Give Me This Mountain

And, um, i- it resonated with me when he began to speak, and, and it was our 20th year anniversary of our church five years ago.

My daughter was turning 16 years old, my church was turning 20 years old, and I was waiting in a hotel in Waikiki for my, my, my, my friend Pastor Jurgen to come and preach that weekend in our church.

Uh, and so I got a hotel room so that he and I could hang out, um, and then I would go to my daughter's 16th birthday, and my wife and I would do the celebration of our 20-year anniversary.

And if I could take you back to a time about four, three, about four or five years ago, uh, all of the lockdowns had happened, and all of the ramifications and that mental health things and challenges that went along with that.

Come on, right? It happened in Hawaii.

I'm sure it happened here as well.

And during that time it was w- I would say one of the toughest times for me to pastor.

And during that time, I began to scroll through video that I needed to watch, like I needed to watch this video so I could approve the video of the 20-year anniversary, and then my wife needed me to look at pictures so I could approve the pictures for my 16-year-old daughter's sweet 16 birthday.

And as I was in the hotel room waiting to pick Pastor Jurgen up, I was in my room overlooking Honolulu from Waikiki, in my hotel room on the balcony, and I began to sweep through, swipe through it, and I started crying.

Like, I had this bitter cry.

I was angry, I was upset, and I was like, "Lord, is this it? God, is this i- is, is this, is this it? Is this what's happening? Is this, like, this is as good as it gets?" And at that moment, I know that once you're in that place, that you gotta get yourself out of it, and instead of just crying and lamenting, I had to turn it into praise.

Can I get an amen? Amen.

[clapping] 'Cause any time you're going through something tough in your life, you need to flip that into praise.

And I was on the balcony at the hotel, and while I was praising God through tears, the, the, when I opened up the, the, the sliding door, the drapes or the, the curtains went out to- I mean k- went out into the room.

So they came into the room because of the breeze.

I stepped onto the balcony and I began to pray and I began to prophesy, and as, as I began to do that, the curtains actually went in the opposite direction, and I felt the glory of the Lord come into the hotel room, and I fell and I fell asleep for two hours, the best nap I ever had.

Come on, somebody.

[clapping] And, uh, I woke up two hours later to go pick him up from the hotel.

And since that moment, and since that prophetic word that you gave to me, and since that moment, we have been experiencing a season of un- That's right ... of the most epic proportions of harvest in Hawaii than ever before.

[clapping] And I praise God for it, and I want you to know that, that you're talking about harvest this year.

This is the year of the harvest, n- that's the conference.

And I want to tell you that in Amos chapter 9 verse k- 13, the Bible says that, "The days are coming," everybody say, "The days are coming." The days are coming.

"The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes, and new wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills." And then Leviticus 26:5, which says that, "Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain, and you will eat your fill and live securely in the land." I'm declaring that there will be a season of overlap and overtake in New Zealand and in Australia in the name of Jesus.

Come on, somebody say amen.

Amen.