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The Urgency To Spread The Good News

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This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA on July 6, 2025. Below is a word for word transcription of the message as if Apostle Kathryn is writing this to you. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God.   

 

In Matthew 22:1 it says

Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said, “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who are invited to the wedding. And they were not willing to come. Again he sent out other servants, saying; ‘Tell those, who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed and all things are ready. They are ready for you. Come to the wedding.” But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully and killed them. 

So the servants that were just simply inviting these people to the wedding, got killed by the ones invited. Doesn’t make sense, does it? 

But when the king heard about it, he was furious and he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.” So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. 

This is a parable that Jesus is speaking. He is giving this example to try to teach about what the kingdom of heaven looks like. 

So what does this mean?

Well, when Jesus announced that revival had come, when He had announced this great news, Luke 4:18, in a synagogue, before Jewish leaders, He said:

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

As He spoke this, He was announcing this good news. He was announcing, “You are all invited to the wedding. You are all invited to revival. You are all invited to salvation, to be saved, to be healed, to be freed, to have abundant life, to be in relationship with me.” Jesus was speaking this when He was announcing this. He is announcing this to everyone who is hearing. He is inviting them to a wedding, in a way. Because a wedding is an example of joy, celebration, heaven on earth, abundant life, right? Jesus is inviting these people to this beautiful life of joy and abundance and peace. As He spoke this, He was inviting all these people. But do you know what happens right after Jesus simply invites the people to come and receive, announces that Revival is Now, “Come into revival!”? What happens right after that is that the Jewish leaders that were invited to the wedding, invited to come into revival and receive healing, freedom, abundant life and impartation of anointing, to be disciples; they tried to run Jesus off a cliff. They tried to kill Him. Doesn’t make sense, does it? 

Jesus is simply saying, “The Lord has anointed me to help you, to save you, to free you, to heal you, to lead you into abundant life, to give you peace, to give you joy, to lead you into a relationship with me.” With God. He is giving the most amazing news in the world. He is giving it, He is inviting these people to come and receive this. And these people, instead of wanting to come and receive, wanting to receive what Jesus was offering them, they instead want to kill Him. This is what Jesus is meaning by the parable. The Jewish leaders were the first ones invited. They were servants of God. They were doing the work of God. They were invited to the wedding. They were the wedding guests that were invited. They were supposed to become disciples. They were supposed to receive impartation of anointing and be like all of the twelve disciples that went out into the world and spread the good news and began the church; began the spreading of the good news that has lasted thousands of years later to where we are now. They were supposed to be a part of that. They were supposed to be the first ones up to do that. I mean, they knew the word of God. They were already servants of God. They just had to step into a different way that God was doing, just come this way. That is all they had to do. They already believed in God. They were already believing. They were already worshipping God. They were already coming to church. They were already reading the word of God. They were perfect candidates to come first. And actually, they are praying for the Messiah. They are expectant for the Messiah. They are hungering for the Messiah to come. They are reminding people of the words of the prophets, proclaiming the Messiah. So they are the wedding guests that were supposed to enjoy the wedding. But not only did they reject that invitation, they tried to kill Jesus right then. And then even later they did. Those Jewish leaders are the ones responsible of Jesus being crucified. This is the example of the parable of the wedding here. 

All of those leaders, or not just leaders, but those who are close followers of the Jewish leaders, none of them attended the wedding. Meaning, none of them joined Jesus. None of them became disciples of Jesus. The first ones to come and receive from Jesus, the ones that Jesus could use to say, “Come, follow me”, they were the ones that were not that learned of the Scriptures. They were not the ones close to the Jewish leaders at the time. You see? It was the ones who were so knowledgeable about the word of God, who became prideful know-it-alls. They are the ones who rejected the invitation to be disciples of Jesus, to step into revival.

That is what the kingdom of heaven is like. That is what the kingdom of heaven is like today too. In this parable, the father is doing this for the son, by the way. This is the son’s wedding. Jesus’ wedding.

The father then says to his servants:

The wedding is ready, but those who were invited, were not worthy. Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding. 

The father would not accept that this wedding hall be empty. He would not accept that. The wedding hall must be filled. The father had prepared the most beautiful wedding. The most delicious food. And anyone who would come there would experience such joy, such abundant life. And the father, who had a heart for people, said, “Bring anybody. This can’t go to waste. Invite anybody. Go into the highways, the byways; go anywhere and everywhere to fill this place. This place must be filled. And these people must enjoy what I have prepared.”

In Jesus’ time, the ones who joined Him, who became disciples, were Jewish people. But the ones who were first to come and receive, were not the know-it-all Jewish people. They were not the first guests, intended guests. They were the ones that Jesus went out to find and said, “Follow me!” We also have a Roman centurion, who believes in Jesus. We have Samaritans and many other Gentiles, non-Jewish people, that come and receive from Jesus. Become disciples. Become revival carriers. So they were not the first intended guests, but they were the few that were chosen. Many were called, but they were the few that were chosen. They were the ones that would accept the invitation.

This is what God is speaking now in this revival. He is speaking; as the father spoke to the servants, God is speaking to you as His servants. “The original invited guests did not come. But I will not accept my house to be empty. I will not accept stadiums I have prepared for revival, to be empty. You, my servants, go out into the world! Go into the highways, go into the byways. Go anywhere you can find people and invite them to the wedding. Invite them to revival. Invite them to 5F Church. Invite them to come and receive what I have prepared for anyone who would like to come and receive.”

And in the parable it says in verse 10:

So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. 

The servants went to the highways and they found the bad and the good. God is calling you to find the bad and the good. Fill it! Fill it with anybody!

Okay, what does bad and good mean?

The good would be believers, who are already cleaned, who already have good hearts, good motives, good intentions, because God has purified them, transformed them, but they just haven’t encountered the power of God yet. They just haven’t heard the word that Revival is Now yet. But they are out there. Eleven million people in Los Angeles county. Four million people in the city of Los Angeles. And there’s a lot of believers there that have not heard this good news. In our proximity! This is your city! It is your job to go out in the highways and byways and find them and invite them and share this good news with them excitedly. Enthusiastically. With all your heart. So the good people represent believers who haven’t heard the good news yet; that God wants them to come into this revival, because they are not experiencing abundant life. Some of them have demonic oppression. And for all of them He wants to anoint them to be disciples, powerful vessels of God He can use in His power. Just like we heard the testimony from the woman from Guatemala, Sarah. How her life changed when she received impartation; when she started receiving these teachings, these new wine teachings. This is what God wants for all believers. He wants them in this revival. Those are the good.

The bad: The bad are the lost! The lost! They are equally important! He wants them all! Get the good and the bad! Those who are believers, who haven’t encountered His power yet, who don’t know Revival is Now yet and the lost!! Those who don’t know Jesus! Those who aren’t following Him right now. Those who are lukewarm. Those who need to be cleaned up, they are not good in the heart, because they are lost. We once all were lost. We once all were bad. We are bad before Jesus makes us clean and good and righteous. Amen?

The good and the bad. The believers that have been cleaned and purified. And the lost! Go out and invite them all to the wedding! Invite them all to revival. That is what God is speaking right now.

John 4:39

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony.

The Samaritan woman at the well, she encountered Jesus at the well. And Jesus spoke prophetically over her life. He spoke things about her personal life that she never told Him. That opened up her eyes, that encounter with His power, that prophetic anointing opened up her eyes to God’s love for her, to Jesus’ love for her. And it opened up her eyes to see that He was the Messiah. She became saved in that moment, where she was at the well with Jesus. And she was set on fire, she was full of joy. She was full of excitement for others to receive what she had received. She was overflowing with God’s love, that she had to go out in the highways and byways and tell EVERYBODY about Jesus. The bible says, she went and told so many people. She didn’t want to keep it to herself. She wanted them to receive as she had received. And then the Scripture goes, after she goes and tells them - these people heard her testimony and they were compelled to come and hear from Jesus and experience Jesus, because there is anointing upon her testimony. And it says:

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony. “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to Him, they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed two days. And because of His words many more became believers. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said, now we have heard for ourselves and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

This verse 39, prophetically, is one of the most important, powerful, prophetic verses for all of you in this time that we are living in right now. For you to fulfill your purpose, this Scripture needs to come alive in your life. This Scripture is for you. You have to keep this Scripture in your heart for you to fulfill your purpose. It says, 

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony.

Because of the woman’s testimony, they believed. Because.

So she went out and told people, “This is what happened when I encountered Jesus in power. This is what happened.” And there was the power of God moving through her testimony and it pulled them. It pulled them supernaturally!!!! It pulled them to come and see for themselves! It put curiosity in them, put a hunger in them. Pulled them to come to the wedding, to receive from Jesus. And then they became believers. They became a part of revival. They became disciples.

Your testimony is so powerful. You are so anointed. You are receiving anointing all the time here. But you need to know how to be most effective with the anointing; and exactly how God wants you to use that anointing. Your testimony is dripping with anointing!!! And not just your testimony, but the testimony of this revival, of what Jesus is doing. And how many testimonies is that? Millions? I don’t know. Uncountable? Yeah! The testimonies are uncountable! All of those testimonies carry anointing. When you share your own testimony, it is dripping with anointing, that will touch people’s spirits and will put hunger in them and will pull them to come and receive. When you share other people’s testimonies, “God is doing this, I saw God do this, I saw God do that. I heard today a testimony of a woman who got freed through reading a book in prison.” IT IS DRIPPING WITH ANOINTING!!! Hallelujah! It is dripping with anointing. It is powerful! 

It is just as powerful as if I declare a demon to go and the demon goes. Just as powerful as when I pray for someone and God moves in His power and the anointing touches somebody and they fall back. Your testimony is just as powerful!

If you look at this story, it is Jesus plus the Samaritan woman, that led to the salvation of these people, that led them to come and receive and be a part of revival. It was Jesus plus the Samaritan woman.

John 4:39 

This is prophetic. You need to meditate on this word! You need to know that this Scripture is one of the most important Scriptures that God is speaking prophetically to you. You are called to be like the Samaritan woman at the well!

Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony.

A shepherd’s job is to feed the sheep, to lead them into green pastures, to equip them, to release the power of God upon them. I am talking about pastoral shepherds. Leaders of churches. A shepherd’s job is to care for the sheep. A shepherd cannot birth a sheep. If you think about actual shepherds and sheep, you see it is a human and then the sheep. A human cannot birth a sheep. But when sheep get together, they birth sheep. Right? That is how it is in the spiritual realm. Spiritual shepherds and spiritual sheep. Me, I don’t birth the sheep. You birth the sheep. Jesus didn’t birth the sheep. Jesus, as the shepherd in this story, He didn’t birth those people that came. The Samaritan woman birthed them. That’s why it says, “Because of the woman’s testimony they were able to come.”

This is one thing you don’t see: You don’t see Jesus knocking on door to door and saying, “Hello, I can do miracles for you. Come to my service and I’ll do miracles for you. I’ll heal you, I’ll deliver you.” You don’t see that, but you see people doing that. You see people going door to door, you see people spreading the word. “My life has been changed! I was once lost and now I’m saved. I was once bound but now I’m free. I was once sick but now I’m healed.” Because people can see what’s real. It’s the proof! It’s the fruits! If I say to you, “I have fruits! Everybody, look at my fruits!”, you are not going to believe I have fruits as much as if someone says, “She has fruits! I have been healed. I have been delivered, when I came to 5F Church”, for example, you know? Are you going to believe the person or are you going to believe me more? You are going to believe the person testifying. It is a testimony! It is a witness! It is EVIDENCE! Not just talk!!!

I say this so you can understand the important role you have. The important role you have to expand this revival! IT IS YOUR JOB TO EXPAND REVIVAL! 

There is a Scripture, 1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed in your hearts, that’s Paul. Apostle Paul says, “I planted the seed in your hearts”, he is saying to his spiritual children.

And Apollos watered it. That was another servant of God.

But it was God who made it grow. 

So here today, that’s Apostle Paul, I planted seeds in your hearts. I plant seeds online by putting the videos out, preaching, sharing the videos of what God is doing, going to other cities, states and nations and ministering and planting seeds.

What happens if you plant a seed but there is no water? Can it grow? No. It will die. This is how growth is for revival. This is how growth is in the kingdom. It cannot be the minister doing all the work. This is the beautiful part about the body of Christ, that we all need each other. It cannot just be the minister doing the work for revival to expand. The minister plants the seed. You are like Apollos, you have to water it. You have to do your part, so then God can make it grow. So that God can grow the congregation, so that God can grow revival. It won’t grow without you. And it has only grown to the point where we are now, here in LA physically and globally around the world, because others have watered. Others have done their part. Others have testified. Others have filmed their testimonies. Others have gone and spread the word through their social media and in person to as many people as they could. And we have grown so big, but God wants us to grow so much more. But we can’t have five percent of the people watering, when there’s so many seeds. Some of those seeds will die. We need 100% to be watering, so God can bring the massive growth that He wants to bring, that He has planned to bring to fill stadiums. 

Matthew 7:7

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

When you ask, it will be given; when you seek, you will find; and when you knock, the door will be opened. So if you don’t knock, the door doesn’t open. If you don’t seek, you will not find. If you do not ask, then it cannot be given. This is the principle in the kingdom of God. You have to do something to receive from the kingdom. Faith without works is dead. It is time now to knock on doors, so that God can open them. It is time to knock on people’s doors. Like, “Listen to what God is doing! Listen to what He has done in my life. Listen to what He is doing right now. Revival is Now! If you need healing or freedom, God can heal you and free you. If you are not experiencing abundant life, you can step right into abundant life, peace and joy right now.” KNOCK! That is how you knock! Have a heart for people. God doesn’t want you to be content with the size we are at. Eleven million people in Los Angeles county. Around four million people in the city of LA. That should bother you! In a good way! That should bother you. It should make you not comfortable, that you are receiving so mightily. You are receiving freedom, healing, abundant life, peace and joy. But there’s all these chairs at the wedding hall, empty. So many more people can be receiving. And this is greater joy for you. This is greater joy for us. What fun is a small wedding? It is much more fun when it’s bigger. Right? It’s much more fun, it’s much more exciting, it’s much more beautiful. It’s much more pleasing to God, the bigger we become, so that more and more people are encountering Jesus and are healed and are freed. Testimonies multiplied, miracles multiplied, salvations multiplied. This should be in your heart! We have to grow bigger!! This is not good enough. That means, I have to do my part. I need to be on fire for this revival! I need to get out of my comfort zone and go to the highways and byways and knock on many, many, many, many, many doors. Hallelujah!

Galatians 6:9

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

This is a principle in the kingdom: You have to sow to reap a harvest! You have to plant the seeds. We have to water the seeds, so God can make it grow. This is how it works.

I remember, when God spoke through my spiritual father Prophet Dr. GeorDavie, he prophesied that Revival is Now!! That happened actually in a conference in LA, that I hosted, that I put on. This was the first conference or any kind of event that I ever put on. I was responsible for it all. At that time I had started Five-Fold Church, which began in the form of worship nights on a mountain. I had started it for just a few months prior to that. That was nine months after receiving the prophetic word for my life that I was called to be an apostle and I was called to reach the nations. So when I started the worship nights on the mountain top, at that season of my life I didn’t have many friends. I had so many Christian friends before, so many. But none of them pretty much, maybe just like two of them, had ever encountered God’s power. And when I shared with them, they didn’t want to receive. Those were the first ones invited to the wedding in my life and none of them came, pretty much none of them. 

It also says in the bible, that a prophet doesn’t receive honor in his hometown. Jesus came to His hometown and He could hardly do any miracles because of lack of faith. In Jesus’ hometown, those would have been the first people invited to the wedding. I mean, these are the people even in Jesus’ heart. Like, “I want my friends and my family, the people I grew up with, to be saved!” They were first invited to the wedding. But they didn’t want to receive. 

So I had many friends. I remember, a year before, I had a music video release party and I had so many Christian friends, probably 30 at least, from the church I was going to at the time. I had so many Christian friends. But here, when I share my testimony, when I share about this prophetic word that came through my spiritual father, no one wanted to receive. No one wanted to believe. None of my friends wanted to believe. When I started that worship night on the mountain top, it was just me and two other people the first week. But I knew that God was calling me to plant seeds and to knock. Because that is the only way that people would hear and would come. So God led me to be creative. How can I get the word out about these worship nights? How can I let people be interested in that, like show it in a way that it would be interesting so they want to come? God gave me the idea to do the worship nights, I actually think it was the 4th of July, around that time. I discovered an overlook, Nancy Hoover Pohl Overlook on Mulholland Drive. Just a little overlook. I got the idea, oh it’s a beautiful view of the valley. And if we have it at sunset, people may like to come and worship God at sunset with this beautiful view. I knew that I should do something attractive to be the light of the world to attract people. That is what God was putting on my heart. To not just go through the motions, but really try hard for God to get people to come and receive. Make the wedding nice. That is how it started. And I had seen Facebook groups before, Christian Facebook groups. So I joined, I feel like it was probably between 40 and 50 groups, but I can’t remember the number because it was years ago; but I would join so many of these Christian Facebook Groups. And I would make the graphic myself, “Sunset Worship Night”, and post a picture of the view. Every single week I would put it in every single Facebook group on my phone, so that people could see. And do you know what? People came! Even though, at the time, my social media following was like 1,000 and it was just mostly friends I have had in my life. People came as they saw this flyer online. People came. One week, two people came. Another week, five people came. A different week, ten people came. I think the most people we had was ten or so. But if I hadn’t planted those seeds, if I hadn’t made that effort, no one would have come. Except for one person I remember one time, he was running on the hiking trail and he heard us worshipping. But no one would have come. And that’s the beginning of where we are now, glory to God. Revival in 161 nations. It started with planting those seeds that had an immediate reaping effect and for others it was later. For others it’s now, this is the reaping effect. Because there is so much that we need God to do to make it grow. He is the one that makes it grow. Our planting of seeds is a supernatural thing that God does on the planting of seeds. He sees our obedience and then He opens up wild doors that are beyond the little seed that we planted. It is supernatural what He does upon the seeds. It is not just direct, like you tell somebody and then they come because you told them. It is that. But it is also you being obedient in planting seeds. God goes above and beyond and opens up a door. You only told one person, or you only told five people, but yet hundreds now come and receive, because God moved supernaturally upon those seeds. So what happens if you tell thousands of people? How much more can God move supernaturally? Simply by your obedience, He honors. 

I was putting out videos week after week after week. That was a prophetic word from my spiritual father. He said, “The way that this revival is going to break out, how people will hear about this revival, is through a one minute video.” He saw it prophetically. And so he said, “You need to be putting out one minute videos regularly, all the time. Keep going.” Like the Israelites went around the walls of Jericho and they didn’t stop short. Like when the Prophet Elijah said to his servant, “Strike the ground!”, and the servant only struck it a couple times and he said, “Why did you stop short? You would have defeated all of the armies if you just kept going and didn’t stop short.” My spiritual father gave me that prophetic word, so I knew I had to keep going. I am planting seeds, I am not seeing any reaping. But God is going to one day honor those seeds. So I am putting out video after video for years and these videos aren’t increasing in view. They’re preaching videos. They aren’t even increasing in views. They have about one to three likes usually, for years. Not increasing in views, not increasing in followers, not increasing in shares. Nothing! For years! And then one day I put out a 59 second video, showing different examples of God moving in power that past year and God makes it to blow up! One million views after only a day and a half! And thousands of people testifying of miracles that happened upon that video. That is what I mean about, it’s not just the direct seeds that you were planting. It is simply your obedience of planting seeds. God can then move and make it grow supernaturally. That is the really exciting thing about sowing for God.

One time I would go to different places where believers were going to be. I would go to different places. Who would be interested to come to a worship night? I need to go tell them. I got these business cards printed out for the worship nights. One time, actually, I was in the car wash in Studio City in 100 degree weather, sweating, sitting there. I looked to my right, Tori Kelly was sitting next to me. I realized it as I left. And I saw that she had made songs about God before. So I got in my car, I got really out of my comfort zone. I said, “I have to tell her about the worship nights.” I get out of the car, I tell her about the worship nights and I encourage her for making music about God and talking about God. And I give her my business card, which looked hilarious, just not that beautiful, but I give it to her and I say, “You’re invited to the worship nights.” Our worship nights had just two to five people! But I would get out of my comfort zone and see everyone with compassion. They need Jesus! They need His power!

Just a couple months into having worship nights, I then was preparing this first conference for my spiritual father. And this is where he prophesied that Revival is Now. I didn’t know he was going to prophesy it there. But I was so excited for people in LA to encounter God’s power, because I had never encountered God’s power like I had through my spiritual father Prophet GeorDavie. My life completely changed, drastically. My eyes opened up to God’s love like never before upon encountering Jesus through him. I never had experienced anything close to God’s power like I had experienced through him. I had never experienced it in America, in LA. So when he was coming to LA, I was so excited for the people of LA to receive. I did everything possible I could. I went to the print shop in North Hollywood where I was living and I was just going to print flyers. But then I found out that they can do car magnets. So I printed out a car magnet and I put this big car magnet of the Prophetic Healing Conference on my white Jeep Compass. And I drove it around LA for months. And I went to different places and put flyers. I spent hours putting flyers in places. I went to Pihop in Pasadena (= Pasadena International House of Prayer) and put flyers on a table. Then I heard there was a big Christian band, who was going to be at the Microsoft Theatre. I was like, “There’s going to be a lot of people who would want to come, who need to encounter God’s power. So I am going to go.” I went downtown and I handed out flyers to so many people that were coming out of the Microsoft Theatre. Out of my comfort zone. It was not comfortable. But I just handed them for hours. 

The people came to that conference, I don’t know the exact number, but maybe 100 ish. Looking back, praise God, I see He moved upon my seeds, because that is no small thing, to have hardly any social media following. All of your Christian friends don’t want to receive. So it is only strangers you have to get there. It was 90% people I had never seen before. And they came! And it was just me and one other person helping. That was all of the advertisement. No paid ads. That was it. And this is before God made that video go viral. This is before that grace, of God really moving like never before to bring in people through social media. This is before that. So as I look back now, I see God really honored my seeds and moved upon them. If I hadn’t done that, there would be five or ten of us there maybe? And people encountered God so powerfully. It was one of the best days of my life up to then, because I saw so many people be touched by God through the prophetic word so powerfully. I saw so many people be healed, be delivered, before my eyes. It was the most in awe I have ever been in my life. I was speechless after it. I was so full of joy for the people in LA to encounter Jesus’ power for the first time like I had ever seen. And then there was one gentleman. He received so powerfully from God. My spiritual father prayed for him. And this one gentleman he told me, he said, “I saw flyers at Pihop for this.” Remember, I had put flyers at Pihop? And when I was handing out flyers outside the Microsoft Theatre downtown, he actually grabbed it and that’s when he said to me, “I saw this at Pihop. God is really telling me, I have to go!” Me showing up that second time; God spoke through that. Then he came, I saw him there. And he got touched so powerfully by God at that conference. Hallelujah. What if I hadn't gone out? What if I hadn't knocked? 

Another story I want to tell you is, during the Sunset Worship Nights, that was just a period of a few months, where that’s where our service was. I remember, Jeanntal and I handed out flyers the next year at a farmers market, for the next conference. I remember that. But anyways, I would go to places where a lot of people were. Where a lot of believers, that may be interested in coming to a worship night, were. And I would go with the intention, getting out of my comfort zone and started talking to them about the worship nights and inviting them. We didn’t have Sunday services, so sometimes I would go to a church and if I talked to people, I would share with them about it. And I learned years later - and I don’t know if she is here today, but she is planted here at 5F Church; but she told me five or six years after this, she said, “You were at a church and you invited me and my friends to a worship night.” And I think she never went. But it stayed with her for some reason, even though I just simply shared with her about the worship night. It stayed with her! 

Apostle Kathryn spots the woman she was referencing and invites her to share her testimony.

The woman, sharing her testimony: 

I was one of the people in a group of three, or it was myself and a friend, and yourself, so it was us three. You came to visit a church I was attending at the time. You were speaking one on one with my friend and I came over to join my friend and when I came over, she was speaking with you. She said oh this is Kathryn, she has a worship night that she’s leading and she’s inviting us to come. And I said, oh wow, I would love to come sometime. Well my friend and her friend ended up going and making it to worship night one night and I never was able to go. I was working all the time but it always stuck with me. It’s so wild because even before we had gotten the invitation, for maybe a year or so before, the Lord had put “worship night” in my mind and in my heart and I was like, I need to find a worship night somehow, maybe I can find one online. I was just always hungry, even after Sunday service, I was always hungry for more and I said, I just want to just find “the more”. Maybe the weeknight I can find a worship night somehow and I can just be part of a group and we can worship the Lord together. That was even before my friend and I had met you and YOU had a worship night. 

Apostle Kathryn shares: 

So God was literally putting that in your heart because He knew I was going to come and speak about this worship night. So He knew that I was about to plant the seed so He was preparing the seed to be on good soil. 

Woman: 

Yes, it was all God. And so, every year after that for four years I would follow-up with my friend and for whatever reason, I just never could get to the bottom of whether or not the worship night was still happening. So, I literally told God like twice before that, Lord, I give up! What am I thinking, this is so ridiculous. What are the chances it’s even still happening? How do I even know? Every time I ask my friend, I get like a vague answer, I don’t get to the bottom of it, if it’s still even happening. 

Apostle Kathryn: 

So, God just kept reminding you of me sharing about this worship night for four years. 

Woman: 

And this is true, yes. And when I met you that day, there was something different about you. There was something different about you and I could see the Lord in you. There was so much love and peace radiating from your eyes and when you were speaking to us, you were facing toward the sun and your eyes were so big and so bright and it was with God’s love. It was with God's love and it was that, that I would always remember. I said wow, she’s so nice. There was something different and special about just the love radiating from you. And so, I never forgot that and so for four years, I was like wow, I need to find the worship night. I never did, so finally, the last time I think I asked my friend, she said well, find her, she’s on my friends list I think on Facebook. She had like 600 friends on her Facebook, so I’m like, how am I ever to going to find? So, I started and I got to like 300 way through.

Apostle Kathryn: 

Because you don't know my name at that point. 

Woman:

I don’t know your name. 

Apostle Kathryn: 

So, you were just trying to find the face. 

Woman: 

I was just going in faith, like let me see if I can find her. She had so many friends so I never got through the list. So then I said, well, I had already told the Lord, I give up. The third time I said I give up, I kid you not, a week later I’m watching a program on Sid Roth show and he says well my next guest, there’s revival breaking out in a park. And it’s in Los Angeles. And I was like, REVIVAL?! When I heard the word revival, I was like, oh I gotta listen to this guest. And so I waited and he brought you on. I saw the curly hair and the big blue eyes and I thought wait a minute, she looks like the woman that was having the worship nights! And I said, let me write down her name. So, I wrote down your name and when the interview was over, I went to my friend's friend list and I found your name was in her list. I said, that’s her! That’s her! And come to find out, the park where it was being held was like seven blocks from where I lived and I said, well I’m definitely going! I’m definitely going this next Sunday, and I did. And it was just all God. 

Apostle Kathryn: 

Praise God! Look at God’s love for you. Look at God’s love for you that He was pursuing you, preparing you to receive this invitation! 

Wow, Jesus! Do you see how God honors our seeds? Do you see how none of your seeds are wasted?! Wow! I’m so in awe right now. I’ve heard that story before but she went more in depth this time. I’m left in awe. Like how God was saying worship night, worship night, worship night because He knew He was going to then send me to go to places where there would be people who might want to come to worship nights. I would think in my mind, where could I go? Where could I go to talk to people? And I would be organic with it, I wouldn’t be forceful. But when there would be an organic conversation we were having, I would make that intention to invite them and to speak with passion and I would see them with God’s eyes, and to just have a heart for them! And so God knew He would send me then one day to say, worship night, come! 

Remember how I said your testimony is anointed. Your testimony about what God’s doing. Your testimony of your life, it’s so anointed. Do you see? This was before, the way she’s describing how she saw the light of Jesus in me, glory to God! This was before any demon was cast out. This was like one month into me preaching for the first time, ten months after receiving the prophecy for my life. This is before I had seen God manifest in power through me at all. At this point, I’m not even seeing anybody tear up or seem to be touched by a message or anything! Nothing had I seen, evidence of God’s power moving through me. So, I say that to say, you have the light in you, the light of Jesus in you. No matter if you’ve seen demons be cast out through you or not, YET. If you are here receiving impartation of anointing week after week, being planted, the light of Jesus is IN YOU! In that same way that she described how that was a big reason why it stuck with her for four years and she could somehow remember what I looked like. That’s supernatural! I’ve never been able to remember what someone looks like that I met four years ago, one time for like, one minute. But that’s supernatural! That’s the light of Jesus piercing in somebody’s memory! I want you to see how powerful you are! And I share those testimonies for you to see that you can do this too and that God wants to use you just as powerfully! Even more because it’s sheep that birth sheep. 

That was me, being a Shepard at the time even, trying to birth sheep and it still worked somehow. You see what I’m saying?! This is YOUR CALLING, to be like the Samaritan woman at the well. 

I want you to see with those stories that I shared, that I planted seeds, and God moved upon those seeds, sometimes directly in a small way like that gentleman that came after receiving the flyers twice that I put. Like this testimony we heard, that’s direct seed but also in a very supernatural increase kind of way of harvest and reaping. And for many of you, it’s going to look like a domino effect. You tell one person about revival, you tell the good news to one person, they come and receive and now they tell one person. They tell five people. They tell five people more. They tell five people more. It keeps repeating like a domino effect, glory to God! This is how revival grows! 

So, if you think of me at that time when there was no social media following at all. It was just this random girl with a flyer that wasn’t that trendy looking I’ll tell you, even. It wasn’t. I didn’t have graphic design skills, especially back then. Just saying, here come to this event, if that led to at least 100 people coming, they don’t even have evidence. They don’t even have the evidence like we do now, the fruits. What about now? If you could put that kind of effort, each one of you, we would have to get a much bigger venue for church soon. 

It’s quiet, why is it quiet? Isn’t that exciting?! We should not be content with the size we are at now because there are so many more people out there. What if she wouldn’t be here today, if that seed wasn’t planted? How many people out there? God is waiting for you to GO and tell them the good news. God wants you to carry that in your heart, carry that in your mind, have that sense of URGENCY to spread this good news! 

Romans 10:14-15 

But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!

God wants to give you beautiful feet. Beautiful feet, more beautiful than what they are right now. But it’s up to you. It’s up to you to be that messenger. God wants you to have this fire in your heart. Some of you maybe have been here for years, you’ve been planted for years. You have to renew your mind, the urgency to spread this good news. Like, as if it was your first day, first week stepping into revival, the fire you had. It’s a choice to have that fire again. You can have that fire simply by making that decision to obey God and get out there and go to the highways and byways. 

See yourself as the Samaritan woman at the well. This is your job right now. This is your task, God is asking of you. This is your responsibility. Take it seriously. Do it with excellence. Be creative. God is going to give you creative ideas of how to reach people, of how to reach more people and of also how to shine your light in a way that attracts them. He’s going to give you ideas as you will obey Him in this, as you will take this step to spread this good news, as you start to meditate, as you start to have compassion and think of these people out there who are lost, who are not in revival, as you start to think on them, as you start to have compassion for them, as you start to pray for them, as you start to put your eyes on Jesus’s eyes and see His eyes burning with compassion for these sheep that are lost without a Shepard. God will start to give you these ideas. He will start to open up your eyes and lead you to places, go here, go there. Invite people here, invite people this way. 

Are you ready to spread the good news with more urgency than ever before?! This revival has been happening now for years but you need to carry in your heart that it’s the first day of revival, today. It’s the same thing. There are so many people who have not heard the good news yet. It’s that same urgency you must have as if you were here for the first day and there were just a few hundred when revival broke out. This is what God is asking of you now. You have the anointing in you and God will use you POWERFULLY! Are you ready to be used more powerfully by God than ever, to bring the harvest in! It’s time to bring the harvest in. It’s the acceptable year of the Lord and God has been preparing hearts just as He prepared the woman  who shared on the stage today. He prepared her heart to receive that invitation. He’s prepared hearts to receive the wedding invitation, the invitation to revival. The harvest is ripe. Laborers GO! GO LABORERS! 

I know I said LA here, but of course this means for South Korea, for London, for Paris, for Tokyo, for all of Brazil, for India, Africa, all of Europe, all of Canada, all of Mexico, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, the islands, all of Russia, all of Asia, all of Europe, all of Africa, Antarctica, anywhere I missed! Everywhere! This means for your city and your nation, how many people do not know this good news yet? There’s A LOT! Get out there revival army! Go to the highways and byways and fill the wedding hall! This is what God is speaking NOW! It’s time for the revival to grow NOW! Revival is NOW! Carry that excitement in your hearts! Revival is now! Everyday! Every day, beautiful feet! Revival is now! One foot in front of the other, revival is now! Revival is now! Carry that in your hearts every day! The lost need to hear the good news. The oppressed need to be free. The sick need to be healed. The lukewarm need to be set on fire, they need to catch the fire! The spiritually blind need their eyes opened up! 

Can you carry that urgency? I feel this urgency from God to have this compassion and passion for God's people. Go faster than ever, this is what God is saying. Run with your torch! Run with your torch! Shine your light! 

No more complacency. No more being comfortable. No more. No more going slow, alright army of God? I feel the urgency prophetically from God so much, I don’t even want to stop

preaching until you get this. Is it in your heart? Do you hear? Do you hear what I’m saying? Do you say yes to this call from God? 

Plant! Knock! Speak! 

Plant! Knock! Speak! Testify! 

Plant! Knock! Testify! Speak! 

 

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