Participants: Yvonne Lewis (Host), Pr. Taj Pacleb
Series Code: UBR
Program Code: UBR000162A
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00:01 Stay tuned to meet man who felt hopeless
00:03 but is now sharing hope with others. 00:05 My name is Yvonne Lewis, 00:06 and you're watching Urban Report. 00:32 Hello and welcome to Urban Report. 00:35 My guest today is Pastor Taj Pacleb, 00:38 Evangelist and Director of Revelation of Hope Ministries. 00:42 I met Pastor Pacleb at ASI and he had a great testimony, 00:47 let's take a look. 00:50 I am sitting here at ASI with a young man 00:56 that I'd just met and I heard about his testimony, 00:59 and you have to hear it, 01:01 you know, how we love to share testimonies 01:04 with our Urban Report Viewers 01:05 so I'm here with Evangelist Taj Pacleb. 01:09 Thank you so much, Thank you so much Sister. 01:12 it's so nice to meet you. Likewise. 01:14 And I have heard so much about your testimony 01:17 that every time I hear that there's a really good testimony, 01:21 I have to get it for Urban Report Viewers. 01:23 I appreciate the opportunity. 01:25 Oh, thank you, thank you. 01:26 So, where did you grow up? 01:28 Originally from the beautiful islands of Hawaii, 01:31 I grew up in the islands. 01:32 Man! 01:34 Catching the waves and swimming in the ocean. 01:36 Eating the pineapple, oh! 01:38 Yeah, you've got some good Mangosteen. 01:40 Oh... I was in Hawaii, it was so long ago, 01:43 like in the '70s, it's so long ago, 01:45 and I had pineapple that tasted like sugar, 01:50 I mean it was so sweet, so fresh, so good, 01:54 it was just... I think I'm starting to salivate right now. 01:56 Just like the Lord Jesus. 01:58 Amen, oh taste and see that the Lord is good, right? 02:02 So, I haven't been there in a long time 02:05 but it's such a beautiful place. Yeah. 02:08 Did you grow up in affluence? 02:11 You know, I was born and raised in Hawaii, 02:14 it wasn't always a pretty sight, 02:16 I was brought up in a very loving family 02:21 but they were not churchgoers 02:23 and they never brought me to church or anything like that, 02:26 so, growing up, we grew up in paradise but 02:30 as far as spiritually speaking, it was like a dry desert, 02:33 not knowing who is God or what was God, 02:37 my parents, they loved me but 02:40 they didn't know the Lord for themselves 02:43 so, obviously they can't give what they don't have, 02:45 but it was definitely a loving family. 02:47 So you grew up in a two-parent household? 02:50 Well, most of my life my parents were not together 02:54 they were not married when I was born 02:56 and they were separated for most of my life, 02:58 so there was, definitely, dysfunction, 03:00 as far as that relationship, 03:03 but I was secure in their love for me 03:06 but it wasn't the ideal situation, 03:09 it was brokenness, 03:12 sometimes, go live with dad, other times, go live with mom, 03:14 and... kind of back and forth, 03:15 in the midst of a lot of fighting 03:18 and sometimes animosity between them, 03:20 but the Lord worked all that out 03:23 and praise God, they're together today. 03:25 Oh... Amen. 03:27 When I was 16-years old they got married for the first time, 03:29 they got back together and 03:32 I was the only child for 19 years 03:34 and now I have a little baby brother 03:36 just me and him and we're 19 years apart, 03:38 and so my mom is bringing him to church 03:41 so he has a much better opportunity than I did 03:45 growing up so, I'm thankful for that. 03:46 Amen, so who came to church first, you or your parents? 03:49 Well, it was actually my mother and I 03:52 at first, we were... 03:53 I was living with her at the time 03:56 she was a single mom, I was 14-years old, 03:59 and she and I were watching television one day 04:02 when all of a sudden the advertisement came on the screen 04:05 talking about a Revelation Bible Prophecy Seminar, 04:08 and we'd never gone to church, up to that point, 04:11 and I started getting into a lot of trouble, 04:14 just hanging around with the wrong crowd, 04:17 got into a life of drugs and whatnot, 04:19 and she... as a single parent was worried, 04:22 she didn't know what to do for me 04:23 and... so when we saw this advertisement, 04:25 she thought that perhaps this was the way to fix me 04:28 and so, 04:30 she asked me if I wanted to go 04:32 and I wasn't interested but, nonetheless, 04:34 she forced me to go 04:35 and so we ended up going to those Bible Prophecy Seminars. 04:40 And how old were you? 04:41 I was 14 and I was in Honolulu, Hawaii, 04:44 Central Church, yeah. 04:45 Yes, so let's go back a little bit 04:47 because you just said you had gotten involved 04:49 with the wrong people, 04:50 like... you had started doing some things, 04:52 how did you... how did that happen, 04:54 how did you get on that path? 04:55 Well, by not having a strong spiritual foundation 04:59 no spiritual guidance in my life, 05:03 it's just the influence of the world, 05:06 when I was in elementary school, I hung out with the wrong people 05:11 started making terrible decisions, 05:12 and I was introduced... In elementary school? 05:14 Yeah, as early as elementary school, 05:16 when I was in fifth grade, in fact, 05:17 that's when I first started smoking, 05:19 and am ashamed to say that... 05:22 that I became a compulsive thief and a compulsive liar 05:26 and I ran away from home, got arrested, 05:29 when I was in fifth grade 05:30 and it seemed like God was nowhere in sight, 05:35 and even though I didn't know him, 05:36 He knew me, He had His eye on me and so... 05:39 He still had a purpose for my life. 05:41 Yes. So He's protected me. 05:42 And you know, you know... 05:43 it's so interesting because 05:45 it doesn't matter where we've been, 05:49 in fact, where we've been, 05:50 when we've been through some things, 05:51 it makes it so much sweeter when we find Jesus 05:55 That's right, yeah. 05:56 because when you've been on that other side, on that dark path, 06:00 like you just said, you feel ashamed to say it 06:03 but you know, that's not who you are, 06:05 that's that other guy, 06:06 that's not who you are. 06:08 I love what one preacher said, 06:09 "Every saint has a past, 06:11 thank God every sinner has a future," 06:13 and it doesn't matter where we came from 06:16 but where we're going, and so... 06:17 at that young age, 06:19 my life was heading down the wrong path, 06:20 when I got into high school, it just got worse, 06:23 I went to high school, simply to get "high" 06:26 that's why they call it high school, 06:28 I don't know about that one... 06:31 but I was just burning up my brain cells, 06:36 chasing the world, 06:37 just looking for something to fill the emptiness within, 06:40 that void, Satan is out there, 06:43 he offers so many attractions and distractions 06:46 but yeah, in that lost condition, 06:49 the Lord... He still had a plan for my life, 06:51 He had a purpose for me, He still desired me 06:54 even though I was causing Him so much pain, 06:56 and so we received that invitation, and... 06:59 Yes, we need to look at too, this whole idea of 07:06 when we're walking down that dark path, 07:10 God still sees us, he has not abandoned us, 07:14 because we're away from Him, 07:18 it doesn't mean that He's away from us, 07:21 He saw you, He saw who you were going to be, 07:24 and so that whole path that you were on, it only... 07:28 we're not saying that people should go down that path, 07:32 but if you're on that path right now, 07:35 you need to know that God has not abandoned you, 07:38 that He hasn't taken His hand off of you, 07:41 that He has a plan for you, but you have to give in 07:45 and yield to Him, 07:47 in order for your life to turn around. 07:50 Yeah, I love the illustration, when you jump in your vehicle 07:54 you have a large windshield in front of you, 07:57 and a very small rear-view mirror, 07:59 and that rear-view mirror is 08:01 very small compared to that windshield 08:02 for the simple reason that, 08:04 what's behind you is not as important 08:06 as what's in front of you and so... 08:08 so we all have dark pasts, but thank God 08:11 that in our darkness, He is our light, 08:13 He brings us out of it, He has a plan and purpose, 08:16 for me I had no idea what my purpose in life was, 08:19 I had no idea, I was just existing, 08:21 looking for stimulation 08:24 and sin does stimulate, but it never satisfies, 08:27 and only when I came to know Jesus, 08:30 I found the satisfaction that... 08:31 of the longings of my heart, that was always there. 08:34 You know, that's a great statement, 08:36 it stimulates, 08:39 sin stimulates but it doesn't satisfy, 08:42 no one can fill that hole in your soul but Jesus Christ, 08:46 bottom line, end of story... right? 08:49 So you were fourteen, 08:51 you went to this Revelation Seminar, 08:55 and what happened, when you were sitting there, 08:57 were you bored, or were you... where were you? 08:59 Well, that first Seminar that my mother and I went to, 09:04 and we had never really 09:07 stepped our foot in a church before, 09:08 it was at the Central 09:10 Seventh-day Adventist Church in Honolulu, 09:13 and we'd never been exposed to these things, 09:15 and we started learning about the Sabbath, 09:17 we started learning about what happens when a person dies, 09:21 second coming of Christ, 09:22 and all of these things were intriguing to me as a young man 09:26 and to make a long story short, 09:28 at the end of those meetings, 09:30 I realized that this was the truth, 09:34 I mean, it was clear, 09:36 and my mother and I were baptized 09:38 at the end of those meetings but at first, 09:41 when I was baptized, it was just a "head experience" 09:45 I received the information of truth, 09:47 I acknowledged that the seventh day was the Sabbath, 09:50 I learned and realized 09:52 that there were things that we shouldn't be eating, 09:54 I was baptized into the knowledge of truth 09:57 but not the person of truth, 09:58 and I didn't have that deep-heart conviction 10:03 and understand what true repentance really means, 10:05 and so we were baptized, praise God, 10:08 we started going to church, 10:10 my mother had a genuine experience, 10:12 she really loved the Lord 10:14 and for her, that baptism was meaningful, 10:15 but for me, 10:17 I was coming into it... into church, 10:20 but not fully converted. Why? 10:22 I was still holding on to the things of the world 10:24 especially Marijuana, 10:25 I would say, 10:27 "I'm not going to touch the chemical drugs, 10:29 just the natural stuff" 10:31 And make it seem like that's okay right? 10:34 I'd rationalize it 10:35 and I would go to my public high school 10:38 and they'd offer me alcohol, I would say, 10:41 "No, I'm just going to stick with the natural stuff, 10:43 stuff that God made" 10:45 and I tried to witnessed to them, 10:47 and they would ask me, "You're going to church now, 10:49 and you're spiritual, why are you still smoking Weed? 10:52 and I'd tell them, 10:54 "Well the Bible tells us that God has given to man, 10:56 every herb yielding seed" 10:58 and so I was basically twisting the Scriptures 11:05 to do what I wanted to do, 11:06 thinking that... it helps me to think deep thoughts, 11:09 it helps me to spiritualize and philosophize, 11:11 but really, I was just 11:13 burning up my brain cells and rationalizing 11:15 and trying to serve God and myself 11:17 at the same time but it wasn't working. 11:19 That Weed, brother, I've got to say, 11:21 that Weed is such an enemy, 11:24 it's such a tool of the enemy, 11:27 because it has such a grip on so many of our young people 11:31 that they can't see... 11:33 I've heard that argument before, "but it's natural... " 11:36 but you know what? it's really not... 11:37 because it's cut with all these different chemicals 11:40 over 400 different chemicals, 11:42 can now being in Weed, so that you're not getting... 11:45 people aren't getting the Weed that they got 11:48 back in the '60s and '70s, 11:50 they're getting some new "Frankenstein" kind of deal, 11:54 that... it's just totally unhealthy, 11:58 not that it was back then, but now it's way worse than that 12:02 so, we can find a way 12:06 to rationalize the things we want to do. 12:09 Exactly. And that's what you did. 12:10 That's human nature, you know, 12:12 I remember one morning specifically, 12:13 and this was perhaps 12:16 one of the defining moments 12:17 where I understood that I had to make a decision, 12:20 I was reading the Bible, having devotions 12:23 because I learned that that's something good to do 12:24 and so... I had the Word of God in one hand 12:27 and I had the glass pipe in the other hand, 12:30 I was reading the Bible and getting high at the same time. 12:32 Do you smoke Weed through a pipe? 12:35 Yeah. Oh, wow! is that like... 12:37 now this is my ignorance, right, 12:39 because I don't know anything about it, 12:41 is it similar to Crack, I mean the smoking of it? 12:45 No, no, you just put it in a bowl 12:47 and light it up that way, 12:50 you smoke it through a pipe and a bong, 12:52 there are a lot of different ways 12:54 with a Marijuana joint or a cigarette 12:56 I like to say, "The Word of God in one hand, 12:59 the Word of Life, 13:01 and the Weed of death on the other hand" 13:02 and I realized that I was reading the Bible 13:05 but I wasn't understanding what I was reading, 13:08 I was reading words, but it wasn't hitting home 13:10 it was as if God was telling me, 13:13 "Who are you fooling, 13:14 what makes you think you could have me 13:16 and the world at the same time" 13:18 it's either one or the other, 13:20 it's either the "Weed of death or the Word of Life" 13:23 and I realized that 13:24 I was rationalizing and burying my guilt 13:27 and the fact that I was going to church 13:29 and the fact that I understood "new" and believed the truth, 13:32 but I was just using that 13:34 to cover the nakedness of my life, 13:37 the void of not really having a relationship with Jesus. 13:41 This is good because what you're saying is that 13:45 you let him come close but not in... 13:48 Exactly. So he was close and 13:51 close enough for you to have intellectual assent, 13:54 to say, "This is the truth, this is the way I should go," 13:58 but yet, you didn't let Him in, 14:02 I knew about Jesus but I did not know Him. 14:05 Right... right... 14:06 I knew His teachings but not the person. 14:09 Right. 14:10 And I didn't come to that point of full surrender, 14:14 you know, it's not... "head knowledge" 14:16 it is not sufficient for salvation, 14:18 it's a heart experience that we need, 14:20 many times our heads are full but our hearts are empty. 14:23 Yes, yes. 14:25 And God wants us to understand truth, 14:28 so that we can experience Him in our lives, 14:30 and so I didn't take it to that next step. 14:32 Yes, so you're sitting there 14:35 with the Word in one hand and the Weed in the other, 14:38 and God speaks to your spirit, 14:40 and so it's time to choose. 14:42 Yes. What did you do? 14:44 So, for the next few weeks, the conviction continued to grow 14:49 but I was a slave, this thing, 14:52 I had become addicted to it I smoked it every single day, 14:55 multiple times a day, 14:57 when I didn't have it, I'd scrape the glass pipe 14:59 and smoke the resin of it, 15:01 and it just... 15:02 its grip upon my life was strong, 15:04 as well as other things, 15:06 and I didn't know how to break loose, 15:08 I didn't know how to be free, but then, 15:11 God brought another Bible Prophecy Seminar, 15:14 an Evangelistic Seminar to now our home church, 15:17 in Waianae there in Hawaii, 15:19 and I received the invitation to that 15:22 and I went to those meetings 15:24 now with the realization that I was lost in the church, 15:27 and that "head knowledge" believing in God, 15:31 true belief is more than an intellectual assent 15:35 to believe is to "be live" 15:37 to let Him take control of our lives, 15:39 and so I went to those meetings and as Jesus was lifted up, 15:44 in His prophetic Word, 15:45 my heart was stirred with conviction, 15:48 and there was a theme song that was sung every night, 15:50 entitled, "Change my heart Oh God" 15:53 and I realized that that's what I was missing, 15:55 I had the information but my heart was not changed, 15:59 Yes. 16:00 And so I'd go to those meetings night after night, 16:03 and finally one night, the conviction was so strong, 16:05 God was calling me, 16:07 but the controversy was raging in my mind, 16:10 the devil was giving me every reason 16:13 why I shouldn't surrender all to Christ. 16:14 Like, what was he saying? 16:16 He was saying, "If you give your life to Jesus, 16:17 you life's going to be so boring, 16:19 you can't do this, you can't do that, 16:20 it's going to be mundane, 16:22 how are you going to stop hanging out with your friends, 16:23 how are you going to stop listening to this music," 16:25 and just going down the list, 16:27 but all the while, God was saying, 16:28 "I have a better life for you, my son, 16:30 I'm the one that can satisfy your longings," 16:33 and so the controversy was raging in my mind 16:37 and finally, that Evangelist that gave the appeal, 16:40 the Spirit used him in a mighty way, 16:42 I found myself at the alter weeping, 16:44 crying out to God, sincerely with all my heart 16:47 saying, "God, I want you in my life, 16:49 but I realize I can't serve you and serve this at the same time 16:53 and so I need you to do for me 16:55 what I cannot do for myself, I need you to free me, 16:57 take away these drugs and addictions, 17:00 and the desire for them," 17:01 and when I prayed that prayer sincerely, 17:02 with a willingness to loosen my grip on those things, 17:06 God took it from me, set me free, that moment, 17:10 and by God's grace I never looked back, 17:13 that was about 16 years ago. 17:14 Look at... wow! there are so many elements here 17:19 that are just so beautiful, first of all... 17:23 first of all, you were open to change 17:26 and you knew that you couldn't do it, 17:29 we can't do it on our own 17:32 and God doesn't expect us to do it on our own, 17:35 the only way to do it is through surrender to Him, 17:39 He does the work, 17:40 He makes Himself responsible for the work. 17:42 God doesn't need our help, He needs our permission. 17:45 Yes. How can we help God? 17:47 Taj: We can't help God. Yvonne: That's right. 17:49 He just needs our permission to do the work for us, 17:53 I'd like to say it like this, 17:55 we don't have the power to change, 17:56 the only power we have is to choose, 17:58 God has all the power to change, 18:00 but He doesn't have the power to choose, 18:02 so when we give Him our choice, 18:05 He gives us the change. Come on now... 18:08 It's a divine transaction. 18:09 Yvonne: Come on now, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, 18:10 you can choose and change, 18:12 okay give that again, I love it, I love it, give it again. 18:15 When we give God our choice, He gives us the change, 18:19 the transformation, He doesn't need our help, 18:22 He just needs our permission, 18:24 for us to yield, for us to surrender 18:26 for us to say it like this, 18:28 "In order to wrestle with the devil and win, 18:31 we first must wrestle with God and lose" 18:34 let God win in our lives, 18:36 and then we will win in the wrestling against Satan 18:39 and all of his attacks and temptations. 18:41 That is so beautiful, when we get held by... 18:47 there is a sin that doth so easily beset us, 18:51 everybody has their own little "pet sins" or whatever, 18:55 and until we're ready to release 18:58 them to God and ask God to take them away from us, 19:02 we will be held in bondage, but you... 19:06 and the Lord brought you to that point of repentance 19:10 because again, He gets all the praise, right? 19:14 That's right. 19:15 He brought you to that point of repentance 19:18 and then, you said, "God, I can't do this," 19:21 and you were genuinely sorry and repentant. 19:24 I was willing to loosen my grip and to let God take it from me, 19:29 and until we come to that willingness, 19:32 we're always going to be fighting. 19:35 Yes, yes, it's always that tug-of-war isn't it? 19:39 Taj: Yeah. Yvonne: You know always, 19:42 sometimes we don't even want to let go, 19:44 I mean if we really look at it, 19:46 we don't want to let go whether it's Weed, 19:48 whether it's certain TV Programs, 19:50 certain music, whatever it is. 19:52 Because we're so comfortable, I mean, that's our comfort zone, 19:56 and we're afraid, 19:57 we're insecure about living life without those things, 20:00 but God... He gives us the assurance 20:02 that He takes away something from us 20:04 only to give us something far better. 20:06 Yes, yes. 20:08 Taj: His security and His satisfaction. 20:09 Yes, yes. 20:11 The Bible says in Colossians 2:10 20:12 that in Him we are complete, 20:13 without Him, we're always going to be incomplete. 20:16 That's right, in Him we are complete, 20:19 that means, without Him, we are incomplete. 20:22 Yeah, yeah. 20:23 And so the only way to get the victory, 20:26 and I think people need to... you need to know this, 20:30 because, you can't have victory without Jesus Christ, 20:34 so it's going to be... 20:35 you might be able to temporarily give something up or whatever, 20:39 but it's not that "heart change," 20:41 and the heart change comes from Jesus Christ. 20:44 Amen. So, after that... 20:47 after that day, 20:48 were you then on a path for ministry 20:52 or what did you do and how old were you at this point? 20:54 I was 16 years old 20:55 and at the end of those meetings I got re-baptized 20:57 and that second baptism was the real deal. 20:59 That's the one that "took" hmmm... 21:01 Yeah, the song that kept going through my mind 21:03 when I was baptized was the song, "I surrender all" 21:06 truly I let the Lord strip me from all the things 21:08 that were distractions and 21:10 it was interesting that during those meetings, 21:14 a few specific nights, 21:16 the Evangelist... when he preached... 21:18 I remember one night specifically that 21:20 his eyes would scan the congregation, 21:23 but they seemed to always fall on me. 21:25 I guess he could see the conviction in my face, 21:27 and it seemed like... like God was singling me out 21:31 in that crowd, that's how I felt at least, 21:32 and looking back on that experience 21:35 it was as if God was saying to me, 21:37 "Taj, one day you're going to stand 21:39 where that man is standing, 21:40 one day you're going to be doing what he is doing" 21:43 and I never imagined or dreamed, dared to dream that 21:46 that would actually take place 21:48 but today, that's exactly the place 21:52 that God has brought me to as an Evangelist, 21:54 it didn't happen overnight obviously, 21:56 but when I was converted, we just started... 21:59 I just started sharing my testimony with others, 22:03 my local pastor gave me an opportunity to preach 22:06 for the first time when I was 16 years old, 22:08 went back to my old public high school 22:10 and started passing out "Steps to Christ" 22:12 to all my friends that I used to do drugs with and party with, 22:15 and they were shocked, they were surprised, 22:18 but they could see the look in my eyes 22:20 and the conviction on my face 22:21 and they realized that what I had was real, 22:23 so I had personal Bible Studies 22:25 every lunch period during high school 22:27 and would invite the whole school to come, 22:29 I didn't know much but I knew the Lord 22:31 and I just simply shared the little that I did know, 22:34 and as a result of those Bible Studies 22:36 we held every day in the public high school, 22:39 six of my friends and their family members were baptized 22:42 and came into the truth and... 22:44 Wow! and you didn't even really, at that point, 22:46 you didn't really know the Lord like you do now, 22:48 you were just learning, 22:50 you were just getting it yourself, 22:52 but you wanted to share it. 22:53 Yeah, the Bible Studies were basically the notes that I took 22:56 at the Evangelistic Seminar, Wow! 22:58 and so... I had a little but God blessed that, 23:01 and He used that to make an impact on other people's lives 23:05 and through that experience God was confirming 23:08 that He had a call for my life but, you know, to be honest, 23:11 I felt like I was the least likely candidate, 23:13 I was slow of speech, very shy, 23:15 introverted, burnt up a lot of brain cells, 23:18 socially awkward, 23:20 but yet, I've come to realize 23:23 that God is not dependent upon our own abilities, 23:25 skill and wisdom, 23:27 He's only dependent on our willingness 23:29 to be used by Him, 23:30 and He's not limited by our lack of those things. 23:35 That is so true, it's not about... you know... 23:40 God takes whoever we are, if we are willing, 23:45 if we are available to be used by Him, 23:48 He'll fill in the blanks, just be willing, 23:52 just be available and that's what you did. 23:55 That's such a beautiful thing so you were in high school 23:59 and your friends are probably like, "What is up with him, 24:02 he's a different guy, 24:03 this is not the same Taj that we were in school with, 24:07 it's a different guy" 24:09 It was tremendous, it was an honor 24:10 to be able to share with my friends 24:12 who I had influenced in a negative way, 24:14 I was able to redeem a lot of that negative influence 24:17 by showing them the right way to my own life, 24:20 in my own story, in my own testimony, 24:22 and many of them were listening, all ears, 24:24 because they not only were hearing what I was saying, 24:27 but saw a change in my life. 24:29 Were they trying to get you to come back in like... 24:32 trying to offer you free drugs and all that stuff? 24:34 Yeah, I'd tell them that I found a better high, 24:37 I found a spiritual high, 24:38 and it was a wonderful experience. 24:41 After graduating from high school, 24:44 I went to a small Bible College in Arizona, 24:47 called Souls West, got further training 24:50 and after graduating there, 24:53 we got picked up by Central California Conference, 24:56 to do evangelism and Bible work and literature ministries, 24:58 and we were there for the last eleven years, 25:01 it's been a wonderful journey, doing work for the Lord and... 25:05 Yes, that's tremendous, 25:07 seeing other people changed through our story. 25:10 What is your ministry titled, it's, "Revelation... " 25:14 Yeah, well, our Seminar is entitled, 25:17 "Revelation of Hope Bible Prophecy Seminar" 25:18 and we've done about sixty evangelistic seminars with that, 25:25 mostly in Central California, but in recent months, 25:28 my wife and I actually just made the decision to 25:32 take a step of faith and take the ministry 25:36 to all the world, 25:38 so we resigned from that position there in Central, 25:42 just to give us more freedom to go wherever we were invited 25:45 and to... the Bible says, 25:48 "to every nation, kindred, tongue and people" 25:50 we believe that time is short, 25:52 we want to be a good steward over the time, 25:54 the opportunities that God has given to us 25:57 to make the biggest impact we can 25:58 for the Lord Jesus. 26:00 Amen. And so our Ministry is called, 26:01 "Revelation of Hope Ministries" and now we're full time 26:04 doing Evangelistic Ministry, 26:07 Revivals and training with that ministry name... so... 26:12 That's great, and you have a website? 26:14 Yeah, revelationofhopeministries. com 26:16 that's our website 26:17 and we're just a faith-based 26:21 supporting ministry of the church, 26:22 and God has given us a lot of opportunities 26:26 to go here and there and it's just... no better thing 26:30 than to be in the center of God's will. 26:31 Amen, amen. 26:33 And it was definitely a leap of faith, 26:34 resigning... we're in that comfortable place, 26:37 God blessed, we were there for eleven years, 26:40 we saturated the territory 26:42 we feel... very thoroughly 26:44 and it's time to broaden 26:46 and do the most that we can for Him, so... 26:49 Wow! we are so thankful that you are answering the call 26:55 that's one thing about ASI, 26:57 you don't know when you're going to get 26:58 one of these grand announcements 27:00 but we are so thankful that 27:04 you are answering the call that God has given you 27:07 and that you are willing, 27:09 you and your lovely wife are willing to be available to Him. 27:13 Thank you so much for being with us, 27:15 may God continue to bless you, we enjoyed you, thank you. 27:20 I appreciate it, I appreciate it, Amen. 27:24 What a great testimony, God is so faithful 27:27 and He will take you from Point A to Point B to Point C 27:33 if we would just trust in Him, 27:34 it's so good to know that God has a plan for us, 27:38 and that wherever we are right now 27:41 does not determine where we're going to end up, 27:44 it's all about choices, so choose Jesus today, 27:48 you couldn't make a better decision, 27:51 than to choose Him today. 27:52 Well, we've reached the end of another Program, 27:55 join us next time because you know what? 27:58 it just wouldn't be the same, without you. |
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