Faith, Prayer, Persecution, and the Power of God’s Kingdom

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo: Identified by the opening self-introduction, sermon delivery, prayer, commentary, and closing ministry information.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader: Identified by reading listener letters, scripture excerpts, ministry addresses, and response prompts during the program.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response: Identified by brief “Amen” and “Praise the Lord” responses.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo.

This evening, we have Part 110 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You. Every message I bring has the formula for how to have God’s life living in you. I have thousands of messages on it, and I reckon that if the Lord keeps calling me to do this, I am going to continue to do that.

We have some letters, a message, and Bible reading. But right now, let us go to the throne of the Lord and ask Him to anoint this service.

My Father God, we thank You that You are everywhere. It does not make any difference whether people are in automobiles or people are at home. Some may think that You are far off, but I know, and Your Word tells us and tells everybody if they read it, that You are omnipresent. You are on the scene. You are omnipotent. You are everywhere, and You know everything.

You know the problems that we are going through. The Bible record is that when people were under attack, or when some evil thing was happening unto them, the true prophets of the Lord would immediately go to prayer with You. They would pray that You would know that they were mindful of the thing that was attempting to happen to them.

In their prayers, they would say the thing that was presenting itself before them, and they would lay out all the different things that You had done in the past for those that were of You. These were things that were devastating and seemed absolutely impossible, where there seemed to be no escape from the disaster that was at hand.

Such as the Hebrew children when they were boxed into a canyon at the Red Sea, and there did not seem to be any apparent escape. Moses called upon You, and You opened the Red Sea. You allowed them to walk through the Red Sea on dry ground. When their enemies followed them after the Israelites had gotten to the other side of the Red Sea, Egypt decided to come after them. While they were in the midst of the Red Sea, You closed the sea upon them.

Many people do not have the faith at the time of crisis to call upon You. But Lord, there are crises happening in the Los Angeles area. You know how the Miller family, whom we had led to the Lord, after years of being at the church and knowing everything about it, stole $200,000 in church finances and then fled. When we reported them because we believe in the law, Your law is for the lawful.

Already, one of the people has died. Bob Miller has died and faced the great white throne. On the day of judgment, he will be there again. Some of the Miller family have ceased from coming after us. There are two of them coming against us, and also the city of Newhall is coming against the church and bringing up charges that are absolutely false.

For years now, there have been many people building apartment houses all around us, and they will not give us a permit even to build a shower for the new converts that are coming there.

Now, Lord, You have answered the prayer of everyone who is keeping Your commandments. You said that if we pray unto You, You will hear us and answer us and show us great and mighty things. This is why tonight, Lord, I am encouraging everyone to pray and also to fast and pray, because there is a hearing coming up soon.

There are many other things that have presented themselves. Yet You have Your Word that shows us that no evil thing can happen unto us. The enemy cannot destroy us. It is impossible. But we must ask in order for it to come to pass.

Lord, I ask that You bring an end to all those that are against Your church here on earth, Your body. Lord, I ask it in the name of Jesus, and I also pray, Lord, that everyone in the church will pray to this end.

In these two cases, the Millers are now trying to get money out of the church after they had been paid. For no reason at all, the government took millions of dollars’ worth of church property and threw everyone out on the street. Their attorney, who was the head of the organization whose exact name is unclear in the transcript, was at liberty to buy our properties for pennies on the dollar. Then he said he was selling them for the Millers. He sold them for around ten million dollars, and apparently, from what we hear, he said he never gave a penny to the Millers.

Now the Millers are coming after us for a sum of money, and they brought false accusations against the church. There are just so many things, Father. You know all about them, and I am asking, Lord, that You destroy their purpose. Put an end to all this trouble. Go down against the enemy, Lord, and cause everybody in the church to realize that they have to pray. They must pray that You will put an end to these things. If they do, You surely will put an end to them, but if they do not, You will not.

Father, also bless this service and anoint it. Open everyone’s heart and spirit to do the same thing.

Many people out in radio land have heart problems, cancer, leukemia, and many other diseases that need to be healed. If they are keeping Your commandments, that is, walking in Your Spirit, in the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, You will be faithful to hear them and answer them, and they are healed already.

If they are being persecuted by some government agency, Father, our attorney told me on several occasions that the biggest battles and losses he has are against all the different government agencies. So we know, Father, that we are living under a corrupt government. It is a society that is a world society. It is no longer the United States of America.

On hearing President Bush’s speech just a few minutes ago, he was saying that we will be sure to win this battle in Iraq because we are a world society now, and all the people in the world will be against them. The people of the United States do not seem to be as vehement against the people in Iraq as the world system, the Antichrist.

We know, and I know, that it is coming from Rome because Your Word says so. Lord, there is no power that can overpower You. After we are saved, we have the power over life and death. No society on the face of this earth has the power over life and death except Your society, Your kingdom, which is the kingdom of heaven.

Let everyone be focused on the kingdom of heaven when they pray unto You. Lord, I know that it is not Your will that Your people are destroyed, but it is Your will that the enemy be destroyed. Lord, I ask that Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I have exposed Satan on this earth, Lord, which I know is supposed to have bound him. Your Word says so, and therefore I expect You to keep Your part of the bargain by executing judgment, binding him here on earth and binding him in heaven. In Jesus’ name, I pray that souls will be saved and that souls will be strengthened by seeing that our God in heaven is a miracle-working God for those of us who love You and keep Your commandments.

Lord, do it in Jesus’ name.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. So where is the first letter from?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
From Andhra Pradesh, India.

Dear world-famous Pastor Tony Alamo in Christ,

Warmest greetings of love, power, and peace be to you in the mighty name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Rock of our salvation.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Yes, we do have power. We have the power because we are in the right society, the only society that has power over life and death. We have power over death, life, hell, the grave, sin, Satan, the world, and our flesh.

All power in heaven and on earth belongs to Jesus, and if we are in Jesus, all things are possible. For sure, I expect the impossible to happen. Father, I thank and praise You for the assurance that I have received from Your Word. Give everyone the same assurance.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Brother, we are devotees of our Lord who have been carrying on His service in India for eight years. We felt very happy reading your literature by the name Dry Bones and found it of immense value for each and every Christian. We are explaining its contents to many people. Nearly 200 persons changed and were saved into our Lord’s power and were ready to take baptism.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I just cannot understand how anyone could hear my testimony and read it and not be saved. You can tell by reading it that it is absolutely true. That is how I was saved almost 42 years ago.

I am full of the Spirit today, maybe even more than I was then. This experience that I had stopped me from sinning and also from being involved with selling the Beatles album that I would receive from Pete Best of the Beatles. I have made these statements on the air, and the Lord allowed me to be involved with people such as that.

Four different presidents were involved in my past work. I keep forgetting to say how involved I could have been, and really was for a while, with the Kennedy family, because President Kennedy wanted me to continue doing promotion for the entire Democratic Party. Kennedy, who was about to meet me if I was going to accept, was coming into town to meet with me. Ted Sherrack, Mayor Yorty, and Walter Winchell were also part of that earlier world I was involved in.

All these people wanted me to do these campaigns, and I thank God that I am saved now and that I had that tremendous testimony, which is written up. The Lord told me to write the supernatural experiences that have happened to me, and there were many of them. I put that one down while I was in prison for the gospel’s sake, just like Jesus was in prison for the gospel’s sake, and the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Peter, all the apostles, and most of the prophets.

They are all jailbirds, and I am proud to be one of them. We are an exclusive group. If you do not serve the Lord, you will never be part of that exclusive group of us jailbirds who will be in heaven for the gospel’s sake. I feel sorry for you. I am so proud to have gone to prison for the gospel and to have been persecuted.

I thank God that I have more faith today than ever before. I was sitting there, and I won a lot of Muslims in there, people that were out to destroy the white man and possibly everybody else. I say this group was raised up by the Vatican to take the blame off the Vatican.

The Vatican is saying today that there are people running around with atomic bombs in briefcases. I wondered about it for a while, but the Lord told me that there are no people running around with atomic bombs in briefcases. That is all to take your mind off the Vatican. The Muslims who are doing terrorist attacks are, in my view, orchestrated by the Vatican to get your mind on Iraq and the Arabic countries. I believe these things were all created by the Vatican.

I remember that in the Sun magazine, one of those tabloid papers that they sell in supermarkets, there was a group of cardinals from the Vatican that stated that there was going to be terrorism in the early fall. I said, “These people are not prophets. They are satanic beings.” When they say there is going to be terrorism happening in the early fall, which is September, I know that it is going to happen. I told everybody that, and I did tapes on it. I wanted to write a piece of literature on it, but I could not write it fast enough because I had so many other things going on at the time.

I said for sure they are not prophets, and for sure it is going to happen. These people want all of you in the world to be terrorized and to smokescreen the affairs of the satanic Vatican.

The news media, which I call the mouth of Satan, is telling everybody that all these people have rockets headed for us and that there are 50 countries that have atomic bombs now. If there are, I say for sure the Vatican is the one that sent it out. One of these rockets fell into the Sea of Japan, and another was probably like a Fourth of July firework, just to try to scare everybody and make you believe that President Bush must be supported.

The Bible says these are lies. The Lord says they are lies. He told me that there is no such thing. They have these pipe bombs that they are throwing around all over, killing 50 people in one place, 20 someplace else, 100 somewhere else, and maybe two or three somewhere else. These are pipe bombs, but there is nobody carrying bombs around in briefcases, the Lord says. There are no rockets that are headed over here.

The Vatican does not want to destroy the United States. The Vatican wants to keep the United States as a park-like atmosphere and take industry and put it elsewhere. They do not care anything about the Japanese, so they let them have that burden. They are so contaminated with smog over there now that they have what look like parking meters on the street. People can put in money or a credit card and put on a mask to get fresh air. They are selling air over there, and they have been doing that for quite some time.

They want industry in Germany, China, and Japan, and they are letting them have all the money because they want the United States for themselves. They call themselves the elite, and they are having a ball by scaring the daylights out of people.

You people out there in radio land and TV land, do not believe it. Even if this were happening, I was on that trip for a while too, and I do not know why. If they are able to steer my mind away from the Vatican even for a moment, I can realize how brain-damaged people are. People are living in hellish fear, and all that fear will go away when you know that your soul is saved.

They just keep coming at you every day with something new. They say this guy is in a cave, and here they show pictures of people that are terrorizing people and throwing pipe bombs around. Believe me, there are not 50 countries that have the atomic bomb. We are the only country in the world that has weapons of mass destruction. I am sure there are other countries like China or Russia that might have some, but we are the one that has the most weapons of mass destruction.

What we are doing is terrorizing the whole world, and our armed forces are killing millions of people all over the world. It is not said in the media because the Vatican will not allow it to be said in the media. They will, however, tell you about all the people that are carrying briefcases around here that are geared to blow up cities and everything.

It is not happening. If, to make me look like a liar, they cause it to happen, they may. They have many of the people in what we think to be the U.S. government on their team. It is an inside job. The people who call themselves the United States military are not U.S. military. The minute the Pope tells them to bomb some country, they do it.

President Bush does not dare say that he is going to quit and pull all the boys out of Iraq because if he did, he knows he would be a dead man. The Pope would kill him just like he did Kennedy.

Now, if you are saved, you do not have to worry about it one way or the other anyway. That is what I was told by the Lord.

Okay, now let us finish this letter.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
We wish that the Lord will spread His Word among many people in this end time through this literature.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
This is the Word of the Lord when I tell you there are no people carrying briefcases with atomic bombs. Do you know how much a bomb weighs? A lot. Too big to carry in a briefcase.

All right. What else?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Many believers were inspired by His glory and were able to gain their faith again. We pray to our Lord that He must use you in this end time in India also. We were astonished by the literature and were thinking that if the words in this literature are so impressive, what will be the position of the public if you visit India and convey your great messages face to face in India?

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I am visiting India. You are there, and you are an extension of this ministry in India. So we are going to send you all the literature that you need. Just get it out, and people will get saved just like they are all over India now. India is a big country with a billion and a half people, so you really have to get busy because the time of the Lord is coming, and the time is short.

Now see, someone could tell the United States, “Make an atomic bomb and put it in a briefcase to make this Tony Alamo look like a liar.” Do not think they are not capable of it. They are predicting more terrorism. Most people believe that it is going to be the Statue of Liberty. Capitol Records thinks it might be them, that someone is going to hit the Capitol Tower on Hollywood and Vine Street. Some people think it is going to be the Empire State Building.

They have everybody’s mind darkened. But know that it is an inside job. It is a smokescreen to take your mind off the Vatican. They want you to believe that the man there is God. I know he is not God because it was God who talked to me when I first got saved. He has been talking to me ever since, and He is warning me about the Vatican.

If the Vatican were the Lord, why would God be warning me about it?

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
And why would the Bible confirm everything that the Lord is saying to me? All right. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
We are also very eager to work with you in the great work of saving the perishing souls toward our Lord. We are continuing our gospel. We remember in our daily prayers that we must proceed in our gospel through your esteemed guidance, cooperation, and help.

By reading your literature, we remember the words of Saint Paul in Colossians chapter 1, verse 28: “Whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.”

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right there it says that we must present everyone perfect. Now these false prophets that are in the Vatican, that are actually Catholics, but say they are Protestants, just like Bush today says, “Praise God, praise the Lord.” You know how easy that is to say.

I knew Webb Pierce, a country western singer who had a lot of hits. He wanted me to go to Opryland with him backstage and meet some of the well-known figures there. I went with him, and later he wanted to be on PTL or the 700 Club. He was laughing about the fact that he was stoned and was not really a Christian. I said, “Well, you better watch out. The Lord will take your life.” And He did.

There are so many people. It is so easy for President Bush to say, “Praise the Lord. I am a born-again Christian.” But then why is he building memorials for the Pope, the Antichrist? And you have these preachers saying, “The Antichrist is going to come pretty soon.” Back when Paul was preaching the gospel, he said there are many antichrists.

You have to know about the Antichrist, just like the body of Christ. The body of Christ is a corporate body of people who are in Christ and Christ is in them. The Antichrist is a huge corporate body of people with Satan in them. President Bush, in my view, is in charge of nothing, but is a puppet of the Vatican.

If he is not, then why does he not stop all these Bibles being taken out of school? Why does he not stop evolution being taught? If I were president, I would immediately cut the Pope off. I would say, “No way. I am not listening to you. This is a sovereign country. I am not part of the one-world government. We are sovereign. We are under God.”

The Constitution was built on the Word of God. From now on, everyone would take evolution out of school, and we would put Bibles in school. We would put the name of God up in all the different places where they are tearing it down. I would tear them down and build God up. That is what people who are Christians are supposed to do.

This is a Christian nation, and the Vatican, along with these puppets, is doing what Satan wants them to do. They are taking away all the things of God. They do not want you to believe it. They are desecrating the actual Word of God as well.

Continue on.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
We are reading this literature with utmost faith that every person who learns your words will stand before our Lord as a perfect man.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Absolutely. We are perfect if we walk in the Spirit. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
We pray and request you that if you accord your permission, we wish to work in India under the banner of Alamo Christian Ministries.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
You have got it. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
If possible, please pray for sending 100 Bibles in Telugu to our ministry, which is carried on by me individually.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Send it to him. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Please continue to pray for me, my family, and ministry, as I am praying for you, your health, good family, and great ministry in my daily prayers.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Father God, bless these people. Bless this pastor. Build a wall of fire around and about him and prosper him. Extend his ministry throughout all the nations. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Awaiting your early favorable compliance, yours in Him, Pastor Ebenezer from West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord. You were back here all the way. Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
The next letter is from Niger State, Nigeria.

Dear Pastor Alamo,

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a thing of joy writing this to you. I want to appreciate your effort for what you have done for me by giving me the newsletters and the book on Messiah. I asked for them, and they have really transformed my life to an extent that I myself cannot believe. They have also changed my life from great to greater height. Those to whom I gave the newsletters have also testified to the glory of God.

Dear Pastor, I want my name to be on your monthly mailing list. Also, I need your help in the aspect of tapes and CDs so as to grow spiritually. May the Almighty God continue empowering you to carry out the work of God effectively, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Samuel from Minna, Nigeria, Africa.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
This is why I pray that God will give you the power to do even the mighty work that we have done here and throughout the world. Go ahead to the next one.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
From San Salvador, El Salvador.

Pastor Tony Alamo,

I greet you in the name of Christ, who is our Savior, desiring many spiritual and material blessings upon you. It fills me with joy to see how the ministry that God has given you is growing more and more each day and is known throughout the world. May God continue to bless you greatly.

I thank you for sending the Lord’s gospel literature, which I have distributed to all those in need and to those who want to know the mysteries of our Lord. I need every kind of literature for my area, of course, in Spanish. Please send me what you can, plus 25 Spanish Bibles and 25 Messiah books.

Thank you for all the support that you give to those of us who believe in the ministry of God. Distributing your gospel literature helps me to win more souls for the Lord. Greetings to all the brethren in Christ there at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.

Signed, in the Lord’s gospel.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord. We really rejoice and praise God because we know that God means what He says. We know that His Word is true, and we know that if we praise and thank the Lord before He even moves on these prayers that we prayed today, He is going to do it. That is why we praise Him and thank Him in advance.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I heard a preacher today talking about the time when Jehoshaphat was in battle with three different nations, and how God told them that they did not even have to fight the battle. It is in the 20th chapter of the book of Second Chronicles.

They started to praise and thank the Lord, and instead of putting the warriors up front, they put the musicians up front to praise and thank God because they knew that the Lord had said the battle was not going to be fought by them. The battle was the Lord’s.

We know that everyone attacking us, the battle is the Lord’s. So everyone should be filled with praising and thanking the Lord. There were a couple of people in the church who were upset with young brothers who would come into the church and praise and thank the Lord. I was so upset with those older people, whether they think of themselves as brothers or not, for trying to dampen someone’s desire to praise and thank the Lord for all the things the living God has promised us.

We know that we should go into battle with these people praising and thanking the Lord and singing praises unto Him from the top of our hearts and from the top of our lungs.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen. Praise the Lord.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Everybody praise the Lord because we know we have already won the battle. Hallelujah. I know that the Lord hears. I know that He is answering, and I know the battle is ours. Everybody should have a cheerful, joyful heart and praise and thank God. How He is going to do it, I do not know. But I know He is going to do it.

Go ahead, Sharon.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
The thing that people would really like more than anything would be to have power over life and to have power and dominion over death.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
People in this world, as I said, have all these different societies. Each one of these societies wants to have power over life and death. The greatest thing in their life would be to have their will done in all the things they want done on this earth.

There is no society that was ever formulated in the world that has ever been able to do that, with the exception of the kingdom of God. Now our will, of course, must be the same as the Lord’s will. If it is, then whatsoever we ask in the name of Jesus will be done.

As long as it is the Lord’s will. Everything that I see as the Lord’s will in the Bible, I am for 100 percent. So it happens to be my will too. When I am asking for something, it is obviously the will of God because I do not really want anything that is not the will of God. God’s will is my will. If you are of the Lord, that is your will as well.

When your will is the same will as the Lord, you have power over life and death, hell, the grave, sin, Satan, and the world. You are now a ruler. The Lord called us to be rulers.

The Lord never originally developed the world to form a religion. He wanted people to be in His likeness and image. He wanted them to be exactly like Him. He wanted a bunch of spirit sons and daughters, because we have a spirit in us.

Even though we are flesh and blood, if Adam and Eve had not sinned, we would still be alive forever, and everyone born would be alive forevermore. God knew the end the same as He knew the beginning. He wants a bunch of spirit sons and daughters who are in the flesh and do His will, so that they can have power over their flesh, life, and death.

No society in the whole world has ever been able to stop from dying. The only one who ever came into this world, was dead, and then rose from the dead, was Jesus. When Elijah was taken up, he was not dead. He was alive. He had to come back and die. When Enoch was taken up, he was not dead. The Lord just took him with Him.

When the Lord allowed many people to be sleeping in the earth and He raised them from the dead, the Lord is the only one who predicted that He would die and then raise Himself up from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. He would ascend into heaven and then send Himself down into human beings, His creation, to give them power over death and power over life.

We have power to retain life if we want it. The Bible says the tongue has power over life and death. We have the power over life and death.

Go ahead and read it now.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
The thing that people would really like more than anything would be to have power over life and to have power and dominion over death. But in all the different societies that have evolved to this point in time, life and death have run away from them. It has evaded them, totally sprinted from them.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
I had a friend who went to Romania seeking what I could not believe I was hearing when he told me. Norman King, formerly with the Mary Kaye Trio, was the person who brought Rayvon to me, and I did promotion for him. He had been working in a wood factory or lumber company, and 90 days later he was the star of the show. This is going back into the early or mid-1960s.

Norman went to Romania. He said somebody told him that he could find eternal life over there with some pill or some body over there. Of course, Norman was very feeble and old by then. He had just been married, and we attended his marriage in Las Vegas. He was a dear friend. His wife was saved through me, through the ministry by Jesus, and so was Norman. I thank and praise the Lord for that.

His ex-wife was the former runner-up in a Miss America contest. I forget what year.

Okay, let us go.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
It is impossible for them to have power and dominion over life and death.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. Democracy has no power over life and death, or over hell, the grave, sin, Satan, the world, or the flesh. Communism does not have any power over that. Socialism does not. Shintoism and Hinduism have nothing like that. Catholicism has no power over life and death. You saw that the Pope died. He was supposed to be God, they said, right? He is dead.

We are all going to die, man. But if we are in Christ, we never die. If our husk, which God calls chaff, if our body is saved, then it is not chaff because He will raise us from the dead. The chaff and the spirit will come back, and He will translate that old chaff into a body that is celestial. Then we will be in heaven forevermore.

But if you are not in the Spirit of God, then you are going to spend eternity in hell, in the lake of fire, constantly dying but never able to die, constantly praying to faint and escape the pain but never able to escape the pain.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Today, when things are supposed to be getting better with this one-world government, one-world church, and one-world media, in other words, the Antichrist systems, everything is becoming so uncontrollable.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The social disease. Look at all the social diseases and pestilence.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Social sicknesses.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All the sickness running around. You can look at these different television stations, police shows, and conversations. There is more rape, more kidnapping, more suicide, more degeneracy. Men are having sexual relationships with children, and even women now are taking kids out of school to have sexual relationships with them and sending their husbands out of the house.

This is the sickest, rotten, filthy mess. The crazy thing about this society is that people are so used to it that they think, “Well, what is the difference?” They had the president of the United States involved in sexual scandal, lying about it, and then confessing it. You may say, “Well, this is a shock to your ears to hear me say something like that.” It has been on the news.

I am certainly not speaking to virgin ears. You have heard everything in this sick society. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Death-fueling epidemics.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Yes, all the epidemics on the face of this earth are incredible. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Wars.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Do you hear of wars? The Arabs, the Israelis, us, and all these 50 different countries that we are antagonizing so they will come and attack, or scare the people to death who do not have the Lord.

Then all these different terrorists that I say are paid for by the Vatican. Everybody who has studied this knows that Jack Chick has a book out about the Muslims. What is the name of that?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
The Prophet.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The Prophet tells how this organization was raised up from the Vatican. A Catholic priest and a nun raised this little Mohammed, kept him on drugs for years, and would mark all of the hallucinations down and make them look as though they were holy writ. That book, their book, is filled with hate. It is, according to the speaker, a hate religion. Anyone who tells you they do not hate, then why are they Muslims if they do not hate? That is what their Bible says.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Political unrest, economic uncertainty, all sorts of problems with religions smiting one another, and problems with the environment.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Deliberate problems with the environment, I might add. Again, the government is causing pollution. They have known for years that they could have cars and automobiles that could run without petroleum. That would cut down the pollution in the environment immensely. There are hundreds of other things that they know they could do.

But because they own the factories and have investments, they are not going to change to manufacture something that they cannot make money on. That does not make sense to this bunch of people.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
All of humanity is in a backward, downhill spiral. It is like we are evolving backward rather than going forward. There is a failure with humans to be able to achieve control and to master the things that are happening around and about them.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
They cannot even control their own lives. How are they going to control life and death? How are they going to control sin, Satan, the flesh, death, hell, the grave, and the lust of this world? They cannot.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
There are all kinds of circumstances that have left mankind with a deep desire for there to be a brand-new world. Any human spirit would love to have a world that he can control, a world where it does not make any difference what the circumstances are. All circumstances would be in the power of his will. So it is obvious that this is the greatest desire of human beings.

This is also the source and motivation of every religion on the face of this earth, with the exception of Christianity, because Christianity leaves everything in the hands of God. We know that the Lord Jesus is perfect and that if we are in Him, we are perfect, because in Him is no darkness at all and no imperfection.

There has to be a motivation of religious and spiritual development and practice. In every religion, you can find that the part that promises power to control every one of our circumstances is there, even death itself. This explains why the deep secret practices of witchcraft and spiritualism are so attractive to millions of people. The reason is that the devil promises them power over people and circumstances.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
But all power in heaven and earth belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. Witchcraft has no power whatsoever. It will have the power to send yourself to hell if you let it. It has no power over you if you are in the Lord. That scripture is Matthew 28, verse 18.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
So every human being has the desire to have dominion and rule and control their personal private world and the environment. One is in search of the ultimate power to govern and to have dominion. The desire for power is inherent in the human spirit. To understand all these different desires for power, it is necessary to understand the original purpose and design of God for mankind and the assignment for which man was created.

One of the most important characteristics of God is that He is love. “God is love,” First John chapter 4, verses 8 and 16.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The Lord also kills, but God is love. Love means keeping God’s commandments. Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
The Lord does not say that He “has” love, but He states that He “is” love. Love also states the keeping of God’s commandments, and He tells us that we should share the love of God with others.

So it is important to be able to discern when it comes to understanding the Lord God, what His motivation was for creating the world and mankind. Because if God is love, then His actions naturally and supernaturally manifest the nature of love. One of God’s obvious qualities of love is that love has to give and share itself.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. That is why, if you have the love of God in you, then you should be encouraging people to pray. You should be encouraging people to praise and thank the Lord, and you should be encouraging people to pray for deliverance.

Now we are going to go into the 20th chapter of Second Chronicles, starting with verse 1.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Now it came about after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
These are Gentile nations coming against Israel. See, that is Jehoshaphat. There are three nations here coming against Israel. That is to simplify this because these names are hard to remember, but you can remember Gentiles and Jews. There are only two kinds of people, Jews and Gentiles. Now, a Jew is one who believes in God.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Then some came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, out of Aram, and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar, that is, Engedi.”

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
What was coming against Jehoshaphat, or Israel at that time, is nothing in comparison to what is coming against me now and against us who are the spiritual Israel. The entire world government is against us. Yet I am encouraged because I know that I have a God that I can pray to and that He is going to hear me. I know that His promises say that there is no force that can come against me that can prosper. There is no weapon formed that can prosper against me.

That is why I want to leave you at the end of this particular tape with the encouragement that if you pray, God is going to answer, and His promises are true. You are not calling upon a God who does not hear or a God who does not exist.

So keep going.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his attention to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
The first thing, when some force is attacking you or the devil is attacking you in your sleep, or Satan is attacking you with your wife or your husband or whoever, the first thing that a real godly person does is get ahold of God. Because God, when He answers, when you get to the throne and He says, “Yes, I am going to take care of it,” you can sit back and smile at your wife even if she is acting crazy, or your husband if he is acting crazy, and know that God is going to do something with that wife or husband.

Or if it is an entire world government that is coming against you, the Vatican, the world army, the navy, the Marines, all of these people, and the media, which for the past 42 years, almost 40 years, have come against me, I am still standing strong. I am hanging in there because I know God has answered for us. He has protected me all these years.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
So Judah gathered together to seek help from the Lord.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
If you want to see victory, then fast and get ahold of the Lord. You will see that God answers, as He did in this chapter.

I see that my time has happened. So you read the chapter and study the rest of it. It tells how God delivered them, and they did not even have to fight the battle. The battle is the Lord’s.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
This is the way the Lord has led this service. It is so wonderful to know that we have a God who keeps all of His promises, and that He is here to defend us. He is here to listen to us, and He wants to hear from you. He wants you to be concerned enough about the problems here on this earth to pray about them, not just your problems and not just the problems that we have in Los Angeles or here and there in the world.

God wants you to know that He is concerned about your problems. We want you to know that because we want to be in good standing with God and with you. We are concerned about your problems as well.

It is God’s promise that if you call upon Him and serve Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, He will dissolve your problems in the name of Jesus. So write us or fax us or call us if you have problems, and we will pray for you.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
We will pray with you because the Lord is going to want you to pray as well.

Those of you who believe God, and even if you do not believe Him, you have to believe Him in order to be saved. We receive everything from God by faith in what He says. He says if you call upon Him, He will hear you and answer you.

Let us start out now by receiving the life of a spiritual man, a spiritual son, by saying this prayer.

Father, I believe that You sent Your only begotten Son into this world, the Lord Jesus Christ. You, Father, because You are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, came into this world, and You died on the cross and shed Your precious blood because You came into the world as a human and had human blood, so that my former sins could be taken away.

I believe that Jesus rose from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. I open the door of my heart, and I invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus. Wash all my filthy sins away in the precious blood that You shed for me. You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul. I know because Your Word says so. Your Word says that You will turn no one away, and that includes me.

Therefore, I know You have heard me and answered me, and I know I am saved. I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.

Just raise your hands and praise the Lord.

Now, Sharon, tell them how they can receive a copy of Part 110 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You.

Speaker 2 – Assistant / Letter Reader:
Go to AlamoMinistries.com or write to Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, P.O. Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505. You may also call area code 479-782-7370 or fax area code 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. Make sure to tune in tomorrow for Part 111 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You. Until then, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you richly, praise the Lord, and pray to Him about all the different evils that are happening in this world today so that we can see the victory of the Lord.

Praise the Lord. The victory is God’s.

Speaker 3 – Congregation / Studio Response:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – World Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. Praise the Lord.