(167) “Just Say, ‘Yes!’” with Pastor Larry Mauriello

0:00 people go, how do you move in the supernatural? How did you, for 30 years, be on staff with Pastor Benny? The story is you say yes to the Lord continually. It's all about surrender. Yes. You say yes. Listen, hear, and keep saying yes, yes, Lord. ["Pastor Benny's Prayer"] ["Pastor Benny's Prayer"] God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promise outpouring, and we equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

0:45 I'm Philip Bus. And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today. We have with us a very, very special man, Pastor Larry Moriello. He has an amazing history of walking in the Book of Acts kind of activity that is what the Lord is wanting to do in these days. And he's going to share with us some amazing stories of things that he has seen that you can expect to walk in, because this is the time for that. ["Pastor Benny's Prayer"] We're so glad you're with us today. Thank you so much for joining us. Before we get started, if you haven't already done so, please go to our website, globaloutpouring.net, so that you can make sure that you are hearing from us when we have things to share about when podcasts are coming out or when we've got events coming, so that you can sign up for our emails there and you can give us feedback there, and you can browse our bookstore and read our blogs and lots and lots of things and find out what events that we have coming up.

1:52 So don't miss going to our website, globaloutpouring.net. Thank you so much for being with us today, Pastor Larry. This is a really great opportunity. We've come here, we're actually in your office in Fort Worth, and we came here to buy shofars from Holy Land Gifts, where you are working right now. But the place that we met you in the first place was when you were the staff pastor for Pastor Benny Hinn. Tell us, how did that even happen? How did you get that job? Yeah, miraculously. It's quite an amazing tale, but it begins, I think, with the prayer of my heart when I was an associate pastor in upstate New York in Schenectady, matter of fact.

2:38 I would often say from the pulpit that I wanted our church to be like the Book of Acts. You know, I believed when we read the Book of Acts, it should read like what we're experiencing on a daily walk is normal Christianity. Yes. And I would say things like, I believe the church that Jesus will return to needs to be very much like the church that was left behind, that the first century church, what happened there and how they walked and what happened, should be like the church that Jesus came back. So we wanna be like the first century church, to walk in the supernatural, to have that be normal Christianity, to see things like they saw and like we read in the Book of Acts happening on a regular basis.

3:26 Amen. And I believed that, I wanted that, I hoped for that, I prayed for that, and one day, lo and behold, the story's a lot longer, but the short version is my children wanted to go see a Benny Hinn crusade, and I had known him because years earlier when he was first in ministry, we had hosted Benny Hinn Healing Service in our school, in our church that I was part of, and I was the host pastor for that and helped do that, and he came back for years until his first child was born, and then I lost touch with him. But my kids started watching TV and saw, this is your day for a miracle, and the crusades that Benny Hinn was holding, and they, on vacation, wanted to go to one of those.

4:16 Wow. So we were traveling in an RV and worked out that we would be at Lansing, Michigan in July 29th because he was having a crusade there, and we thought we'll go to that as the last stop. And at that crusade, the Lord spoke to me and said, I'm calling you to this man's ministry, and I'm transferring your mantle, actually is what, I had a visitation, I'm transferring your mantle to this man's ministry. Wow. Wow. I got on my knees and I said, yes, Lord. And Pastor Benny came out to begin the service, and he always has worship, and the worship is going on, and I'm standing in worship, and I'm in a whole nother zone, you know, because the Lord had just spoke to me and had a visitation, an open vision, you know, if you will.

5:06 And suddenly, with my eyes closed, my hands up, worshiping, I hear Pastor Benny's voice say, young man, who are you? And I'm thinking, I wonder who he's talking to. Maybe I should open my eyes to see this, but I was really deep in worship and didn't want to, and then I heard, young man, you know, and I had a blue shirt on, young man, you in the blue shirt, right there, right there, who are you? And I opened my eyes, and he's pointing to me. And so now we're making eye contact. I'm about in the fifth or sixth row, and he says, who are you?

5:48 The Lord just spoke to me to hire you. And I said, I know. And he goes, what did he say? And the usher yells, he said he knows, you know? And so he goes, bring him up here. And so if you've ever been to a Benny Hinn crusade, you know, the ushers just grab you, your feet don't have to touch the ground. It doesn't, you know, you're going up. And then he says, bring his family up. And next thing you know, we're all on the platform, and he says, who are you, who are you? And then we had a recognizing moment, you know, where you recognized, wait, I know you. Said, well, you used to come to my church in the 80s.

6:29 And you know, when you first, he goes, that's it, that's it. God just told me to hire you. And so he had 18,000 people stop and lift their hands towards our family and pray for us. Wow. That we would come on staff and move to Florida. Wow. That's just, that's God. What an amazing story. And so the key is to say yes. People go, how do you move in the supernatural? You know, how did you, for 30 years, be on staff with Pastor Benny? What's the story is you say yes to the Lord continually. It's all about surrender. Yes. It's you say yes, listen, hear, and keep saying yes.

7:14 Yes, Lord. It's true. Yes, Lord. So we had a 5,000 square foot home. We had thought I was gonna retire in the position I had. And it was our dream house, really. It was Garrison Colonial. Everything was colonial. Nothing would work in Florida. You know, colonial furniture doesn't work in Florida. And we moved to Florida in like two weeks. Wow. We put, we had like an estate sale, put everything out on the front yard. Oh my. People drove by. It's the middle of July. And they were, they bought snowblowers in July. Oh wow.

7:55 We had a freezer filled with food. We were on one of those freezer plans and it was filled with food. We were like, what are we gonna do with this? And a guy walks up and he says, you wanna sell that freezer? I go, well, you know, it's kind of filled with food. We were kind of thinking maybe we'd try to bring it to, I'm like, sure, I wanna sell that freezer. But he goes, I'll buy all the food in the freezer. And he did. Wow. We, people walked in and bought, not just like, let me buy your couch. They were like, oh, I love this whole room. I'll take everything, the decorations, the furniture. Wow. The knickknacks. Wow. That doesn't happen normally.

8:35 No. But you know, I think for us who really walk with the Lord and if you say yes, you can expect that kind of thing to happen. Yes. I remember one couple came in and the husband said, I don't even like Colonial. Why are we here? And his wife said, well, let's go up and look at the bedroom. And he came down and he said, we want everything in the bedroom set. We'll take the dressers, the mirrors, the bed. Wow. And he loved it. That's supernatural. It is. I wasn't a car salesman trying to negotiate. People were just coming in and I was saying, yes. Wow.

9:16 We packed everything else in a little U-Haul trailer and towed it behind the same motor home we drove to the crusade in. And we landed in Florida. That's remarkable. 30 years later, I retired from that position. Wow. After having been blessed to travel all over with Pastor Benny and also to be in a church and principal of a school and to make amazing friends and deep fellowship and great community, but also to see with my eyes what I read previously in the book of Acts I experienced. Yeah. Eyes open, death ears open, the lame walking.

10:00 I can't say we fed 5,000 people with a few fish and loaves of bread, but they were given the bread of life through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and Pastor Benny. Millions, yes. Millions. I'll never forget the altar calls. Yeah. I can just saying that, I can go back in my memory as replaying the videos in my mind of that and watching people run to the altar. I mean run, knocking over chairs, whatever they needed to do to get to that altar, they were gonna do it. It's like a riot to get to the altar.

10:41 To receive the life of Jesus Christ in their life, to receive that gift of redemption, to renew and restore their connection with their heavenly father who's always been waiting with his arms open. And they would come, we would say to the cross and they would come to the feet of Jesus. They would repent and receive that and change of life. I saw bodies changed, marriages healed, families restored, teenagers back in fellowship with their parents because of the work of the Holy Spirit at the altars and the altar calls of the crusades across America.

11:30 Getting to be one of the pastors on staff and a pastor who often got to answer phones or stay after and talk with people while everybody else was doing something. I got to hear many of the stories that not everybody got to hear. And I felt just so fortunate and so blessed. And I thought it was a special gift from God. He said, well, you asked about this. So now you get to see it and hear it because it was your prayer. Yeah, it's a prayer that he put in your heart. Yeah, I truly believe that too. Yeah, yeah. He works in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

12:11 And Sharon, he honors the outpouring of the Holy Spirit begins many times even younger in our life. It's not just for old folks. Sometimes you thought, oh, well, the old folks are the spiritual ones. But what you do even as a young person begins to set the pace for God that trusts you with more and more. And as we say yes to the Lord and to the Holy Spirit, then he trusts us with more and more. It's not just one yes that leads to traveling the world with the great evangelist. It's many yeses throughout our life, many small things. I'll give you one. I was brought up Roman Catholic and thank God for the respect and honor of God that I was taught, the fear of God that I was taught, the reverence of God that I was taught, and the importance of prayer that I was taught.

13:04 It was very important in our family. We didn't understand prayer, but we knew it was very important. And my mom's and dad's house was about half a mile from the Catholic church. And my mom was one of 10. And they would often call my mom and ask for her to have prayer said at our church, at the Catholic church. And then you would light a candle. If you're Catholic, you know what I'm talking about. If not, let me just say one of the things you do is you go light a candle, which is like a light of your prayer reflecting before God. And you put a little offering in the place where the candles are and you light the candle and then you say your prayers.

13:48 Now, you say you're our father, you're Hail Mary, and you might ask your request. And so many times when they would call, my mom would call me from playing. Now I'm playing baseball or kickball or hide and seek. And I'd hear my mom call my name and call me to the house. And she would give me a quarter, some change, and say, I want you to go light a candle and say a prayer for my aunt, my niece, whatever was going on. And I would say, yes. Now, you know, I had friends who were asked to go do a similar thing by their parents. And on the way to the church in our neighborhood, there was a candy store.

14:31 Oh no. I was thinking you might say something like that. Back in the days of the nickel and penny candy, and you know, if you have 25 cents, gosh. That's a lot of candy. That's a lot of candy and a fudgy call. So I had friends who their bikes would be parked by the candy store and maybe a penny might get put in the, or they didn't even go to light the candle. Wow. But I went and lit the candle and I put all that was there in the offering. And I knelt at that altar and I said the required prayers. And then I would come back and get back in the kickball game or whatever else was going on.

15:13 My friends laughed at me sometimes for doing that. You know, I thought, you know, you could have had, you know, all that candy or an ice cream. Years later, I'm now on staff with Pastor Benny Hinn. And Pastor Benny is flying in the airplane, heading to a great crusade and event. And the Holy Spirit speaks to him and said, you need a prayer army supporting you to be able to do what you're doing and to go and have these crusades around the world. And he said yes, that he would do that. He would get an army of intercessors. Wow. And from the airplane, he called me. He didn't know that I was the little boy who rode his bike to the church and put in 25 cents instead of a candy store.

16:01 But our Father in heaven knew and watched. Because I was faithful, even as a young person, in obeying my parents, being respectful to the Lord and honoring God, he then honored me. Pastor Benny called and said, Lord spoke to me. We need an army of intercessors. And I believe you're the one that's to help lead it and to help me put it together. So we started what was called the Mighty Warriors Intercessory Army. And every day I would post a prayer on the internet that I would write to pray for Pastor Benny and our ministry and the events and the cities we were going to and did that for years.

16:45 We had as many as 50,000 people coming every day to pray that prayer and to spend 15 minutes in unity and prayer. Glory to God. So from one little candle lighting, we were then having one of the largest prayer meetings that I know of. Yeah. That's amazing. That's wonderful, yeah. Faithfulness. Because you need that prayer covering in some of these nations. Absolutely. Yeah, we do. Absolutely. And the idea of faithfulness, I've been saying it more recently, but there's a truth, I believe, about as long as you keep saying yes, you keep moving forward and you keep moving up and you keep moving deeper and you keep moving into a greater realm in God until you say no.

17:34 And if you say no, you'll go back down to the level where you said yes and you stay there until you decide to say yes again. So just keep on saying yes, it's the thing. It's the huge thing. If you really want to see the outpouring, if you really want to see the Book of Acts, when God gave us the name global outpouring, He spoke to me and said, what's coming is going to be like the Book of Acts on steroids. Wow. So it was like He showed me that the Book of Acts was like the first fruits of the big thing that He was going to do. Greater works you should do.

18:14 When it's on all flesh. Because of all those people that had come for Shavuot, they had come to celebrate Pentecost from the nations where the Jews had been dispersed. They came back from those nations and it was like a first fruits of the nations were there on that day to hear the tongues speaking the great works of God in their language. Yeah. That wasn't all flesh, but it was like a seed of all flesh. And it was enough of all flesh that Peter could say, this is that, that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. I'll pour out of my spirit upon all flesh. And now we have the potential to see all flesh, see this outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

19:02 Certainly available to all of us. It's not that there's something special about Larry Mariello. Or any of us. Or Philip Borchetta specifically. It's that somewhere we surrendered and said yes. Not my will, but thine. Not a simple prayer really, simple language. But to truly mean it from your heart is a surrender and a yes. And keep saying yes. I know Sister Gwen's motto was unconditional surrender. Yes. Which she lived by. That's what she called her life story. And we had to surrender with her many times.

19:44 We sure did. We were her road crew for all those years. And we're still the road crew. Yeah. Now you were telling us before we started, you were telling us some stories of things that God used you to do. He put you in a place at a strategic time to do a strategic thing that made a big difference. Can you tell us those stories? Because you were here and you were blowing shofars and buying some shofars from Holy Land Gifts. For our bookstore. For your bookstore. Yes. That subject came up and I mentioned about how a shofar, which is a ram's horn, or in this case a kudo, the larger one, it's an instrument.

20:30 It's really like a spiritual cannon, I would say. And I had been gifted with a shofar really supernaturally by a Messianic rabbi who came to visit our church in Orlando when I was on staff with Pastor Benny. It's quite an interesting story. And I received it not understanding it. And he said, I'm gonna teach you about it. And he wanted me to blow the shofar. And I was hesitant to blow it in the lobby of the church because there was all these people around and everything. So I said, well, let's go into the prayer chapel. And the lights were off in the prayer chapel.

21:10 And I had a key to it because I helped to lead the prayer there. I knew it was locked. So I unlocked it, stepped inside, turned the light on to blow the shofar there and let this Messianic rabbi who was a little over the top, it seemed to be, about pushing me to blow this shofar in the show and telling me that I was the one and he had had a dream and saw me in the dream and I needed to learn how to blow this shofar. And I'm thinking, okay, okay, I'll be nice. I'll just be nice. And when I turned that light on in that dark chapel, there was a man face down on the floor, he was praying. And he jumped kind of up to his feet.

21:52 And I said, I am so sorry. I didn't know anyone was in here. He said, well, they let me in. They unlocked a door to let me in to pray. And the rabbi goes, I'm here to teach the pastor to blow the shofar. I'm here. And the man who had been on the floor stands up and said, that's why I'm here. Oh, wow. He said, I came this morning and I asked if I could see the pastor and they said, you know, that the pastor wasn't available. And so I asked if I could pray and I've been here praying that God would bring the pastor. And he had with him this material about shofars. Oh my. And explaining it.

22:33 And he said, I brought a videotape that I have and it's about how to play the shofar and blow the shofar and the significance of it spiritually, et cetera. And he brings it out and on the front of that, he had put a picture on there that he had made. And it's of a person in Jerusalem standing on the mount and blowing two shofars. And the rabbi that was with me says, let me see that. And he grabs it and he says, that's me. It was a picture of him from years earlier when he was in Jerusalem blowing two shofars at once that someone had taken that this guy who came from Chicago had no idea who it was.

23:19 He just liked the picture and it put it on the video as a cover to give me. Not knowing who I was, but knowing God had told him to come. So that's how I received the shofar. And when I blew that shofar, the power of God hit everybody in the chapel by then, there was three or four other people, everybody hit the floor under the power of God. And I went, this is special. So I let them teach me about that. I listened, I studied about it. And then I began to use that shofar as a spiritual weapon, as a canon, as a catalyst to open up, if you would, the heavens for prayer, to make a portal, as some might say.

24:03 But it really does clear an atmosphere. It opens a heavenlies and it's a spiritual cannon. What I shared with you was once as a private pilot, which is why Papa Jim and I, Colonel Jim and I got along so well, had so much in common. And I was flying with my wife from Florida to New York and we got pushed inland because of a hurricane that was coming and we landed at a small airport right off of the ocean. And there was no place to put the airplane in a hanger because all the space had been taken by the locals. And so I had to tie the plane down outside and we had a rental car from the airport and I'm unloading the plane and I had my shofar and I'm like, you know, I'm not gonna let this hurricane win.

24:54 We drove to the edge of the property that the airport was on, it was right on the water. And I faced that storm that was coming in. We prayed my wife and I and I blew the shofar and then we declared against that storm and commanded it to come apart and to break. And then we went into the city. It was in actually Charleston, South Carolina. And everybody was evacuating, but we got a hotel room and they thought we were crazy and they said, well, we're gonna have to put you on the, above the fourth floor, there's a hurricane coming in. And we went out that night, had a great time and did everything and went out the next morning because the hurricane bypassed us. We're loading the airplane when local pilots from their hanger came out in their golf cart and they asked me if they could talk to me for a few minutes and I said, sure.

25:45 And they said, what was that trumpet that you blew? And I asked, why do you ask? They said, well, we were watching the radar. All the pilots have radar in their hanger to watch the weather and we're watching the radar of the storm coming in to us. As you blew the shofar, we saw on the radar screen as if a sound wave moving through that hurricane storm and it just dissipated in split and went right around us. Wow. Amen. You drove away and we were like, we have to find that guy and ask him, what is that? So I was able to share the gospel with them, share about spiritual warfare, what the ram's horn is, where it came from, where it is in the Bible and just had a great time of fellowship.

26:36 They were believers. I don't know if they would call themselves the same kind of believers perhaps which of global outpouring kind of, because their eyes were like as wide as anything. Yeah, they were totally surprised and amazed by it. But we believe it, we saw it. Some have to see to believe and some can just receive and understand but they certainly saw and believed it. Wow. I've seen that kind of thing happen time and time again. I don't often talk about it because it's not about me, it's about what God does. And I believe it's what he does through all of us and should be doing.

27:16 And Ken is wanting to do it through all believers. He's waiting to pour out his spirit globally that we all walk in this kind of a dimension, a spiritual dimension. Now that doesn't mean we're not earthly. I'm still earthly. It doesn't mean I'm perfect. Just ask my wife, she'll tell you I'm not. But it does mean that I've connected with a dimension of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit that's available to all of us to be able to walk in that I would call normal Christianity. Living like a king's kid, you know, it was a book years ago, how to live like a king's kid.

27:57 And we ought to walk like that, understand that, and then we can influence the atmosphere around us. And it changes everything. Changes the way the crops are, the way the weather is. You know, if our land is in a drought, maybe because it needs repentance. Right. And if our nation is having troubles, maybe it's because we've turned away from God. And we ought to look for the root causes of what's affecting that around us daily. And somewhere we stopped saying yes. And we said no, if we want to know maybe why there's so much violence in a school, maybe it's because in the school, we stopped saying yes to God and we said no.

28:46 And we withdrew. Talk to us about what happened in Turks and Caicos when you were there. First of all, I was just gonna say, can you tell us where that is? Sure, it's in the Caribbean. It's a group of islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands. It's right on the edge of where the Caribbean and the Atlantic shelf meet. Jacques Cousteau, you know, and he did all those great things diving, right? All the documentaries. Well, so much of that was filmed in the Turks and Caicos area because of the Caribbean and the Atlantic shelf. You can literally dive down that whole wall.

29:27 The Atlantic shelf goes there and it's incredible. Well, there's one island called Grand Turk Island. And it's where we had our base, a submarine base and a naval base when we were doing the first astronauts going and orbiting and we would land. Okay, yeah. The capsule would land in the water and they'd rescue it. They'd bring it to Grand Turk. Would be one of the bases for a lot of the first places. Some would even say it's one of the first places Columbus put his feet on in that area. But here at Grand Turk Island, I had flown there thinking I was getting just a few days, you know, of...

30:10 Vacation. Yeah, a little R&R. But also with a group of businessmen who were wanting to do a business deal on Grand Turk and get some land and put up a resort. And they were from our church and from Florida and they were believers and I had done a Bible study for Christian businessmen and they'd been part of that. And they asked if I would come along as a pastor just to keep them covered in prayer. And the first night when we landed, we were eating out on the patio outside the hotel and they were having a special meeting with government officials. I was not part of that. I was alone. They were talking with government officials and the prime minister of Grand Turk and Grand Turks and Caicos was there.

30:57 So you had to be invited to that table, you know, kind of thing. And there's security in that. What I didn't know is that they were having a discussion about what was going on in the Turks and Caicos and they'd been in a seven year drought. And the next day they were planning a national day of prayer because they felt that, you know, they had to ask God to help them with this drought. And the businessmen, knowing some of my history and that, and they said, that's why we brought Pastor Larry. And they said, you need to talk to Pastor Larry. And so the prime minister sent his security over and they said, the prime minister wants to speak to you. And I thought I was in trouble, you know. I'm walking over and he tells me the story and what they're doing.

31:40 And I said, you know, the Lord had prepared me on the way with some scriptures and some things and I shared them with him. And he said, you're to lead the national day of prayer. And so I got to help host the national day of prayer, which was carried live on their national radio. And I talked about repentance and we needed to repent. And that if you had sinned against your brother and if, you know, before you put a gift on the altar, go. You know, I went through all the different things on forgiveness and I just shared scripture after scripture about repentance. And the Holy Spirit came down. And of course it was all dignitaries and government officials all at the head table.

32:22 It was at the national parade grounds. They had a tent, but there was more people than even would fit under the tent. People were in chairs and a spirit of repentance began to just hit the place. Glory to God. And politicians began to come to the microphone and repent publicly and ask their political rival to forgive them. Wow. They were hugging and repenting and there were tears and it was amazing. And it was such a holy time. And I said, you know, we needed to pour oil into the ground to repent publicly and anoint the ground and even take communion and put this, Sister Gwynedd said take communion and even put communion in the ground.

33:05 And we took communion together and they asked me to do that. I anointed all around the parade ground. And then I blew the shofar at the end and declared liberty, you know, jubilee. That sound of the shofar just penetrated. And I said, when I blow the shofar, I want you to shout the taruah, which in the scripture, it says that's the sound the shofar makes, taruah. And so I told them to shout like the sound of the shofar. Don't shout hallelujah, don't shout praise the Lord. Shout like this cry from your heart unto God of victory. Taru, you know, and taru.

33:47 And I blew the shofar and about a thousand people who were there or more, they all began to shout like they were shofars and make that sound. It just, I felt like the ground shook. After everything was dismissed and everyone had gone their way and everything had finished, the prime minister asked if I would go with him, a small group. We went back to that same hotel restaurant. We're sitting on that same patio and we ordered dinner. And we had to move inside in the middle of the dinner because it began to sprinkle in rain. And I said to the prime minister, I said, that's just the sign like this cloud was like that of a man's hand and that the rain was coming.

34:32 The drought was broken. Glory to God. And then next morning we were going to leave, but the flight was canceled because there was too much water on the runway for the plane to take off. Glory to God. And they had many years of great blessing and dedication. And that curse had been broken. Drought can come again by saying no and walking away, but blessing comes by saying yes and repenting. The sooner we were to say yes and keep walking in a life of repentance, the more we can walk at that level of blessing and hear another from the Lord that we can say yes to and yes to.

35:15 And then we continue to climb that ladder more and more into his presence and more and more in walking in that outpouring of his spirit that's available for us all. Well, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, I remember a story. We had one of the first ones we had heard on the shofar and we were invited to go out to Colorado Springs and they were building the World Prayer Center that was still going on at that time. Back in the late 90s. It was and Sister Gwen wasn't able to go. So I said, I'm sending Sharon to take my place. So we're there and teaching on a seminar and Sharon had this prepared on the shofar, how it is processed, what it goes through, to get it sound, how it gets cleaned out and all that stuff.

36:05 And at the lunch hour, the teachers, they'd have a teacher at a certain table and people could come and sit at that table and talk to whoever the preacher or the teacher was. And at lunch, there was this man sitting there and he proceeds to tell us a story on the shofar. And I had not heard it from the horse's mouth. You know, I'd kind of scratch my head a little. But he had a house he was trying to sell. It would not sell. And so he called the church. It was a big church there and they called the intercessors. They all came over and they're just, you know, declaring the victory, just warring over the house. And when they went to leave, they said, but what they said was, there's a war going on over your house, but they never got a breakthrough.

36:50 And so everybody leaves and he says, well, Lord, what do I do? And he audibly heard in his spirit, go get a shofar. And he didn't know what a shofar was. You know, this is the early days of these. And he goes to church the next morning, he works in the office and one of the secretaries comes up to him with a shofar in her hand. Says, look at this, we're going through some of my stuff and I found this shofar. It's been missing for a long time. And he says, because he knew it was God, he says, can I borrow this? She says, sure. So he goes home, you know, maybe it was his lunch break. Went home, gets in his house and you know, I just praying, okay, Lord, I got the shofar.

37:31 And he starts blowing and he doesn't know how to blow one. Just squawk, squawk, you know, just like when you're learning to blow one. And he felt this commotion going on over the house and then just like an all clear. And that afternoon he gets a call from a lady. He says, you have a house for sale. I want to come look at it. And so she comes over that evening after work, comes in, looks at us, it's just what I want. Gives him a down payment. 24 hours, it's paid for. Cash. Cash out of his hands. You know, and had I not heard that right from the horse's mouth, you know, I thought that's. And it's not just the instrument itself because it's the horn of a ram, but it's the spiritual significance, the power behind it when it's used in the authority of prayer by the Holy Spirit for what God wants to do.

38:24 Yeah. Yeah, go and study the story of the falling of the walls of Jericho. Yeah, and Gideon. And Gideon. And you know, it comes, the first ram that you hear about in his horns is when Abraham obeys God and he's about to slay his son, Isaac, and God supplies a ram instead. He was caught by his shofars. By his shofars horns. Yeah, by his horns. And in my belief, Abraham took that horn, made it into a shofar and blew it on the top of that hill. Oh wow. I mean, we don't see that in our Bible, but I believe that's what happened.

39:06 It just makes sense. It does. It does make sense. To me, and kind of fits, God does everything in circles and completes it and it just makes sense. I don't think it's insignificant that it mentions it was caught by its horn. Right. Yeah. And I think that horn, Abraham knew then to blow that as a sound of victory, that to this day, when we blow that horn, it reminds the kingdom of darkness of the very beginning, you know. Yeah. And his coming end. Yes. And the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world. It's a principle of substitution that you hear that sound.

39:49 Very well said. That's what I was trying to say. Thank you. Yeah. It's like the ramp gave its life for that horn because in Israel today, that for thousands of, you know, how many the last 3,000 years, they blow the shofar at Shabbat, you know, they blow it when the Shabbat is starting. They blow it when Shabbat is over and they use it as a call of war. They would call when they would, you know, blow for the troops to assemble. Like Gideon, 300 shofars that had, you know, the ram's horn had them hidden there. And because each ram's horn would like represent a company of soldiers.

40:30 And so I can't imagine the sound of 3,000 shofars. 300. 300 shofars rather going off. Well, you know, the panic that when they've hired all these nations against us and they ran in panic, you know, it's just the power, you know, the instrument that was used that the Holy Spirit just moved, you know, on behalf of God's will to do what God wanted to do. Amen. So that's just amazing. There's so many stories on the shofar. That's true. So you have them now. You just, you are leaving here with a car full of shofars. For those who are interested, you- Come to the convention. Go to the global outpouring. Come to the convention, yeah.

41:12 Yes, and come to the convention and learn more and you can get a shofar. Right. And we'll teach you the principle behind it. And the principles behind it and how to use it so that you understand all of it. I see a lot of homes that might have one, but they don't know what it is. You have to know how to use it and understand it. That's true. And sitting on the mantle of their fireplace. But God set you up to have a special anointing for it. Yeah, no question about it. I've never heard of a setup like that before. That was amazing. So before we close, could we ask you to pray for the listeners and if they're anointed to get a shofar or whatever, they have one.

41:56 But particularly, would you pray particularly for them to have the grace to keep saying yes to God? Yeah, absolutely. I'd like to remind all of you that are listening that his arms are wide open for you. With arms wide open, he's waiting for you, looking for you. Right now, he's drawing you closer. The urging, the unction, the call of your heart really wants to say yes. His arms are wide open and he's actually running towards you.

42:37 Why not say yes, Lord, and run toward him with your heart? Surrender it and say, Lord, yes. To whatever the question, to whatever the assignment, I say yes. Yes, Lord, yes. Holy Spirit, my prayer for all who are listening and all who desire to know God is that they would feel that unction of the Holy Spirit, that they would bow their heart, their head, their ego, their pride, not just physically, but they would bow spiritually, willfully, before you, surrender and say, yes, King.

43:29 I lay my life before you, yes, King. I want to hear your voice. I want to feel your presence, your touch. I want to know you. I want to read your word and hear another speak to me through it, the Holy Spirit. Breathe upon me, God, that I might really surrender and say, yes, Lord, yes, yes. Some are saying yes even now. You know, it's okay if you speak it out loud now. No one will think you're weird, but the Holy Spirit will hear it. The Father will take notice.

44:10 Why don't you just say, Father, I surrender. Help me. Help my unbelief. Help me that I might say yes even now, yes. Yes, Lord, yes. To God be the glory. And to Jesus, the Lord and Savior, I say yes. Come, come in my life. Change me wherever I need changing. Mold me, shape me more like Jesus, less like me. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Pastor Larry.

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