>> Hi, my name is Tony Kemp and after I received Jesus
as my Lord and Savior
and was filled with the Holy Spirit
and had been in the Ministry for many, many years,
I have to tell you, not much of anything was happening.
And I was pretty frustrated
and I began to watch a show called It's Supernatural.
For the first 26 years of my ministry,
nothing much happened.
But as I began to watch the program,
my faith was inspired. I was challenged.
That I could have a greater relationship with God
than whatever I had before.
And so I began to watch the program,
and I began to see
that God still did the supernatural today.
And now I want to tell you about one of my experiences.
I was in Monroe, Louisiana, and God
opened up my eyes and I saw an angel.
When this angel came to me,
he said to me, that you need to preach repentance.
Now, here's the thing that was important about that.
When, after I had gotten saved, there was a preacher who said
The best message you could ever preach is a good life.
And so when that angel said,
You're supposed to preach repentance.
I understood that I was to bring to the Father
the fruit of repentance.
That repentance was to be my way of life.
And so the Bible says repent and believe in the good news
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
In other words, heaven is within your reach.
And so, Peter, preaching in chapter
three of the Book of Acts says Repent
and be converted, for times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord.
Well, the word repent means to change your mind.
But to be converted is a Greek word.
That means epistrepho, means to make an about face.
It's a military word.
And so when you repent and you make an about face,
you face toward God and you listen for instructions.
And when you obey those instructions,
times of refreshing come from the presence of God.
Do you want to experience more of the presence of God?
Would you like to know the manifest presence
or the glory of the Lord?
One way to do that is listen to the Word of God.
Listen to your heart, listen to the Holy Spirit.
And whatever God tells you to change, change it.
Because that Greek word for times is not time.
Which is day of the week, day of the month, day of the year.
It's Chiros time.
That Greek word means it's a time
characterized by the thumbprint of God.
Do you need God to do something for you and in you now?
Then very simply turn to God and say, Lord,
whatever it is you would have me to do, I'll do it.
And the minute you do that, heaven responds to you.
Heaven opens up before you. And the father looks on you.
And his ears are attentive to your prayer.
And then the Spirit of God will begin to enter your life.
And you will begin to experience the presence of the Lord
like never before. Listen to me carefully.
God wants to do miracles for you.
And if he can just get you to change your mind
and do whatever it is he's telling you to do,
heaven opens and miracles will be yours.
Let me pray for you now.
Because that same angel that was telling me to repent,
it just did something for me when I repented.
I began to see the presence of God in my life
like never before.
I began to witness the goodness of Jesus like never before.
I began to experience the grace of God like never before.
And I saw the power of God like never before.
And God is no respecter of persons.
What He has done for me He'll do for you.
And so right now, perhaps you are listening to me
and you've been procrastinating.
Maybe it's something the Lord's been telling you to stop doing,
and you haven't done it yet.
Or maybe it's something the Lord has been telling you to do,
and you haven't done it yet.
Now's the time to repent and say, Lord,
I'll stop doing that.
Just the very fact that you're listening to this message.
You're being empowered by God right now to repent.
Or maybe it's something the Lord has been telling you to do,
but you're afraid you might fail.
Listen, the Father honors your attempts to obey.
And so let me pray for you right now. Holy Father,
I pray for this person in the name of Jesus.
Let this person repent, stop
doing what you told him to stop doing
and start doing what you told him to begin doing.
And, Father, I know that your presence, as they say,
Lord, forgive me, your presence will come.
And now, Lord, supernaturally empower this person to be free,
to have faith, to have confidence
that you are going to bring them into a liberty
they've never had before, and that they're going to have
a freedom to obey you and to enjoy you,
oh God, like never before. In Jesus name.
May the Lord bless you richly.