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Pastor Tony Suarez: You Are a Keeper of the Oil—The Revival Can’t Burn Without You | Ignite Kingdom Talk | S6E46
July 28, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
Pastor Tony Suarez delivers a prophetic charge to Christian business leaders: you are not just blessed—you’re appointed as a Keeper of the Oil.🔥 Fueling Revival Through Marketplace CallingRecorded live at IKC 2025, this powerful message reminds us that the fire of revival cannot burn without Kingdom financiers, stewards, and producers who carry both strategy and anointing.🚀 Prophetic Vision for a Spirit-Filled AirlinePastor Tony casts vision for a gospel airline, shares divine provision stories, and reveals the essential role of business leaders in global evangelism.🛡️ Guarding the OilGod is raising up guardians—people of integrity who will protect ministries from predatory partnerships and lead with wisdom.🔗 Join Ignite Partner Access:https://ignite-cb.com🔗 More about Tony Suarez:https://tonysuarez.com
Series Ignite Kingdom Talk: Formerly The Ignite-CB Podcast July 28, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min · Ignite Kingdom Talk: Formerly The Ignite-CB Podcast
Pastor Tony Suarez delivers a prophetic charge to Christian business leaders: you are not just blessed—you’re appointed as a Keeper of the Oil.🔥 Fueling Revival Through Marketplace CallingRecorded live at IKC 2025, this powerful message reminds us that the fire of revival cannot burn without Kingdom financiers, stewards, and producers who carry both strategy and anointing.🚀 Prophetic Vision for a Spirit-Filled AirlinePastor Tony casts vision for a gospel airline, shares divine provision stories, and reveals the essential role of business leaders in global evangelism.🛡️ Guarding the OilGod is raising up guardians—people of integrity who will protect ministries from predatory partnerships and lead with wisdom.🔗 Join Ignite Partner Access:https://ignite-cb.com🔗 More about Tony Suarez:https://tonysuarez.com ...more Show the full description Show less Pastor Tony Suarez delivers a prophetic charge to Christian business leaders: you are not just blessed—you’re appointed as a Keeper of the Oil.🔥 Fueling Revival Through Marketplace CallingRecorded live at IKC 2025, this powerful message reminds us that the fire of revival cannot burn without Kingdom financiers, stewards, and producers who carry both strategy and anointing.🚀 Prophetic Vision for a Spirit-Filled AirlinePastor Tony casts vision for a gospel airline, shares divine provision stories, and reveals the essential role of business leaders in global evangelism.🛡️ Guarding the OilGod is raising up guardians—people of integrity who will protect ministries from predatory partnerships and lead with wisdom.🔗 Join Ignite Partner Access:https://ignite-cb.com🔗 More about Tony Suarez:https://tonysuarez.com
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0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place. Welcome to Ignite Kingdom Talk, where faith filled business0:12 leaders come to grow, connect, and make the marketplace the miracle place. Recorded live at the 20 25 Ignite Kingdom Conference. This episode's guest is pastor Tony Suarez, revivalist,0:24 evangelist, and founder of RevivalMakers, empowering the church with a bold, spirit filled message for this generation. Learn more from pastor Tony at revival makers dot org. If this resonates with you, you're0:36 not alone. Ignite is a growing network of Christian business leaders walking together in faith, accountability, and kingdom impact. Learn more and take your next step at ignite cb dot0:47 com. Ignite Kingdom Talk is made possible through the generous of our Ignite Partner Access members, a subscription based community offering Christ centered accountability, encouragement, and growth through small groups.0:59 And now, in the name of Jesus, may your faith be ignited afresh and anew.1:06 Would you give God praise in this house today? Hallelujah to the lamb. Hallelujah to the lamb of God. Amen. Come on. Pretend you're Pentecostal.1:18 Give God praise tonight. Just pretend it's the last night at camp meeting and make some noise. Shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Hallelujah.1:30 Your praise might just bring a breakthrough to that business, to your fam. Hey. Hallelujah. I had to do too much to get here1:42 tonight to not give god the praise that he's worthy of. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. Blessed be the name of the lord.
1:54 Hallelujah. Whoo. Well, now I feel good. Got that little holy ghost shimmy about to hit me right now. Amen. Will
2:06 you praise god for sister Jasmine tonight that took us into the presence of god? And I, for the life of me, can't remember your name. Brother
2:18 Christopher, now I know what Catherine Kuhman felt like playing with Dino every night. Hallelujah. My god. Shoo. You get him on the on the keys and just anything is possible.
2:29 My god. Father, the anointing just hit the lights. This is Hey, no pun intended, this spotlight's on me. Amen. Alright. You could be seated in the presence of the Lord.
2:41 I really am thankful to be here tonight. Thankful for what God is doing. And sister Jasmine, I wanna sow this into your ministry, just to give you a free iPhone, amen. Glory to
2:53 God. Just, man, I'm so generous. I just felt, I don't know, I just felt like doing that, amen. I have done everything but take a boat to be here today.
3:04 There's something about this city. Every time I I can't just I can't just come. Like, I just can't, like, show up. Every time I
3:16 come, officer sergeant officer colonel John Jonathan over there, that poor man, 1 time he had to rescue me in Des Moines, Iowa. He picked me
3:28 up, corporal John Gordon over there. Oh, I forgot. Can't use his name. He's secret service. But he picked me up 1 time. My plane I was coming to preach. The Kunemans were on vacation, and I was
3:40 coming into the city, and they canceled all the planes, and we finally found 1 that would get me to Des Moines, and then that plane was delayed. The poor man picked me up at 1 in the morning, shows up in Des Moines, he's
3:51 got a pillow in the car. He's like, pastor, and now mind you, y'all like early church here. I I think back then they had service at like 8 AM. At least it felt like it. And so I gotta do 2 services, and he's
4:02 like, listen, pastor, you can rest and I'll drive. And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not I'm not a diva. I'm not bougie. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna stay awake. I I would feel
4:14 weird. 10 minutes later. How do I know? They took a video and put it on the end. I'm just kidding. They didn't do that. All I know is about
4:26 an hour later, woke up and we were at Arby's. Amen. My God. There's nothing like a roast beef at 2 0 5 in the morning. Whew. That's revival right there. And then, I I
4:38 was preaching last night in Charlottesville, Virginia. Well, Stanley, Virginia, and they called me and they said, listen, we've had rain, rain, rain, and it won't stop raining, and there's trees down, and they canceled
4:49 school, but we're gonna have revival. I'm like, praise the Lord. Well, not to sound like Gilligan, but it's supposed to be like a 3 hour drive. It took 7 hours to drive, and I had someone driving with me
5:01 last night, got to the service, got there right in time, had to change our clothes in the Sunday school room, run upstairs, have church, then go to our hotel, which was an hour and a half away, to get there at 4 AM
5:13 because I was gonna, you know, fly here. And so I went to bed like you really wanted my life story, I'm gonna give it to you anyways. So I went to bed at about 11 ish because I knew I needed to be up at 4,
5:25 and I randomly wake up at 12 30, and there's an alert on my phone from Delta. Sorry. The planes haven't landed in Charlottesville. Your flight is delayed 6 hours. Well, there's no more connections to Omaha.
5:36 Apparently, everybody's coming to Omaha today. There's a basketball tournament, there's a Ignite conference, I mean, pray dot com is here, and Michael q Pink, and Jimmy the
5:48 brave, and encouraging mo it's just coming to me, words of wisdom. Prosperity 1 0 1, some oil for your feet. I mean, there's this everybody's Patriot Mobile, come on.
6:00 Everybody it's like there's no planes. I check Delta, American, United. I check everything. So I finally have to wake up poor brother Craig, 12 30 in the morning. And I said, I I'm not I I don't know what to do. I
6:12 I don't think I can come. There's no planes. My wife's on a road trip, and so I call her, and I said, Gina, I don't know what to do. And she's like, well, it's not like you to give up. I'm like,
6:24 excuse me. I didn't cancel the planes. She's like, well, have Elliot. That's my assistant. She said, well, have Elliot drive you somewhere. I
6:36 said, where? Atlanta doesn't have planes. Charlotte doesn't have planes. She said, what about Washington DC? I said, that's 3 hours away. She said, well? You said you're gonna go preach there. I'm
6:48 like, woman, I never would say that. You see the scar? This is the last time I said woman. If I would've it would've been 3 hours the
7:00 other way. Poor Elliot would've had to drive like 10 hours alone home in the rental, and I just and I just, I don't know, I hung up with her. I said, well, I think I'm just coming home tomorrow and I felt bad, but there
7:10 was just nothing else to do. And then 1 seat opened up on Southwest Airlines out of Washington DC, and I still didn't know how I'm gonna get to Washington DC. And then I remember that on the East Coast, they still have
7:21 trains. So I got Greyhound to get me to Amtrak, and Amtrak got me from Charlottesville. I got on a train at 7 45 in the morning, took a train from Charlottesville all the way to Washington
7:33 DC, hung out for 5 hours ish. I ate pizza. I wasn't suffering. I mean, I'm still gonna have a good time to finally get on a plane to get here about 45 minutes ago. The only thing
7:44 I haven't used is a boat. That's the only thing that's left. And 1 of you, rather than like just be like, oh, that's cute. 1 of you said, well, there's still tomorrow.
7:56 No. I just want a just want a pleasant flight home. Amen. Anyhow, after all of that to get here
8:08 tonight, I'm a preach 2 sermons. Alright? I got I got some stuff to say to this crowd. By the way, my favorite guitarist in all
8:19 of the world is sitting over there just chilling. No guitar. I've never seen him just chilling. He's usually up here taking some kind of Michael Jackson song and sanctifying
8:31 it, and what was that song last year? Smoke on the water. They came in and they said, oh, we just did smoke on the water. I'm like, I was raised in holiness. I don't know what smoke on the water is.
8:44 Amen. Then there's brother Gordon, and then I saw brother Dennis's and Stephanie Fodorick here. They're great friends and just great people of God. And then my and forgive me for forgetting the name, but
8:56 my friends from Colorado are here as well, from pastor Bagwell's church. And then so many of you. Thank you for being here tonight. But this isn't what I'm gonna preach, but it's what I preached last night, and still on
9:06 my heart. And when Jasmine was singing, I just kinda felt like someone here, because in the room there are some extremely successful people. And then there's some people that aren't
9:18 successful yet. Okay, I said yet, but you're working towards it. And then there's some people that you just showed up and you're just here. And the enemy is
9:30 toying with your mind, and telling you you're not good enough, you're not qualified, it's never gonna happen to you. It'll happen for everyone else, but you're an impostor. You shouldn't be here. Sister
9:41 Jasmine, your grandfather wrote a song many years ago that has been relegated. This is what I preached last night. It was my text. This song has been relegated to Sunday school classes, and it's not a Sunday school song.
9:53 I think because of it has like a real bright melody, and by the way, I'm not about to sing. But I think because it just has such a catchy, happy melody that people relegated it to children's church.
10:05 But it's not a child's song. It's still my song. But I really felt like someone needed to hear the words because this is your song. This is what brother Hemphill said so many years ago. He said, there
10:17 really ought to be a sign upon my heart. Don't judge me yet. There's an unfinished part. But I'll be better just according to his plan, fashioned by the master's loving hand. For you see, he's
10:29 still working on me to make me what I ought to be. It took him just a week to make the moon and the stars, the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars. But how loving and patient he must be. Cause y'all, it
10:41 took a lot of work for Tony Suarez. But he's still working on me. And I just want to prophesy that over someone today. He's still working. He that began the good work is gonna complete it.
10:53 He's gonna perfect it in you. Don't throw in the towel. Don't give up. You keep going in the name of Jesus. Alright. That's sermon number 1. Now, let's get to
11:04 sermon number 2. I know it doesn't look like we're in church, but this is the Tabernacle of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I would like to ask you if you'd stand with me in honor of God's
11:16 Word, and I want to go to the book of Exodus chapter 27, and we're gonna begin reading in verse 20. Brother Craig, are we are we live streaming?
11:28 We are. Okay. Well, then I'm not gonna use some names that I wanted to use tonight. Amen. Make this a PG sermon. Alright. That's alright. Exodus 27 and verse
11:40 20. And while you're finding that scripture, I wanna give honor to my friends and the apostles of this city and this region, Pastors Hank and Brenda Kuneman. I thank God for
11:52 them. I thank God for Lord our Hosts Church. And I'm kind of a kind of a weird preacher.
12:04 I I don't I'd Once I make a connection with someone that I feel is the spiritual authority of a city or a region, I really don't go back
12:16 without getting their blessing to go back. And so, the invite came, I ran it, of course, by pastor Hank and pastor Brandon. I said, there's an invite to come to a conference, and they said,
12:27 absolutely. So I'm here with their blessing, and I'm here under the authority of the Holy Ghost, and so but I I wanted to make sure that I gave them honor tonight because I love them. I thank God for what they stand
12:39 for, how God has blessed them, and used them in such a mighty way to impact the world, and they've been so influential in my life for so many years. Every time God's gonna do something
12:51 big, he sent a prophet named Hank to give me a word. And I'm very, at least in the last 18 years, and for that, I'm very thankful. And so, I wanna make sure that I honor him tonight. Amen?
13:03 Exodus 27 and verse 20, the Bible says, and I'm reading from the New Living Translation. It says, command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the
13:15 lamps burning continually. The lampstand will stand in the tabernacle in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant.
13:27 Aaron and his sons must keep, this is really where I wanted to get to. Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning in the Lord's presence all night. This is a
13:38 permanent law for the people of Israel, and it must be observed from generation to generation. And then, I'm going to jump over for a moment to 2 Timothy chapter
13:50 1 and verse 5. This is Paul's admonition to his pupil named Timothy. Timothy, I thank God for you. And he said, and I remember your genuine faith, for you
14:02 for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. That's why I remind you
14:14 to fan into flame the spiritual gift that God gave you when I laid my hands on you. The Lord gave me this word for you 3 days
14:26 ago, and I wanna preach to you from this subject, the keepers of the oil. Father, I thank you for bringing me here. I've made jokes about it, but I really thank you for getting me here, because I felt like I was
14:37 supposed to be here. I thank you that not only did no weapon formed against me prosper, but no rainstorm, no thunderstorm, no flight delay was able to prosper in getting me to this meeting. And I
14:49 humbly ask you to use me for your glory. I'm nothing without you, but through you we know that we're more than conquerors. And so I ask you to use me as your vessel to speak the word that you would have for the people
14:59 tonight. And I pray that it would be confirmed with signs, miracles, and wonders, and with a great harvest of blessing. And we'll say, surely, we were in the presence of almighty God. And I say, it's ready
15:11 in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And everyone said Amen. You may be seated giving God praise. Amen. Amen. 3 days ago,
15:24 I was driving with my wife. She has, we have this little business that we bought a few years ago. It's called Hawaiian Ice. It's
15:36 a shave ice business. And the story is that I have the gift of eating. Health and I have never really been friends. We're trying, but we've
15:48 never really been the best of friends. And my wife, on the other hand, she's, you know, health and, you know, cares, and she checks numbers and something called cholesterol and
16:00 blood pressure. I don't know. Anyhow. So there are times where I have to do things on the side. That sounded ugly. Man,
16:11 lot of judgment. You gotta be careful what you say in 20 25. Somebody will take that right there, and that'll be the clip on the Internet. Let me qualify that. I have to go get little, you know, little treats. And so I
16:23 might have to go to the donut shop by myself, and I might have to go get, you know, ice cream is a gift from God, and I I like a little ice cream. And I I'm not and listen, I don't judge. It can be Dairy Queen. It can be
16:33 fancy. I just like ice cream. I mean, when the when the, you know, when the machine works at McDonald's, I even like that ice. I just like ice cream. And I was driving home 1 day and I my God. Is she here? Is she
16:45 watching? I mean, is incredible. Hey, Gina. Hello? 1 day, I was driving home and I drove by this little business called Hawaiian Ice, and I saw
16:57 these little kids out there eating cherry snow cones, and it just looked so good. I pulled my car over. I said, it's been a long time since I had a cherry snow cone. And I pulled in there, and I got 2 dollars out of my
17:08 glove compartment. I went up to the window. I said, I'll have a large cherry snow cone, please. Extra cherry on the snow cone. And I saw that it had a for sale sign. And I thought, oh my God, what's better than 1 snow
17:19 cone? What if we just bought the snow cone business? I come home with a lot of crazy ideas, and most of those ideas are usually, well, they usually die.
17:32 But I came home and I said, Gina, Hawaiian ice is for sale. She said, oh? I said, maybe we ought to buy it. And I was getting
17:44 ready for a why? Why are we gonna buy a snow cone business? And she said, what do they want for it? Well, long story short, because this isn't really my sermon, but long story short, we bought it. Because we got 5 kids
17:56 at home that need jobs. Amen? And everyone would give us an excuse. Well, dad, I can't work because I have volleyball, and I have soccer, and I have basketball. Well, then we bought Hawaiian ice, and
18:07 there was no more excuses. I said, you all got jobs. Well, what about what's the what's the schedule? Whatever I say, what does it pay? Whatever we decide. So, we bought that business, and so anyhow, it's getting
18:19 ready to open. It's getting ready to open for business. It opens next week, and so, I was driving with Gina, there was some supplies that we needed to buy, and she's remodeling 1 of the 1 of the buildings. And so I was
18:30 with her in the car, and we were talking about business, and I said, know, I'm on my way to Nebraska to preach this conference called the Ignite Conference, and there's gonna be businessmen and businesswomen from around
18:41 the country that are gathering for this conference. And she said, well, that that's a little different than what you usually preach. I said, I know. I said, but they asked me to come about a year ago, and I felt to come.
18:53 And she said, what are you preaching about? I said, I don't know. She's like, well, you can't go in there and start, you know, waving your hand key. Fire. Fire. Fire. She's like, they're you know, it's not that kind of a
19:03 conference. I said, I know. She said, well, what are you gonna preach about? I said, I don't know. And in the Lowe's
19:14 parking lot, the Lord speaks. I like it that we serve a God that'll speak anywhere, at any time. Amen. In the
19:26 parking lot of Lowe's, I heard the Lord say, you're going to Nebraska, and you will be speaking to the keepers of my oil. And
19:38 in that parking lot, God started to download this word to me. He said, I want you to go and remind the people of the importance of the oil and
19:50 the and the and the people and and and the and the the piece that they play in this plan that I have called revival. He said,
20:02 remind those business owners that in Israel, in biblical times, the oil symbolized the anointing, sustenance, and spiritual power. Remind
20:13 them that the temple, the tabernacle, and even kingdoms could not function without the oil. And remind them that every time I wanted to do something on the earth,
20:26 there were private stewards, keepers of the oil, that their task, their responsibility was to make sure that the oil never ran out.
20:38 And you're to go to Nebraska and prophesy and decree over the keepers of the oil that I have raised them up in this hour. And perhaps, there will be there will be
20:49 some in the room and no 1 will ever know your name. There might be a chance that they'll never write about you in the newspaper, but the kingdom of God cannot function without you
21:01 keepers of the oil. These ministries that God is raising up and these moves of revival that God is doing along and around the earth. He can't do it with keepers of the oil. And he said, I
21:13 want you to go and prophesy to the keepers of the oil and remind them how incredibly important they are in the kingdom and that there can be no tabernacle, that there can be no kingdom without
21:25 people that are producing oil and keeping the oil and guarding the oil. So on behalf of the kingdom of God, I wanna thank you today because apostles, prophets,
21:37 pastors, evangelists, and teachers cannot do what they're doing without the keepers of the oil. We can't do it without kingdom financiers. We can't do it without intercessors. We can't do
21:49 it without errands and errs. And yes, I want to qualify for there will be some in the room that will say, is that all you see me as? It's just a steward of the oil? It's just someone that's gotta finance everyone
22:01 else's revival and everyone else's move. No, I see you as much more than that. I understand that there are hybrid anointings. I understand that you can be a pastor and a business owner. I understand
22:13 that you could be an evangelist and a business owner but I also recognize what the chief calling is and god has called everyone of us in this room to be keepers of the oil
22:25 and to make sure that the lamp never dies out, that revival never dies again. Hallelujah. You say, can it die? Well, it
22:37 kinda did. We have come out, and thanks be to God. We've been prophesying it for 5 years. Revival is not coming. Revival is here. Phil Muncy told me 4 years
22:49 ago. He said, Tony, you're gonna spend the next few years of your life convincing people that revival is here. He said, but God is gonna let you live long enough. And when he said it, I thought this was gonna be like a
22:59 90 year old prophecy. But we've seen it in 3 or 4 years. People are convinced revival is here from California to New York, from Minnesota to Texas, from the White House to the Middle East, even into
23:11 the Vatican, and everywhere in between. We can see the ember of revival burning. We can see what God is doing on secular college campuses, and what he's doing in churches, and reformations, and denominations. We
23:22 see a Catholic church that everyone had predicted and said they'd just gone completely woke, and we've got and they've gone completely liberal, and I'm I gotta do my disclaimer here. I'm obviously not advocating and
23:33 saying that I agree with 99 percent of what they preach, but we see that there's a a resurgence even in the Catholic church of saying we gotta get back to what the Bible says. We gotta get back to orthodoxy. You know
23:45 what happens when you install orthodoxy? The anointing can move there. We need oil on those. We need oil in these movements. We see what God is doing, but we watched it die 35 years ago in a
23:57 thing called the secret sensitive movement. It was something that had very good intentions. We said we wanna attract more people to our churches, so we're just gonna, we're just gonna, they didn't
24:09 use this word, but we're gonna just dumb some things down. Because we don't wanna scare everybody with all that tongue talking, and all that hooping and hollering, and the running of the aisles, and and I am a refined
24:19 businessman, and businesswoman, and what will people think if they see me falling out, and laying on the floor, laughing, or speaking in other tongues, and so we refined the church.
24:31 But in doing it, we quenched the spirit. Now, I don't have a lot of hobbies, but I like to grill. I love to grill. I don't ever have enough people to grill
24:43 for. If brother Craig would have done this invite right, I would have made everyone a steak tomorrow. Holla but he brought Michael Cooliano's make let's see if he makes you a steak tomorrow. I'm just kidding.
24:55 I like to grill. And 2 years ago, Gina and the kids got me a new grill. Now, if you're you're a grill master or smoker, I mean, in a holiness sense, you know
25:07 that getting something new is you gotta learn how to use it, and you know, all all the all the, you gotta, you know, all the stuff you gotta do to it. Well, bought me the big green egg. I love it now.
25:20 Man, was it frustrating back then. What was frustrating to me was learning how to get the fire going in that thing. I bought the torch They bought me the torch. I had
25:32 the torch, and that thing wouldn't turn that thing on. I went and I bought ember. I bought I don't I don't know what all. We bought everything. And I tried this 1, it didn't work. I tried this thing, it didn't work. I
25:44 finally just threw it all in there. And I got a quick flame. And then it died away. Half of half of the the battle is getting the fire
25:56 burning. Getting that thing lit up and making sure that you're fueling that thing right. Because until that thing, until that fuel is burning, you can't really cook on there.
26:08 So half the battle is making sure that that thing stays hot. And anyone that's a grill, a grill master, you smoke meat or whatever will tell you that that's that's part of the the responsibility that you
26:20 have is making sure that it stays hot enough that you can produce something on the grill. It's taken a lot to bring us out of
26:32 35 years of a lukewarm, seeker sensitive movement. It's taken a lot of repenting. It's taken a lot of reflection. It's taken a lot of consecration. It's taken a lot of
26:43 lamentation, and sackcloth, and ashes. It's taken a lot to get this fire burning again. And I've made up my mind. I'm not gonna let the fire die again. I'm not gonna let this thing die.
26:55 I'm not gonna let someone quench this fire. So as a keeper of the oil, I gotta do my part to make sure that I'm fueling and I'm fanning this revival, and I'm making sure that
27:07 this thing stays hot enough that it'll burn off all sin and all worldliness. I do my part as the keeper of oil to make sure this thing stays alive. Yeah. Yeah. And he
27:19 said, talk to those business owners. Remind them that in 20 25, in the kingdom's economy, you are
27:30 keepers of the oil. First Chronicles makes mention of a man named Joash. He was entrusted by God as the administrator of the
27:42 storehouse of oil. It was his job to make sure that there was provision for the purpose of worship. It was
27:54 Joash's responsibility to make sure that there was always oil in the silos of Israel. And he said, pray over the people.
28:06 That the anointing that was on Joash would come upon them. That they would make sure that there's always substance in the silos of the kingdom of heaven. That there would always
28:17 be provision within the silos of the kingdom for the purposes of God. And when it came to Joash, his anointing
28:29 wasn't to be the the priest or the the preacher necessarily. He was the administrator of the resources. He might not be the bishop up
28:41 here preaching in the mic, but he was the bishop of the resources. And you can't have 1 without the other. God's given you that business
28:53 for more than just profit. He's given you that business for a prophetic purpose in his kingdom. You are directly connected to what God is
29:04 doing on the earth. And God doesn't just anoint pulpits. We go to church and hear so much about what God's doing in the pulpit, what God's doing on the platform, what God's doing in the ministry. But
29:16 he doesn't just anoint pulpits, He anoints producers of oil. He anoints producers and caretakers of the oil of God. And how
29:28 incredible to think tonight that you are 1 of the producers of the oil. You're 1 of the caretakers of the oil of God, and we can't do this thing without
29:39 you. There had to be oil for the lamp. Hallelujah. You say, well, I I know, but I
29:51 really see, I really wanted to be 1 of those Levites. That's part of the problem in the kingdom is we always wanna be what we're not. I wanna be tall.
30:05 I got a 14 year old son at home, had to have 2 knee surgeries. And out of nowhere, the kid's 5 11. No one's ever been 5 11 in my family. His older brother and
30:17 I, you know, suffer from the same whatever this height syndrome is. And we look at him, not with joy that someone's finally tall in our family, but with envy and spite.
30:30 He's my kid and I'm jealous. Because we always wanna be something that we're not. We always wanna have something that's not our It's just human nature.
30:42 But the ministry cannot move forward without both the Levite and the keeper of the oil. Oil doesn't come from an easy
30:53 process. Oil comes from pressure, from crushing, from hard work, and there's no 1 like you business owners, No 1 like you entrepreneurs.
31:05 No 1 like you hard working people that understand the pressure, the crushing, what it takes to earn what you have. And that's why you're good stewards with what you
31:17 have, and that's why you don't just freely just toss it anywhere. You're looking for the right investment. You're looking for the right deposit, because you know what it cost you.
31:30 Wasn't easy to get to where you are. But God blessed you. I know it sounds cliche. He blessed you to be a blessing.
31:42 Deuteronomy 8 and 18, for he gives us power to get wealth. For covenant fulfillment. He didn't bless me, just so that I could say I'm wealthy.
31:54 He blessed me, so that I could be a blessing, and be the most generous person, and and and come up with systems and strategies to
32:06 advance the kingdom. I'm praying I know you said you're webcasting, but I'm praying that more
32:18 ministries and churches would put you on their church boards and on their ministry boards. Because a preacher doesn't just need 4 other preachers.
32:31 A preacher needs to hear from a keeper of the oil, a producer of the oil, a guardian of the oil. I have a man on our board, his name is John Hewitt. John Hewitt worked
32:42 for H and R Block in the early eighties. Saved up money and him and his dad bought 1 of the first Apple computers. Now I would never, I I don't know if it would be fair to say John was a computer
32:54 nerd, but he was learning how, and this is, you know, this early days of computers, and they had 1 of those first Apple computers that came out, and him and his dad learned to write code. And they developed a
33:06 process to e file your taxes. And they took it to their manager at H and R Block and said, we have a way that people will be able to electronically
33:18 file their taxes. And their manager said, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. No one's ever gonna do their taxes on a computer. It's gonna be It's always been long
33:30 form, and it's gonna be long form forever. Don't waste my time. And so, John quit H and R Block, and he got a few friends that believed in him,
33:42 and he started a little business called Jackson and Hewitt. And then became the number 2 tax preparation franchise in America, and got bored with it and sold it for
33:52 475000000 dollars in 19 97, took on the person that said he was dumb, took him on directly, and became the second largest tax preparation company, and he got
34:04 bored, sold it, and he said, I'm a start another 1. And see if I can beat that 1. So he started another 1 called Liberty Tax. Amen. John is the owner and the founder of 2
34:16 of the 3 largest tax preparation companies in America. And he started 1 in Canada, and now he started a new 1 called ATAX. John
34:28 knows about business. John knows what it takes to produce finances. John knows things I know I don't know about. 1 day, John wanted to have lunch with me. About
34:40 14 years ago, I think it was, maybe 12 years ago. John I'm sorry, 11 years ago. John wanted to have lunch with me, and he said, you are very inspirational.
34:52 But I wanna hear your strategy. And I said, well, everything you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.
35:08 He said, what's your what's your business plan? I said, I'm not in business. I'm in the kingdom. He said, that's great. So what is your kingdom plan? How are you gonna grow the
35:19 ministry? How are you financing this? How are you doing that? How are you doing that? He asked me all these, and I had no answers. Now, could've walked away and said, John,
35:32 you don't come from 3 generations of Pentecostal preachers. I don't know if you speak in tongues like I do. I don't know if you've ever had someone say, fire, and you just Or I could realize
35:44 that man has a talent, has a gift I don't have. And God's brought him into my life. And I'd be a fool not to sit down and listen to what he has to say. So John
35:56 came on the board of the ministry. Now there's a lot of religious talk that happens in our board meetings that John John listens and he takes notes, but he's a keeper of the oil. He might not know himself as a keeper
36:08 of the oil, but John has resources, and John has strategies. And I'm not talking about I'm not looking at John I I'm I'm being very I hope this is okay, Craig. I'm not looking at John's not the ATM card of Revival
36:20 Makers Ministries. John isn't even the largest donor of Revival Makers Ministry. John does I don't have a blank check. That's not what he's there for. John's there as a keeper of strategy and wisdom, and to tell
36:32 me what I'm doing right, and what I'm doing wrong, and help me to understand. He said, Tony, I've noticed that a lot of preachers, a lot of ministry leaders, they're CEOs, but they've never been trained
36:44 to be CEOs. They know faith, they know theology, they know prayer, they know prophecy. He said, but they need there's other things. And and I said, John, would you be on the board?
36:56 But you know what John's never done to me? John's never told me how to lead the ministry. John's never said, don't prophesy that, don't say that. John's never tried to hijack. John's never tried to hold it hostage.
37:07 John's been there as a keeper of the oil, and a blessing to my life. And I'm praying that God would open up opportunities for some of you to come on to boards of ministries, and come on to boards of churches,
37:19 not to take over, but to be a keeper of the oil and say, go this way and go that way. And I see how you could do this and God's blessed this, but if you implement this, God could do 100 fold what he's only done 10
37:31 fold. If I'm praying that God is a key, would use you as a keeper of the oil to come alongside the Levites for this last great revival.
37:44 And it'll happen for the ones whose heart is to support the kingdom. If your heart is to make sure the kingdom never runs dry, God
37:56 will ensure that your oil never runs dry. You'll see that your I heard it. I think it was George Pearson's.
38:08 Pretty sure that's who I heard it from, pastor George at Eagle Mountain. He was talking about the partner giving there at Kenneth Copeland Ministries. He said, when you sow a seed,
38:20 these are double sown seeds. Because you sow it into the ministry. And then the ministry sowing it into this, and he started showing where all the seeds are sown. When you sow into the
38:32 kingdom, that's a Not a double sown seed, a twice sown seed. That's proper grammar right there for the linguistics experts in the room. A twice sown seed. When you sow in, when you put that
38:44 investment in, that's a twice sown seed. It's not just helping that 1 ministry that God's called you to be a part of, but every ministry that that ministry is attached to, everyone is getting
38:55 blessed. And I come, now, again, in full transparency, I don't think anybody's ever invited me to preach a business conference, brother Craig. Some of you might be okay
39:07 with me, and some of you might hate me right now and say, my God, this is the most cliche sermon he could have ever preached. But I vulnerably come to you on behalf of the ministry,Show more
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