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Will at last I am coming your way from India stage for the line of fire with your host activist all the international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry getting to the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown hey friends Michael Brown here in Mumbai, India is to be known as Bombay in the West and I'm looking out the window of my hotel after three days of wonderful ministry in my 24th trip here India together window.

This beautiful hotel will be for several hours before ministering to pastors. Just a small group of key pastors in the city and then later in the night, actually early in the morning.

Flying out to Italy for what interestingly is my 24th trip to Italy for two days into Reno or Turin as we call it in the West, but as a lookout. The hotel room here. Beautiful hotel. Other hotels on the horizon, but straight down is just shacks it's it's a picture of the contrasts of India. This amazing country where am so privileged to serve year in year out and I got some great, edifying things to share with you. Thanks so much for joining us. I hope you enjoy the guest hosting one day with Dr. Frank Turek two days with Dr. Alex McFarland and colleague, and then again tomorrow. Dr. Frank Couric and then gobbling Friday from Italy answering your questions so they'll be me back on Friday so if you could just remember to pray for grace on the rest of the trip. It's kinda rigorous. You know there's there's a lot of travel there different time zones. There are different climates so here in India. It's kind of like winter in India, but maybe it's 80� outside can be maybe 150 and the worst parts of the summer, but of that 80� here, and I left from the states route was pretty much colder than that. And from here's going to northern Italy where think it's gonna be in the 30s and in the time zone changes audio takes hours obviously to fly here in a few flights and then it's 10 1/2 hours different from my normal Eastern standard Time and want to go from here. It will be for 1/2 hours different from this. So six hours from stateside in Turin and then back home, where the forward to a coming your way live again this coming Monday, so thanks for praying. It is such a privilege to be here and serve assist faithful brothers and sisters and always that the special day the last day of ministry a minister to leaders in the morning, pastors, leaders pour into them and then in the afternoon we do water baptisms this is just a custom that we have.

It's not people that are necessarily comfortable Lord through our minister anything like that.

It's just people that want to get baptized, and this is their time to do it. So I participate in those and then at night. We have the graduation service for the discipleship training centers may be about 5060 students graduating last night and maybe another dozen men who were being officially ordained as pastors but they are four different locations for the discipleship training schools and some of the areas where where there based or really heavy Max light areas naxalites being radical, violent communists and some of the guys that were graduating last night think they just look like young boys.

I mean they they look closer in age to my grandsons that are of 13 six week support 13 years old and the closer in age to them into a graduate from ministry school, so I'm just look young and their Indian from tribal areas and things like that they may be smaller but my friend Jesu. Parliament leaves the ministry here was telling me that that often of the naxalites will take young man at that age. In fact, he was recruited when he was 11. Even younger before he knew the Lord and he said now were getting them and sending them out to minister, and amazingly, because the ministry does such good helps people so much raises their standard of living, some in just absolute horrific poverty now have their needs met.

The get education they see with the Christian workers do and they have given us permission to be in these areas. That's how ministry drive. I got some great things to share with thanks for joining me as I come away from India. We will file the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown yes traveling to India and ministering in India we got a great guest hosts filling in for me this is Michael Brown just flew out of the truck apart and that is via Zach for short and Andhra Pradesh of the state of Ingres Southeast India 24th time there in 24 years.

The ministry there planted over 7000 churches, especially in tribal regions, regions that used to be virtually completely un-reached now completely reached meaning in every village there was a gospel preaching church and amazing work of the school. They have has over 700 students in it.

Now including 150 from the children's home. I remember a few years ago when the kids got cots so for the first time in their lives. They didn't have to sleep on the concrete floor.

Instead, they they now had cots with mattresses, but the amazing thing about these little kids and the kids in the children's home so they are either orphans with both parents are one parent or their parents are pastors in tribal regions where it's virtually impossible to raise the kids. The nutrition is too poor it's too dangerous. Some of the leaders been beaten repeatedly there's a way to educate the kids so this is a further sacrifice they make to to be separated from them sitting get good upbringing, education, healthy food and things like that and I remember these kids though sleeping on the floor, took their pictures. One night we we videotaped it joyful small health that I thought man.

There is so much more content than than we are in the Western and all they had was a little cubby in the wall. I'm innocent little cubbyhole that was all their earthly possessions may be a change of clothes and couple other things and they were joyful and contented, and now their summer doctors in America. Summer pastors in India.

They've graduated there gone on doing God's will. And amazingly, the kids that have been through the children's home. This is hundreds thousands of kids have been through the children's home is upon them told me that he does not know of a single one that's backslidden you talk about being grounded for years and years and years and a healthy wholesome Jesus exalting environment. Years and years and years growing up in the word growing up in prayer.

Growing up in worship, getting a godly Christian education. Have a great example surrounds you and hits at and not the distractions of the world, yet quite amazing and they're thriving in the Lord today so ministering to shuck apart on finished up last night at a real early flight this morning. Now over in Mumbai. I can't take calls because of that the time of when I'm doing this now, but I am looking out my window in India and join with you one heart, one soul can I share something with you extraordinary Jesu bottom shared with us yesterday with tears again if if you've never heard his testimony.

Just go to our digital library. Go to asked Dr. Brown a SK DR Brown.org. Click on the digital library and just type in the name Jesu part of you say will that's easier said than done yet. It's YESUP A.D.A.M. one word that's his name Jesu part of why i.e. PAD a M or if you listen to all the interviews that have done with him over the years of the radio website a lot of fire.org just click on listen.

And in the archives.

Therefore, radio shows to search and you'll have several interviews we've done over the years, but he shared something with me last night that was incredible to hear. First let me step back and give you some background.

I have seen a pattern over the years when ministries when individuals have had a unique and special relationship with Israel have been joined with the Jewish people and that there is been a supernatural grace on them.

It doesn't mean everything Israel does is right, it doesn't mean that standing with Israel means accepting all of Israel's decisions. It certainly means wanting to reach Jewish people with the gospel and not neglecting them. And I've seen churches ministries with extraordinary stories and they say it's because of our relationship to Israel. It's because we give the firstfruits of our funds to reach Jewish people in Israel.

It's because God called us to stand in solidarity with Israel doesn't mean that you don't care about the Palestinians doesn't mean again that everything Israel does is right, but there is the supernatural relationship okay get this department a minute. But let me share a little background first so the giving is church in America in terms of per capita, the most giving church in America's first churches that are on record in a larger churches and things like that is Gateway church based in Grapevine Texas but with with the satellite campuses all around the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. I preach there a number of times seen the miracle of grace on that ministry good friends with Pastor Robert Morris, who sold wisely leads the congregation and teaches and preaches the word so faithfully and when I first visited Lexi when I first preach there 13 years ago I had read Pastor Roberts book the blessed life about principles of generosity and things like that. I heard some of the miracle stories a financial provision and I thought to myself, okay, I wonder how much emphasis they put on money.

I wonder how much they talk about money in the service to generate those kind of funds into my absolute astonishment.

They didn't say a word about money during the service. They didn't even receive an offering at the end of the service. One of the pastor said if you're visiting the way we give we have boxes you can give.

On the way out. That was I when I was I was stunned, stunned then your past plate well. Pastor Robert told me when I was with him. Oh let's see about two years ago now. When I was doing the service room. We were talking. He said to me that Gateway was now giving $1 million a month to missions.

He was staggered by.

He was blown away by God's grace on them and if you read his book the blessed life today. He wrote an afterword to the book so final reflection and he said we analyzed why we are so supernaturally blessed financial we concluded it is not our preaching. I'm paraphrasing efforts. It is not our preaching and teaching is that our care for people is not our children's programs. This am and they do everything with excellence. They're famous for that. He said we concluded that it was due. To our giving the firstfruits of our missions funds to Israel and to help the Jewish people and to help Jewish ministry and that's why we have been so supernaturally blessed incredible all right.

I've had the privilege of preaching at the largest mega church in Europe. Faith Church led by Pastor Chandra Namath in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary or Budapest as they would say, and I believe the membership is over 70,000 people. I believe they have within 5000 kids in their Christian school program throughout the nation. I believe they have over 600 students in their seminary five or six year seminary which is recognized accredited by the European union and it's an incredible work. They own the nation's fourth largest TV station, which is also the number one news station in the country to secular station they own it. Still, secular station, but they also use it for gospel purposes. They air their service on Sunday mornings at about 1/4 million people watch on TV there in Hungary is extraordinary and they have an incredible relationship with Israel. They had Israeli ambassadors and leaders speak from their pulpit. They had Ellie resell speak from their pulpit and of Pastor Chandra has a great relationship with the Israeli government and I asked him do you believe that there is a supernatural connection between the blessing of God on your church and your relationship with the nation of Israel so absolutely absolutely he was quite sure that there was supernatural grace. Because of that in the last year I visited the fastest growing church in the world. From what we understand pastor Santos Kumar and Hydro Bob, who in 10 years went from 35 people to 120,000 average 5000 new visitors every week. I was there I greeted the people and and got to address them briefly and five Sunday services.

This massive facility that was built in 52 days it's it's one of the most miraculous stories I did an article about it when I came back that you can also read on our digital library. If you just search for Kumar KU MAR you'll you'll find that and to my joyful surprise pastor's a teacher's office. There are two small flags sitting on his desk.

One of Israel in one of India is that extraordinary why those two flags and everyone is greeted upon entry with the words shalom and I said that I believe that God was going to make a highway from Hydro Bob to Jerusalem and Jerusalem to Hodge about something about the relationship between the cities and in these nations, so I've seen that I've seen that supernatural grace with this. Israel connection with different ministries over the years. This bottom told me something last night that that stunned me come back here to celebrate your listening to the line of fire from Mumbai, India error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution of your exam is Dr. Michael Brown by Michael Brown away from India. I want to finish sharing what I was speaking about right before the break, and then just some amazing news to share with you. You probably got an email with your email list you would have read about this via email today if you couldn't hear me sharing some of this last week, but I've seen how God has supernaturally blessed different ministries as they have uniquely stood by Israel or prioritized supporting evangelism to the Jewish people, or blessing the people of Israel and yes department was talking with one of our grads who leads our firework in Holland. These are a wonderful church and ministry school. There, in Holland wonderful brother with his wife and five kids in great team. There and Jesu partum was my Indian friend was telling Frank from Holland, who is here with us in India for a few days that the reason God has so supernaturally blessed his ministry that it has so exploded into this ministry that is touched. People all over India that is planted over 7000 churches and built orphanages and hospitals and is now helped birth works in other nations that are doing incredible jobs.

I mean, it's amazing to see what happened. And here was this man who was an untouchable who was an alcoholic, atheist, violent, naxalite communist when Jesus saved to when he was in his 20s and he says he says the reason that they have been so supernaturally blessed is because of his relationship with me as a Jew and me coming there to the ministry every year and he said it with tears. I said to Frank. It's those tears that are the key to the success of that ministry is heart of love for God and for people in his nation and know that to me is the key, but he is sure he is absolutely sure of it and it's an interesting thing friends back in 1995. That was my third of 24 trips there 1995.

It was a one month trip. Nowadays, we can just come here for for three or four days because of intensity of schedule was one month trip. This had been with me on the previous two she wasn't with me on this trip was just a rough trip.

It was it was a hard trip yes department. I had some miscommunication. There was a lot of demonic pressure and attack. I was frustrated. He was frustrated and I was a little upset.

I got in the flesh and it is noted to be trying that is a lot of stuff going on could be trying.

I got the flesh and ice and we solicit let's talk with the other leaders. Let's sit down and talk to because I was just frustrated and I want to go back home early and it just things weren't happening around the sun.

You got the flesh I got frustrated so Jesu partum he said brother God has brought us together. Jew and Gentile in an eternal relationship. He saw the significance of it. He saw it, he felt it and little did I know that I would be here basically 24 straight years. The year when there was a terrorist attack in Mumbai was about to fly in and Jesu partum said you're an American you're a Jew don't don't come in and then I went twice another year. So it's been 24 trips in 24 years and I presided over the graduation at their ministry school year and you're on the history chapters that we do it now in December because that's when I come they graduate.

Cap and gown get their certificates will lay hands on them, but they will graduate for another fume cycle back to school of one you're supposed come in March we were doing the graduation then and that's when they were literally graduating and I was run down. I was unable to come so we rescheduled for December of that year, and I asked Jesu partum when I saw him in the states during that summer so have a graduation ghosted. We didn't have a brother.

They decided to wait until you come and that's when I realized the significance of these trips so we don't do big meetings anymore. We don't do big rallies with tens of thousands their challenges with foreigners doing that, I travel all the way over here. Of course we we pay our expenses. It's expensive trip and and we come over here and long journey, a lot of other people to do it and we do it for a few hundred people we we do it for the family here at the relationship and its sake, I count it a privilege and an honor to do it and little did I think of the significance of a Jew and Gentile connected here for bringing the gospel to the nations, and amazingly Jesu partum is even entertained Israeli leaders in his home and miracle of miracles, how in the world did that happen it. There's just something supernatural's on a regular basis.

When we come to the end of the meeting he asked me to to pronounce the priestly benediction from number 60 of a wreck. I can't deny the charrette of the Lord bless you and keep you. You and other not Palavi that have Internet, the Lord causes face to shine upon you and be gracious to you saw the light, the less obvious and little shalom. The Lord lift his face upon you and grant you his peace and that that is a regular feature of many of the services and I never fully realized until last night that he believes that is why they have been so supernaturally blessed this Jew, Gentile connected. I'm sure their love for the Lord and sacrifice for the Lord is massive and that blessing, but perhaps our union is sacred in God's sight. In that way. Of course it sacred in God's sight many ways. All right, if you haven't heard, God has opened up three massive doors for us, beginning in the new year on massive international Christian TV you have two different programs.

A five minute ask me anything program where viewers from around the world will send in their questions and will be a different one every day five shows a week and then a full preaching show a half-hour show I can pour my heart out to preach repentance and preach revival and preach holiness, and that will also air that will be a once a week broadcast and God has provided for all of the airtime and from most of the production costs if you can believe that. And he's opened the third door through a network that will basically get us into every home in Israel and we are so we have to do all this new program to the massive amount of time and energy and effort, but it will work with recording brand-new shows specifically talking to Israelis about Jesus issue. It's amazing. These are the biggest doors. God is ever opened in my life all these decades of ministry, and aside from the time and energy that we have to put into it. The funding we need is to finish off a similar production costs and add a staff member. It's amazing how much God is provided so our immediate needs. Out of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars only tens of thousand, and we have an initial matching grant. The first 10,000 that comes in will be immediately doubled.

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But if you remember in second Samuel with David. There is a raid on sick log. This is the location of David's men and their wives and possessions and what happens is Raiders while David Is Better Way, Raiders come and plunder the area take the women and children take the goods.

So David and his men come back there. Absolutely mortified. Can't believe what happened broken before the Lord over so they they get some of the guys together were to go after them and and not everyone was taken. So some of the Madigan stand stay with those that are back and and stay with their their possessions and things like that so they go when they catch the Raiders in the Killam and the take their spoils and they bring back their family that's been taken to bring back the goods and then you start dividing them out among all the men some subtle way we wait.

These guys stay back.

These guys stay back and we went for hot so we we get though I'm sure the goods. In addition, get it right. Makes sense makes sense, but David said no no no and the space becomes a principal once they back gets a reward once ago. In other words, it's teamwork. Every body was doing a role. The ones that stay back on a vacation there on guard they were doing what they were supposed to do so.

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If you're one who serves our ministry in other capacities, shares what we do goes out of your way to share our message with others if if that's you, you Sharon's reward. I'm here doing what I'm doing and and stretch myself out run my race for God with joy. What a privilege where privilege and I had the privilege of preaching the word. Thousands of messages overseas think a calculated assessment of three years of my life overcome jet lag with all travel would join privilege but I just want you to know is we've had great fruit on the strip. As we seen lives touched as we made a deposit again in in new workers that are going to go out and plant churches and in and do the work of God. We get to minister encouragement to those who preach the gospel and been beaten forth and persecuted for you. Share in the reward.

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Michael Brown delighted to be with you. Delighted to serve as your voice more cultural and spiritual revolution. The theme of rest. We come to the end of a busy year. Many of you pushing hard with family with work with ministry responsibilities with the weight of life upon you, and if you're running your race hate on running mind ensure look forward to winding down towards the end of the year getting a little extra rest catching up just on quiet things in and time alone with God. Maybe getting some clutter cleared out some extra family time. Hopefully many of you be able to do that as well, but we are called to run a race. Are we not, we are called to endure hardship as good soldiers of the Simon. This is scriptural. We are called to be disciplined.

We are called to to persevere and yet God gives us rest you say hat out of the two work together. I will assure principal been meditating on it here in India is well and it's it's from Psalm 127 and it says this unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. So the first thing is you try your hardest and push and push and push and push and push and push and God is not in it your best efforts fall short. If God is not in it. Your greatest efforts are going to fall short. You will not produce the work that you want to produce. You will not see the fruit that you want to see and it doesn't matter how Herculean your sacrifices and your efforts are if the Lord does not build a house. Those who build it labor in vain if the Lord does not watch over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain because he's knocking to be able protected. Conversely, if the Lord does build a house. Those who build it.

Do not labor in vain if the Lord does watch over the city, the watchman does not stay awake in vain. Now look at this is vain that you rise up early and go lay to rest eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his beloved sleep limit. Let me read that in a couple of other translations. That was the ESV King James is vain if you rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

NIV in vain rise early and stay up late toiling for fruity free grant sleep to those he loves me read from the NLT is useless for you work so hard from early morning to late at night anxiously working for fruity, for God gives rest whose loved ones new Jewish version vain you rise up early rise early and stay up late.

You toil for the bread you eat he provides as much for his loved ones while they sleep, that the point is the point here is that we can strive and try so so so so hard to make things happen. Make things work, produce get the job done and and and yet we go to sleep and rest. God continues to work on our behalf. Here it would be like this. You want the best farm in the world you want to produce the best fruit in the best vegetables and every morning you get up way before sunrise and you just walk around and look at every plant and every tree and you inspected and then you start to dig things up to make sure because the seed growing rice is going okay and then you will you've got your your sprinklers are supposed to go on at certain times of the day in the night. They run by themselves, but you stay you stay up late to make sure those those work and at the end of the day your your neighbor is also a farmer.

He's been working hard. He's been plowing he's been sowing the seeds he's been making sure things are going well, but he sleep at night and God's giving increase to his farm the same way. There is a place of rest it and I think that some of us sometimes are so eager to see God's work done were so eager to see the gospel go forward were so eager to see her kids solid in the Lord were so eager to see our our business succeed. Were so eager to do it to see things happen that are that are good and commendable, but we overwork, we push ourselves above and beyond, we don't find that place of rest. There is no Sabbath rest.

There is no place of rest that we find in God. As a result of which we we burn ourselves out. I don't say this to condemn there so many devoted pastors and shepherds and you care so much about your flock and you got limited budget. You're trying to meet every need and hate only God can meet every need some years ago I was talking to a friend of ours is a good friend of Nancy's mind and I said to you know I try to answer emails from grads whenever the email day or night. If I see it doesn't matter what I'm doing if I'm able answer it on the stop if I can answer it and if it's a crazy time of the day or night. If if I see it in the middle night a week up little while. I see them Alpha honor respond. I served I want to be there for the grads all the time and this friend said to us. Mike only God is there all the time so does not excuse for laziness I mean is no possible way you could read the Bible and come away with an ethic of laziness just the book of Proverbs loan would demolish that mindset forever, but but there is a place of rest you labor do your job.

Fill your responsibilities and you step back and you rest of the world is still in strife, the other still people that need to be saved, yet still things that need to be prayed for, yet there still people that need to be visited yet still a poor person that needs help in a starving person that needs help with. We can't meet every need of every person 24 seven. But we labor in vain. When we push beyond the calling of God over the years I've had to learn to discipline myself to rest and not only is it rejuvenating not only is it life-giving. Not only does it give more energy so that after resting. You can run even more effectively, but it also causes you to lean even more on the Lord, it brings you to a place of of greater faith and greater dependence because you're looking to him to do with he can do. What's fascinating is if you read the rest of the Psalm. The focus is on sons on on a man's sons and and how they will basically fight his battles and in he can do what fathers do with the city gate what elders do and his sons can carry on the legacy.

It's that same rest principal.

If you get it if you grasp it if you can hear that that you pour into others and now they help carry that load so that it's not always and only on you and what is Jesus say what is Yeshua say the end of Matthew 11 it's a strategically positioned verse. There is been controversy, religious controversy over his ministry. He's been attacked and and this is this is an ongoing theme and as there is controversy about how Johnny Mercer involves either pro who was he and who are you and and and and he begins to Jesus begins to rebuke the cities that saw his great, mighty miracles and didn't repent and then he stops. He steps back a thanks the father Lord of heaven and earth that these hidden these things for the wise and understanding revealed them to little children. Yes father, for such was your gracious will. This is pleasing your site and he goes on about all things been handed to him by his father and revelation for the father and says in verse 20. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me from gentle and lowly in heart, you will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy and my yoke fits just right.

My burden is light that the teachers of the law. The speak of the yoke of the tour. All the yoke of the king was hate take take my yoke on you and notice this the same Jesus calls us to leave everything and follow him.

The same Jesus that calls us to take up our cross the same Jesus who doesn't tolerate our excuses.

What you say come to me and you'll find rest for your souls. And what follows immediately after battle over legalistic issues a battle over Jewish traditions with Jesus exposes getting in the way of the spirit of the Sabbath to say you want real Sabbath rest, you'll find it in me. It's fine to have a day of sabbath rest but the ultimate Sabbath rest is found in him, so here's an invitation come to that place of rest, of acceptance of knowing your sins are forgiven of knowing your love by the father of knowing it's his grace working in you that does the work and not your analysts driving and running around a chicken with its head cut off. Once you find that place of rest, the learn to live in it from that place of rest on your race when I hold. This has ministered to you as a share.

The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH dear Jim is Dr. Michael Brown. The last segment of Psalm 27 and sharing some thoughts from their want to share some thoughts from Psalm 26 this is Michael Brown every way from Mumbai, India, and am pleased to pray for grace still have a meeting one more meeting to do here in India to finish out my time here and then the journey to Italy and then several meetings in Italy sharing with young people should be a large crowd of young Italian men and women sharing together with my friend of their boss is on his way over from Israel. As we share with them the importance of Israel to them as believers.

These can be breakthrough meetings in Italy, so please do pray for grace as a be with pastors in Mumbai is small closed meeting in a little while and then the meetings in Italy that will be Friday and Saturday gobbling ahead home on Sunday, but some of you have have prayed for things for years and you have you have sown with tears you have prayed with tears you have given with tears and I want to encourage you that your labor is not in vain in the Lord your labor is not in vain in the Lord and Psalm 126 is is a Psalm with very very different emotions very very different emotions.

Let's let's take a read through it.

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion. Speaking of going out of exile. We were like those who dream that her mouth was filled with laughter, our tongue with shouts of joy than they said among the nations. The Lord has done great things for them.

The Lord has done great things for us. We are glad restore fortunes a Lord like streams and the negative those sewing tears will reap with shouts of joy.

Why would you sewing tears have often thought about that. I commented a little bit here and there over the years on it. But while you sewing tears could be that that most are people are in exile and and you're there with very few others trying to produce a harvest for sustenance could be that the ground and the conditions are are not conducive to soloing and energy seems to be no hope for the future.

Those who so in tears shall reap results of joy who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. So as we're getting closer and closer to the end of the year. I just want to encourage you that God is not death to cries because a blind to your tears. It's not that we force him to do something that he doesn't want to do, but we are his coworkers. His fellow laborers because of that he gives us the privilege of praying he gives us the privilege of of working together with him, he response to our prayers. He he calls us to fasting. He calls us to seek him with brokenness and tears and and out of that something wonderful something glorious, something very very special is birth and what I want to encourage you that no prayer prayed in faith. According to the will of God, not a single prayer is prayed in vain if you prayed to the father. If you prayed in faith. If if you're praying according to the will of God you can be sure those prayers are making a difference. Tears that you shed for love ones and in payment brokenness and agony of heart. Those prayers had not been in vain. Those tears have not been shed in vain and I was I was looking at journal entries when I was flying from where was it Chicago to Delhi in India this past Friday going through some key journal entries over the last year and then noticing ones from some years earlier, and years back I had been so terribly burden to get the message out that God had given me. I been so terribly burden to reach more and more and more people with with the message of the gospel and to see revival into help spark moral and cultural revolution and I was on my knees. I think it was late at night and I cried out from the bottom of by heart.

God give me of voice and yes we touch many people. By the time and have a voice through preaching and teaching and and and a voice through writing, traveling and speaking and yet I was so desperately burdened by the condition of the world and by the message that God had given me, that I knew could help that. All I could do is craft from the depth of my being an and I was stunned when I look back at that. Some months ago. I realize voice voice. That's the thing wherever I go, people come up to me and say thank you for being a voice. Thank you for being my voice and I hear it constantly from folks.

Thanks for being our voice and are introduced every other radios. Your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution.

I say that to encourage you, God does pay attention and and most of the time. The bigger things. The better things.

The most important things take the longest here I am 61 years old and gone 62 next March feeling young fresh ready to run my race with even greater zeal in the days ahead and it's so interesting that God is opening bigger doors now than a year ago than five years ago than 10 years ago than 20 years ago and he's just swung open.

These massive doors that again enable us on massive international Christian TV to reach people with powerful preach messages to reach people with short teachings and and to reach into every home in Israel with the good news of the gospel.

Three different doors on two different stations. I shared it earlier in in the last half hour before this I want to share it again with you to me just another sign of God's faithfulness and hearing the prayers hearing our cries have been lifted up to him these many years for revival, for the great commission for the salvation of Israel for moral and cultural revolution and if you hear that the good news. The, the goddess provided for the airtime goddess provided for much of the production and now we we have to add staff. We have to add some video equipment and we will pay and everything.

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It's a sacred time. It's a sacred opportunity and out of a budget of what could be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Are there tens of thousands that we have to meet right now, so it is incredible what God supernaturally provided.

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That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown, a friend is Michael Brown here in Mumbai, India, known as Bombay in the West and I'm looking out the window of my hotel after three days of wonderful ministry in my 24th trip here India together window. This beautiful hotel will be for several hours before ministering to pastors. Just a small group of key pastors in the city and then later in the night, actually early in the morning. Flying out to Italy for what interestingly is my 24th trip to Italy for two days in Torino or Turin as we call it in the West, but as a lookout. The hotel room here. Beautiful hotel. Other hotels on the horizon, but straight down is just shacks it's it's a picture of the contrasts of India. This amazing country where am so privileged to serve year in and year out and I got some great, edifying things to share with you.

Thanks so much for joining us. I hope you enjoyed the guest hosting one day with Dr. Frank Turek two days with Dr. Alex McFarland and colleague, and then again tomorrow.

Dr. Frank Couric and then gobbling Friday from Italy answering your questions so that'll be me back on Friday so if you could just remember to pray for grace on the rest of the trip. It's got a rigorous you know there's there's a lot of travel there are different time zones.

There are different climates so here in India.

It's kind of like winter in India, but maybe it's 80� outside can be maybe 150 and the worst parts of the summer, but of that 80� here, and I left from the states route was pretty much colder than that. And from here it's going to northern Italy where think it's gonna be in the 30s and in the time zone changes audio takes our solvency to fly here in a few flights and then it's 10 1/2 hours different from my normal Eastern standard Time and want to go from here. It will be for 1/2 hours different from this. So six hours from stateside in Turin and then back home, where the forward to a coming your way live again this coming Monday, so thanks for praying.

It is such a privilege to be here and serve assist faithful brothers and sisters and always that the special day the last day of ministry.

I minister leaders in the morning, pastors, leaders pour into them and then in the afternoon we do water baptisms this is just a custom that we have.

It's not people that are necessarily come to the Lord through our minister anything like that.

It's just people that want to get baptized, and this is their time to do it. So I participate in those and then at night.

We have the graduation service for the discipleship training centers may be about 5060 students graduating last night and maybe another dozen men who were being officially ordained as pastors but they are four different locations for the discipleship training schools and some of the areas where where there based or really heavy axle light areas naxalites being radical, violent communists and some of the guys that were graduating last night think they just look like young boys. I mean they they look closer in age to my grandsons that are of 13 six-week support 13 years old and the closer in age to them into a graduate from ministry school, so I'm just look young and their Indian from tribal areas and things like that they may be smaller but my friend Jesu.

Parliament leaves the ministry here was telling me that that often of the naxalites will take young man at that age. In fact, he was recruited when he was 11. Even younger before he knew the Lord and he said now were getting them and sending them out to minister, and amazingly, because the ministry does such good helps people so much raises their standard of living, some in just absolute horrific poverty now have their needs met. The get education they see with the Christian workers do and they have given us permission to be in these areas. That's how ministry drive. I got some great things to share with thanks for joining me as I come away from India I will file the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown yes traveling to India and ministering in India we got a great guesthouse filling in for me this is Michael Brown just flew out of the shack apart and that is via Zach for short and Andhra Pradesh of the state of Andra Southeast India 24th time there in 24 years. The ministry there planted over 7000 churches, especially in tribal regions, regions that used to be virtually completely un-reached now completely reached meaning in every village there was a gospel preaching church and amazing work of the school. They have has over 700 students in it.

Now including 150 from the children's home.

I remember a few years ago when the kids got cots so for the first time in their lives. They didn't have to sleep on the concrete floor. Instead, they they now had cots with mattresses, but the amazing thing about these little kids and the kids in the children's home so there either orphans with both parents are one parent or their parents are pastors in tribal regions where it's virtually impossible to raise the kids. The nutrition is too poor it's too dangerous. Some of the leaders been beaten repeatedly, others a way to educate the kids so this is a further sacrifice they make to to be separated from them so they can get good upbringing, education, healthy food and things like that and I remember these kids though sleeping on the floor, took their pictures. One night we we videotaped it joyful small house that I thought man.

There is so much more content than than we are in the Western and all they had was a little cubby in the wall.

I'm innocent little cubbyhole that was all their earthly possessions may be a change of clothes and couple other things and they were joyful and contented, and now their summer doctors in America. Summer pastors in India. They've graduated there gone on doing God's will. And amazingly, the kids that have been through the children's home. This is hundreds thousands of kids have been through the children's home Jesu pod and told me that he does not know of a single one that's backslidden you talk about being grounded for years and years and years and a healthy wholesome Jesus exalting environment. Years and years and years growing up in the word growing up in prayer. Growing up in worship, getting a godly Christian education. Have a great example surrounds you and hits at and not the distractions of the world, yet quite amazing and they're thriving in the Lord today so ministering to shuck apart on finished up last night at a real early flight this morning. Now over in Mumbai. I can't take calls because of that the time of when I'm doing this now, but I am looking out my window in India and join with you one heart, one soul can I share something with you extraordinary Jesu pod him shared with us yesterday with tears again if if you've never heard his testimony. Just go to our digital library. Go to asked Dr. Brown a SKDR Brown.org.

Click on the digital library and just type in the name Jesu pod of you say will that's easier said than done yet.

It's why the PA A.D.A.M. one word that's his name Jesu pod of Hawaii PAD a M or if you listen to all the interviews that I've done with him over the years. Screw the radio website along fire.org just click on listen. And in the archives. Therefore, radio shows to search and you'll have several interviews we've done over the years, but he shared something with me last night that was incredible to hear. First let me step back and give you some background. I have seen a pattern over the years when ministries when individuals have had a unique and special relationship with Israel have been joined the Jewish people and that there is been a supernatural grace on them. It doesn't mean everything Israel does is right, it doesn't mean that standing with Israel means accepting all of Israel's decisions. It certainly means wanting to reach Jewish people with the gospel and not neglecting them. And I've seen churches ministries with extraordinary stories and they say it's because of our relationship to Israel.

It's because we give the firstfruits of our funds to reach Jewish people in Israel. It's because God called us to stand in solidarity with Israel doesn't mean that you don't care about the Palestinians doesn't mean again that everything Israel does is right, but there is the supernatural relationship okay get this department a minute, but many share little background first so the giving is church in America in terms of per capita, the most giving church in America's first churches that are on record in a larger churches and things like that is Gateway church based in Grapevine Texas but with with the satellite campuses all around the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. I preach there number of times seen the miracle of grace on that ministry good friends with Pastor Robert Morris, who sold wisely leads the congregation and teaches and preaches the word so faithfully and when I first visited Lexi when I first preach there 13 years ago I had read Pastor Roberts book the blessed life about principles of generosity and things like that. I heard some of the miracle stories a financial provision and I thought to myself, okay, I wonder how much emphasis they put on money.

I wonder how much they talk about money in the service to generate those kind of funds into my absolute astonishment.

They didn't say a word about money during the service. They didn't even receive an offering at the end of the service.

One of the pastor said if you're visiting the way we give we have boxes you can give. On the way out. That was it. I when I was I was stunned, stunned then your past plate well. Pastor Robert told me when I was with him.

Oh let's see about two years ago now. When I was doing the service room.

We were talking. He said to me that Gateway was now giving $1 million a month to missions. He was staggered by. He was blown away by God's grace on them and if you read his book the blessed life today. He wrote an afterword to the book so final reflection and he said we analyzed why we are so supernaturally blessed financial we concluded it is not our preaching on paraphrasing efforts. It is not our preaching and teaching is that our care for people is not our children's programs.

This am and they do everything with excellence. They're famous for that.

He said we concluded that it was due.

To our giving the firstfruits of our missions funds to Israel and to help the Jewish people and to help Jewish ministry and that's why we have been so supernaturally blessed incredible all right. I've had the privilege of preaching of the largest mega church in Europe. Faith Church led by Pastor Chandra Namath in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary or Budapest as they would say, and I believe the membership is over 70,000 people.

I believe they have within 5000 kids in their Christian school program throughout the nation. I believe they have over 600 students in their seminary five or six year seminary which is recognized accredited by the European union and its incredible work. They own the nation's fourth largest TV station, which is also the number one news station in the country to secular station they own it. Still, secular station, but they also use it for gospel purposes. They air their service on Sunday mornings at about 1/4 million people watch on TV there in Hungary is extraordinary and they have an incredible relationship with Israel. They had Israeli ambassadors and leaders speak from their pulpit. They had Ellie resell speak from their pulpit and Pastor Chandra has a great relationship with the Israeli government and I asked him do you believe that there is a supernatural connection between the blessing of God on your church and your relationship with the nation of Israel so absolutely absolutely he was quite sure that there was supernatural grace. Because of that in the last year I visited the fastest growing church in the world. From what we understand pastor Santos Kumar and Hydro Bob, who in 10 years went from 35 people to 120,000 average 5000 new visitors every week. I was there I greeted the people and and got to address them briefly and five Sunday services. This massive facility that was built in 52 days it's it's one of the most miraculous stories I did an article about it when I came back that you can also read on our digital library. If you just search for Kumar KU MAR you'll you'll find that and to my joyful surprise pastor's a teacher's office. There are two small flags sitting on his desk. One of Israel in one of India is that extraordinary why those two flags and everyone is greeted upon entry with the words shalom and I said that I believe that God was going to make a highway from Hydro Bob to Jerusalem and Jerusalem to Hodge about something about the relationship between the cities and in these nations, so I've seen that I've seen that supernatural grace with this.

Israel connection with different ministries over the years this autumn told me something last night that that stunned me come back to celebrate your listening to the line of fire from Mumbai, India error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution of your exam is Dr. Michael Brown fire Michael Brown away from India. I want to finish sharing what I was speaking about right before the break, and then just some amazing news to share with you. You probably got an email with your email list you would've read about this via email today if you couldn't hear me sharing some of this last week, but I've seen how God has supernaturally blessed different ministries as they have uniquely stood by Israel or prioritized supporting evangelism to the Jewish people, or blessing the people of Israel and yes department was talking with one of our grads who leads our firework in Holland leads are a wonderful church and ministry school.

There Holland wonderful brother with his wife and five kids in great team. There and Jesu partum was my Indian friend was telling Frank from Holland, who is here with us in India for a few days that the reason God has so supernaturally blessed his ministry that it has so exploded into this ministry that is touched. People all over India that is planted over 7000 churches and built orphanages and hospitals and is now helped birth works in other nations that are doing incredible jobs. I mean, it's amazing to see what happened. And here was this man who was an untouchable who was an alcoholic, atheist, violent, naxalite communist when Jesus saved to when he was in his 20s and he says he says the reason that they have been so supernaturally blessed is because of his relationship with me as a Jew and me coming there to the ministry every year and he said it with tears. I said to Frank. It's those tears that are the key to the success of that ministry is heart of love for God and for people in his nation and know that to me is the key, but he is sure he is absolutely sure of it and it's an interesting thing friends back in 1995. That was my third of 24 trips there 1995. It was a one month trip. Nowadays, we can just come here for it for three or four days because of intensity of schedule was one month trip. This had been with me on the previous two she wasn't with me on this trip was just a rough trip. It was it was a hard trip yes department. I had some miscommunication. There was a lot of demonic pressure and attack. I was frustrated. He was frustrated and I was a little upset.

I got in the flesh and it is noted to be trying that is a lot of stuff going on could be trying. I got the flesh and ice and we solicit let's talk with the other leaders. Let's sit down and talk to because I was just frustrated and I want to go back home early and it just things weren't happening around the sun.

You got the flesh I got frustrated so Jesu partum he said brother God has brought us together. Jew and Gentile in an eternal relationship. He saw the significance of it. He saw it, he felt it and little did I know that I would be here basically 24 straight years. The year when there was a terrorist attack in Mumbai was about to fly in and Jesu partum said you're an American you're a Jew don't don't come in and then I went twice another year.

So it's been 24 trips in 24 years and I presided over the graduation at their ministry school year and you're on the history chapters that we do it now in December because that's when I come they graduate. Cap and gown get their certificates will lay hands on them, but they will graduate for another fume cycle back to school of what you're supposed come in March we were doing the graduation then and that's when they were literally graduating and I was run down. I was unable to come so we rescheduled for December of that year, and I asked Jesu partum when I saw him in the states during that summer so have a graduation goes and we didn't have a brother. They decided to wait until you come and that's when I realized the significance of these trips so we don't do big meetings anymore. We don't do big rallies with tens of thousands their challenges with foreigners doing that, I travel all the way over here.

Of course we we pay our expenses.

It's expensive trip and and we come over here and long journey, a lot of other people to do it and we do it for a few hundred people we we do it for the family here at a relationship and its sake. I counted a privilege and an honor to do it and little did I think of the significance of a Jew and Gentile connected here for bringing the gospel to the nations, and amazingly Jesu partum is even entertained Israeli leaders in his home and miracle of miracles, how in the world did that happen it. There's just something supernatural's on a regular basis. When we come to the end of the meeting he asked me to to pronounce the priestly benediction from number 60 of a wreck. I can't deny the charrette of the Lord bless you and keep you. You and other not Palavi that have Internet, the Lord causes face to shine upon you and be gracious to you saw the not part of a less obvious a little shalom. The Lord lift his face upon you and grant you his peace and that that is a regular feature of many of the services and I never fully realized until last night that he believes that is why they have been so supernaturally blessed this Jew, Gentile connected. I'm sure their love for the Lord and sacrifice for the Lord is massive and that blessing, but perhaps our union is sacred in God's sight.

In that way. Of course it sacred in God's sight many ways.

Or if you haven't heard, God has opened up three massive doors for us, beginning in the new year on massive international Christian TV you have two different programs.

A five minute ask me anything program where viewers from around the world will send in their questions and will be a different one every day five shows a week and then a full preaching show a half-hour show I can pour my heart out to preach repentance and preach revival and preach holiness, and that will also air that will be a once a week broadcast and God has provided for all of the airtime and from most of the production costs if you can believe that. And he's opened the third door through a network that will basically get us into every home in Israel and we are so we have to do all this new program to the massive amount of time and energy and effort, but it will work very recording brand-new shows specifically talking to Israelis about Jesus issue. It's amazing.

These are the biggest doors. God is ever opened in my life all these decades of ministry, and aside from the time and energy that we have to put into it. The funding we need is to finish off a similar production costs and add a staff member. It's amazing how much God is provided so our immediate needs.

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As a minister right here in it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown here in India Mumbai God more day here and then over to Italy.

Three days of ministry and vehicle partum a day in Delhi in route over here pastors meeting in a little while and then late night flight into Charles de Gaulle France Charles de Gaulle airport and from there to Turin or to Reno as it's called in Italy this is Michael Brown and I am delighted to be with you. I do hope you been enjoying the guest hosts there and filling in for me as I've been traveling and ministering in India and I look forward to answering your questions from it totally on Friday. I have a theme on my heart here in India that I want to communicate to you in the minutes ahead, and it is the theme of rest rest rest to come to that in a moment but first I want to share important spiritual principle with you. It's an amazing thing.

But if you remember in second Samuel with David. There is a raid on sick log.

This is the location of David's man and their wives and possessions and what happens is Raiders while David is been away Raiders come and plunder the area take the women and children take the goods.

So Damon's men come back there.

Absolutely mortified. Can't believe what happened broken before the Lord over so they they get some of the guys together were to go after them and and not everyone was taken. So some of the Madigan stand stay with those that are back and and stay with their their possessions and things like that so they go and they catch the raters in the Killam and the take their spoils and they bring back their family that's been taken in the bring back the goods and then you start dividing them out among all the men some subtle way way way these guys stay back. These guys stay back and we went for hot so we we get though I'm sure the goods. In addition, get it right. Makes sense makes sense, but David said no no no in the space becomes a principal want to stay back get the same reward as the ones ago.

In other words, it's teamwork. Every body was doing a role. The ones that stay back without a vacation there on guard they were doing what they were supposed to do so. If you are fulfilling your calling right now in your home country long far away in India, so I've had to deal with the flights and in the jet lag in the other challenges that that come with international ministry.

If you're one of our prayer warriors that support us in prayer. If you're one of our torchbearers or monthly supporters that are the financial backbone of this ministry. If you're one who helps us with periodic one-time gifts as you're able. If you're one who serves our ministry in other capacities, shares what we do goes out of your way to share our message with others if if that's you, you Sharon's reward. I'm here doing what I'm doing and and stretch myself out running my race for God with joy. What a privilege where privilege and I had the privilege of preaching the word. Thousands of messages overseas think a calculated a span of three years of my life overcome jet lag with all travel would join privilege but I just want you to know is we had great fruit on the strip. As we seen lives touched as we made a deposit again in in new workers that are going to go out and plant churches and in and do the work of God. We get to minister encouragement to those who preach the gospel and been beaten forth and persecuted for you.

Share in the reward. One day we stand before God and God is going to divide up rewards for us and really startled when did I do this one did I do that will we did it together startled cousin Grace is so thank you for your partnership gospel together on the many number by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown from India today. Michael Brown delighted to be with you. Delighted to serve as your voice more cultural and spiritual revolution.

The theme of rest. We come to the end of a busy year. Many of you pushing hard with family with work with ministry responsibilities with the weight of life upon you, and if you're running your race hate on running mind ensure look forward to winding down towards the end of the year getting a little extra rest catching up just on quiet things in and time alone with God. Maybe getting some clutter cleared out some extra family time.

Hopefully many of you be able to do that as well, but we are called to run a race. Are we not, we are called to endure hardship as good soldiers of the Simon. This is scriptural. We are called to be disciplined. We are called to to persevere and yet God gives us rest.

You say how the two work together. I will assure principal been meditating on it here in India is well and it's it's from Psalm 127 and it says this unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. So the first thing is you try your hardest and push and push and push and push and push and push and God is not in it your best efforts fall short of God's not in it. Your greatest efforts are going to fall short. You will not produce the work that you want to produce. You will not see the fruit that you want to see and it doesn't matter how Herculean your sacrifices and your efforts are if the Lord does not build a house.

Those who build it labor in vain if the Lord's not watch over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain because he's knocking to be able protected. Conversely, if the Lord does build a house. Those who build it. Do not labor in vain if the Lord does watch over the city, the watchman does not stay awake in vain. Now look at this is vain that you rise up early and go lay to rest eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Let me read that in a couple of other translations. That was the ESV King James is vain for you. Rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep. NIV vain rise early and stay up late toiling for fruity free grant sleep to those he loves me read from the NLT is useless for you work so hard from early morning to late at night anxiously working for fruity, for God gives rest whose loved ones new Jewish version vain you rise up early rise early and stay up late. You toil for the bread you eat he provides as much for his loved ones while they sleep, that the point is the point here is that we can strive and try so so so so hard to make things happen. Make things work, produce get the job done at an and yet we go to sleep and rest. God continues to work on our behalf. Here it would be like this.

You want the best farm in the world you want to produce the best fruit the best vegetables and every morning you get up way before sunrise and you just walk around and look at every plant and every tree and you inspected and then you start to dig things up to make sure because the seed growing rice is going okay and then you will you've got your your sprinklers are supposed to go on at certain times of the day in the night. They run by themselves with.

But you stay you stay up late to make sure those those work and at the end of the day your your neighbor is also a farmer. He's been working hard. He's been plowing he's been sowing the seeds he's been making sure things are going well, but he sleep at night and God's giving increase to his farm the same way. There is a place of rest it and I think that some of us sometimes are so eager to see God's work done were so eager to see the gospel before were so eager to see her kids solid in the Lord were so eager to see our our business succeed. Were so eager to do it to see things happen that are that are good and commendable, but we overwork, we push ourselves above and beyond, we don't find that place of rest. There is no Sabbath rest. There is no place of rest that we find in God.

As a result of which we we burn ourselves out. I don't say this to condemn there so many devoted pastors and shepherds and you care so much about your flock and you got limited budget. You're trying to meet every need and hate only God can meet every need some years ago I was talking to a friend of ours is a good friend of Nancy's mind and I said to you know I try to answer emails from grads whenever the email day or night.

If I see it doesn't matter what I'm doing if I'm able to answer it on a stop if I can answer it and if it's a crazy time of the day or night. If if I see it in the middle night a wake up little while.

I see them Alpha honor respond. I served I want to be there for the grads all the time and this friend said to us. Mike only God is there all the time so this not excuse for laziness is no possible way you could read the Bible and come away with an ethic of laziness just the book of Proverbs loan would demolish that mindset forever, but but there is a place of rest you labor do your job.

You fulfill your responsibilities and you step back and you rest in the world is still in strife, the other still people that need to be saved, yet there are still things that need to be prayed for, yet there still people that need to be visited yet still a poor person that needs help with a starving person that needs help with.

We can't meet every need of every person 24 seven.

But we labor in vain. When we push beyond the calling of God over the years I've had to learn to discipline myself to rest and not only is it rejuvenating not only is it life-giving. Not only does it give more energy so that after resting.

You can run even more effectively, but it also causes you to lean even more on the Lord, it brings you to a place of of greater faith and greater dependence because you looking to him to do with he can do. What's fascinating is if you read the rest of the Psalm focuses on sons on on a man's sons and and how they will basically fight his battles and in he can do what fathers do with the city gate what elders do and his sons can carry on the legacy. It's that same rest principal.

If you get it if you grasp it if you could hear that that you pour into others and now they help carry that load so that it's not always and only on you and what is Jesus say what is Yeshua say the end of Matthew 11 it's a strategically positioned verse.

There is been controversy, religious controversy over his ministry. He's been attacked and and this is this is an ongoing theme and as there is controversy about how Johnny Mercer involves either pro who was he and who are you and and and and he begins to Jesus begins to rebuke the cities that saw his great, mighty miracles and didn't repent and then he stops.

He steps back a thanks the father Lord of heaven and earth that these hidden these things for the wise and understanding revealed them to little children. Yes father, for such was your gracious will.

This is pleasing your site and he goes on about all things been handed to him by his father and revelation for the father and says in verse 20.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me from gentle and lowly in heart, you will find rest for your souls.

My yoke is easy and my yoke fits just right. My burden is light that the teachers of the law. The speak of the yoke of the tour. All the yoke of the king was hate take take my yoke on you and notice this the same Jesus calls us to leave everything and follow him.

The same Jesus that calls us to take up our cross the same Jesus who doesn't tolerate our excuses.

What you say come to me and you'll find rest for your souls. And what follows immediately after a battle over legalistic issues a battle over Jewish traditions with Jesus exposes getting in the way of the spirit of the Sabbath to say you want real Sabbath rest, you'll find it in me. It's fine to have a day of sabbath rest but the ultimate Sabbath rest is found in him, so here's an invitation come to that place of rest, of acceptance of knowing your sins are forgiven of knowing your love by the father of knowing it's his grace working in you that does the work and not your analysts driving and running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

Once you find that place of rest, the learn to live in it from that place of rest on your race when I hold. This has ministered to you as a share of the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by going to 866-34-TRUTH your exam is Dr. Michael Brown last segment of Psalm 27 and sharing some thoughts from their want to share some thoughts from Psalm 26 this is Michael Brown every way from Mumbai, India, and am pleased to pray for grace still have a meeting one more meeting to do here in India to finish out my time here and then the journey to Italy and then several meetings in Italy sharing with young people should be a large crowd of young Italian men and women sharing together with my friend of their boss Keith is on his way over from Israel.

As we share with them the importance of Israel to them as believers. These can be breakthrough meetings in Italy, so please do pray for grace as a youth pastors in Mumbai is small closed meeting in a little while and then the meetings in Italy that will be Friday and Saturday gobbling ahead home on Sunday, but some of you have have prayed for things for years and you have you have sown with tears you have prayed with tears you have given with tears and I want to encourage you that your labor is not in vain in the Lord your labor is not in vain in the Lord and Psalm 126 is is a Psalm with very very different emotions very very different emotions. Let's let's take a read through it. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion. Speaking of going out of exile. We were like those who dream that her mouth was filled with laughter, our tongue with shouts of joy than they said among the nations. The Lord has done great things for them.

The Lord has done great things for us. We are glad restore fortunes a Lord like streams and the negative.

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. Why would you sewing tears have often thought about that. I commented a little bit here and there over the years on it. But what would you sewing tears could be that that most your people are in exile and and you're there with very few others trying to produce a harvest for sustenance could be that the ground and the conditions are are not conducive to soloing in energy seems to be no hope for the future.

Those who so in tears shall reap with shouts of joy who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

So as we're getting closer and closer to the end of the year. I just want to encourage you that God is not death to cries doesn't blind to your tears. It's not that we force him to do something that he doesn't want to do, but we are his coworkers. His fellow laborers because of that he gives us the privilege of praying he gives us the privilege of of working together with him, he response to our prayers. He he calls us to fasting. He calls us to seek him with brokenness and tears and and out of that something wonderful, something glorious, something very very special is birth and what I want to encourage you that no prayer prayed in faith. According to the will of God, not a single prayer is prayed in vain if you prayed to the father. If you prayed in faith. If if you're praying according to the will of God you can be sure those prayers are making a difference. Tears that you shed for love ones and in payment brokenness and agony of heart. Those prayers had not been in vain. Those tears have not been shed in vain and I was I was looking at journal entries when I was flying from where was Chicago to Delhi in India this past Friday going through some key journal entries over the last year and then noticing ones from some years earlier, and years back I had been so terribly burden to get the message out that God had given me. I'd been so terribly burden to reach more and more and more people with with the message of the gospel and to see revival and to help spark moral and cultural revolution and I was on my knees.

I think it was late at night and I cried out from the bottom of by heart. God give me of voice and yes we touch many people. By the time and have a voice through preaching and teaching and and and a voice through writing, traveling and speaking and yet I was so desperately burdened by the condition of the world and by the message that God had given me, that I knew could help that. All I could do is craft from the depth of my being and and I was stunned when I look back at that. Some months ago. I realize voice voice.

That's the thing wherever I go, people come up to me and say thank you for being a voice. Thank you for being my voice and I hear it constantly from folks. Thanks for being our voice and introduced every other radios. Your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. I say that to encourage you, God does pay attention and and most of the time.

The bigger things. The better things.

The most important things take the longest here I am 61 years old and gone 62 next March feeling young fresh ready to run my race with even greater zeal in the days ahead and it's so interesting that God is opening bigger doors now than a year ago than five years ago than 10 years ago than 20 years ago and he's just swung open. These massive doors that again enable us on massive international Christian TV to reach people with powerful preach messages to reach people with short teachings and and to reach into every home in Israel with the good news of the gospel. Three different doors on two different stations. I shared it earlier in in the last half hour before this I want to share it again with you to me just another sign of God's faithfulness and hearing the prayers hearing our cries have been lifted up to him these many years for revival, for the great commission for the salvation of Israel for moral and cultural revolution. If you hear that the good news. The, the goddess provided for the airtime goddess provided from much of the production and now we we have to add staff. We have to add some video equipment and we will pay and everything I mention now. Plus will be able to put out even more on a daily basis. Our own YouTube channel. So were just ask you to partner with us. It's a sacred time. It's a sacred opportunity and out of a budget of what could be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Are there tens of thousands that we have to meet right now, so it is incredible.

Would God supernaturally provided.

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