>> Hello, my name is Corey Russell,
and I want to share with you my supernatural story.
It's my salvation story.
I grew up in northwest Arkansas, a great family,
and I grew up in sports from five to 18.
I was playing some sports, football, basketball,
track, swimming, baseball, all of it.
And I really gave myself to that.
We would go to church every week,
but I never knew Jesus personally.
I knew going to church, but I didn't know Jesus.
And so there was a huge hole in my heart
because I was looking for something to live
for and kind of spent my high school years
kind of your normal jock in high school,
you know, doing well in grades and sports.
But yet I was partying at the same time.
Well, at the end of high school,
I was done with sports and I go off to college
and I found that so much of my identity
was found in the sports I was doing.
So now I'm off in college and I don't know who I am.
And I really began to give myself to the more drugs,
the more partying, the more alcohol and the more immorality.
But yet it wasn't filling my heart.
I got my I went to school for my first year
and I came home for the summer
and I got my first DWI driving while intoxicated.
And I couldn't afford to go back to the college that I was at.
So I ended up just getting an apartment with my good friend
and going to a community college in northwest Arkansas.
By this time, my same friend,
I mean, my friend grew up in a real godly home.
His mom's a faithful intercessor
and he had known the Lord as a child,
but he had ran off.
And so we end up getting an apartment
and by this time, really heavy drugs
were moving through our area.
And before I knew it, I had run deep into this.
The hole could not be filled and we were doing the drugs
that keep you up three or four days a week at a time.
It was a really dark season, a season of drug abuse
and just being lost and not knowing anything.
But yet I had a praying mom. My friend had a praying mom,
and they were storming the gates of heaven
and storming the gates of hell for us.
And I want you to know that if you're a praying mom,
a praying dad, a praying grandparent,
I want you to know that God hears prayers.
Well it kept going on and on and on for that season.
And we found ourselves in November of nineteen ninety
six when my friend came off one of the drug highs
and he when he came back, he was a little weird.
He stopped talking.
He just looked at everybody with real weird eyes
and we kind of put up with it for several months.
Well it culminated on February 1st.
Nineteen ninety seven.
I had been at the University of Arkansas partying that night
and I drive up into his house another day to pick him up.
He comes storming out the front door,
screaming at the top of his lungs.
Corey, it's heaven or hell, Corey.
It's heaven or hell.
You have to make a decision right now.
I didn't know what was happening.
He says you've got to give your life to Jesus.
I go, no, I grab my friend and we leave.
And it was known that my friend had come back to Jesus.
His mom had prayed him through a powerful three day deliverance.
He got saved and I got angry.
I'd put up with a weirdo for three months
and now he's going to give his life to Jesus.
You don't get saved till you're thirty and ready to settle down.
And so I was really hurt, really betrayed by him.
Two weeks later, he showed up at college.
I was still in college, barely.
And he came to came and got me. He took me to lunch,
and he began to share with me that for those four months,
the spirit realm was opened up to him.
He was seeing angels and demons,
seeing what was controlling people.
And he says, Corey, you were being controlled by real spirits
you're not aware of.
He says this went on for several months.
And then we were shut up at that last night
in that house, and the voice of the Lord
broke in the middle of the party and the Holy Spirit said,
Satan is raising up an army,
but I'm raising up an army too, and I'm calling you out tonight,
and I want you to go call your friends out.
And he looked at me.
He says, Corey, give your life to Jesus.
And I said, no, I don't want anything to do with Jesus.
Take me back to school.
So he drove back to the college. He pulled into the parking lot.
And right before I got out of the van,
someone came in the van.
I now know his name is Holy Spirit,
but I begin to feel the presence of God
move from the right of my body to my left.
And before I knew it,
I was shaking violently like I was having a seizure.
All I saw was a tug of war battle
between light and darkness.
And my friend pulled in the back of the parking lot.
He started praying, and after a little bit
he goes in the name of Jesus,
I bind the antichrist spirit. As soon as he bound the spirit,
it manifested into a chokehold around my throat
and I could not breathe.
And I knew I had to get out the name Jesus.
I tried to say his name,
but all I could get out was Jes- Jes- Jes-
It kept getting tighter and tighter and tighter.
And then I finally took a deep breath
and with all the power inside of me, I screamed Jesus.
And right when I screamed his name,
the hold broke off of my throat
and it was like God came and breathed into my mouth.
All I could keep saying for the next five minutes
is I've got air. I've got air. I've got air.
And after a couple of minutes
I heard the voice of God clear as day
come into my mind. And the voice says
get out of the van, get on the pavement,
and give me your life. You're mine.
This was Jesus that was saying give me your life, you're mine.
I jump out of the van, I get into the parking lot.
There's kids running everywhere.
And I cry out at the top of my lungs,
Jesus Christ, I give you my life. I'm yours.
In that supernatural moment, I passed from death to life.
I was forgiven of all my sins, all the years of drug addiction,
alcohol abuse, immorality, the power of God hit my life
and I was instantaneously set free.
Never had a taste for it ever again.
And and God broke the power of the devil in my life
and washed me with love, wave after wave.
I remember going home that afternoon
and falling in my parent's lap saying, Mom and dad,
I gave my life to Jesus today. And then I went outside
and I sat on my porch swing for two hours.
And for two hours I was undone by how blue the sky was,
how green the grass was and how loud the birds were.
It's like I had been dead for 20 years
and for the first time I'm alive.
Do you know that was twenty three years ago
that this happened, and from that day
my life has been forever changed.
And what we began to see happen is that within the next month,
I would have a drug ring of friends
that would have encounters
like that or bigger in their encounters.
I end up leading my little brother to the Lord
who goes crazy for Jesus in the high school.
And over the next six months
we saw half the high school come to Jesus.
We saw a move of the Holy Spirit,
five meetings a week at a local church,
and the power of God touched our little community.
I've never been the same,
and I've been gripped with the vision
that God wants to pour out his spirit on homes,
on churches, on cities
and on regions with the power of God.
Friend, I want you to know that the Lord says
in Acts 2 that in the last days
I will pour out my spirit on all flesh
and that I will do this before my great coming.
I want you to come forth in this hour
and begin to ask God to visit your families.
Moms who have been believing for lost sons and daughters,
this is an hour to take up that prayer again.
Grandmas that have been praying for grand kids,
it's time to take up that prayer again.
Brothers praying for sisters, sisters praying for brothers,
this is a time to take up that prayer again.
God is the God who hears and answers prayer.
And he pours out his spirit at those who cry out to him.
I'm a living witness of this reality.
And Father, I pray that what you did in my life,
you would do, God, for hundreds and thousands
and millions across the Earth. I love you, Jesus,
and I thank you for what you did in my life.
Do it all over the earth in the name of Jesus. Amen.