MOVE WITH THE CLOUD



You know, we're goin' to do things totally unorthox tonight. Thank God! I'm tired of agendas. I'm tired of, 'OK, brothers and sisters, here's the plan. Ten minutes of praise and worship and if your right in the middle of, 'Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion. Sound the alarm on (cut)' - that's it! :) 'Got to beat them Baptists to lunch, now. We deserve the best table. And we're going to take 'em by force.' :) Praise God.

You know, hahaha :), I've heard waitresses say that christians are the cheapest -----. We got any waitresses here? hahaha :) Well, you don't want to attest to that do you? No, I'm sorry you have to, but it's true. I don't know how many times I go into restaurants and, ---. 'We're sitting there, talking, and hanging out, talking about God, and I love Jesus!' Then the check comes out and everybody goes, 'Who had the roast beef?' 'You had the diet coke.' 'Don't you lie to me, yours was large. It was not medium, dummy.' 'OK, you owe $5.99 right here.' 'You owe $3.25.' 'Oh, excuse me, no,no,no,no,no! No,no,no,no,no! You had cheese on that hamburger.' 'You owe me a little more than that.' :) Then they get up and you look back. And you think of these waitresses that have just been serving dinner. And everybody's been saying, 'Isn't God good! Jesus set me free!' Then you walk out and there's, ah, I was looking for a buck, or somethin', a nickel on the table. Everybody gets up goes out into the parking lot. And somebody, or all of a sudden, I say, 'Did anybody leave a tip?' 'I thought you did.' 'I thought Auntie Bea did that.' 'She was suppose to do that.' 'This is her turn.' 'Auntie Bea, what's the matter with you?' 'Get right with God. Get back there.' :)

You know what I've done? I give money to the people who are lost. I give super duper tips. And I'm not cool. I'm just saying, I do it and I make a witness out of it. I say, 'Praise the Lord. You know, Jesus loves you.' And I'll leave ten bucks. Sometimes you think, 'Oh, You think you're really being a good steward of your money.' I believe God says that's the best way you can invest your money is witnessing to somebody in darkness. And saying, 'Praise the Lord God. Praise God. Here you go dude or ma'am or whatever.' Bunch of cheapOs. 'Come to Karl's Jr.' Oh, I see. I'm not sure I've been leaving many tips at Karl's Jr. Maybe I should. Yeah.

But you know, there are so many different ways to witness to the lost. Witnessing to them is not always gettin' in their face. And just saying, 'You need Jesus! Get your life together!

I had a testimony today on the phone that is going to shock you people. I'm going to get letters about this. Stop your letter writin', I don't want it. 'Oh, he's just so good. He's just always talkin' about this, that, and the other thing. You hear that Mabel? Listen to this guy. Look at that guy. Looks like Loretta Lynn on acid or something. Who is he?' :)

This is the truth before the throne room of God. A guy called me today. And said, 'My brother has been hooked on drugs for years. Hopeless. He came over last night. And he said, since you prayed for him a month or a month and a half ago, he has not done any drugs. And he has been delivered. His life is totally changed.'

I'll tell you what's going to cause the up roar here. 'Cause I was movin' in the Spirit of the Lord. More of us need to move in the power of the Holy Ghost. We need to move with the cloud. You know, we got Pentacostal churches now trying to put the Holy Ghost in the back room. 'Oh, we're going to have an after glow.' :) Be still my heart. After glow, ouch, right, some of you? The Holy Spirit doesn't belong in a back room. He doesn't have to meet your agenda. You're suppose to move with Him. 'Yeah, but we have to have control in our service.' That's right! You need to be under the control of the power of the Holy Ghost. That's what you need to be under. There's no confusion with the Holy Spirit.

I had a man throw me out of church one time. And confusion hit his church. 'Cause he came in, he told me I could move in the gifts. Then when I started movin' in the gifts he said, 'You're of a bad spirit. Get out of here.' Because I did an altar call to receive the Holy Spirit. I didn't realize they didn't believe in the movin' of the gifts, the way I do it. They thought that movin' in the gifts means, they confuse the fruit of the Spirit with the moving of the gifts, this particlar ministry. And as soon as he said, 'Step down.' People started arguing in the place. People started shouting at each other, Scriptures out there about the Holy Spirit. They will lay hands on the sick. They will pray in tongues. And others were going 'yes', but da-ta-da-ta, da-ta-da-ta! I don't even know Scriptures that come against the Holy Ghost. I've never found one yet. But these people started fighting. And the pastor said, 'You brought confusion into my church, here.' I said, 'Excuse me, dude.' One thing I've never been a shrinking lilly. :) You know what I mean? I said, 'Excuse me. You brought confusion into the church when you ordered me to stop, and the Holy Spirit to stop moving, and to step down. That's when confusion came into the church.'

Back to the phone conversation. The guy said, 'My brother got saved a month or six weeks ago. And he has been on drugs for years. And now he's not doing any drugs. It's a miracle. He's witnessing to his friends, his drug addict friends. Everybody around him is freaking out. Do you know what he said did it? Brought him to the place where he was ready to receive?' I said, 'What?' His name is Ron and he said, 'Ron told me that everybody had been coming down on him. And saying, 'Clean yourself up.' 'You need to get off those drugs.' 'You need to become productive.' 'You need to be like your father.' Or, 'You need to be like this one.' Or, 'You need to be like that one.' And, 'You've got this.' 'Why are you throwing your life away on drugs?' What happened to me was, that Fenholt guy looked me in the face and said, 'You don't have to give up your drugs.'

Now listen to me, those of you who are already getting the pen out and going, 'What's that address?' :) 'Blasphemy!' Rip. Rip. Rip. Rollin' in the dirt out there. :) You're going out there trying to get into the driveway and roll in the dirt, right now. 'O-o-h-h. I can't take it. I can't take it.' :) 'He said you don't have to give up drugs to come to Jesus. Oh God, have mercy.' ' A-a-a-h-h-h! Demons in the pulpit! Demons in the pulpit!' :) 'Spiritual arrest! Spiritual arrest.' :)

This guy told me, he said, 'Ron told me that when you looked him straight into the face and said, 'You don't have to get cleaned up of those drugs. You just need to give your heart to Jesus right now.' And Ron told this guy, he said, 'You know what is weird? I thought, well, I'll just give my heart to Jesus, if there's no conditions. If I can just give my heart to him and I don't have to do this and I don't have to do that. Just do it. Yeow, OK. Fine.' So he said, 'Jesus, I receive you as my Lord and Savior.' But then he told this friend of mine, he said, 'You know, the weirdest thing happened. Soon as I gave my heart to Jesus, for some reason I haven't wanted, I haven't wanted any drugs. I don't need drugs.'

Let me explain somethin' to you. Most people don't do drugs because they want them. They do them because they need them, even if it's the first time they do drugs. I remember the first time I did drugs. I needed to be accepted in the band and in the group and in the people that I was hanging out with. And somebody said, 'Here dude, try this.' I said, 'What is it?' The devil, himself, is what it was. I got stoned. And the first few times I got stoned I thought, 'O-o-h-h-h, whew.' And I went out and looked at the Hoover Reservoir with all the lights on at night. And I was looking at it and all that water going over the Hoover Dam. And I was standing up there looking at it. I was all ripped out of my mind. And all of a sudden it started looking like cotton. I thought, 'U-u-u-h-h. I think I'll jump.' Telling you the truth. I got upon the rail and I had to have people pull me off the rails. 'Cause that Devil tried to take me out. That should have been my first clue. And I'll tell you right now, the devil has come to steal, kill, and destroy; but, my Jesus has come to give you life, and life everlasting. He says, Praise the Lord. I say, 'Praise the Lord.'

My Deepest Love,
Jeff
October 26, 1991


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