What's up, Street Team family? You're watching this episode of the Street Preachers Podcast with your host, Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell. And you are tuned in to our special behind the scenes series of our very first Street Preachers Podcast tour. Stay locked. My home church. Yeah. I was there and probably around 12 o'clock, man, people start lining up. Yeah. And line wrapped around the building. I remember pulling up and seeing the line wrapped around the building. And man, it was just overwhelming to see God do something special in a place that I know needs it. Yeah. In a city that I know is hungry. And there are a lot of different pockets of church happening around the nation. But I really do believe we're in a unique season of revival of seeing God do something very special that we've never seen done in the earth because there's such an uptick and uproar of hostility towards Christianity right now. Listen, let's let's stop right there for one second. You talk about hostility against Christianity. I don't know if you remember this, bro, but when we was at your parents' ministry in Creedmoor, when we went to go do Raleigh Dorm, and it was that night when something supernatural happened that night. And when that thing happened that night, I said to myself, I said, you know what, Tim and I, there's no way, there's no way we're going to stop this tour. We got to finish this tour. I don't know if you remember this. Something supernatural happened at your parents' ministry. I remember that night we was on the platform the Holy Spirit is moving through the room people are all over you had did an altar call before we even sat down to record and there's hundreds of people everywhere and I was like my man Tim out here going old school Pentecostal even before we record and I think that was the first time the altar call was done that was the first time we did an altar call on the tour because we had space That was the very first altar call before we even sat down. Before we sat down. And you know you and I had no blueprint. And I'm thinking like, man, my man Tim Wiley out right now. We doing a full-blown Pentecostal Holy Ghost altar call. We didn't even sat down. But look, I remember it was during that altar call. I looked up in the balcony and I seen an Indian man up in the balcony. Yes, I remember. I remember the Holy Spirit putting on our hearts, yo, give this man $50,000. I remember. Remember this? Absolutely. And I shouted at that man. I said, because somebody said he's a pastor from India. India. Yeah, North India. North India. And I said, the Holy Spirit said to give you $50,000, right? And when that night of recording was over, you remember this? We was in the lobby. He came up to us with his family from India. And he said to us that they are suffering persecution. And I think one of his relatives or friends had just been captured. His brother. Right. It was his brother. His brother had been taken in prison A pastor was in prison And then this was the part that messed me up I don know if you remember this We in North Carolina and his wife said she said three days ago before we came to the States I had a dream Yo, this is crazy. He said, three days ago, before we came to the States, I had a dream. You remember this, Tim? I remember. She said, in the dream, God showed me a man giving us, I think she said the exact amount, $50,000. and then she wept and she could not the dream ended and she didn't know what happened. Exactly three days later here they are in the United States in your parents ministry. They're not even on the floor. They're up in the balcony in the dark in the shadows and still the Holy Spirit points them out in the shadows. Their first time to the States. First time in the United States. See I'm about to cry. First time in the United States. This is why we got to obey the Holy Spirit's promptings even when you don't understand. That's right. Even when people persecute you, even when you look like a fool in public, because I remember people going online and persecute me for that. Oh, they doing this to be showy. They doing this to show off. Even when people persecute you, slander you, call you out your name, they don't understand that you're obeying the Holy Spirit. And if I would have disobeyed the Holy Spirit in that moment, that woman's dream everything God showed her that whole moment is ruined but she would that couple will forever be marked absolutely 100% they will forever be marked knowing that they serve a God who communicates who is real who is listen you can't script a story like that that you have a dream in India and then three days later that dream manifests with complete strangers a supernatural move of God that happened right there in your parents ministry and when that happened that night when that happened that night I said to myself I said no God you know what this is your doing and it is marvelous and I was like oh my gosh and I'm going to tell you I became a believer that night bro I became a believer that night and I said to myself I said this tour is going to cost me but we got to finish you remember that night How supernatural I am. It was powerful. I remember it's their first time in the States, but the thing that marked me. You remember that passage, that Indian passage. We're standing in front of the step and repeat. We're in line, and he talks about how he was captured and how he's been beaten repeatedly. But he continues to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Even though he's being physically persecuted. Physically persecuted. His brother was in prison. When he was in line with us, his brother had been arrested and in prison for the gospel sake. And he was still full of joy. He was still confident in God's ability to pull him out. And he was so encouraged by your generosity and faithfulness. But I just I just imagine how many people in India would not be getting the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you had not operated in obedience. You know Tim I think you should just just take a second to encourage our street team There are people who are going through some difficult things Difficult spot in marriage difficult spot with parenting difficult spot in ministry maybe a sickness Let's just pause for a second, right? Because in America, we talk about what we're going through, but we have issues that are germane to our country. but then we hear stories like that in real time when a man's brother is sitting in prison for the proclamation of the gospel yeah and he himself is being persecuted as a and then going back to a place where people are being put to death for the faith let's let's just pause for just a quick second and let's just encourage somebody right now who's going through something very difficult let's just let's just speak to them um because because that man had he had confidence in god while his brother is sitting in prison. Let's just encourage our street team member watching right now. Just for a second. In the current situation, circumstance, tension of pain you may feel right now, I want you to understand that you will not stay stuck there. Okay. I'm reminded of Acts chapter 7, verse number 8. And Stephan is teaching the Sanhedrin council as he stands on trial and being accused of blaspheming God, blaspheming Moses, blaspheming the temple. The same thing the same council accused Jesus of. So he understands what the result and the end would be for him because he saw what happened to Jesus. He's standing there and he begins to not give them his opinion. He doesn't defend himself. He doesn't try to compete or compare. He begins to give them the word of God by teaching them about what God did for Joseph. Come on, bro. And he starts going down this narrative of how Joseph was taken by his brothers, stoned into the pit. He was bought out of the pit. He was sold into slavery. He was taken from slavery. He was imprisoned. He was taken out of prison. He was placed in the palace. Then he was taken out of palace and he was promoted. And the thing that I want you to understand and the thing I want you to be encouraged by is the same thing that got him promoted in the palace was also the same thing that got him placed into the pit. It was his obedience to God to walk in the gift that he had. And some of you are in the season you're in right now, not because you've done something bad or because you've done something wrong. It's because you've been obedient to steward the gift that God has given you. And then on the flip side, there are some of you who are in the season that you're in that has done something that you are not supposed to do. Maybe you're disobedient. Maybe you have not followed the last instruction that God gave you. And in that same chapter, Stephan teaches about Abraham and how Abraham stopped short and he did not move until his father died. And my greatest encouragement to you right now is don't get stuck where God used to be. Continue to move in the direction that God has you in. continue to move in the direction that God desires for you to move in. And I want you to know, even though you may be in pain, and even though there may be chaos swirling around you God is with you The most powerful statement in verse number 9 Acts chapter 8 is this And God was with him. And God was with him. As God was with him, God is with you. And then I want to, I just want to do a, I just want to pray really quickly for the persecuted believers around the world. Street team, if you're watching, just join me in prayer really quick. Eternal God and overwise, Father. Tim and I just pause in the middle of this recording to remember our pastor, our pastor friend, that Indian brother and his wife and their family that are being persecuted in India for their witness and for their faith and for the spread of the gospel. Father, right now, we as a street team, as a national and global family, we just pause for just a moment to remember all of the brothers and sisters around the world who are being persecuted for the faith. God, we want to pray for them, that you would strengthen them in their inner man with might by the power of the Holy Spirit. We want to pray that you would encourage them, Father, where they are discouraged. We want to pray, God, that you will provide the needs, God, that seem so difficult to acquire. We want to pray that you would remind them that this life is fleeting and that our hope is in the world to come. We want to pray, Father, that you would encourage them and remind them that our reward will be the crown that we lay down at the feet of the Savior, and that their persecutions are not in vain, and that their labors are not in vain. Father, we want to pray, God, just your strength for all of the brothers and sisters, God, around the globe who are suffering right now for the cause of Jesus Christ, and even those in America who are suffering in their own way, God, we pray that you would strengthen your bride, you would encourage your bride, and you will give a father confidence to stand in the face of opposition, albeit evil, albeit difficult, knowing that what can they do to us? Not even death would rob us of our testimony. And we look forward to being with you, God. Strengthen them and remind them. Remember them. In Jesus' mighty name I pray. Amen. Yeah, man. And so North Carolina was powerful and it was supernatural. There was another brother who I saw that night who was at Access. He had went and got waters for people, spent his own money. Him and his wife got waters for people. And the Holy Spirit moved on us to bless him financially. So it was so supernatural at your parents' ministry. Like that room, we seen miracles that night. And we seen miracles that night. And I knew at that point that you and I, we was a part of something that was bigger than ourselves and that God was moving. and that we had to continue. And I think we went on to Charlotte. Charlotte, yeah. Pray you were blessed by this behind-the-scenes content. And if you were, please do us a favor. Like, subscribe, share. Those things help us to continue the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Also, for more information, go to streetpreachers.tv. If you're encouraged by the message, help us to continue to share the message by going to the content, sharing it, but also supporting the merch. This isn't just merch. its mission.
