouldn't let you in because you weren't ordained with their denomination i said oh i remember that well and said and we wanted you to preach but we didn't have a building and so one of our friends offered you their front porch and you preached to us for three days while everybody brought lawn chairs and set out in the front yard and you preach from the porch i said oh yeah i'll never forget that either they said well we were in that meeting and it changed our life we never heard preaching like that in our life and said it just absolutely changed our life and we were sitting over here and and kept thinking about you and we said you know we just received a a major uh uh they had a some project i think he was in construction and he just got paid on a job and he said and we were just sitting here thinking were we going to send the tithe for this and your name came up and said so we just wrote out a check while we're sitting over there for the tithe on this job and we were going straight from here to the post office looked up and there you come through the door he said son you just saved me a stamp here and he handed me that check and of course russ's eyes got to sparkling you know and he just acted like yeah we do this all the time hallelujah and so i i prayed with him i took the check and i put it in my pocket and russ wants to know what it is you know and i did that on purpose then i took it out and i said look at this russ it not only covered that entire budget of that meeting not only covered what i paid for that banquet but it covered nearly three months of my budget in my ministry praise god amen now do you think i could dream that up if i'd if i could dream that up i would go to el chico's and texas canada every time i have a need in fact i can almost hear somebody thinking out loud i'm going there tomorrow i think those people have already passed away see that was god supernatural those people became my ram in the thicket they were my ravens at the brook they were my widow woman in zarephath they were my fish in the sea and god's got them ready for you praise god i don't care what your need is how impossible it may seem i'm telling we've entered into a time where supernatural provision and breakthroughs are not going to be the rare they're going to become the norm hallelujah you're going to see god do things you have not likely seen him do quite that way before from here on out hallelujah come on give the lord your best shout [Applause] hallelujah i was in uh toronto a few years ago and i was i was building a medical facility in an african nation and i'd believed god to pay for this thing as i went pay cash as i went and if you think building a medical facility in a third world country is cheap you've never built one and and i'm i'm sunk a lot of money into this i'm building this this facility in an area where there's two million people that don't have medical facilities and so i think i've got it all done and ready and i'm going over to dedicate it and my directors call me and say no it's not quite ready they last time they did that i needed another 30 000. god brought it in uh this time they said we need another 20 000. well i didn't have another 20 000 for that project i had money in the bank but it was designated for other projects in other nations and i couldn't use it because that's what the irs calls misappropriating funds when you when you've generated funds for a certain project you use it somewhere else that's misappropriating funds so i didn't have an extra twenty thousand dollars for this project i already sunk hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars into this and so i'm going to toronto so on the way up there i just said lord i just want to thank you for that extra 20 thousand dollars and lord you know i'm scheduled to go dedicate this place in the in in a short time so i'd appreciate it if you do it suddenly we need a suddenly here uh with that extra 20 000 and so i got to toronto they picked me up the airport took me to my hotel had just enough time to change my clothes get my suit went to the church and when i walked up the steps to this church to the front door there was a couple standing there and they said brother jerry you remember the last time you were here i said oh yeah i said you remember that meeting uh you came from one night and stayed 21 nights i said oh yeah that was a that was a special meeting they said well god did so many wonderful things for us in that meeting and and we just wanted to be a blessing to your ministry so that's the reason we're standing here we we have something we want to sow into your ministry and he handed me an envelope and so i prayed with him pastor said brother jerry it's time to come in and and i prayed with him they left i put the envelope in my inside suit pocket here went on in there preached that night got back to my hotel took my suit off hung it up went to bed got up the next morning put on another suit went to the morning service and on the way over there i said lord i just want to thank you for that twenty thousand dollars thank you lord for the twenty thousand dollars i'm not asking him again because i believe i received when i prayed now i'm just thanking him and i said thank you for that twenty thousand dollars preach that morning go to lunch with a pastor come back to the hotel put my suit away and then that night i put on another suit and i go to the meeting and i'm thanking the lord on the way over there thank you lord for that twenty thousand dollar i did that for three days and finally the last day i was there i got up that morning i said lord i just want to thank you for the 20 000 he said would you please go look in your suit i said what he said the first night those people gave you something you put it in your suit and you've never looked at it i forgot about it i walked in there and pulled that envelope out and there was a check for twenty thousand dollars those people were my ram in the thicket they were my ravens by the brook they were my widow woman and zaraphath they were my fish in the sea hallelujah what do you suppose god's working on while you're sitting here listening to me right now for this is the time for supernatural provision and breakthroughs beyond anything we've ever seen before don't limit god don't limit god get him out of your little box just because he did it one way one time doesn't mean he might do it the same way the next time amen i got to tell you this i told i probably told you before but it's my sermon i can tell again if i want to but this is my favorite one with supernatural provision i know i've probably shared it here before but it's it just is just so faith inspiring when i when i first went to ministry in 1969 the lord said to me that i would not be able to fulfill what i'm called to do without airplanes in my ministry and then he said this now you have to understand 1969 i'm believing god to pay my whole business debts off i shut down my automotive business i still got debts i'm believing to pay off i got debts personally i'm believing to pay off you know i got a i got stuff going on financially i wish i could have gone into the ministry and i was already debt-free but no you know i got all this baggage i'm carrying around with me believing god you know and so uh he said i you won't be able to fulfill what you're called to do without airplanes and then he said this and i don't want you ever flying airplanes with debt on them you believe me for them debt-free well he just he just told me impossible my car wasn't even debt-free he's talking airplanes i i think i've still got notes on the washer and dryer probably the broom too you know i saw the way i knew how to live back this debt i borrowed for everything and he's talking debt-free airplanes well obviously it's gonna it's gonna take me doing some some tremendous time in the word to build my faith up to that level well then i get invited to come to fort worth and go to work brother copeland and i start flying with him from time to time i was with him when he got his first debt-free airplane it wasn't much faster than a lawnmower with wings but it was paid for amen i was with him when he got his second debt-free airplane a little cessna 310. i was with him when he got his third debt-free airplane a little cessna 414. so i watched somebody that knew how to do this and that was inspiring to my faith and so you know after i left brother copeland's organization launched out in this ministry you know i didn't need the airplane right then but it wasn't long man the demand on my ministry i mean it just like it just increased almost overnight and now i can't get to all the places i'm invited to driving i i need an airplane and so i've been believing god for this and and nobody knew anything about it but me and carolyn and my two girls and the two people that worked for me at the time and kenneth and gloria copeland because they were the only people i knew back then that knew how to believe for debt-free airplanes and i took all the seed that i could gather up and i sowed it into his aviation department believing god for my first airplane i didn't know how he's going to do it i couldn't dream it up so i get invited to come preach in andrews texas out west texas a little small town one time back many years ago it was one of those oil boom towns a lot of old money there back in the day you know from oil now it's now it's almost an abandoned looking place and so i get invited to come preach there and the same thing happened there to me that happened in arkansas when the pastor found out i wasn't ordained with his organization he wouldn't let me hold a meeting in his church so a couple there said if you'll stay we'll find a place the only place they could find in andrews texas for me to preach in was an abandoned laundromat on main street a laundromat we went down there and looked at this place there's broken down washers and dryers in the place it's filthy nasty and he said this is all we can find i said well how am i going to preach in this place he said we'll just move everything up against the wall and we'll take one of the dryers and make that your pulpit i said what are people going to sit in he said i'll go see if we can borrow some folding chairs he could not find one place in andrews that would loan him any chairs he said that's not going to stop us i have a friend who has a salvage yard and let's go out there and we took seats out of wrecked cars and put them in the laundromat now please get a picture of this does this look like a place for the miraculous does this look like a place where we're about to have a major breakthrough i'm talking about a laundromat behind me is all these old washers and dryers i got one i'm preaching from and people are sitting on seats out of wrecked cars now i'm there my wife's there my two daughters are there and the two people who work for me at that time are there and the couple who invited me so that means uh four of us six of us there's eight people there and six of them belong to me the offerings were terrible my family didn't even give and i have committed to do this for three days three services a day the next morning we got the same bunch but somebody else showed up that afternoon we had three or four more show up that night the three or four more that showed up didn't come back i mean i'm preaching my little heart at i'm preaching faith i'm preaching everything kenneth hagin kenneth copeland oral robertson t.l osborne knew in one sermon i'm preaching everything i know you know but the last day the last day of this meeting i'm standing there behind this old dryer and of course this we're on main street so i can see the traffic out there the people are looking at me like you're looking at me but i can see outside every once while somebody come up to the window and put their head up there and i'd go [Laughter] [Applause] but this old pickup truck pulled up in front of the laundromat and the man in it was so large he looked like he took up half the cab had on bibb overalls and a straw hat and he got out of that truck and he came in the laundromat now nobody sees him yet only i can see him and he walks in that laundromat takes that straw hat off and i thought he just found out about the meeting he's going to take a seat or two or three and but he doesn't stop he walks in there and he just keeps walking toward me and he walks up to me now folks this boy's country i'm talking really country i'm going to do my best to sound like him and it's not even close you understand this boy is so far back in the woods he has to go toward town to hunt that's country he's so far back in the woods june bugs don't show up till august hey now we're talking we're talking a good 300 pounds and he's standing there in front of me i mean he just interrupted the whole service standing in front of me took that straw hat off got them bib overalls dust flying everywhere he said my name is oop i said pardon me he said i said my name is oop i said oop i thought what in the world was his mama thinking when she named him i said your name is oop he said my name is oop i said okay mr would you like to take a seat no i don't i said well miss stoop i'm having a meeting here i know it i got something god wants me to do when i'm done i'll leave and you'll never see me again unless god tells me he said i don't do nothing unless god tells me he said i quit schooling third grade i can't read nor write i depend on god for everything god tells me when to get up god tells me when i go to bed god tells me when to do this and where to go and i'm out riding my tractor minding my own business riding my tractor and god said there's a young preacher boy down in andrews at the laundromat needs an airplane are you the one i said there couldn't be two of us doing this in andrews there's no way two of us could be doing this they ain't got the one abandoned laundromat i said say that again he said i'm out riding my tractor i said i got that part [Laughter] he said i'm out riding my tractor he said son i don't get off my tractor till god tells me to i wouldn't be right here if god hadn't told me to when i leave here you'll never see me again unless god tells me you got the picture sonny boy i said yes sir ms doop i got the picture he said i was out riding my tractor i said i got that part he said and god told me there's a young preacher boy in andrews at the laundromat what needs an airplane are you the one i said yes sir he said then good here's what god told me to do and he went to pulling money out of every pocket i mean inside outside of them bib overall he piled it up it got as high as my shins he said that's what god told me to do put that hat back on he said i'm gone you'll never see me again unless god tells me you understand i said yes sir mr hoop and he walked out got in his truck and drove off all of us are standing there with our mouths open our eyes this big i turned to caroline i said did that really happen she said look at your feet now i already had this angel with the gas tank business i thought that's the fattest angel i ever seen and he wears overalls but this one an angel this is oop do you think for one moment on my best day of trying to help god i could dream hoop up now god i need an airplane god i got to have an airplane how are we going to do this oh jesus oh hallelujah jesus jesus we got to have an airplane i got it lord i'll go out to west texas yes andrews where am i going to be preaching how about a laundromat i can't dream this up and i certainly couldn't dream oop up but oop was used by god who was my ram in the thicket oop was my ravens down at the brook root was my widow woman in zarephath and oop was my fish in the sea hallelujah and that was nine debt-free airplanes to go hallelujah but it all started with oops [Music] about a year later i'm out in new mexico hobbs new mexico i i installed a young man who trained under my ministry as pastor in this church they'd asked me to send him a pastor so i go out there to install him as pastor and i get through and i'm just talking with people you know and i felt this hand on my shoulder he said brother jerry i thought that's hoop i hadn't turned around yet i thought that nobody sounded quite like that's hoop i turned i said oop is that you i turned around this man it was oops eyes it was oops face this man weighed about 175 pounds i said oop is that you he said it is brother jerry and you know i wouldn't be here unless god told me god told me to come see you i got something for you i said who what happened to you he said god took away my twinkies he said i don't need no twinkies unless god tells me well the last time i saw oop he was back up about 250. he got his twinkies back i think hadoop don't do nothing unless god tells you he called me one time he said brother jerry here's who said you know i wouldn't call you unless god until i said i know this is just a few years ago i said what what what do you need to he said you got a partner out here in andrew she's in that meeting in the laundromat you remember that don't you i'll never forget that he said there's a lady that became your partner in that meeting and she's out here and andrew is dying of cancer and god told me and you know i wouldn't tell you this unless god told me if you'll come lay your hands on her god will heal her are you coming i said well oop i'm going to be in john hagee's church in the morning and as soon as i get out of that service i'll fly to andrews and you pick me up at the airport and take me to her house he said i'll be there i said no don't tell anybody i'm coming just i'm just going to go to her house and pray for her just like the lord told you okay so he picked me up the airport i took my son-in-law rodney my youngest daughter terry with me and uh terry had heard about oop all her life but had never met him and so uh terry my daughter was trying to conceive a child and couldn't and medical science could not figure out why she couldn't conceive and she's believing god for a baby and just couldn't conceive and so they'd pick us up and take us way out in the boondocks and we got out there and there's cars everywhere i said oop i told you not to tell anybody i was coming i didn't tell nobody brother jerry i said what are all these cars he said i don't know we went in the house well she told all her relatives and they all came man we having a revival in this little house laid my hands on him and prayed for her god healed her praise god oop takes us back to the airport and he's sitting in the right side of this pickup truck his wife was driving and i'm setting uh behind oop and my daughter terry and rodney my son-in-law are sitting here and we're driving along there and oop turns around to terry and says now i think your daddy's probably told you i don't tell anything or say anything unless god tells me she said yes sir miss troop that's what my daddy told me said well little he called her a little daughter and said little darling i just want you to know god told me to tell you this time next year you're going to have a baby and she's going to look just like you well if you saw my granddaughter today you would think it's like having terry all over again but that was oop hearing from the lord hallelujah amen folks i'm here to tell you tonight that we're headed for supernatural provision and breakthroughs like we've never experienced before there's a rim in the thicket waiting on you there are ravens at the brook waiting on you there's a widow woman in zarephath waiting on you there is a fish in the sea waiting on you and there's a hoop somewhere [Laughter] i said there's a hoop somewhere praise god amen do you believe him tonight i mean you how many of you will dare stretch your faith and believe for supernatural provision beyond anything you've ever experienced before lift both hands and thank god in advance right now would you do that lift both hands and thank god in advance hallelujah hallelujah thank you father i read a commentary not too long ago that said jehovah jireh is literally interpreted the lord sees and he stakes takes special care to provide everything that is necessary for the comfort and the support of them who would trust him it went on to say his eye ever affects his heart and his hand is ever ready to supply hallelujah amen let me close it with this in each one of these cases with abraham the elijah with peter did you notice before the supernatural provision manifested god asked each one of them to do something then the natural was not sensible nor rational you might say offer your son go to a brook and ravens will feed you when the brook dries up go to zarephath and a widow woman will sustain you and if you read that story when he got there that widow woman actually told him all i have is enough for me and my son we're gonna eat it and die don't you think he thought god missed this one he said he commanded that woman to sustain me and she's got enough for her and her son they're going to eat and die but notice in obedience to god he went to the brook in obedience to god he went to zarephath in obedience to jesus peter went to the sea even though in all the years he'd been a fisherman he'd never caught a fish with money in his mouth notice supernatural provision seems to be the product or the result of obedience amen obedience what's god asking you to do brother copeland taught me this years ago he said if you seem like your faith has hit a wall and you're not getting the kind of results that you know you should be getting go back and make sure you obeyed the last thing god told you to do go back and make sure you have obeyed the last thing god told you to do amen obedience opens the door to the supernatural hallelujah i don't know what god has told you to do i don't know what he might speak to you to do tonight regarding the seed you're going to sow in this offering supernatural provision is his plan for you that's what he desires to do each time i've experienced it and i could tell you story after story after story if i had enough time tonight but each time i've done it it's always required obedience in doing something that in the natural was not reasonable to the natural mind i know they know that i mean they've they've experienced this just like we have amen i was in 1981 preaching brother copeland in charlotte north carolina at his east coast believers convention along with charles capps and norvel hayes brother copeland gloria and on thursday afternoon when i went to my room after i'd preached carolyn said she was going to go in the bedroom and take a nap because brother copeland's preaching that night and she said if i don't get a nap i'm not going to be able to stay awake tonight while he's preaching she said are you going to lay down and rest well i said no i'm just going to sit here in the living room in this suite we're in a hotel i said i'm just going to sit here and relax but i don't really want to go to sleep so she went into the bedroom and shut the door i took my suit off and just put my robe on and i sat on the sofa and i propped my feet up on the coffee table and the moment i did the chicana glory filled that room and i experienced a supernatural visitation from the lord and he said to me my people are in financial famine and i'm going to reveal to you the keys that will bring them out and hold you responsible for sharing them everywhere you go and so i mean it was it was amazing it seemed like i i took a a yellow legal pad that was on the end table by the sofa and i filled it with what jesus said to me it seemed like he was there for hours it was moments which let me know jesus can say more in moments than most preachers can in a lifetime but i had a notebook full of what he said and and he left but the place was filled with the chicano glory of god it was so thick i couldn't even see the furniture and carolyn walked in she said what's going on in here and she got caught up in it and she just sat down right where she was and we just bask in it until it lifted and she said what did he say and so i told her she said what are you going to do with this i said i'm not i'm not she said you're going to tell brother cope i said no i'm not telling him a thing about this i'm just going to let the lord tell him so we went over to the meeting that night it was the last night no it's thursday night and brother copeland was supposed to speak and he got up and tried to i mean he opened his bible and said let's open our bibles and then couldn't tell us where he did that three times and we still don't know where he wants us to open their bibles finally he shut his and he said jerry i'm sitting on the front row next to gloria my wife charles and peggy capps in norfolk hayes jerry god visited you today come up here and tell us what he said so i walked up there and brother copeland had his uh assistant bring him a chair and set it about this close to the pulpit and when i walked by he grabbed my coat tail and he said you tell us everything jesus told you and don't you leave out one word you understand me boy i said yes sir so i i preached that night on what he had told me and i was in i was in major need of some supernatural provision and breakthroughs when the lord gave me the message and before i went over there not knowing that brother copeland's going to do this i said lord my ministry is experiencing a famine he said i not only gave this for you but i gave it for the body of christ wherever i send you and he impressed upon me and i'm i'm not telling you trying to get you to do this this is not my purpose so don't don't don't do anything because you think that's my motivation here i'm just telling you obedience opens the door to the supernatural and so the lord impressed upon me to write a thousand dollars out of every department or outreach in my ministry which i had 10 major outreaches with television missions and all the other things and then he said and carol and i were believing to build our dream home at that time and he said and take a thousand dollars out of your personal account and he said you sow all of those checks individually into brother copeland's ministry well i didn't know he was going to have me do it publicly i i thought he'd be behind the stage after the service but after i finished preaching that he said do it now now this is october of 1981. so i said brother copeland would you stand right here please i said i am i am acting on what i just taught and i'm believing god for supernatural provision and breakthroughs and i believe that my ministry will never experience the financial famine again i said here's one thousand dollars out of my television minute one thousand not a mission one thousand out of aviation somebody said well if you sold one thousand dollars out of ten departments that's ten thousand dollars i don't sound like famine to me it does when you need millions i mean ten thousand dollars did not it wouldn't even scratch the surface what i needed in fact a thousand dollars out of some of those apartments departments drained it dry and i i sowed in it each one of those department and then my personal account and the lord said to me now because of your obedience i'm going to give you the blessing of isaac so i flipped over there to see what the blessing of isaac was he sowed in famine and reaped a hundredfold in the same year same year i said lord it's october he said so don't you remember i said one time this time tomorrow what's two months this time tomorrow where's diane diane you were in that meeting you remember it and so i turned and did that and the lord said i'm going to give you the blessing of isaac and the blessing of isaac was a hundredfold in the same year and i did what the lord told me and i left there and one week later i was given my very first 100 000 check into my ministry the next night i was given an airplane that was worth over a quarter of a million the next week i was given another hundred thousand dollars from admissions outreach before december the 31st 1981 i had received a hundred fold on every one of those one thousand dollar checks and they all came supernaturally i couldn't have dreamed them up in a thousand years but every one of them represented a ram in the thicket amen a ram in the thick you know diane i'm going to tell this because you and bill were that person hallelujah and you and bill sowed the first 100 000 check into my ministry i'd ever received and you know what that did it broke a barrier hundred thousand dollar checks were not the rare anymore after that they became the norm and you and bill started it and i thank you and i'll always be grateful praise god amen praise god hallelujah i don't usually tell that publicly but i want to do it in honor of you praise god in honor of bill hallelujah what am i saying supernatural provision and breakthroughs beyond what we've ever experienced before this is not anything new to god we already saw in the bible he's been doing it ever since genesis 22 amen ever since genesis 22 when abraham stood up and declared my god will provide and god's been doing it ever since amen god's been doing it ever since but we're about to see him take it to another level hallelujah give the lord a shout if you receive it tonight amen come on give the lord a good shout if you receive it if you need supernatural provision and breakthroughs would you please stand to your feet and let's believe god right now let's set this in motion right now in the name of jesus i kind of figured it'd be just about everybody and you think that's too big for god i like what brother copeland says if god came through here and blessed every one of us financially beyond our wildest dreams it wouldn't even make a dent in his capital reserve amen praise god join hands with a person next to you now i'm believing i'm not i'm not just i'm not just playing church i'm believing for supernatural provision and breakthroughs for you and and many of the places i've gone and preached this message i've gotten testimonies from pastors of things that have broken loose and financial breakthroughs that have happened within 24 hours i'm not promising everybody that but i'm telling you it's happening and it can happen to you so you just mix your faith with it right now and don't back off amen now lift that hand that you've got lifted there and you just receive when i pray and the moment i say amen you shout at the top of your voice i receive it when you do that and all of you that are in the other church in florida you do it right along with all of us here father in the name of jesus as the priest and the prophet of this service at this moment under your command and under your authority you told me to stand up and stretch my hand over your people and decree supernatural provision and breakthroughs beyond anything they've ever seen before and so i do so now in jesus name i stretch my hands out over them and i decree supernatural provision and breakthroughs beyond what they've ever experienced before in the name of jesus amen say it again i receive it hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah