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Experience the life-changing messages from the Church of God’s annual Winterfest youth gathering. These are the sermons, moments, and voices that have shaped generations of young believers — now available anytime, anywhere.
>> I know you started worship
If God did anything for you last night, would you just thank him?
Come on, if he's already moving in your heart this morning, would you thank him?
The Bible says enter into his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.
So can we make this atmosphere conducive for miracles, signs, and wonders?
Come on, would you open up your mouth for a few more seconds?
Would you push in his presence?
Come on.
All over this room, just believe that God is getting ready
to speak to you, you to drive all the way to Buffalo,
New York, not to get a word from the Lord.
And so would you just pull on Him and say, God speak.
I don't wanna leave here the same way that I came.
I came in here broken and I expect to leave restored.
I came in here sick and I expect to leave healed.
Come on, anybody got an expectation in the room?
Come on, raise up your expectation.
Raise up your expectation.
Raise up your expectation.
Come on, stir up the atmosphere.
I believe that we have a generation
that could stir up an atmosphere of faith.
Do you know that your praise is power?
that when you open up your mouth it is not just emotionalism, it's not just words that
don't mean anything but the very sound of your voice shakes heaven and earth.
I was in worship last night and think Jonathan led us so beautifully in a time of worship
and this worship this morning was so beautiful but I could feel the room shaking.
I can feel the room shaking as you worship.
I can feel it physically, but something tells me
that it was also happening spiritually,
that God is shaking up something in you,
that he's shaking something in you.
He's shaking something in your city.
He's getting ready to shake up something in your school.
And do you know that it starts with you?
It starts with you.
Turn to your neighbor and say, "It starts with you.
It starts with you. It starts with you."
that depending on how you praise today,
depending on how you respond today matters.
It matters so greatly.
I believe the presence of the Lord is in this room.
He's in this space.
And I want us to be aware of it.
I want us to be aware of it.
I want us to be conscious of it.
The one we get to be a part of is great.
So thankful for the incredible leaders that put this on.
Aren't you thankful for the pastors and the leaders?
Bishop Brian, Pastor Joel, Bishop Maxx,
all the people who put this on together.
Are you thankful for your youth leaders?
Could you make some noise for them?
(audience cheering)
Could you for like 10 seconds make it uncomfortably loud
to tell your youth leaders how much you love them?
If you're around them, shake them, give them a hug.
Some of them took off work to be here.
I am a product of youth ministry.
I'm a product of what God has done even in this space.
And so I know how much this matters.
It matters greatly that you're here.
It matters greatly that you are in this space.
Today feels a little bit like a time machine for me.
And oftentimes we ask ourselves,
What would I say to my 15-year-old self?
That's what people do when they get older, right?
And today I feel like I have the opportunity
to speak to my 15, 16, 17, 18-year-old self.
Because about 20 or 21 years ago, I'm about to date myself,
I walked into my first Northeast Winterfest.
I was so excited.
I was selling chocolates in my high school
to make money to get here.
And I had heard about all the incredible things
that God was doing at Winterfest
and I could not wait to finally get in the room.
And now 20 years later,
I know that what God did in this room
kept me, what God did in this room, shaped me.
And so I know the same for you today.
So wherever you are in the room, I want to let you know that today matters.
This weekend matters.
How you lean in matters.
Like I remember preparing for Winterfest, I had to have the flyest fit.
all my mind I was like I gotta get the right outfit I gotta do all the things
and I was so concerned about all the external things I was like I can't wait
to be away from my parents for a weekend. My mom's here she's like what?
And there was all these external reasons why I was excited to be in the room but
God met me in a way that it didn't matter what I was wearing it didn't
who was next to me. None of that mattered and so I want to make sure that we throw
off every bit of distraction whatever it is that we thought this was gonna be if
we came in here because somebody dragged us here we came in here just so we can
see our friends or or have a good time I want to let you know that it's more than
that. It's more than having a good time it's more than having fun you get to do
all of that what I love about God is you can have fun in church. Church should not
be boring. And so I believe we're gonna hear from God and we're gonna encounter
him in a special way but the moments in this room are going to matter. And so I
think the hardest thing in these times is like trying to get y'all to transition
back to your seats. But honestly you could sit here if you want, you could
find your seat, whatever you want to do but I'm gonna have you figure out what
you want to do but you can hang here, you could go back to your seats. But we're
We're gonna open up God's word.
I bring you greetings from Miami, Florida.
I am born and raised,
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York,
but I live in Miami now,
and so if you ever get tired of the Northeast in the winter,
you could just come on down to Miami.
It is much warmer there, but God's doing amazing things.
I've been a part of a church called VU
for the past 10, 11 years,
and I have just watched how God has moved greatly
in the time that I have been in Miami.
And it is truly an honor to be here
and an honor to bring God's word.
what I have realized about moments like this and spaces like this is that you really don't age out.
I know there's a time where it's just like, am I too old to go to Winterfest or should I be in the room?
We don't age out of the presence of God.
And I think it's important for you to understand that here and now because I think as young people
It's really exciting to come up to the altars and to be at the mosh pit and to be in the front and to worship.
But then somewhere along the line in our adulthood, we start to mature a little bit.
That we start to age out of the level of desperation that we once had in the presence of God.
And so I want to encourage you, don't age out of this thing.
You're not too cool to need Jesus. You're not too grown for his presence.
So I want to let you know that it is important for you to keep your childlike faith and your childlike wonder.
Matthew 18 and 3 tells us, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of God." So I want to let you know that you are in the best position,
in the best place, because there is still this childlike wonder about you that everything that
that God does is big and every moment is magnificent.
And I wanna let you know to hold on to that.
But I also wanna speak to the leaders
and the pastors in the room.
Don't let go of your childlike wonder.
Don't come in a place like this
and sit in the back and be like, yo, that's for them.
It's not for me, this is for them.
No, no, this is for you too.
You don't age out of this either.
I believe it's important for us to even be an example
of a generation of how to be radical in worship.
I wanna out worship my youth leaders.
I wanna out worship my youth.
I wanna make sure that I am being the example of worship.
And so in this place, don't just spectate, participate.
Do not just spectate this moment,
participate in this moment.
decide I'm going to be leaned into every message.
There is no message preached just for the teenager
or no message preached that's just for the child.
I wanna speak to every single person in this room.
You're not aging out.
Hold on to your first love.
Hold on to what you first found
when you first came to the altar,
when you first had that level of desperation
You did not want to leave his presence. Could you tap back into the wonder?
Could you tap back into the wonder of God?
That I want to come before the Lord like a child
I love it humble. God, I just want to sit at your feet
That God if I could just sit at your feet that I'm not too busy
I'm not too preoccupied
God, I just want to sit at your feet.
I believe that God is raising up a generation that would be unashamed, that I'm not worried
about what people have to say about me.
I'm actually not worried about what the crowd is saying about me, that I've come to hear
from one.
Come on, God's going to bless you.
He's going to use you greatly.
And so this morning, if we could just fix our focus on Him, this is not the time to
be scrolling.
This is not the time for TikTok or Instagram.
This is a time for us to lean into the presence of God.
So I want to challenge you this morning to put away the distraction.
Some of y'all might be a little tired.
Who didn't get much sleep last night?
Who stayed up all night?
There it is.
I know how it goes.
And I know y'all weren't staying up last night praying either.
That's the thing.
It's not a watch night service.
But these moments are special.
I think it matters that you stay up all night
at youth conferences and spend time with your friends.
All of it matters.
These are memories that you are never going to forget.
But here you might be a little tired,
shake it off,
and lean into what God wants to do.
I was 15 years old when I went to my first Winter Fest
and my youth group was always late.
And so we always sat in the very back.
But I remember sitting in the back
and encountering the presence of God
because distance has no barrier.
That his presence, there is no barrier.
The distance is not going to take you away
from what God wants to do.
But I remember that first night of Winterfest,
the songs that they sang,
They did this skit called the Life House skit.
And even in moments of dramatization and videos
and dancing, God's presence was in all of it.
Remember the altar call?
Walking from way in the back to all the way in the front.
Before I even got to the front,
Somebody stopped me and said, "God's got a call on your life."
Didn't know what she was talking about,
but I made my way to the front.
And I experienced the Holy Spirit goosebumps.
Y'all know what that is?
That feeling,
the fire of God,
received the gift of tongues right here at a winter fest.
And it marked my life forever.
encounter moments matter.
But when you get back on the bus,
when you get back to school,
you have to decide, am I going to live this thing out
for real or am I gonna go back to the same cycles?
And so this is what I wanna talk to you about today.
What do you do next?
What do you do after the encounter?
What do you do after the moments at the altar?
How can I take these incredible moments
in the presence of God and bring it to my everyday life?
And to explore this, I want to look at Acts 9,
verses one to six.
This is the story of Saul's conversion.
It says, meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out
murderous threats against the Lord's disciples.
He went to the high priest and he asked him
for letters to the synagogue in Damascus
so that if he found any there who belonged to the way,
whether men or women,
that he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
As he neared Damascus on his journey suddenly,
somebody say suddenly,
you can say it a little louder than that, say suddenly.
- Suddenly.
- A light from heaven flashed around him.
He fell to the ground and he heard a voice say to him,
Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
Who are you Lord?
Saul asked.
I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
He replied.
Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.
A little spoiler alert for Saul.
He has this encounter and it changes him forever.
He's later known in the text as Paul,
and we see throughout the scriptures,
Paul becomes one of the most prolific voices
in the New Testament.
He wrote 13 out of the 27 books in the New Testament.
It is through Paul that we learn about grace.
It is through Paul that we learn about sanctification,
identity, spiritual gifts.
He is teaching the body of Christ doctrine.
Through his one encounter with Jesus,
it completely changes and transforms
what we know about the gospel.
And so today I want to preach to you from this title,
the evidence of an encounter,
the evidence of an encounter.
I grew up in church and so I've had
a lot of encounter moments.
I was the kind of person that got saved every weekend
because I didn't know if it stuck.
So I was like, let me just raise my hand just in case.
I had a friend of mine tell me that he kind of had
the same experience that he would always get down
to the altar and he would always go for prayer for salvation.
And one day his pastor was like,
you could no longer come down here for salvation.
You can come down for healing.
You can come for a breakthrough,
but you are no longer allowed to come down
for a salvation prayer.
And we can maybe relate to it because there's oftentimes
where we think that we need to raise our hand again
for salvation.
But what I had to learn is that I did not need salvation,
I actually needed sanctification.
Every time I messed up, every time I made a mistake,
I thought I needed to get saved again,
but it was not what I needed, I needed to get sanctified.
I needed repentance.
But repentance requires you to actually change
something about you.
And so I encountered the presence of God.
I had these incredible moments in the presence of God, but then I would go back to school.
I would go back to my day-to-day life and it would be as if I spent no time with God
at all.
And that did not negate my salvation.
So a lot of you in this room, maybe you have made a decision to follow Jesus and if you
have, you are saved, you have received salvation, but I wonder if you have been transformed.
Because salvation happens in a moment, but transformation happens over time.
See momentary encounters must be sustained by voluntary commitment.
What will I commit to after the encounter?
What am I going to commit to do after Winterfest is over?
What am I going to experience when this is all said and done?
I loved the youth conferences.
I loved the worship nights.
I loved all of it, but I would have those moments and somehow still go back to being
the same person that I was.
And what I've realized is that we could be around good church.
I grew up in a great church.
My church, they're in the room, Rempson Avenue Church of God.
Come on, make some noise.
They're not, oh, y'all not in the back no more.
Y'all in the middle.
You want the generation to get better, thank God.
But we had great worship.
And we would hear great songs and we would have these great moments, but you could be
in the room.
You could hear all the sermons and still leave the same.
And so I believe that my assignment is to move us past encounters and move us past just
moments and take us to a place where we make a decision to be committed.
matter. The altar matters. I'm not negating any of that, but what will you do when all
of this is said and done? I don't just want the encounter, I want evidence. Because without
transformation your salvation is like going to the gym but not working out. It's like
going to Disney World but not going on any of the rides. Having a Bible but never opening
it up, that you can have access to transformation but not actually be transformed.
See, salvation is the act of God partnering with us, giving us salvation, adopting us
into his family, declaring us righteous, and moving us from death to life.
transformation is an ongoing work of the Holy Spirit.
See, when you were transformed, your mind is renewed.
You're being shaped into being like Christ.
You are growing in holiness. You are changing in character.
You are developing new habits. If we're not careful,
we will take our old habits into new seasons.
I'm a creature of habit and I like to do a lot of the same things.
And if I like a shoe, I'll probably buy it twice.
This weekend I've only eaten at one restaurant.
I kind of do a lot of the same things.
I like the same things.
And that works in some parts of my life, but oftentimes we can get stuck in a pattern and
we can get stuck in a way and God tries to move us into something different, but we try
to drag the old thing in a new season.
Had this experience where I was talking to a friend.
We were at Chipotle together and I feel like the older I get, I turn into like a historian.
I always want to tell people where things started.
Like I got to Buffalo and I was telling my friend, I was like,
"Do you know that the first Buffalo wing started in Buffalo, New York?"
They have all these random facts, right?
And so I was talking to my friend about Chipotle and when Chipotle first opened up,
I was like, "Back in my day, there was one Chipotle."
And it was the best thing ever.
When Chipotle first opened up, I was a broke college kid in New York City.
In the first week of Chipotle opening, they gave us all food for free.
And it was a trick because they was getting us addicted to Chipotle.
And then a week later, they put up the prices.
I would walk into Chipotle and Chipotle would be like, "You don't got Chipotle money.
You got to get out of here."
But I developed a hack because I couldn't really afford Chipotle, so I developed a hack of
how to order Chipotle.
So I'd go into Chipotle, I'd order two tacos, I'd tell them to fill it up with rice, I'd
I told him to fill it up with chicken.
I put all the fixings in it.
I was like sour cream, corn cheese, all the things.
Give me a tortilla on the side and a vinaigrette.
And I would take the two tortillas
and I would dump them out
and I would have a bowl for less than it would cost.
So I was telling my friend this and we're at Chipotle
and he's like, "Manishka, are you still living
in New York City?"
I was like, "No."
He's like, "Are you still a broke college kid?"
I was like, "Thank God I'm not."
He's like, "So why do you still order Chipotle
"the way that you used to 10 years ago?"
And I know he wasn't talking about my life,
but something clicked.
Because there's certain things that we do in life
that we do because we're so used to doing it.
We're so used to doing it.
The things that you used to do,
you used to do it out of necessity,
you used to do it out of desperation.
And what we'll often do is we'll take the thing
that we used to do out of desperation
and bring it into a new season.
But I come to tell somebody you're not in that season anymore,
that you do not have to live
with that same level of desperation,
that you could actually live new
because God says that if you are in Christ,
you are a new creation,
that all things are passed away.
Behold, I have come and made you new.
And so we have to actually live in the new.
So what old habits are you taking into a new season?
Oh yeah, I used to smoke that because that was the only way that I could calm down.
But you know Jesus now, so you don't need it.
I wish I was talking to somebody.
I thought I was at Winterfest 2026, but if we're going to be in here and pretend like
we've never done anything and we've never been through anything, I think we would be
lying to ourselves.
What in your life have you been doing that God has rescued you from?
That if God has changed you and transformed you, why are you doing the same things?
Why are you watching the things that you used to watch before you were saved?
Why are you speaking the way that you used to speak before you met Jesus?
Has anything changed about you since you have met Christ?
And so you have to actually analyze your life.
Am I living in a new season with old habits?
Am I living in a new season with old habits?
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of going cycle after cycle,
pattern after pattern, unhealthy thinking after unhealthy thinking.
I actually want evidence.
I want evidence in my speech.
I want to see evidence in my relationship and evidence in my decisions.
Anybody looking for evidence for their encounter.
Anybody actually want to leave change out of winter,
that's 2026. I don't need everybody. I just need somebody.
just got y'all up here that will say that I actually want to leave changed.
Do you want to continue being the same person or do you want to be the best
version of you? Do you know that God sees the version of you that's healed and God
sees the version of you that's preaching the gospel? God sees the version of you
that is making money that will invest in the kingdom? God sees the version of you
that your mind is whole. God sees a version of you that you have not even met yet, but you have got to want to see that version of you.
You have got to desire to see a better version of yourself.
And so I don't want to just settle for an encounter this weekend.
I don't want to just settle for just small moments and small doses in the presence of God.
I don't want to just settle for small hits that get me high for a little bit, and then I go back to being the same.
I actually want to encounter the presence of God. I want to walk through my schools and people know that something's different about me
I want to step it back into school on Tuesday and people like what changed about you. What is different about you?
There's something on you and you can let them know that I've encountered the presence of God
Anybody in the room when a leaf different anybody in the room when a leaf change
Is there anybody in the room tired of being complacent?
Is there anybody in the room that will say,
"God, if you can use anything, you can use me.
You can use me for my generation.
You can use me for my family.
You can use me in my friends.
God, I'll do whatever it takes to be different,
but I've got to be what you've called me to be."
I want evidence.
Imagine if people could see something different about you.
Do you want evidence?
Do you want fruit?
If you want fruit, you've got to be willing to show seeds.
All of us want fruit.
All of us want to be fruitful.
But do you know what it takes to get fruit?
You have to plant a seed.
that I've got to plant seeds of worship.
I've got to plant seeds of gratitude.
I've got to plant seeds of prayer.
I have to plant seeds.
I believe that Winterfest 2026 is a moment
where you can plant a seed.
Are you gonna plant anything?
I want evidence.
Acts four and 13 says when they saw the courage
of Peter and John, they had realized that they were
unschooled and ordinary men.
And they were astonished and they took note
that these men had been with Jesus.
May this be said about you and I.
They may not be impressive,
not trying to be the best preacher.
I'm not trying to have the best songs.
I just want people to recognize that I've been with Jesus.
I might not come from the best family.
I might not come from the best neighborhood.
I might not have a whole lot of money in my pocket.
I might not have popularity.
But if somebody can look at me and say,
I know that they've been with Jesus,
it looks like they've spent some time with God
in Buffalo, New York.
It looks like they've poured it out all on the altar.
It looks like they got unashamed for the gospel.
anybody in the room unashamed,
saved for Christ I live and for Christ I die.
I'm not doing this for my neighbor
but I want people to know that I've been with Jesus.
I want people to know that I've been in his presence.
I want people to experience him when I get around.
People got healed by Paul's shadow.
When people are getting healed by you,
I wanna walk into room and sip this break off.
I want to send me to places and addictions break off.
I want to go to my school and all of a sudden the kids who are dealing with suicide are
getting saved and transformed.
I believe there's a generation in this room that will rise up and say I'm going to be
like Jesus.
I want to be like the next influencer.
I'm not trying to be like my friends.
I'm trying to be like Jesus.
Anybody wanna be like Jesus in the room?
I wanna be like him.
I wanna walk like him.
I wanna talk like him.
I wanna smell like him.
I'm gonna be like Jesus.
There's a generation that needs to know him
and they're gonna know him through me.
I take up my mandate.
I take up my call.
I pick up the mentor.
I'm next.
I'm next.
God's gonna do it through me.
I'm not waiting till I get older to preach the gospel.
I'll do it up and down my hallways.
I'll do it on my Instagram.
I'll do it on my TikTok.
God, just give me a few people and I'll tell them about you.
I just need somebody for the next 10 seconds
to give God a praise for what he's getting ready
to do through you.
God's doing something and he's gonna do it through you.
He's gonna do it through you.
You gotta make a decision.
God, I'm not leaving him the same way I came up.
I'm walking out with evidence.
I am the evidence.
Oh, tap your neighbor and tell them I'm the evidence.
I'm the evidence.
I am the evidence.
I am the evidence.
If you're looking for evidence, it's me.
If you're looking for evidence for God's goodness,
just take a good look at me.
I am the evidence.
I am the evidence.
I am the evidence.
You wanna know what a healing looks like?
You can look at me.
If you're looking for breakthrough,
you can look at me 'cause I am the evidence.
I am the evidence.
Oh, I feel like there's some people.
You are gonna be the evidence in your family.
I know your mother's not saved,
but you're getting ready to come home
and tell my mom, I am the evidence
of the goodness of God.
I am the evidence of the favor of God.
I am the evidence.
Oh, just look at me.
you're
some miracles in the road! Oh you're a miracle, you're a miracle you're a miracle, you're a miracle you're a miracle, you're a miracle.
You're the evidence that God is still good, you're the evidence that God is still faithful, you're the
rise up in this room. I need an army of the young people. I need an army to say I'm saying
it and I will be the evidence for my generation. Where's my army? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where's my army? Oh, God is enlisting the army for the next generation.
As you make your way up, you're saying, "It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me."
I'm the evidence of God's goodness. I've been listening in his army. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, God's shaking something in this room. God's shaking something in this room.
He said, "I'm getting ready to disrupt what you thought was
because I need the world to see you. The world needs you. The world needs you.
The world needs you. This generation needs you, man of God.
Oh, it needs you. It needs you. It needs you.
Needs you. Needs
the glory that rests upon you.
And God's getting ready to impart something
on this generation that eyes have not seen
and ears have not heard.
God is getting ready to open up your mouth.
You are speaking tongues for the very first time.
He's gonna open up your mind and give you dreams
and vision, oh I sent it right now.
Oh, satan the alama, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
♪ For our
Oi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi.
Come on, lift up your hands and receive.
God is releasing mantles all over this room.
God is releasing His favor all over this room.
God is releasing fresh oil.
He is releasing it, come on, receive it now.
Receive it now, receive it now.
Receive it now, receive it now.
Window gone blue, window gone blue,
window gone blue, window gone blue.
All fresh wind is floating in this room.
All fresh fire, fresh fire is falling in this room.
Come on, receive it from the front to the back.
Begin to receive it right now.
All receive the window cup.
♪♪
Fall af
Say, 'Fall
Receive it now, oh receive it now.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's raising a prophet and preachers and evangelists
and teachers and apostles to equip the body of Christ
for the work of the Lord.
He's raising pastors and preachers and evangelists
and apostles and prophets for the work of the Lord.
come on receive you are shining in the spirit
prophets rise up, preachers rise up,
pastors rise up,
evangelists rise up,
rise up, rise up,
rise up, rise up,
Oh rise up, rise up,
rise up
rise up the way you used to be God's taking you higher
come on rise up He's taking you higher
He's taking you higher
Come on pray.
Come on begin to open up your mouth and pray.
Ask God to use you.
Ask God to make you evident.
You might not have all the words.
You don;t need a theology degree to preach.
You don't need it to pray.
God's gonna equip you.
So come on open up your mouth.
And say God if you can use anything.
You can use me.
You can use me.
You can use me.
You can use me.
You can use me.
Come on just be good to ask Him.
God would you give me His taking you higher.
Come on ask Him, ask Him, ask Him.
He's giving you freely.
He's giving you the room.
He's taking you higher.
Don't just be a spectator in this moment.
He's taking you higher.
Just as us praying.
Oh yeah, tah, tah, tah, tah, tah.
See our time.
Oh, come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on, there's no spectators in this room.
From the front to the back.
If you don't need it, I need you praying.
I need you interceding for the move of God.
Don't just sit down and watch God move.
God wants to do it through you too.
Wherever you are, come on, come on, come on.
Don't be a spectator.
I don't need spectators in this room.
Somebody open up your mouth.
One encounter with God can accelerate your life.
One encounter with God can bring you from the back to the front.
One encounter with God could put you at the top of your class.
One encounter with God can move you from where you used to be to where God wants to bring
you.
one encounter just one encounter just one touch just one touch just one touch
oh come on somebody say God I need a touch I'm not leaving here without a
touch from you I'm not leaving Buffalo New York hi yada
basi a ta ya without a touch from you I'm not leaving out of this room without
a touch from you God will wait on you will wait on you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on.
I just need a few people who are desperate in the room to stir up this atmosphere right now and say, "God, would you...
would you touch every area of my life here, Katana da Masiya?"
The areas that I've hidden, the areas that have been messed up, the areas that are broken, God, would you touch it now?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you're sick in your body, you can ask it to touch.
Yeah, all y'all.
God, I've been sick two more.
Oh, I command diabetes to go.
You're too early for disease.
Uh-uh, it's coming out of here tonight.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Every sickness, every disease, every demon,
every wicked spirit, it's got to go.
♪ It came in one way ♪
♪ It's fleeing in seven ♪
♪ In the name of Jesus ♪
♪ Oh, you're getting your mind back ♪
♪ Anxiety won't get you anymore ♪
♪ Oh yeah, your panic attacks are over ♪
♪ In the name of Jesus ♪
♪ Oh, I call on every spirit of suicide to go right now ♪
the name of Jesus.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Some of you just need to let yourself go.
You're too afraid to let you go.
But Paul says, "I die daily."
And some of you just need to kill your flesh because your flesh is too loud.
Your pride is too loud.
Your mind is too loud.
And it won't allow the presence of God to move.
But just welcome Him in.
Come on, come on, come on.
He comes into where he's welcome.
He's not gonna force himself on you.
But if you wanna encounter him, oh ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya.
Yes, Lord.
Ooh.
Oh, hallelujah.
Oh, you've got the victory this morning.
I feel victory.
You can't lose.
God said that every battle that faced you, every battle that's been sitting in your way,
that you know after today that you've got a side sealed and delivered victory.
God said surely you will overtake them and surely you will win.
Oh you're gonna be victorious.
You can't lose.
Said, "I can't lose! I can't lose! I can't lose! I've got the victory! I can't lose!
I can't lose!" You walk with a different confidence when you go. "I can't lose!"
Oh you step into school different when you're down. "I can't lose!"
Everything about me is scary. You're not waiting to win.
I can't lose! I can't lose!
I can't lose! I can't lose!
Where my winners at?! Come on!
I can't lose!
You could tell the devil!
I can't lose!
Look at depression and it's fighting too!
I can't lose!
I can't lose!
I can't lose!
Clap clap clap clap!
♪♪
Come on, you clap when you got victory.
This is what this is.
He trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.
Come on, come on, come on.
♪♪
There it is, there it is, there it is.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
This is a victorious army.
Every battle that stands in your way just know you've got the victory!
David danced before the Lord
'cause he knew he had the victory.
♪♪
♪♪
You might not know it even as you clap and even as you dance.
God's sorting things out for you.
You're like this seems silly.
I don't know why I'm doing it, but something tells me that you are telling heaven,
"I know where my victory comes from so I can dance even in the middle of the pedal.
I can dance even in the middle of the song.
♪ I can clap even when I don't see it yet ♪
♪ There's something happening ♪
♪ Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪
♪ Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪
♪ I need my dancers to move your feet ♪
♪ And keep going in undignified praise ♪
♪ We don't need words ♪
♪ You got a sound, and you got your feet ♪
♪ And you got your body, I command my body to praise the lord, I command my soul to praise him. ♪
♪ Everything within me will praise him, I will praise him with a shout and I'll praise him with a daze, ♪
♪ I'll praise him with a song, everything within me has got to give God praise. ♪
♪♪
Before we go, I want to just tell you three quick things of how you can solidify your encounter.
A few things happened after Paul had his encounter with Jesus.
The first thing he did was repent. Some of you got to do that last night at the altar,
but some of you God is calling to take a step further.
You listening, you hear me?
James says, confess your sins one to another
and you will find healing.
There's some of you that your repentance
is going to require confession to someone.
If there was something about you that nobody knows about,
That means that you have something to confess.
And so we're gonna break out of here.
I don't know what the rest of the schedule is,
but you got some time on your hands.
Find someone that you trust.
Say, "Ah, I've repented,
but there's another step to my repentance.
I need to walk in accountability
'cause if truly I'm going to be changed,
I've gotta tell somebody about it
because the enemy wants to use secrets
to try to hold you back.
But I believe that God's calling a generation
to have a secret place, not a secret life.
A lot of people fall out of church
'cause they had a secret life and not a secret place.
And so commit to having no secrets,
commit to having no secrets.
It's not gonna be easy, but today,
let this weekend be the day
that you put your youth leader to the side.
You put your youth president or your youth pastor to the side
and say, "I've got to tell you something."
So we repent, but we must also witness.
Paul at once started preaching.
He had this encounter with Jesus.
At once, he started preaching.
And so you have the opportunity that when you leave out of here to tell somebody about
what happened, tell your testimony.
Share your testimony.
Share the gospel.
This is the great commission.
How do you fulfill that?
You can start by sharing what God has done.
And there's ways they could put this on the screen.
Y'all could, I'm not gonna go through all of it,
but these are ways that you can share your story.
These are ways that you can fulfill the great commission.
You can tell your Jesus story.
You could use social media, invite people to church,
pray with people, show kindness through action,
share scripture and conversation,
pray for opportunities to share,
study and practice sharing.
Can't go into all of them in detail,
but ask the Holy Spirit to lead you as you witness,
this is what you're called to do, to witness.
Third thing.
Commit to growth.
Commit to growing in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
that how do I sustain and encounter?
How do I respond to light?
Commit to growth.
Committing to growth means sowing seeds.
Opening up God's word.
Having a time and a place for prayer.
Being committed to being on the journey
of following Jesus.
I like that discipline.
We need discipline more than ever.
See Paul, yes he goes and he preaches immediately, but he goes away for some time to study and
to learn.
So this is how we respond to what God wants to do in a generation.
This is how we respond to an encounter in his presence.
So don't just stop an encounter.
Let's move to evidence.
Fruit.
Ezekiel 47, 12 says that fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river.
Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail every month.
Somebody say every month.
They will bear fruit because the water from the sanctuary flows through them and their
fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.
And so when you commit yourself to growing,
the promise of God is that you shall produce fruit.
And you can produce fruit in any season, any condition,
any circumstance, and the fruit that you produce
will be food, there's a world that is hungry for truth.
So world hungry and desperate.
And so God is going to give you fruit to feed them
and their leaves for healing.
so you carry healing power in what you will produce.
I believe in you.
I believe so greatly in this generation.
I believe in what God wants to do in you.
But you have got to believe it for yourself.
Does anybody believe that they're called
to do something great in this generation?
I should see every hand up.
Anybody believe that they're called to do something great
in this generation?
Don't believe the lies of the enemy.
believe what God has spoken.
So I'm gonna pray for you
and speak a blessing and an impartation over your life
that God would seal what he has done today.
It's a new season.
That was one of the first songs
that they sang at Winterfest when I came in Israel Hole
and had just released an album.
He said, "It's a new season.
"It's a new day."
Y'all know that one?
♪ Fresh anointing ♪
♪ Is flowing my way ♪
All right.
♪ It's a season of power ♪
Come on, do you believe it?
♪ And prosperity ♪
♪ It's a new season ♪
♪ Coming to me ♪
Can we declare that all over the room, say,
♪ It's a new season ♪
♪ And it's a new day ♪
Come on, how do you believe that you are seeing fresh
anointing?
♪ Fresh anointing ♪
♪ It's flowing my way ♪
♪ It's flowing my way ♪
♪ It's a season of power ♪
♪ It's a season of
It's coming to who? It's coming to you.
Come on one more time, let's raise it, say "It's a new season."
It's a new season.
It's a new day.
It's fresh anointing.
A fresh anointing.
It's flowing my way.
It's a season of power.
Prosthenarity.
♪ So I'll say it's a new season ♪
♪ It's a new season ♪
♪ Say it's a new season ♪
♪ It's a new season ♪
♪ It's a new season ♪
♪ It's a new season ♪
Come on, look at your name and say,
♪ It's a new season ♂ �
that you have brought us into our new day.
Father, we receive fresh anointing.
God, we receive a fresh touch.
What has happened in this room is not saying in this room,
it's going with me when I go to school,
it's going with me when I go home.
God, I'm different, I'm changed for good.
And God, I receive the mantle, I receive the anointing,
I receive the asylum over my life.
It is sealed. It is signed. It is sealed. It is delivered in Jesus' name. So I tell you Winter Fest
2026, welcome to your season of favor. Welcome to your season of breakthrough. Welcome to your season
of abundance. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear the dance in the room. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
Welcome, welcome to your new season.
Welcome to your new day.
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Oh, I'm going into my new season.
Come on somebody, could you thank God
for about 30 seconds if you know
you're stepping into your new.
Come on, it's my new season.
It's my new day.
♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪
♪ Put your hands on it ♪
♪ Come on somebody put your hands on it ♪
♪ It's my new season ♪
♪ Come on ♪
♪ Come on,
♪ I gotta let it out ♪
♪ I gotta praise ♪
♪ I gotta praise ♪
♪ I gotta praise ♪
♪ I gotta let it out ♪
♪ I gotta praise ♪
♪ Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Pop your hands and pray this ♪
♪ Pray this ♪
♪ Pray this ♪
♪ Come on somebody ♪
♪ Pray this ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
Come on, put your hands on it.
Come on, give God the best praise you've got
for 30 more seconds.
Come on, raise him a praise all over this room.
Come on, raise it if you're grateful, if you're thankful.
♪ Oh somebody shout out to God ♪
♪ With the voice of triumph ♪
♪ I've got the victory ♪
♪ And I can't lose ♪
Come on, somebody dance!
We gotta go, we gotta go to lunch, y'all.
Let's gotta get outta here.
Y'all crazy.
Fire fire fire
on the
fire fire fire
Fire for me
Fire, fire, fire, fire on me On the day I press you off, fire on me On the day I press you off, fire on me
It's raining all around me I can feel it, it's a latter day
until we are wet, until we are sore in the latter ring.
It's
We gotta go after this.
It's a lottery.
Ride our team.
Please send the rain.
You ready? You ready?
Until we are wet.
Until we are soaked.
Until we are wet.
Soaked.
Until we are wet.
Wet. Wet.
Soaked. Soaked.
♪♪
Come on.
(singing in foreign language)
What'd you say in praise?
♪ Lué lué ♪
Lué means praise.
(singing in foreign language)
♪ Glauge ♪
(sing
♪ To hold my head, to hold my head ♪
♪ To hold my head, to hold my head ♪
♪ To hold my, to hold my head ♪
♪ To hold my, to hold my head ♪
♪ You are a force
They are the works of men You are the most high God
There is no light All of the other gods
They are the works of men You are the most high God
There is no light You are the most high
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Come on, raise it to you are the most.
And come on, give your most high God, your most high praise.
Come on, raise it.