Greetings Family! Happy 250!
Last week, I felt strongly that the Lord had something for me in the place where our nation was officially founded, so I flew up for a 48-hour Holy Ghost adventure and finished out the year of Jubilee in the same place where our nation began- Philadelphia.
Here’s me outside of Independence Hall, where the Declaration was made.
The first stop on my trip was to a place called Washington’s Crossing. That was where George Washington crossed the icy Delaware River on Christmas Night 1776 and led his troops on a daring mission to overtake the Hessian Mercenaries who were working for the British.
I then drove across the bridge and traveled the entire route that Washington took his men on to get to Trenton, where he fought the Hessians. Below is the Trenton Battle Monument, commemorating the incredible victory.
You may have heard of this battle because it is one of the most famous of the entire war. And undoubtedly, you’ve likely seen the famous painting depicting this crossing, which hangs in the US Capital:
The reason why it has become so famous is because this victory turned the tide of the war. It happened 5 months after the Declaration, and over those months, our army was losing pretty bad. At that point, most of our soldiers only had one more week of enlistment, and very few of them had enough hope in the war effort to re-enlist. Washington knew that if he didn’t get a big win at Trenton, the war effort was over. This is why the password of the mission was “victory or death.”
Here is a POWERFUL 4-minute AI re-enactment of the crossing and the battle. It really paints the picture:
The next day, I spent most of the day near Independence Mall watching the various festivities, like this:
While also visiting some important landmarks, like the Founders old Church- Christ Church. Sadly, it has been overtaken by woke demons, so I spent some time inside there praying, worshipping and decreeing.
I also saw the FOX Sports World Cup coverage that was happening on Independence Mall. Twice while they were filming live, I stood in front of the camera and showed my Jesus shirt. LOL.
That day, Sean Feucht had a worship event on Independence Mall, but due to the 102-degree weather, and a last-minute time change, only about a few hundred people came. It was still powerful though.
Here’s a clip of the event:
At the event, I even got to meet Joshua Enck, the Founder and President of Sight and Sound studios, who Directed and Produced the movie “A Great Awakening”. He even showed me the actual movie script, pictured below.
After this, I went to The Museum of the American Revolution and saw tons of artifacts from the war including George Washingtons actual battle tent (which you couldn’t photograph). While there, I saw this display too, which was pretty cool:
That night, I went to Valley Forge, where George Washington and his men spent the brutal winter of 1777. It is an absolutely beautiful place (in the summer) and it is on about 3000 acres. This is an arch that was constructed as a monument:
This is near where Washingtons Headquarters would have been:
This was another major turning point in the war. Men were dying, others were leaving, and others were conspiring to replace Washington. But, by God’s grace, our men came out stronger and Washington remained in command.
It’s another epic story that displays our (especially Washingtons) resolve, courage and faith. Here’s a great 6-minute video depicting what happened:
The major thing the Lord was depositing in me through seeing all this was a greater revelation of why we must persevere through hardships. Given all that our family has been through over the last few months, that was a very timely and beautiful deposit.
After one last quick trip to Independence Mall on July 4th, I flew back to the 941 and made it to Riverwalk for my favorite local outreach of the year. Funny enough, I actually passed a car on the way there that had USA on their (non-vanity) license plate. What are the chances??
Then, once I got to Riverwalk, the parking lot was totally full, so I had to double park as close as I could to the Amphitheater so I could unload the stuff. While I was unloading, the car parked in the second closest space left, and I was able to nab their spot! Here’s Ken and I celebrating that:
Here’s some clips from the rest of the night. It was such a fun and fruitful night, and we got to plant seeds in thousands of people.
This outreach is very special for us too, because it was at the 4th of July outreach at Riverwalk where Sofiya and I met each other back in 2021. So cool that now we get to go back with Natalie.
The previous Saturday was St Pete Pride, so I left the team in charge at Riverwalk and they linked up with Isaac and the Ekballo team who was helping out with the Glory Encounter event happening at the Amphitheater.
St Pete Pride was quite an adventure too. Literally as soon as we arrived, a man came up to us and began hugging the cross and repenting.
He later threw down his syringe, took off his dress and bowed down in worship. Then he helped us pass out waters. It was wild!
Here’s a powerful video of the interaction:
After this, we got swarmed by a group of gay men that I soon realized was a sect of “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” The SPI are some of the most ant-Christ protestors out there. About 10 of them surrounded us for over 3 hours, blowing whistles and kazoos and trying to keep people from hearing or seeing us.
Here’s a video of them. I came to find out that the ones with face paint are the official ones and the ones without are the ones in training.
Here’s a video of some of their more outrageous acts:
Despite all this, we still were able to reach many people with the Gospel and we got to pray for some people too. It was a really good night.
We also met this brother who was delivered out of 24 years of homosexuality, who came from Port St Lucie to share the Gospel with people.
The best testimony of the event though is that St Pete Pride is now on life support. The organizers announced afterwards that they fell way short of their fundraising goal and that the event may not even happen next year.
Here’s a news story on this failure:
Praise God we live in a day when we are seeing this demonic movement crumble before our eyes!! Let’s keep our foot on the gas!
Bayfront Park has been good these past weeks also. A pretty powerful testimony just came in from it the other day too.
I also heard a powerful Siesta Beach testimony recently from a man name Jason. Jason said that 3 years ago he came to Siesta to commit suicide, but he saw us and God spared him from it. He later got radically born again and has now been walking with the Lord and serving in his church. I ran into him at Ekballo.
So amazing!
I’m excited to get back out there this weekend! Hope to see you on the front lines!
C, S, N & AY
P.S.- The Joy Project mission is going well too. We’ve gotten 25 new users in the last 10 days or so since we started our user recruitment campaign and aim to be around 100 within a few weeks. It’s exciting to know that more people are getting activated in the Great Commission. To God be the Glory!
Check out this article called What is The Joy Project, for more info- What Is The Joy Project? – Awaken Florida