June 6, 2025, Message by Dean Braxton
Transcribed by Beluga AI.
Welcome. Glad to have you here. We have Dean Braxton has come out, and I’ll introduce him later. But we’re glad to have Dean welcome. He’s East Coast now, but he’s got. I found out he’s got Central Valley, California roots. And of course, he was here in Washington. Dean, in fact, had an experience in Washington that I don’t think anybody else in this room had. He died in Washington? Yep. But he’s here again, so he’s going to share. What’s that? Hallelujah. That’s right. So I want to.
I want to open with a Psalm, but I’ll tell you a little story.
Years and years ago, this man started coming to the firehouse church, and he was concerned. He had an elderly wife who was dying. The wife was a professed atheist, though in her younger days she was a devout Baptist. But somebody—I don’t know what happened—she got her feelings hurt and decided that she was going to leave the church and not believe in God anymore. He was concerned for her salvation.
And so he asked me to go visit her in the hospital. And I went and I visited her, and we had a pleasant visit. At the end of the visit, I asked her if I could pray for her. This has only happened twice in 40 years of ministry, where the person refused. They said, no, don’t pray for me. I said, okay.
And I kind of, you know, felt a little discouraged. I started walking out of the room, and I got out of the room. The Holy Spirit just impressed upon me to stay, like I was a lab or something. Stay, stay, stay. So I sat, I stayed. I didn’t think I got a treat, but then the hospital staff went in, and they had to take her to the bathroom. And, you know, when you’re old and you’re dying and all this kind of stuff, that took a long time.
And I’m just standing out there in the hall. I’m like, really? Do I have to stay? And every time I felt like, no, this is taking too long. I gotta go. I was like, stay. So I stayed.
And they. They brought her back out, and they put her into bed, and I walked back into the room. She said, oh, I thought you left. I said, what? You know, there’s something I wanted to do. Sneaky pastor. There’s something I wanted to do that I didn’t do before I left.
And I was just wondering before I leave if I could recite to you a translation of some Hebrew poetry. And she said yes.
And I began to say,
the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.2He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads me beside still waters.3He restores my soul.He leads me in paths of righteousnessfor his name’s sake.(Psalms 23:1-3, ESV)
And even though I walk. And when I got there, even though I walk. With tears in her eyes, she began to say it with me.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.(Psalms 23:4–6, KJV)
And the little Baptist girl came back to life that day in the hospital with tears running down her cheek. I didn’t even feel necessary to do the prayer or anything. I just grabbed her hand and I said, God bless you, sister, and Jesus, but God bless you.
And so whenever the Lord says, stay, stay. Even if it takes longer than you think.
So I wanted to open with that Psalm. It’s an obscure Psalm, you know. I’m not sure if any of you have ever heard it before, but it’s one of my favorites.
All right, so we’re going to stand and worship. And then Dean is going to minister to us this evening and throughout the weekend.
So I’m glad you’re here. Bring a friend tomorrow night.
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Who am I in heaven but you? And besides you, I desire nothing on earth. My heart and my flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my life and my portion forever.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.26 My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.(Psalms 73:25-26, CSB)
Lord, we need you. you’re all we need. You are all-sufficient. For your mercy, for your great salvation, for the great hope that we have tonight. We give you thanks.
And now we just cast our cares upon you. There’s nobody who walked into this room without cares. And so, Lord, we cast our cares upon you because you care for us.
We thank you for our fellowship. We thank you for our time together. We pray, Holy Spirit. It would be foolish to have a conference on the Holy Spirit. And I invite you to come. The Holy Spirit, come. Holy Spirit, come. Be with us tonight. Bring. Bring us to Jesus. Jesus, bring us to the Father. Holy Spirit, come. You are welcome here tonight.
To do what you will do. We ask it in Jesus’ Name. God’s people said, Amen.
So welcome. Have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you, Andrew. And Brooke, just let you know, Andrew, I appreciate you. All right.
You know Psalm 27:10, though my mother and father forsake me, I speak for the Lord. I appreciate it. All right. Yeah.
Last week, Andrew’s mother and father were here, and I was talking about the week before where Brooke kind of threw him under the bus.
I said, and I try to tell people, you know, most of your problems are your own making. So I was just saying, you know, who are most of your problems? You know, whose fault is most of your problems? And Brooke just goes.
So then I thought, oh, I’ll build Andrew back up. I said, Andrew, your parents are here, you know. And I looked at his parents and said, Brooke threw you under the bus last week. And her parents were like, oh, we’re with her. We’re with her. Poor guy couldn’t catch her. Great. I like him.
We let you, Andrew. Yeah, we did. He don’t move my piano, so he’s all right. I know he’s a good guy. He, like, he’s done a bunch of stuff around my house. He’s handy. He’s good to have around.
All right. It’s about a year and a half ago, rainy, wet Washington time, a good man by the name of Randy Barnett passed away. Was actually surprised. His friend Tom Pinkham was on the verge of death, and Randy was helping Tom. And then Randy just went suddenly.
And the family contacted me and asked if we could do the service here. I said yes. Then they said, well, one of Randy’s dear friends, Dean Braxton, will be coming out from Virginia to officiate the service. I said, okay, that’s fine.
So we all were setting up for the service in here on that day, and Dean Braxton walked in. I just recognized him. I thought, I’ve seen that guy. I’ve seen that guy. You know, couldn’t quite place it. Then he started putting out his book. He put out his book.
Heaven. I go. Got it. YouTube. NDEs.
I was reading John Burke’s book at the time, Imagine Heaven. Marsha and I, we share an interest in reading a lot of those stories, a lot of those testimonies. And I’ve been reading that at the time, and I’ve been youTubing, you know, different people’s testimonies. And I saw you. I saw you speak at a church, and that was the connection.
And then I said, I know. You probably get that a lot, right? It’s like, wait, I’ve seen you. You too. Yeah, I know you.
So, yeah, so, but then, you know, he was setting up for the service. We did the service together and stayed afterwards. I just, I really liked him, you know, which is, which is, you know, I like a lot of people. But he seemed to like me, which is rarer, always mutual.
And I thought about, I thought, I just spur of the moment, I just said, you know, in 2025, will you come out and do our Holy Spirit conference? I said, you know, a small church.
I always say that it’s like it’s not going to be, you know, private jets and caviar. And he said, absolutely. He said, I’ll come out. I will come out and do it. And so just grateful that he came out from Virginia and will be speaking to us.
Talked to him, you know, in between. I said, yeah, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday morning, Sunday night. He goes, you want me to do all four? I said, yes, I do. He said, all right, I’m doing it. So we’re going to work you. We’re going to work you.
I just spoke at a family camp in a church, and I did four of the same thing. I did a Friday night, Saturday, two on Saturday, and one on Sunday.
I love preaching, and I thought this was great. After I was done on Sunday, I went back to my brother-in-law and sister’s house and thought, I’m going to take a little nap. It was 2:00 in the afternoon, Sunday afternoon. You ever take a Sunday afternoon nap? So yeah, I’m going to take a little nap.
So I kind of snuggled up at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Next thing I know, it was 9 o’clock. So you guys don’t know this. It’s work. Preaching, it’s work. So pray for our brother as he ministers to us this week, this weekend.
Dean, we’re glad to have you out here. I’m going to say show the video and then just come up and share what the Lord’s put on your heart. Okay. All right, so we’re gonna watch a little video from. I think this is from the 700 Club.
YouTube Video – https://youtu.be/c3Zjt8r-hNA?si=2ScKVnLnm8hjpC5T
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Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus.
I want to thank Pastor Kevin for having me. Like he said, we met about a year and a half ago because of a friend of mine that went home to be with Jesus. And this was the church where we did the service at. A good friend of mine, I knew him for a long time before this even happened to me. We met years ago when we both worked for Alaska Airlines, you know, as cleaners, cleaning airplanes.
And we hit it off way back then and kind of grew up together. We were the same age, so we just kind of like went from one year to the next year to the next year.
I lived here for 30 years in this area, and now I live. I tell people I moved from one Washington to the other Washington. And I always tell people I live in a different country now. And so I live right outside Washington, D.C. I’ve been out there for 10 years. But I have a lot of friends still in this area.
One of them is Sion. He’s a good friend of mine. You know, I love him dearly. And then I got Rick here. He’s a good friend of mine, and he travels with me. He goes a lot of places with me. I’ll fly him in somewhere sometimes and say, hey, we’re going to Alabama next. And down by Mobile, down on the Gulf coast, me and him down in that area. And then I got Stefan that comes. And we usually go to Sweden together. He’s my interpreter when I go to Sweden.
Any of you guys speak Swedish language? Because I have him stand up here and interpret for me because he does that when I go to Sweden.
So I got lots and lots and lots and lots of friends here in the Northwest. I used to work for King County, worked in the juvenile justice system. I helped to run a program there called Drug Court Treatment Court. I was the manager for that, and then helped to run the juvenile justice system over there on that side of the water. Did that for a long time.
And I used to tell people I would do it till the day I died. And then I died. Didn’t expect to come back.
I love working with youth, kids, and that’s what I really believe God called me to do for a long time. And then this happened to me in Federal Way, Washington, which is. You guys know where Federal Way is? Right outside of Tacoma. And the King County side, you know, going towards Seattle.
And so my kids were born. Was it St. Joe? St. Joe and Tacoma General Hospital.
So I got roots here, still got family in this area, you know, from those days. But God called me and my wife to move to Washington, D.C. area, and we did, you know, and I’ll tell you why.
Because I was vetted, you know, I was vetted. The man died. He died for an hour and 45 minutes. That’s what the medical records say. That’s not just me saying, that sounds good. The doctor, Dr. Irigga, he lives right here in Gig Harbor, just down the road from you guys. Still there. He still practices in this.
In this state, at one time, he was rated in the top 10 doctors in your state. He was rated as the number one patient care doctor. Man, he’s got great credentials, you know, and you heard what he said. The man was really, really dead for a long time. So just sharing that with you, so you know, we have roots in this area.
I have books on the back table. I don’t. I’m not a book salesman. I stopped doing that years ago. They’re donation only.
That means if you have a penny and you put it on the table, you can have as many books as you want. Let me say that one more time, you know, because I think someone said, didn’t he say, as many books as you want if you put a penny on the table?
Yeah, I stopped selling books a long time ago, you guys. And God provides. You guys just don’t know, you know, if you really.
I like what Pastor Kevin said about. He told him to stay.
If you listen to the Holy Spirit, you won’t have the issues you have. I’m a witness to that, you guys. You know, I always tell people I have the easy part. I just do what he says.
Do you guys hear what I just said? And I know we would love to take credit for when he tells us those things, but in reality, you know, it’s really Jesus that does it for us. Yeah. You know, through the Holy Spirit. I’m just telling you that right now.
This is the Holy Spirit conference, so we’re going to talk about him a whole lot, you know what I mean?
And so I have books in the back, back there. And so he, the Holy Spirit. Father, let me a long time ago say, hey, don’t donations only every once in a while. He says, just give away. I love that when he says that. But he knows I just do what he says, you know, in that sense.
And I’m going to go through them in a way, because this is what I really believe.
This is what I really believe. You want to know what I really believe? I’m going to tell you what I really believe, is that. Okay, if I tell you what I really believe.
I really believe God wants you to have the books. Not because they make me popular or anything like that. you’re going to come in contact with people out there and they’re going to ask you questions and you got a book to be able to give them. Yeah, okay. And because everybody’s going to, what, die sooner or later.
You know, that’s one thing we are all going to have in common. When I go to Sweden, all those people end up going to die sooner or later.
We’re going to go to Romania this year. Guess what? I can guarantee you all those people are going to end up dead. One year. You understand?
I went to Florida. This was cool. And I’ve been asked. I was. I get to go everywhere. But when you have this type of story, you’re invited everywhere. There isn’t a denomination that doesn’t want you to come and talk to them.
You guys hear what I just said? All right. So I get to go. I even did the Amish. You know, the Amish with the horses and did them a number of times. I love it.
Because they asked what the guy that brought me said, can you bring the men that died back? They don’t even say my number. My name, rather. And I’m glad, because my name don’t get you into heaven. Jesus does.
You got to go grab what I just said there. It’s all about him, really. So. And saying that to you guys.
So I believe this is the. I believe God wants you to have more than one book. Okay? You may say, well, I only got enough for one book. I’m gonna just put. No, I believe God wants you to have more than enough. I mean, more than one book, because he got someone he wants you to give it to. You guys hear me?
So I’m gonna go through the books. Not because I’m selling them. I just want to know what you. I want you to know what you’re giving out. Is that okay, you guys? Okay?
Because I’m expecting you to take more than one book. I’m expecting you to take books. Yeah, yeah. It’s not my inventory anyway. Do you understand what you guys. You know, and you say, well, don’t you have to do this? Don’t you have to do that?
And I tell people my father takes good care of me and my wife. Amen. I trust him. And guess what I found out. If he didn’t do any, I still get to go to heaven. And I’ll be honest with you. You get there, all this fades away.
You know, I’m telling you right now, some of the times people say, well, you got a big ministry. You do this, you do that. You know, because we do book out a year ahead of time. We’re booking out 2026, and I got very few slots open. I’m working on 2027. Some of you ain’t even thinking that far ahead. Do you understand what I mean? You know?
But the reality is not my ministry, it’s His. Do you guys hear what I just said? Even the testimony is not my testimony. It’s His.
I’ll tell you what I was doing. You want to know what I was doing when this was going on? I was just laying there. I was just laying there. He did the work. You guys get what I just said?
Many times we say it’s our testimony. No, it’s his testimony. You just get to tell people how great your God is. Is that good news? Is that good news?
So let me go through these books because God says I need to go through them. I’m listening to the Holy Spirit. I’m that lab.
You know what I mean? He’s telling. He’s telling me what? Yeah, he’s telling me what to do. You know, they’re saying that Dean would like to do, and then there’s things that God wants to do. Do you understand? I’m talking. Somebody needs to hear that. Okay, there’s things that you would like to do, and then there’s things that God wants you to do. Want me to go over that one more time? I’m a counselor by trade. We were told you’ll repeat it three times, and they get it the third time.
Do you understand what I mean? So a lot of times I’ll repeat things because I was a counselor by trade.
Okay, so this is the third time. There are certain things that you want to do and there’s things that God wants you to do. Okay, yeah. Now you got it. you’re right.
Okay, so this book here is a woman stand. This tells you what my wife did to get the results she wanted. Okay? What happened was I had a kidney stone that got stuck on the right side. It caused a kidney infection. All right?
They gave me antibiotics. Not Dr. Riga. He was the one that was called in. Really? They clean up the mess. Okay. It was another doctor. I don’t usually tell that. Tell you who that doctor is, cuz he killed me. I’m just being honest with you on that.
Say I’m working. I hope my wife don’t see this. She said stop telling people you got killed by the people. She’s not the Holy Spirit, so I don’t really have to listen to her. I’m in trouble if the door’s locked and I can’t get in.
I need to come back here. So I’m glad she don’t do social media, to be honest with you. I like that. You like that, huh?
You’re not the Holy Spirit. Kevin, don’t do that. We don’t want to hear that. I did not tell them. I just would not. I did not. You got to watch what I say.
So. Honey, Dean Braxton said that’s what I get blamed for is I watch what I say.
Okay, but according to the medical records, because that what happened was they gave me antibiotics, but I was the one who resisted the antibiotics they gave me. No one went back to check to make sure that the infection was gone.
So when they blasted the stone so that I could pee out the kidney stone, they pushed the poison into my blood sugar, and I became what you call septic. And everything in this body started shutting down. According to the medical records, 29 different things shut down on this body.
It wasn’t just my lungs and my heart. Twenty-nine different things. Okay? We put the medical records in this book raw. And we put them in the, in, in the, in heaven book raw. What do I mean by that? The first five years, no doctor would come forward and say anything because they were afraid I was getting the information so I could take them to court. And I always tell people, you go to heaven and see how many people you go take to court. When you come back, it’s not a part of your personality any longer.
I just wanted the information so I could tell you how great your God is. Is that good news? Is that good news?
Okay, so in this book, it tells you what Marilyn did to get the results she wanted. It’s not a formula, okay? It’s not like if you do this. This is what I’m just telling you what she did. I have had people do it and get results. Do you understand what I mean?
And we take 10 different things in this book. But I’ll tell you the truth, it’s no order of those things.
I just said 1, 2, 3, because it was 1, 2, 3. It wasn’t like do one, number one, do number two, number three. No, she just did it, okay?
One of the things she did is she protected me. Me. Even after I came back, they expected me not to live. Do you hear me? But. And they put me in ICU. And she put outside the door there in St. Francis Hospital, Federal Way: No one comes in this room without Mrs. Braxton’s permission. And the reason she wasn’t letting anybody in.
Now, the doctors and nurses, they could go in, but she told them not to turn on the TV. She was really making the room. What a healing room. You guys hear what I just said?
She wouldn’t let anything go in the room that would, but what do you call it, cause any disruption to what she wanted. And what she wanted was for the husband not only to be back on the planet but to be totally healed. Do you guys hear what I just said?
All right, so here she is. She put that out there.
She told the doctors, no watching TV, because back then, Jerry Springer was not preaching. Healing are the days of our lives. You understand?
You ever go in the hospital, they got the TV on, the guys, and they’re. And they’re not watching TV. Who’s that for? That’s for the nurses and the doctors. Do you guys hear me? And the people coming in, you know, so she made sure that nobody entered that room, in a sense, that didn’t come in that room without the idea of me being totally healed.
This is after I came back.
I was intubated. You know what intubating is? That’s the tube down your throat. It was doing the breathing for me, okay? Because really what happened is I suffocated.
My lungs were the first to go. My heart only stopped operating because it wasn’t getting any air. But I suffocated. The worst death I could have died. I’ll get back to that. But I just want you to know, I suffocated. That’s really what happened.
So I had the tube going down my throat, and it was doing the breathing for me the instant.
So she didn’t want anybody in that room because she only wanted people in the room that believed I could be totally healed. And when people came, listen to this, this is cool. When people came, she would vet them, you know, screen them. She would start asking them, and if they had any doubt in what and in coming in that room, you know what she would say? Visiting hours is over. She did not let anybody in the room that did not believe I could be totally healed. Did she make some people mad? Yes.
Did she offend some people? Yes.
My best friend, the one I did the memorial service for that went on to be with Jesus. At that time, he was what we call a doubting Thomas. He wasn’t. Later on, okay, when you guys knew him, he was. But when I knew him, he was a doubting tongue.
He was the guy that you come to and you tell a story about Jesus. He said, but. Do you understand what I mean?
God could do the Red Sea, but, you know, he always had a but at the end of everything that you said. So my wife literally called him up and said, don’t come. And he could. Told you he was mad, he was upset.
This is my. My good friend Dean. He had died, all that stuff. And my wife wouldn’t let him come to the hospital, so she didn’t want nobody in there that had any doubt that I could be healed. You understand? I mean, and she offended people.
Then one lady came in there, and she started talking about how her mama went through. Her daddy went through it. Everybody went through it. She said visiting hours are over. She wouldn’t let anybody in the room. But look at the results.
You guys got to grab what I just said. There are things in your life you need to start telling people. Visiting hours are over. you’re believing God for something. you’re trusting Him for something. And you got people around you, and they. They’re good people. They.
They care for you, but they’re speaking doubt in your life. Somebody better grab what I just said here. Sometimes you got to say, visiting hours is over.
Guys, get this. Somebody in here right now, believing God for finances, for helping them financially, and you’re believing God for it, okay? And you got people in. You say, nah, I don’t. Thank you. Not you. You can’t do that. Do you guys understand what I mean?
And they say, I need to tell you the truth. They tell you the truth, worldly truth. They not tell you godly truth.
You guys get this. Some of you got Red Seas in front of you, and they’re going to tell you you can’t swim. That. You know what I mean? They don’t know that you got. He ain’t gonna have you swim. He gonna have you walk, and it ain’t gonna walk on water. He gonna have you walk on dry land.
Zillion hours is over for some. You guys gotta grab what I just said. So in this book. The other thing she. She told him is they would say I was gonna have brain damage.
You lose oxygen to your brain, according to the medical people that told me that. And you go on Internet anytime at five to eight minutes, and you have brain damage. I was dead or considered clinically dead for 1 hour and 45 minutes. That means there was no air or blood going through my body. This is documented.
I always tell people I can prove I died. You say I didn’t go to heaven, but you can’t say I didn’t die. I went somewhere. Do you guys hear me? They didn’t show that. That’s the 700 Club did that.
They took six months of looking at my record before they would record that. They didn’t just say, the man said he died. We’re going to put him on TV. You understand what I mean?
They had an emergency room nurse first look at the record, and then they had a doctor look at the record, and then they said, the man. The matter of fact, this is what the nurse said. I was riding on the east side.
I think I was going to Spokane, and they called me and they were telling me how they’re going to do my show and everything. And they said, well, if this is true, you really die. I never forget that.
I’m riding in the call. And they said, if you. If this is true, you really die. You know what I mean? And then you got the actual doctor that was in the room. Dr. Rigga lived down the street from you guys. What did he say? The man was what, really, really dead? So I didn’t have.
For a long time, yeah. So I didn’t have oxygen in my brain for one hour and 45 minutes. There’s no way you should be listening to me right now. There’s no way. According to the medical records, according to the facts, there’s no way I should be able to speak to you right now. And I’m not making any of it up. It’s all documented.
You know, when they came to my wife and they told her, you will probably have brain damage, you know what she said to them? It doesn’t have to be that way.
She didn’t say, I’m a Christian. I don’t believe that. Don’t talk to me like that. All she said is, it doesn’t have to believe that way because she believed in a God that could do it a different way.
Is that good news? Is that good news, you guys?
So in this little book, it just. She just tells you what she did. It’s small for a reason. So when someone’s going through a crisis, they can put it in their purse and they can read it. It’s small for a reason.
You know, there’s a purpose for being this small. Okay, so that’s back there on the table. All right, the flag book is in heaven. This is the book where I go through and I start sharing with you the different things I experienced when I was with the Father and Jesus in heaven.
All right? Different things, different stories and things like that. Some of them I’ll share today. I don’t get to share everything because there’s no way I could share everything. You guys get this, okay?
The thing about this book that I really want to point out is this. In this book, as you’re reading it, it comes to this part called the chapter notes. The chapter notes are Scripture. See, I tell people all the time. Ninety-nine percent of everything I experience with the Father and Jesus in heaven, I can find in the Word of God. You guys hear what I just said? I can find in the Word of God.
Why am I bringing out the Word of God when I’m sharing this? Let me tell you why. Not to prove I’m right.
Because I don’t get you. You in the heaven. Jesus does. My rightness don’t get you in. Jesus does.
Do you guys hear me? You know, you may say, I don’t believe that. That’s not the way I think it should be. That’s okay. I’m born again. Guess where I get to go. I get to go to be a father in Jesus. It’s not based on what you believe. It’s based on what he did. Is that good news?
I learned that step here in Washington. I never acted that way in California.
Okay, just to let you know that. Okay, that’s a Washington move. I like that. Someday you’ll get it. you’ll see that a week from Sunday.
So here it is, you guys. The reason I’m telling you that I go by Scriptures for this reason. I can tell you what I saw. I can tell you what I heard. I can tell you what I smelled. I mean, I can’t tell you what I smell. I can tell you what I heard, felt, and saw. But I can’t tell you what I smell.
And I can’t tell you what I tasted. Do you want to know why? Let me tell you why.
On this planet, there’s something on it that’s not in heaven. It’s called death and decay. And whether you realize it or not, you’re smelling it in the air all the time. Nothing is dying in heaven. Nothing is decaying in heaven. What does it really smell like to not have that in the atmosphere?
Someone may say, well, it smells like floors. Because people have had these experiences, and they always say it smells like floors.
But still, even if I tell you it smells like flowers, and you go try to smell it, you got to get remove the death and decay. It’s in the atmosphere, you guys. I smell it right now, you know, and there’s nothing in heaven decaying. There’s nothing in heaven that is dying.
So if I can give you a Scripture, you can go to the Word of God, you can open it up, and God can show you more. You guys get that, that Holy Spirit on the inside of you? Oh, that’s good news.
Ain’t that good news? When I give you a Scripture, he can take it, and what will he do? Show you more. So that’s why I give the Scriptures, because he wants you what, to see more.
You know, I always tell people one of the ways, you know, you’re in death and decay is when you go in the hospital. Most people don’t like hospitals because of the way it smells. Whether you smell in death and decay, you go to an outhouse, I’ll tell you what you’re smelling in there. You open that door, what do you get?
Death and decay. That. And you know what? If you live in it long enough, you get used to the smell.
I have friends down in Oregon and a place called Tillamook. You know where you get your Tillamook? You know, I can say that here. When I say to other people, they say, what is Tillamook? What is tick? Go to places, you know, they got different cheese. Everybody but you go down there, do you know what they got?
We were down there, me and him, what did we smell? You smelled that those cows everywhere. Everywhere.
There’s nowhere in that town you do not smell the cows. Am I right? You know, I’m just letting you know they’re used to it. They’re used to the smell of those cows. They don’t smell the cows no more. And that’s what’s happened here, whether you realize it or not.
You got used to the smell of death and decay. If you’re removed from it, you would smell it really, really strong. I felt like. You know what I felt like when I was sent back to the planet?
I felt like someone took me and embarrassed me 33ft in a sewer. And the reason I say 33, because Jesus left at 33. That’s the only reason. Do you understand? I mean, 33ft in sewer, that’s what it felt like.
Because whether you realize it or not, there’s death and decay on the planet. And it’s not there in heaven. So if I give you a Scripture, God can take you further. Is that good news, you guys? So that’s what this book and I always tell people.
When I got to heaven, Jesus blew a ton of my boxes apart. A ton of them. I had all kinds of. I have a master’s in pastoral counseling. You know, I have a theological background, okay? And I built these boxes for God. You know how we do that? God’s here, here, here. And he’ll operate within their box because that’s God, okay?
It doesn’t mean you ain’t going to heaven because you built a box for God. You know, Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. Guess what? You still get to go.
But when I got there, he blew a ton of those boxes apart, but he didn’t go outside his. Somebody better grab what I said.
You know, it’s so cool. I’m a guy that reads the Word of God, and I would read the Word of God, Pastor Kevin. And as I would read it, I would say, there it is. There it is. It’s in there. And some of you say, well, how come we don’t see it? No. You want to know why? Can I tell you why? Get ready. Holy Spirit conference.
This is going to help you out really good. Because we look at it from an earthly point of view instead of a heavenly point of view.
You don’t have to have this experience to be able to see it from a heavenly part of you. You know why? Because you got the Holy Spirit living on the inside of you. And whether you realize it or not, he’s connected to heaven. Amen.
And there’s times when he gives you something and he shows you something from a heavenly point of view. And I’ll tell you what we do.
A lot of times, we then go and try to find out if it’s in the commentaries because we got to have a man prove that God is right. What you should do is go back to the Bible.
You guys hear what you said? Because there’s going to be things that God is going to show you that is going to be outside of some of the teaching that you had, but it’s in the Word of God.
When I got to heaven, there was a whole bunch of things that were outside of my teaching but was in the Word of God. You guys get this.
The other one is deep worship in heaven. I got to make sure you two get this, okay? It tells you what it was like to be there with all of God’s creation come around the throne of God and tell God how much we love him. That’s how worship really is.
It’s your opportunity to come with your brothers and sisters and tell your father how much you love him. Is that good news? You guys, it’s not a sing-off. It’s not to say that you know all the words to the songs. Do you understand what I’m talking about?
It’s to say, hey, me and my brother Sion are coming together, standing by each other and saying, I love you, Father. Amen. That’s really what it is, you guys, in song. And that’s what happens in here.
And I try to do it in the most detail I can. I try to get. And, and, and I’ll tell you the truth, I kind of separate from my colleagues. You know, he talked about John Burke. Me and John Burke are really good friends. I’m in both of those books, Imagine Heaven and Imagine the God of Heaven. I’m in both of those books, you know what I mean?
And, and, and, and I got friends that I know that’s had this experience. One time we all came together.
John Burks brought us down to Austin, Texas. That’s where he’s at.
And we’re all sitting around the table, and we’re all talking about how we died and laughing and smiling about it. Seriously, you think one guy, now I suffocated, that’s what really happened to me. You think, oh, that’s bad.
You know, one of the guys that I was talking to, he died in a plane crash. You know what I mean? You know, another guy, he got stabbed to death. I mean, you know, you, you can die a lot of different ways. Do you understand how me? And we’re all laughing about it around the table. How would you like to be in that kind of conversation? You think there’s something wrong with those guys?
But we’re all around so, but this is where I separate from my colleagues. A lot of times I’ll share the story and I’ll share it this, these next few days and you’ll see, I’ll focus on Jesus. I’ll focus on Jesus. It’s going to be about Jesus. Amen. It’s just going to be about Jesus. I’m telling you right now.
I’ll tell you about the flowers. I’ll tell you about the mountains. I even say that in this book. I tell you about the mountains and how they praise God. I tell you about the flowers and how they praise God. I’ll tell you about trees and how they praise God.
But guess what? Everything’s focused on Jesus. You got. Because no flower saved you. Oh, boy, somebody better grab what I just said there, you know what I mean? So in this book, there are seven Hebrew words that I go over and three Greek words that I go over that mean worship.
A lot of times, we just think worship is singing, and that is a form of praising God. But he’s got other ways to pray. You know, raising your hands like this is praising the Lord.
He looks at his face; it’s called tada. That’s what it really is. You know, it’s probably where we get it. But it means to raise your hand and worship God. You know what I mean? Is that cool, or is that cool? When you wave your hands like that, it literally means throwing a stone or throwing a spear. It’s tada. That’s what it really means in the Hebrew.
My favorite is samar. You know when you’re playing the guitar and you’re strumming it, it’s not just the music that’s worshiping God, but the motion you make, the strum to make the music, is worship to God. Is that cool, or is that cool?
See, and you may think I don’t look at it that way, but he does. Is that good news?
Even if you didn’t make a sound when you strum, he was still praising him. Oh, that’s a Washington, remember? So that’s this book here, you guys. And I’m. Remember, I’m not selling books. But you’re supposed to take books. Don’t worry about how many you take, because God’s going to show you who to give them to.
I believe Dean Braxton. You may not believe this. I believe God. When he prints them up, he knows exactly who they’re supposed to go to. He’s literally got it where he’s making these books for you to hand them out.
Not just mine, really. Any book, any Bible, anything that advances the kingdom of God, he is making that so that you could give it away to somebody else. Or you get it, you know, that’s him making.
I got the ink for you. I got the paper for you. I got the printing press for you. All that he put together because he loved you that much. Is that cool, or is that cool, you guys?
See, I was there. He’s a very detailed guy. Very detailed detail. When I say detailed, I mean everything is detailed.
There’s nothing that he creates literally is for just because it just happened. He has a purpose for it.
The other book that I have is what it feels like to die. I get to tell you what it feels like. Can I go with that a little bit? Okay, let me tell you that. Because I get to tell you. You know what I mean?
You know, I showed that video. The schools in California opened up to me a few years ago, the public schools.
So I get to go in public schools in California and show that down in San Luis Obispo area, Pismo Beach. Rick has been with me. We’ve been in those schools. We were in one junior high this year and four high schools this year. You know what I mean?
So just to let you know. And what I usually do is I show that video and then I get up and answer questions that the kids ask. Then someone else usually comes up and asks how many kids want to accept Jesus Christ.
And the hands go up everywhere, don’t they? Rick was there. I got eyewitness. He was in the room. We’ve done it in other places, you know, but in California, that’s the main place that’s opened up for me.
I do. Around Sacramento, I do it. I do it in Elk Grove, you know. Elk Grove is. I do it in Elk Grove, you know. All right, there’s an In-N-Out Burger there. Yeah, you know, I’ll be there in December. I’ve set it up.
But saying that to you guys, what I tell the kids a lot of times when I get up is, say, how often do you get to talk to someone that died? They really died, for one hour and 45 minutes. I didn’t have no blood, no oxygen, going through this body for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
I tell the kids a lot of times, you go down to the graveyard and you start talking to someone and they talk back to you. You need to get out of there real quick. That’s what I tell.
So then they ask a bunch of questions, but I get to tell you what it’s like to die as a Christian. I can’t tell you what it’s like to die as a person that doesn’t know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I get to tell you what it’s like to die as a person that does know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
I remember when I was dying, remember I was suffocating. I was experiencing the worst death. I could die. Remember I told you it was the worst death?
The reason it was the worst death is I almost drowned as a little kid in Wynton, California. You know where Witten is? Okay. You know where Witten is? Wynton, California, right next to Atwood, California, next to Merced, you know, a little town, you know what I mean? I went swimming as a five year little old kid, thinking I could swim and I couldn’t swim. No one taught me how to swim. So what did I do? I sunk to the bottom of the pool, okay?
My brother jumped in and pulled me out, and I was gasping for air. I remember I never wanted to experience that ever, ever, ever, ever again. It was a trauma in my life.
Even after I became a Christian, I would go to God privately. Nobody else knew this. I would say, if I’m going to die, don’t let it be suffocation. I kind of bring it up every quarter because I didn’t want him to forget. You know, every three months we’re going to have this conversation.
If I’m going to die, don’t let it be suffocation. I think there’s a way that everybody in this room doesn’t want to leave the planet. You know what I mean? you’re already thinking, this is not how. And here I am leaving the very way I didn’t. I’m not saying you’re going to do that. I’m just saying I’m leaving the way I did not want to. My number one way, okay?
Because I remember after the operation that poison is going through my, my body. No one knows what’s going on with me and my. And I can’t get the area. I can’t get in, I can’t get in. You guys ever hit that when you get. Okay.
And it’s getting shallower and shallower and shallower. They’re rushing me down now from the, what do you call, recovery room down to ICU. And as they’re doing it, I say this. As they’re rushing me, they have me on this gurney and they’re going down real fast. And I say to myself, I am dying. That’s what I said. I said, I am dying.
Like, I’m surprised because I thought, I don’t remember getting hit by no car. I don’t mean I don’t remember falling out of no building. You know, things that kill. You know what I’m talking about?
I’m thinking, I don’t remember any of that stuff. I do remember coming in here for a kidney stone, but kidney stones don’t kill you. Do you guys hear what I just said? They feel like you’re dying because that’s a lot of pain. Anyone that’s ever had them, but you don’t.
So here I am being wheeled down the hallway and saying, I am dying. And guess what happened? You were right. I was right. Okay? All of a sudden, joy, peace, and comfort came all over me.
And these are the words I said, I’m going home. I’m just letting you know, it rolls up inside of me. And I’m going to tell you why. Because it’s in the Word of God. And I read it many times, Pastor Kevin.
But you know how I tell you, all of a sudden, it jumped out because here I am going through this experience and, and, and. And I’m. And it’s in the Word of God. What would happen to us when we went through that experience, Okay? I had no fear at all. None at all. It was gone. Matter of fact, I was looking forward to leaving this place now. One time, this little kid down in Medford, Oregon, came up to me. He was nine years old at the time. He said, you died. I said, yeah.
Said you went to heaven. I said, yes. He said, you came back? I said, yes. He said, sorry, you know, he got it. This place got issues. And I was headed out of here. Do you understand what I’m talking about?
And so I always tell people, if you would have known me back then and came to the hospital and tried to pray for me, I would have fought you off because I was going home. The pull is strong, you guys. When you’re in that moment, the pull is strong to go home, you know.
So here it is. I don’t have no fear. Not at all. And guess what? The Bible said when you go through that, you’re not going to have any fear.
Some of you say, well, I don’t know about that, Dean. I always tell people, you don’t need it right now, but when you need it, you’re not going to have the fear. Let me tell you what. In Hebrews 2:14-15. Can I read it to you?
Therefore, since the children share flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death, he could destroy the one who holds the power of death, that is the devil, and set free. And set free. And set free. Remember three times. And set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.
14 Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the devil — 15 and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14-15, CSB)
Whether you realize it or not, you’re set free. When that comes upon you, you’re not going to fear. You say, well, D. I don’t know about. Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter what you believe.
It’s what he did say. I didn’t know it. This coming on me. I’m having the worst. I didn’t panic. I didn’t get hysterical. I didn’t freak out. I’m going through the worst death. Not the almost worst, not somewhat the worst. The one I feared the most. And yet I didn’t have no fear. Why? Because he took it on the cross.
You guys got to grab what I just said here. You know, it’s given to you whether you like it or not. Is that good news? Is that good news? And then the next thing.
Oh, boy, this is really good. It’s in the book. All right. I get to tell you something, you know, because you interpreted all this. It was in Swedish. I don’t know if you understood what you were saying, but it was in Swedish. He makes up words sometimes. I know you made up words.
So here it is, you guys. All right? I came to understand something. When people say what it was like to die, guess what I get to tell them? I don’t know. I wasn’t there. You guys want to know something?
I didn’t know this until it happened to me. I always thought it was the body died and the Spirit leaves. No, it’s the Spirit leaves and the body dies. I left my body first and then it died.
There’s a Scripture in the Bible. It’s found in 1 Peter. Well, I want to make sure I got it right, because I don’t want to misquote it. I got two Scriptures that just went in my head. James 2:26. It says, faith without works is dead, just like the body is dead. What without the Spirit?
26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. (James 2:26, CSB)
It tells you right there, the Spirit has to leave first before the body should die. And some of you say, I don’t know if I believe that.
27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female. (Genesis 1:27, CSB)
Guess what? Genesis 2. Guess what happened there? God created this guy. And as he created this guy, he forms him and then he goes, you guys getting this?
Then he puts the Spirit inside the body. Didn’t even come alive until the Spirit came inside. You guys getting this? Yeah.
Now, I got something I gotta tell you, because you could say, well, does that go for everybody?
People that know Jesus, that don’t know Jesus? I got something I gotta share with you. Ready for this? It’s in the Word, okay? It’s found in Hebrews 2:9.
Now, before you get to the other verses,
9 But we do see Jesus— made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace he might taste death for everyone— crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death. (Hebrews 2:9, CSB)
I said, but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while,
5 By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away. For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God. (Hebrews 11:5, CSB)
now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death so that by God’s grace, he would experience death on behalf of everybody.
So when he got on that cross, he physically experienced your death so that you don’t have to experience it. That’s why Paul said, you will not have what, the sting of death. You guys get this, all right?
But guess what? You don’t get it unless you accept it. You don’t accept it. Guess what? you’re going to have to go through the path, the sting of death. But if you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of what he did on that cross, guess what? You don’t have to go through it. Is that good news or is that good news, you guys? And I know some of you say, I don’t believe that. That’s okay. You get it anyway. I love saying that. It’s not based off of what you believe. It’s based off of what he did. Somebody better grab what I just said.
You know, that’s a Washington move. You guys don’t get that one, do you? So you guys get this. I’m not Washington state. I’m talking about Washington, D.C. Washington stays like this, we rock down, okay? In Washington, D.C. we go.
But you guys getting what I just said? It’d be like me, you having a car, and you got it. You bought it on credit. I go to the bank and I pay it off. All right? But you don’t accept it. What are you going to keep on doing? Going to the bank and paying off somebody that’s already been paid for it?
But when you accept it, you get the benefits. You accept Jesus Christ died on that cross. He died your death. Guess what you’re going to get. you’ll get the benefits. Comes with the package.
Is that good news, you guys? Someone said, well, I was there when they breathed their last. What you saw is them. Their body struggling. the Spirit was gone.
Is this good news? They breathed their last. I was there when they. No, you saw the body breathe its last. the Spirit was gone. They were not there. They got in a careful car accident. They left before it happened.
Somebody better grab what I just said here. They born again. Know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. He said he died their death so that they didn’t have to.
You know what’s so cool about that? I like this. He just didn’t die the death of people after him. He died for everyone, even before him. He felt the pain that everybody would go through in dying on that cross.
We don’t get that. That’s love. That’s love. Some of those people, Jezebel, she was pushed out of the—some of you read your Old Testament. You know the story. She was pushed out of the tower, splattered on the ground. And Jesus felt the pain that she had when she was splattered on.
Did you guys get this?
And she didn’t come to God, but he still paid the price for her. That would be good if she did. You know what I mean? And I’m not saying it’s impossible because I, you know. Yeah. So that’s that book. There is that book. Then I have a book that I kind of put together with a friend of mine, Black Lives Make a Difference.
She puts out a number of these books, and she goes and finds all these articles back in the 1600s and 1700s of these people that had newspaper articles written about the ministries that they had.
And so, me and her co-put this one out together, and that’s all it is, is a bunch of articles back in the 1600s, 1700s, way back there, you guys, of these people that no one knows about and these miraculous things they did way back then. And she has a number of.
You find other books in here that she’s done like this. Okay. She then went on Women that was really cool. You know what I mean? She went, found all these women that nobody ever heard of and all the miraculous things they did in God’s kingdom. And there. And then the last, last two books. One is this one right here. It’s. It’s in Spanish. Okay. Anybody knows anybody that speaks Spanish, some of you right now would say, God’s going to lead. You do what he said.
God’s going to tell you to take the book because you’re going to come in contact with somebody. And we don’t sell this book. We give it only away. We’ve never sold this book. Yeah. If you go online, Amazon makes you buy it. But the reality of it is we don’t sell this book. We just give it away to people that can catch.
And then my last book is I need you there saying the King. It’s a coloring book, kid book. Make sure your kids get it.
And all it is is the same thing that the in heaven book goes, but it’s in coloring form and story form. And it’s not, I need you there saying the king, like he needs you in heaven. It’s really what he said to me. I need you there back on this planet, Saint the King.
And it’s really to encourage people to finish their purpose on the planet before they leave. Do you guys hear what I just said? Because the worst thing you could be told is to come back to this planet when you leave. You think?
I know. People say, oh, you died and you came back. Whoa, that’s so good. You don’t understand. This place got issues. I was in a place where it was no issues at all when I left my body.
And I tell people this all the time. When I left my body, it wasn’t that I was just lagging along. The Bible says to be absent the body is to be in the presence of the Lord faster than you believe. I would say that’s like, I like, tell a lot of times when they said.
When they say, I saw them breathe their last. They’ve been there a while. You guys get this, you know, faster than the speed of sound, faster than you’re hearing my voice right now. That’s how fast it was. The Bible even says you’ll be changed in what, a twinkling of an eye? I haven’t figured out what a twinkling eye is yet. Is that so? It shines a flashlight in your eye and you get a little twinkle or something like that. I don’t know. That’s how fast it was, you guys. That’s how fast it was.
I remember leaving my body, going to be with the Father and Jesus. And when I entered into that realm, there was a light before me. I saw it from the day I left. The day I was leaving my body and going up, I saw the light. I was headed toward that light.
Can I share something? Can I share something with you guys? Okay, I’m going to share this with you. I didn’t go to heaven because it’s heaven. I went to heaven because that’s where the Father of Jesus is.
Somebody better grab what I just said here. I didn’t go to go to a place. I went to be with a person. That’s what’s drawing you most of the time. People want to hear about heaven now. Nothing in heaven draws you. Jesus does. That’s what. That’s what makes you. Has anybody ever told you that? Have you heard that before? Jesus is the prize, not the place. That’s right. You guys got to hear this.
You know, I went there because that’s where he is.
I used to come back and say a lot of times I was with the Father and Jesus. And you hear me say it now. And I say, I’m with the Father and Jesus and heaven. The reason, the heaven part on there because so many people said, didn’t you go to heaven? I’m thinking you don’t get it. Heaven’s not heaven without the Father Jesus.
And this. Where’s the Holy Spirit? Here we go, you ready for this one? See, when I got there, he didn’t jump out and say, I got to go get somebody else.
Whether you realize it or not, the Holy Spirit’s on the inside of you forever. your mind will act like it. You know, it really bothers me when people say, I hope he didn’t hear that. What are you on the inside? Hope he didn’t see that. Well, he’s in the inside.
I wish you could really, the Lord said tonight, help them to understand I’m with them 24/7. They need to start acting like I’m with them 24/7. Well, how do I act like it? It’s called the Fruit of the Spirit.
You know, I’m driving now in Washington state. You guys, I’m telling you right now, you got some drivers out there. They. They gonna. They gonna. They gonna. They gonna. I call it G5, okay? That’s what I call it. The Fruit of the Spirit called G5. That’s what I call it, okay? The reason I call it that, because you gotta use it. And I.
And when I was at biased work with Rick here and also Sion, back in the day, our pastor got up and he said to me, he said, he said, you’re not given the Fruit of the Spirit to work on the people you like. It’s the people you don’t like.
Some of you got to grab what I just said here. No, there are times you’re not going to like somebody. Someone’s going to do something and God’s going to tell you, you need to operate off the Fruit of the Spirit in that moment.
It’s called, I don’t want to be gentle to them. Do you know what they just did to me? It’s time to be gentle.
I remember traveling. I travel a lot, so I’m at the top of everybody’s perks. You understand me? Hilton’s got me at the top of their game. United’s got me at the top of their game, Ava. Those are the places they got me at the top of. That means I get a lot of perks. Do you understand? I mean, I’m the. I’m the guy at the top. Do you understand?
If there’s a top guy, I’m there because I travel a lot. I do. I usually have about 100 and anywhere between 136 to 160 meetings a year. I travel a lot, you know, and now we’re going overseas at least two times a year.
You know, God told me and Rick that we have to treat his country like we’re just. It’s just in the United States. Sweden is not in the United States. But I got to treat it like it’s in the United States.
That means as easy it is for me to travel to Washington, I got to act like it’s easy to go to Sweden like that. Do you understand?
I mean, and there’s a lot more jump hoops. I gotta usually fly into Germany or Belgium and go through all their customs and things like that and then come back to our custom. But he said, no, you treat it like you’re going through the United States.
Candy is better. Candy is better. That’s what he tells me, you know. I mean, they do have some good candy.
But listen, okay, so. So I get all the perks. I get all the perks. The perks, you guys understand? I walk in there and, oh, Mr. Braxton. Because I get the purse. Do you understand what I mean? Oh, Mr. Braxton. Okay, Hilton. Oh, Mr. Braxton, get on the perks.
All right, so I’m going to Syracuse, New York, and me and my wife is. She’s with me. She doesn’t travel all the time with me, but she traveled this time. Every once in a while, she’ll go somewhere with me.
She got tired of traveling a long time ago. It used to be me and her go. And she would do her part and I would do my part. You know, I always tell people, I’m the one that’s called. She gets to choose. Do you understand?
I mean, and we got a great marriage. We’re going on over four. Well, we’re going on 41 years. Come this August 20th, you know, we got a great marriage, me and my wife, you know. And I do everything I can to keep it that way. Do you guys hear me?
Because I’m gone a lot, you know? So here it is. I’m going to Syracuse. She’s with me, and I get to the hotel. I pick my room. I get to pick. I get to pick the room I want and where I want to be. I look at the map, I make sure it’s not by the hour because I don’t want to hear all the noise going up. I make sure it’s not by a busy road so I can get a real good night’s sleep, you know?
Because sometimes you get to the hotel, and you look like you’re out in the, you know, with the cars. You know what I’m saying? I’m talking about. Because I keep on going by, so I’m picking out and everything like that. So I think I got to be a good room. I’m going to have a really good night’s sleep. And I get there, and they don’t have the room. You guys hear me?
Okay, this is the Holy Spirit story. That’s why I’m telling it to you. Okay? So here I am.
I, I, I, I. I’m in there, and the lady says, I don’t. I don’t. I don’t have her. I don’t have your room. And I’m going through my head and I hear, fruit of the Spirit. you’re a Christian. Act like one. You got the Holy Spirit on your side of you. Act like it. Do you understand?
I mean, yes, because we always take our rights. you’re ruining my rights. Do you guys hear me? How many times does the Bible tell us your rights? Ain’t worth that much. You know why we’re on the planet?
I’ll tell you why you’re still here. They get someone to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. When I came back here, the first thing I thought, why we gotta stay here? You born again. Why don’t we just leave this? And the reason we’re here, because we gotta get people to know Jesus. Because he wants everybody with him. There’s not a person on the planet he don’t want with him. You may not want to be with him, but he wants them there.
Here’s a little door on the side.
Can I open this door on the side? We’ll go through it. You know why you were created? I’m gonna tell you why. You were created because he just wants to be with you. You were created because God just wants to be with you. Stop trying to make it more than that. Do you hear what I just said? Well, I got a beautiful voice. That’s why he wants me to get up there, sing and praise him and give him glory. No, you were created because he just wants to be with you. That’s the only reason.
Okay, I come back over here. So here I am. I get to the hotel, my room ain’t ready, and I’m thinking, I am a Christian. I gotta act like a Christian. And you know what? It wasn’t that hard. My mind wanted me to say, you got rights. You got rights, Braxton. You know, you paid the price to get the top, and you should be treated like that. My heart said no. Well, who was coming from the heart? The Holy Spirit. You guys gotta grab what I just said. Now, I had a choice.
I could choose the Holy Spirit, or I could choose my rights. Some of everybody said, because it’s called the flesh, most of you think you’re wrestling with the devil. you’re wrestling with your own flesh. It’s your flesh that’s getting in the way.
But you got the fruit of the Spirit. Somebody better hear, because I’m telling you right now. I’m not telling you because it sounds good. you’re going to be challenged. Probably in the next few moments, you’re going to be challenged.
You’re going to be challenged whether you’re going to let the Fruit of the Spirit come out, which is the Holy Spirit. Are you going to, what, go with your own thing? I ain’t giving you this because you just think you’re going to get something and it sounds good.
And Braxton said, good, you’re going to get rid of challenge. When you get out there, it might be right next to you that you’re going to challenge. Yeah. I’m just telling you right now. Okay. Oh, it might be right back there. That’s right. The fruit of the Spirit.
So I’m telling myself I gotta act right with this lady, okay? And so my wife, she had no problem with it. We go upstairs and we’re on the second floor. I like the top floor.
Remember, I have this, this, this and this. And I’m on the second floor. And I thought, well, I’m just going to go downstairs and let them know this is me, okay? But I’m going to do it really kind. I’m not going to be. I’m not. I’m gentle because I got the gentleness.
I can do that, you know. I don’t have to feel gentleness to be able to be gentle. Somebody better grab what I just said here. I don’t have to feel kind to be kind. I don’t have to feel patience to be patient. I don’t have to feel joy to be joyful. I don’t have to feel like I’m in self-control to be in self-control. Somebody better grab what I just said here. You know, so here it is, you guys.
I go downstairs and I’m talking to the lady, and I’m being real kind and gentle, nice to her and everything like that. She opens up to me and she says this to me. I’ll tell you my reaction right after. She says, I just lost my daughter last week. That’s what she says to me, I just lost my daughter last week. Then she started telling me about her daughter and how her daughter was inside. I’m saying, God, I’m so glad you came through. You understand what I mean?
I’m so glad that the fruit of the Spirit came out. You guys hear me? Because I didn’t know. She just lost her daughter.
And who is the best person at the moment to be able to minister to her? Somebody grabbed what I just said here. And so I shared with her, got to pray with her, gave her some of the books.
My wife came down and ministered to her. She just lost her daughter, you guys, last week. It wasn’t two weeks ago, it wasn’t three weeks ago.
And she couldn’t afford to not take time off because she needed the money. And I’m thinking, God, you’re so good.
Forty years is coming up. Forty years. I’ve been not forty years. Forty-one years is coming up. I’ll be forty-one years. I’ve been married forty years.
Do you know most people that go through this experience end up in a divorce because the person is so changed? The man that I was over here was not the same man I became over here. And this man was good. My wife could tell you was good.
My son would tell you what’s good. My kids would tell you it’s good. But he wasn’t the same man here. Number one, everything is deteriorating. Why are we putting so much energy into all these things that are falling apart? Do you guys hear what he just said? Number two, I got to heaven, and literally I looked at the father, and he told me he’d take care of his daughter. Pastor Kevin, he didn’t say, I take care of your wife. He said, I take care of my daughter.
So when I got back, I said, well, you said you take care of your daughter. Seriously, that’s how I was thinking. You said you take care of your daughter. I don’t want to take care of your daughter. You take. Take care of your daughter.
He did come to me later on, said, I’ve given you responsibility to take care of my daughter. But when I first came back, it was like, hey, that’s your daughter. You take care of her. You know, and.
And to the point that I had that great job over there in King County, paid real good money, great benefits. Do you understand what I mean? And I went in and said, I quit. Exactly. Top. Top. The top program in the nation, you guys. I was looked at and recognized by, you know, your people, government people, as one of the experts in the field. And I go in and say, I quit.
You say, what’s so big about that? I went home and then told my wife I quit. I didn’t tell her I quit.
I would go to work and tell, I quit. Do you understand what I’m talking about? I asked her years later, I said, why didn’t you stop me? She said, I knew I couldn’t, you know, but I figured, that’s his daughter, I can quit. You take care of her. That’s how I was thinking.
And everybody. I know, those guys, I tell you, we all came back different. You don’t look at. You don’t think temporal. You think eternal. Is that going to last? Me and you get an argument. Why are we arguing? Is it going to last?
I can tell you right now, when we get to heaven, we’re not going to remember what we argued about. It’s not even going to come up. It’s not going to exist. It’s not going to be like we had it in memory and we’re going to break it up later on. It’s literally not existing anymore. Do you hear what I’m just saying? So my wife didn’t go through the experience I had, you know, And I used to come back and say this all the time. You guys say, I wouldn’t bother you no more.
I experienced being with the Father and Jesus, you guys. You know, one of the reasons I didn’t want to come back to the planet is because I don’t want to be with you guys. I’m being honest with you. You guys question God all the time. You got committees that even question Him. Do you understand what I mean? He tells you to do something and you. That’s how.
And my wife got on me one day. Stop saying you guys. I was with the other group up there. I saw how they acted when Jesus said something.
I came to understand something. Jesus does not give suggestions. They are commandments all the time. You think they’re optional. Nothing he says is optional.
And then he says something that really got me. Those that love me will keep my. And I hear people say, I love them, but they’re not keeping his commandments. And that’s how I was. Until one day he came to me. He said, grace and mercy. Grace and mercy. That’s what he said to me. I had to. I had to start walking in that grace and mercy.
But during that time, my wife has gone. They have to go through it. Do you know? She had. We had to build a whole new relationship together. This was a different man. This was not the man she had loved before this happened. This was the man afterward.
We had to literally build all. So we’re making this 40 years or 41 years. You think? Oh, that. No. Most of the people that go through this end up in a divorce. The spouse usually leaves. Do you guys hear me?
I’m just letting you know you can check it out. So here it is.
Why am I telling you that? Because one day I quit my job. I have no money coming in. So you don’t get to go to heaven. You don’t. Money doesn’t get you to heaven. Do you understand? I mean, you can make all the money in the world, and you can say, well, we need money on the planet.
When you have that type of experience, it doesn’t matter because you know you’re going to outlast the planet. Seriously, you think that way?
So here it is. She’s upset because I have a job, but it’s a minute. It’s cutting grass at Fort Lewis. It’s a lot different than the money I had in King County. Do you understand what I mean? The benefits are not there. I mean, our lives have changed. And I’m cutting grass, and she’s saying, when you gonna get a job? Where you gonna get a job? Are you gonna get a job? And I mean, she. And I’m not arguing with her or getting upset or mad or anything like that.
It’s not in me. I don’t care. God take care of his daughter. And then she. She. She goes to work. She works in a retirement home over there in Tacoma, and she goes to work, and she must be really fed up with me.
And she text, you know. You know, that’s what tells you off. She doesn’t tell me off. She texts me off. She texts me. It’s long, long, long, long, long, long. Why I should get a job. And I was fed up. I was saying, this is it.
She don’t want to be with me no more. That’s okay with me. I still get to go to hell. You guys get this. And I’m getting ready to tell her off. Back in the te. Text. Sian. I’m getting ready to text her back.
You knew me back then. Rick knew me back then. I’m getting ready to tell her a text. I’m getting ready to tell her off. And I hear the Holy Spirit says, just say okay.
And I thought about it, and I said, well, can I put okay at a comma and then start saying something? That’s what I said. He said, no, just. He didn’t even let me write it. Just O and a K. Do you guys hear me? And I just said, O and K, and I sent it to her. And I never heard nothing from her ever again. Never.
Did you guys hear what he just said? If I didn’t follow the Holy Spirit, I would not be married for 40 years right now.
So I’m about to grab what I just said here. You know, we have the easy part. We just need to do what he says.
Want me to say it one more time? I know I. Two more times. We have the easy part. We just need to do what he says. We have the easy part. We just need to do what he says.
Just to let you know that I’m going on 41 years with my wife and have a great relationship. Do I have a great relationship with my wife? This man knows.
Do I have a great relationship with my wife? This man knows. I got eyewitnesses in the room. If you met her, you would love her more than you love me. Am I correct? Yeah, usually when I take her places and she’s there, she’s got a better charisma than I do.
We did TBN over in local TBN over there in February, sharing Ebony’s story. I died. I got to go to be with the Father and Jesus of Heaven. I got to see. And she’s there telling everything like that.
They call her up on the phone and ask her, did she want. Do she want her own show? They ain’t calling me up, the man that died, you know what I mean? They call her up and say, hey, you want your own show, we’ll give you your own show. She didn’t take it. You know, that’s not her calling.
You guys get. Doesn’t matter where I brain her when I break her, you know. But I’m sharing that because I want you to understand. It was that simple. Okay.
You know, and I asked her later on, I said, why didn’t you say anything? She said, I just knew that I couldn’t stop it and you just fused me. She said that, okay. Defused her, that O and A K. Not even writing it out, just okay, you know, not okay. You know what I mean? No. Okie dokie, you know what I mean? You know, that’s what those Oklahoma people say, you know, you, you. You must be. Well, you’re in that area, so you probably got. You got. Yeah, you got that roots.
There’s a lot of Okies there, ain’t there, Rick? We got a lot. So I’m sharing that with you.
You guys, I enter into heaven. The Holy Spirit didn’t jump out of me and say, I gotta go get somebody else. Whether you realize it or not, it’s in you forever. You might as well get used to it.
You got the Fruit of the Spirit, you know, it’s inside of you, and it’s not a feeling. It’s not a feeling. I’ll be honest with you.
When that guy cuts you off on the road, you don’t feel like being kind. But it’s time to be kind.
When they tell you and look at you, especially when your children tell you something, I know you don’t feel like, I got to tell them they’re being disrespectful. No, let’s do the Fruit of the Spirit, the God deal with the disrespectfulness.
You guys, I’m not saying to be abused. I’m not saying to be ran over. Do you guys hear what I’m saying?
But ask God how you should answer, and it’s going to be in one of those ways, you know? And if he tells you to do it, guess what? You have the power to do it.
You know, I love this Scripture. When I left my body, I went to be at the Father and Jesus. The answer on the body is to be in the presence of the Lord.
There’s more I got to share with you guys. This is what the Holy Spirit wanted me to share tonight. Okay?
There’s some other things that I, you know, wanted to share, but this is what he wanted to share, so we’re sharing this.
But when I left, my body went to be with the Father and Jesus, to be absent the body, to be in the presence of the Lord. How fast is that? Faster than you can believe. You heard me say that. Faster than twinkle in the eye, faster than the speed of sound, faster than the speed of light. All that you know.
And yet here I am entering into that realm or going into that realm, and I look on this side of me and this side of me, and what do I see? I see these lights passing by like I’m standing still. Like I’m standing still, like I’m not moving. And how fast was I moving to be after the body, to be in the presence of the Lord? What was it? It was the prayers that people were praying for me and others. The prayers were passing me by like I was standing still.
If Pastor Kevin had been praying that day, May 5, 2006, and gave me a head start, prayers would have beat there. His prayers would have beat me there.
I give you a couple Scriptures that I like to bring out. One is found in 1 Peter 3:17. It says, for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous. And his ears are attended to your prayers. Which means he’s looking forward to you talking to him. God is looking forward to you speaking to him. He wants to hear from you.
And you might say, well, why would that be? He wants me to talk to him. Well, let me tell you. When he created you, or he created man. Back in Genesis, the first chapter, he gave that man a voice and a mouth. And it wasn’t to talk to Eve, because Eve had not been created yet.
So why did you have a voice in their mouth to talk to God? your very voice and your very mouth was created for God Almighty. You guys get this. You know why I do this?
I’m gonna tell you for two reasons. Number reason, ta da. Yeah, that’s good. But that’s not really why. But it does work that way. But I’m gonna tell you anyway.
You know why I do this. It’s like the flag man. When you’re going really fast and he wants you to slow down and see, so he does the flag. Say, slow down. That’s what I’m saying. Slow down your thinking and really think about that. What I just said, that God created your mouth and your voice to talk to you.
Your very mouth and your very voice was for God Almighty. See, when Adam was created, it wasn’t to talk to the animals. Eve was not created. So why would he give him a voice in the mouth? Why, to talk to you.
So your very mouth and your very voice was to talk to God Almighty. First secondaries, to talk to me. Primaries to talk to God Almighty. Is that good news? Is that good news?
There comes a challenge with that. Because once you know that information, now you’re accountable for it.
And I tell people all the time, look in the mirror and ask yourself when you get up in the morning, have I used my mouth and my voice for what it was created for?
When you look at the mirror say, have I used my mouth and my voice for what it was created for? It is to talk to God Almighty.
So you say, why are you saying that Scripture? Because there were two types of Scriptures that passed me by. Or better yet, two types of prayers that passed me by and I knew them.
One is found in the Scripture, says that there were people that were praying. The will of God, found in John 5:14-15, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if he hears us, we have our requests. You ask anything according to his will. If he hears you, you have your request.
There are things you’ve been praying for that are the will of God. Guess what? You have your request. Well, I don’t see it. Don’t worry about what you see.
Think about what he’s saying. You guys get this. I’m telling you literally. Well, I don’t know. I’m just telling you what you got to lose. He said it. And my Bible says he cannot lie in several places. Me and my brother Sion was going over that the other day. There’s so many places in the Bible that says he is not a liar. And he said, if you ask anything according to his will, he hears you. And if he hears you, you have your request. Ain’t that what it says? Is that good news?
And there were prayers that were passing me by. People were meeting that criteria. The next one was outside of my box. It was not within the belief system. I thought it would be okay. And this is what it was. It was this.
People were praying and God was acting like they knew everything. You know what I mean? He was acting off of their prayers like they knew everything that they needed to pray for. That’s what he was doing. That was outside my box. But it’s in the word found in Ephesians.
And it says this literally, that he would do exceedingly, abundantly above anything you ask or say. According to what? According to what? According to the power, Holy Spirit, that resides on the inside of you.
This is good news. There are things that you just don’t know. And you’re asking him, and he’s acting like you do know it because you got the Holy Spirit on the inside of you. Is this good news, you guys?
And those prayers were passing me by, like I was standing still. How fast was I moving?
To be absent from the body, to be in the presence of the Lord. Faster than you could blink. you’re one of those people. They could outstare me. I know. I could tell. You know, I could.
Look, I look at those eyes, I can tell. You can. We can have that staring. I’m going to blink before you. But I’m going tell you something faster than you going to blink. And because of that Holy Spirit on the inside of you, because of that Holy Spirit on the inside of you.
Because of that Holy Spirit on the inside of you. Because of that Holy Spirit on the inside of you, when you pray, God is acting like you overall. That’s why you guys get the answers. You get that’s more than I thought.
Do you understand what I mean? Because whether you realize or not, the Holy Spirit knew you wanted all that. Is that good news? There’s more I could share with you guys. Those are the things I experienced. You know, just remember you’re accountable. Oh, there’s a pin set back there too. I give it away too.
Okay? No donation for this. Just take them. You know, it’s funny, I only buy it because the Holy Spirit tells me to buy, seriously, and then give them away, you know. So I do. I don’t understand all the stuff he does, you know, but he does.
I tell people all the time, I got the easy part. I just do what he says. your part doesn’t get you into heaven. Jesus does. And it’s just a part. It’s not the part. Oh, guys, gotta grab that one. It’s not the part. It’s a part.
Is that good news or is that good news?
So these are the books that are backed in the back. Remember, you’re supposed to take more than one. Some of you are supposed to take a lot. So take a lot. The Holy Spirit will tell you how many to take. Just take them. You know, you can leave a donation if you want. Matter of fact, if you don’t want to leave a donation, just take them, okay? God takes good care of me. My wife, I’m telling you.
I wish I could tell sometimes, but people get jealous when I tell them. God had to have people give that I never knew into this ministry. And they don’t give a little bit, they give a lot. But guess what they’re doing? They’re following the Holy Spirit. Is that good news?
God wants to operate that way in some of your lives too, you guys. Some of them. But you gotta let him be in charge of it. He’s going to tell you. He’s literally going to tell you to do some things this next week.
It’s going to be outside of your box. Do it. What do you got to lose? You understand what I mean? What do you got to lose? I’m looking at you. Guess what? I’m talking to you too. Usually I look at one person, I’m talking to everybody else, but in this case, I’m talking to you and they all in the room. But he is. He’s gonna. What’s your name? Brad. Brad, I’m telling you. I’m just saying that he’s gonna ask you to do some things this week. It’s gonna be outside your box. Just do it.
You have nothing to lose. you’ve been desiring to be used by God even more. That’s your heart. That’s where you want. That’s what you want. And all he’s telling you to do is take the first step and watch what happens. Seriously.
You know, there’s things I want to say, but I’ll share for tomorrow, okay? Because they’re me and not him, and we want him, not me. I’m. Bow your heads. Close your eyes. No, no, don’t bow your heads. Because I want to tell you my agenda so that Pastor Kevin and me are standing up here.
Pastor Kevin and me are standing up there. Let me say it one more time. Pastor Kevin and me are standing up here. Standing up. Doesn’t happen as quick as you stand. I know. Yeah, I like you too. you’re right. Yeah. Especially since we’ll count for taste. Yeah. We’re Valley boys. Really? Valley boys. Way. Not that Valley, Cal. You know, that san. What’s it called? The San Fernando. No. Yeah. Not the San Fernando. Yeah, yeah, we’re that valley. I don’t know why they say that. Do you know why they say that? I don’t know.
Every time everybody and we, they. No, this is the Valley. I don’t know what that is. That’s a little ditch. But let me go on.
Okay, I’m going to tell you what my agenda is. My number one agenda for sharing with you guys like I shared with you is in this group here. I’ll tell you what is to have you want to make a stronger commitment to Jesus, to be really want to be used by Jesus in ways that he wants to use you.
Not in ways I want you to be used, but the ways he wants you to use, really to make that strong commitment. You guys hear what I just said?
So that was agenda for this sharing in. In a sense, number two is I want people to be born again. And you would say, well, don’t you want people to be born again first before you? I’ll be honest with you. I’m an evangelist. That’s usually where I go first. But in this group, the Holy Spirit said, I want them to make a strong commitment first.
And then you that don’t know Jesus Christ, he wants you to make a commitment toward him, to come to know him as Lord and Savior.
You know, you’re not going to experience the things I experienced with the Father and Jesus unless you know Jesus. And you may say, well, that’s your belief system. And I’ll say, you’ll find out.
My Bible says this. your Bible says it too. Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. It’s going to come out of your mouth sooner or later.
It’s better it comes out there on the planet because they’re just too late. And you may say, I don’t believe that that’s you. you’ll find out. I don’t have to argue with you, debate with you. Do you understand? I mean, it’s going to be that way.
Number three is that some of you. One of the biggest things that holds us back from serving God with the fullness or even hearing the Holy Spirit is we don’t forgive people. We hold on to grudges.
Someone did something wrong to us, and we held onto it, and God is saying we are to forgive them. It doesn’t mean you put yourself back in the same situation. So, yes, you can be abused, but you forgive them and move on.
And then some of you, you just haven’t forgiven yourself. You did some horrendous things in your life, and you just have not forgiven yourself for the things you’ve done. My Bible says that when you. When he forgives you, he forgets it. Let me say it one more time.
When he forgives you, he forgets it. One more time. When he forgives you, he forgets it.
Huh, where’s that in the Scriptures? Go to Hebrews 8, Hebrews 10. It literally says that when he forgives you, he forgets it.
You know, and somebody said, well, I thought there’s going to be a book and he’s going to open up the book and he’s going to tell me all my things I did wrong. Where your name should be in that book is another name. It’s called Jesus Christ.
He took it to the place of your name. Now, when I got there, he looked at me like I never sinned in my entire existence. That was outside my box. Well, where’s the accountability? Jesus took your account. Him should you keep on doing the things and he’ll take, yeah, he’ll forgive you. But to be honest with you, a Christian act like it if you don’t know what that is.
We talked about the fruit of the Spirit. Seriously, I’m telling you guys. So the n thing is healing, physical healing.
Some of you need physical healing in your body. He’s prayed for you. Other people pray for you. But we can agree with, with, with, with. With you. And being healed again, I mean, being just being healed, we could agree with you. It doesn’t mean you’re doubting because you have us pray again. Remember what I meant by that? you’re just having someone else pray for you again.
And guess what, you guys, there were tons of people that prayed for me to come back to the planet. Tons of people.
My wife got lots of people to pray for me. My son and my daughter and other family members got people to pray for me. None of those people going around said they raised someone from the dead. But guess what? It did happen because of their prayers. You guys hear what it just said? There was a lot of people that. A lot of things. There’s a lot of people you prayed for and situations changed in their life.
And I’ll be honest with you, you’re not taking even credit for it, and I’m not saying you should, but I’m just saying you’re not even thinking you had anything to say. But you prayed, and God operated off those prayers.
God wants people healed. There were 29 different things wrong with this body. God healed all 29 and didn’t leave a rest.
Okay? The other thing God wants you to really know is he wants you to understand your authority on this planet. What are you really in charge of?
You know, and really, to be honest with you, I think most of the time when pastors are sharing with our preaching, like they’re preaching or teaching, they’re trying to help you to understand your authority, which you have authority over on the planet.
There’s so much God has given to us that we have authority over. And there’s a word we. We kind of use it for being saved, but it’s called salvation. And it’s really your authority. The word salvation really means, I’ve given you some gifts. Use them.
Do you guys know that the Greek term.
I’m not a Greek guy. His pastor is. Used to be my pastor. Read the Bible in the Greek, always Pastor J.M. Butler, okay? But one of the things that came out of him that I heard years ago was the Greek term for literally when we say grace. You know how we say merit a grace, grace given to you? The action word for that really means the gods had favor. Gods, because it was a Greek word.
The gods had favor on a person, and they liked that person so much that they gave that person certain power to walk in that grace. Most of us don’t realize that he just, just, just to give you grace, he giving you the power to walk in the grace. Is that good news?
So some of you got to realize that. So. So I’m sharing that with you because I wanted you to know our agenda so that when I was sharing. So you’re not thinking this guy tried to sneak something by me? No, I sneak nothing.
It’s right out there. So when you make a decision, you know that you’re making a decision off a, what’s called, educated, an informed decision.
So I’m gonna ask you to bow your heads and close your eyes. Okay? If you’re in this room and you want to make a stronger commitment to Jesus, I mean, you want to walk the way he wants you to walk, and you want us to pray about that, raise your hand right now. Just raise your hand. We see the hands. We see the hands. You can put your hands down.
The good thing about it, when you raise your hand, God’s already acknowledged that. That means he’s already working in that area of your life.
You’re in this room, and you never have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It’s something I said, has said. I need to know Jesus as Lord and Savior. Raise your hand. We want to pray for.
If you’re in this room and you want to forgive somebody, let’s put it this way.
You really don’t want to forgive them, but you know you need to forgive them. And you want us to pray about that, raise your hand so we can pray for you.
You’re in this room and you want to forgive yourself for something you did. God’s already forgiven you, but you want to forgive yourself. Not that you want to go back and do it again, but you want to forgive yourself. Raise your hand, God, yes. And put your hands down.
You’re in this room and you need healing for your body.
Anything in your body, I don’t care what it is. Some of you are getting older, and you figured that’s just because I’m old, I have to live that way. I’m saying it doesn’t have to be that way.
Raise your hand. God wants to heal you. Just raise your hand. Some of you got horrendous things, some have got minor things, but God wants to heal it. You can put your hands down. The last one.
You’re in this room, and you just want to be able to receive, understand, and walk in the authority that God has given you on this planet. In a more precise way, raise your hand. We see your hands. You can put them down.
What I’m going to do now is I’m going to have you stand up because I’m getting ready to give it into Pastor Kevin’s hands, and he’s going to take it from here. But go ahead and stand up. Just stand up, everybody. This helps you.
If he asks you to come up front, you’re already standing. So then you just have to move your legs, just one move instead of two or three moves, you know. Seriously, it just helps you that way.
You guys, sometimes getting up out of seat is hard, but you’re already up. So what do you got to lose to walk in this direction if he has you to do that? Okay, I’m giving it into his hands. Because the reality of it is this, you guys, you want Jesus to touch you.
You don’t want Dean Braxton to touch you. You want Jesus to touch you. Do you guys hear what I just said?
Okay, I usually remove myself and I don’t do hardly any of the prayer. Not that I can’t pray for people, but I don’t have any more inside of me than he has in you. Same Holy Spirit. Is that good news? Is that good news? High five.
Okay, so I’m going to give it to his hand. He’s going to say how he wants to do the rest of the service. Okay.
And I don’t know how that’s going to be, but I just want to know. We do want to pray for those things we brought up.
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus, for everybody who raised their hand in want of a stronger relationship with you, just a closer walk with peace. And that’s relationship. Lord, knit us together. Let us leave this building more in love with you. And when we walk in. Yes, Lord, of those hearts, I pray, Lord, for those that we need to forgive. Put them in your mind right now.
You got them say in the name of the Lord Jesus. But I’m off to right now. Give him over to God. You can let his justice and mercy be smarter than us. Let him do it, Lord.
I don’t want anybody living in my head rent free. So I let go of the grudge, I let go of the resentment. You heal the pain. But I let that bow to you. And I just say this in the name of the Lord Jesus. Thank you.
Next time I can condemn voice sounds, tell the devil he’s a liar.
Lord Jesus, let us walk in the authority that you have given us in the fullness of your spirit. The same spirit that worked in Jesus? Yes. The same spirit that raised him from the dead? Yes. The same spirit that enabled him to perform signs and wonders and miracles of the same spirit that lives in us, the third Person of the Trinity, God Almighty, lives in us.
He surpasses everything we can imagine or think. So teach us, Lord, to walk in the fullness of the authority you have given us. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Now, if your body’s hurting, raise your hand. Those of you who aren’t raising your hand, all right, go put your hands on them. Go lay your hands on somebody. Let me go pray for my wife. She needs it. The back there.
All right, everybody who needs physical healing, do you have somebody? Somebody touching you? Everybody who needs physical healing, is somebody touching you? There’s nobody left out. Okay.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, be well. In Jesus’ Name, we say to that infirmity, leave. In the Name of Jesus, we break the.
We break the power of that. We break the power. Some of us said, well, I’m just getting older. I’m just getting older. That’s the way it is. But in the Name of Jesus, we speak health. Yes. We speak life. Yes. In Jesus’ Name, Lord, you pray. You said, you taught us to pray. your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And Dean, there’s no wheelchairs in heaven, right? There’s no diabetes, there’s no cancer, no pain, there’s no death, there’s no decay. It is life. It is life. It is life.
Your kingdom come. Now in this little room, your will be done. Now in this little room right here on earth as it is in heaven, we pray that infirmity and sickness pain would leave in Jesus’ Name.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. And the word Amen simply means. The word Amen simply means. So be it. So be it. So be it. So be it. Amen. Amen.
Now, anybody else? If anybody wants more prayer, we didn’t cover something. If you want more prayer, you’re free to come forward tonight and we’ll pray for you as well.
Otherwise, the Lord will bless you and keep you. The Lord lift his countenance upon you, give you peace. Go and have peace to love and serve the Lord.
We’ll see you here tomorrow night at 6 o’clock. Can we thank Dean for speaking to us? If you would like to give books away. He comes to a small church, doesn’t have a bunch of money to pay him and all that kind of stuff. Very generous man. I guess his father takes care of him.
Was good that the father wants to use you to help take care of him. If you are not a baby boomer, you can go to deanbraxton.com and you can figure out ways on your keyboard to give money through the electric sphere out there.
But if you’re a baby boomer, we have a box here, and you can write a check to Dean Braxton Ministries, and we’ll get that to him as well. All right. So, old people, you can write a check. young people, you don’t know what that is.
It’s a piece of paper, but you don’t know what paper is. You don’t even know what paper is. You do know what this is, so do it on this. Either way will work. All right. God bless. What? We will accept cash. Okay? Yes, you get cash. You can just put it in an envelope.
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