Experiencing the Power of God: Interview with Josh Radford

Dr. Ray: Hello again, and welcome to my show. This is your host, Dr. Ray Self and you're about to listen to Self Talk with me, Dr. Ray Self. Today is a very powerful show. I'm interviewing Evangelist Josh Radford. This is no ordinary man. Everywhere he goes to preach, signs and wonders follow. The power of God flows with him and he's going to talk about that and also how to see the power of God flow in your church. This is a very exciting and life-changing interview, so stay tuned. Hey, don't forget to check us out on our podcast website, icmcollege.org/selftalk. That's the easy way to get to it and of course, this show is sponsored by the International College of Ministry, a Holy Spirit-filled seminary, now enrolling. You got to answer your call, folks, and ICM will help you do that and get equipped with accredited degrees. Anyway, God bless you, and welcome to Self Talk.

 

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Dr. Ray: Welcome to Self Talk with Dr. Ray Self. I'm your host, Dr. Ray Self. Very glad to be with you today. Um, thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to share, like, subscribe, all the cool stuff you're supposed to do with social media. But today, I've got a very special guest. It's evangelist Josh Radford, and I want to talk to you about this man because I really just met him. However, what I heard about him from a very dear friend of mine was, they said “Dr. Ray, you got to have Josh on your show, this man moves in the power of God.” He was at our church he didn't even preach, he just moved in the power of God. And you know, that's something that the church needs, the body of Christ needs and uh, so I'm very excited to have you with us today. A man who moves in the power of God and um, so welcome Josh.

 

Evangelist Josh: Hey, thank you Dr. Self for having me and uh, I'm so excited to be able to just talk to you about the moving of the Spirit, the revival, the power of God in the local church. And so we, we love the local church, we love what uh, what Jesus said, the gates of hell shall not prevail against the local church. And we think we need powerful local churches moving in revival and the Holy S– the power of the Holy Spirit operating in all nine gifts of the Spirit, so we're uh, we're excited about what God is doing in America and uh, even though you might not see you know, um, a lot of evidence of all of that right now, in some circles, there is a deep hunger amongst people. And there are many places right now in the United States where the power of God is flowing and people are moving in the Spirit and uh, and fires are starting to burn across America, so I'm excited to be with you.

 

Dr. Ray: That's, that's what I'm hearing too. It's like you're hearing all this negative stuff, the church is down 30 to 40 percent you know, blah, blah, blah. And then all the seeker-friendly stuff and you hear all this stuff but all of a sudden, you're hearing “But yeah, but the power of God is moving here and revival is happening here,” and so you're hearing some really good stuff going on within the churches. So tell us a little bit about yourself. Like, introduce yourself and what do you do and what, what is your ministry like?

 

Evangelist Josh: Well um, I'm originally from the UK. I came over uh, and permanently, to live in the United States at the age of 15 and I always say that was right at Christmas time in 1985. And my mom had just recently become born again and she took me to a Christmas Eve service. And at Christmas Eve I had a bold pastor that gave a full-throated altar call and call people to come to Jesus and that's when I got saved, right there on that Christmas Eve service. And uh, you know, really from right at the beginning, right at the beginning of my walk with God I knew the Lord had called me to be an evangelist. Uh, you know, and people in the church including the pastor confirmed those type of things and, and uh. And, and I started to pursue it. I started to pursue it. I, I got, you know, became the youth pastor of that same church when I turned 21. Um, it was started– you know, went to bible college, and just started to pursue the call of God. And as I did, God started to open doors and um, and, and, and give me mentors and give– put people in my life that really moved in the Spirit, really moved in the power of God. And that was my example. He would always send me people that were burning hot with fire with revival and I'm so thankful for that. Because that, you know a lot of people have testimonies “Well I came from this” like you did, you came from a Southern Baptist, you, you came from all the these different, you know, Methodist background. But I actually was raised and birthed in a church that was moving in the power of God. And God sent me people to be my example and I believe that's what the Lord always does. He, He sends people to show you the way to where you're going. To go where you're going to end up, what you're going to do for Him. And he just made it evidently clear when I started to– as I started to grow in the Lord and started to minister and have opportunities to minister, that we just, the power of God just started moving. And can I give you this, this– go ahead.

 

Dr. Ray: Excuse me, excuse me. I think it's really interesting—

 

Evangelist Josh: No, go ahead.

 

Dr. Ray: It is a good point about God sending people to, to confirm, um…

 

Evangelist Josh: Yes.

 

Dr. Ray: …you know, and reaffirm. And I know that happened to me when I, when I first got filled with the Holy Spirit and baptized in the Holy Spirit. I had no idea what was going on. I'm seeing all this wild stuff that I've never seen before and then all of a sudden, somebody walks up and says “Ray, I see the word pastor written across your forehead.” I went “What does that mean?” And then um, then a guy said um, uh, one day I was at church, the guy says “I see the word written on your right arm.” I'm going “Really? Does it– what is… you know. But, but confirmation after confirmation after confirmation. So, you're getting confirmed about your call but also this anoin– God was putting you around really anointed people. Not only to confirm, but people are flowing in the signs and wonders.

 

Evangelist Josh: Yes. And I would say, I would say “You know what? I need that. What's on them, I need on me.” I, I started– it was– started making me hungry.

 

Dr. Ray: Right.

 

Evangelist Josh: And um, it came to a point about 1996 and you know, you know about church history, and right in those early 90s - the mid 90s - the church was in revival. There was revival. You know, you had Rodney Howard Brown, Benny Hinn, the Brownsville Revival, all these type of things happening…

 

Dr. Ray: Toronto, the Toronto deal…

 

Evangelist Josh: ..the Toronto blessing, and all these type of things. And in other places in the world, in other places in the world that you are not familiar with. There was all types of revival going on and during that time, the Lord was, was connecting with people that were all involved in these type of— and Kenneth Hagin, he was having incredible revival and moves of the Spirit. And, and he was connecting with people who were involved with these different streams of revival. And, and I was meeting them and I was like “Man.” I started to hunger after that, hunger after that. And I remember one, one you know, afternoon you know, or I, I– the Lord started to speak to me and said, and said “I'm calling you to a place of surrender, a place of consecration. I'm calling you to that.” Uh, “I, I want you to go to start praying, start praying.” And I just kind of felt this, this hey, I got to get alone with God. I got to get alone with God. And it took about seven days. For the next seven days or so since I first heard that, um, I just started to call out to God and cry out to God and pray and, and just be with the Lord. And I remember about the seventh day was a Sunday night and I was getting ready for my youth service. I was a youth pastor and I'd been praying all week. Nothing, nothing specific. It's not a formula, it's just God had been calling me to, you know, to… to, to Himself. And, and I, and I've been going after God. And I remember just getting together with my youth leaders probably you know, maybe had 40 or 50 youth, and I'd got– but before the service, we just joined hands and I said “Lord, bless this service.” I mean, that's all I said, and as soon as I said that it was like liquid fire fell upon me. It came out of Heaven, it came all the way down my body, out of my toes, out of, out of, out of my hands, and uh, and my whole body was completely electrified. It was like I was plugged into an electric circuit and my body was shaking and… I, I was deep breathing and I fell backwards. Now, this is not– now this was not normal in our church. Even though we were a Spirit-filled church, we weren't seeing all of this happen. And I fell back onto the stage and I remember my, with the worship leader guy you know, for the youth was like “Josh! Jo- are you okay?” He was about to call 9-1-1. He thought I was having a heart attack and uh, finally I got up and I was like no, no, no, no, no. Something's happening to me. And I could feel this fire in my hand and I just would, I said– the only thing I knew what to do is just touch. Just, I just laid my hands upon all the youth— the power of God hit them all and they were all sprawled out– you know, most of them were all sprawled out on the floor. And I looked at my watch and I was like “Oh, whoa. It's time to start.” So I said “Open the doors, pick them up. Put them on the seats.” And that started a two-year move of the Spirit.

 

Dr. Ray: Wow. 

 

Evangelist Josh: For the next two years, our youth ministry exploded. It almost doubled overnight. It almost went from about 40 or 50 to 100 plus overnight. Like literally, the next week, next couple weeks, the whole place full capacity. Standing room only in the, in the youth facility. And um, and that's what started it. And every service was the power of God and youth pastors and youth ministers would– kept coming to our church. You know, we didn't go every single day because I didn't have the liberty to do that but we uh, but every time we met, the power of God started to flow and we started having large youth conferences and all these type of things. And that's my introduction to the power of God and um, and I believe God wants to encounter people and touch people that are hungry. He is no respecter of person and I always like to say revival can happen anywhere, any place, to anyone that's hungry.

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah, amen. And hey, that's, that's, that's so powerful. And I mean, there's a cliche there but I mean, I just, I have a hunger for that too. I want people to see the reality of God. You know, He's real. So I feel like, in church, we've talked about God for so many years. We've talked about God. You know, we, we worship Him but we don't experience God. The, the power…

 

Evangelist Josh: Right.

 

Dr. Ray: And what's really cool is when you see the power of God come, somebody gets healed, somebody gets delivered. You see a miracle, faith goes up the Richter scale and people get, people get transformed. And um, I, I know um… I was at a little, little Baptist church - a little country Baptist church. Oh, it's been probably 20 years ago. I had some of my students with me and we were, we had an altar call and nobody, nobody moved. Nobody came up to the altar. And finally, I got a word of knowledge. I said “Well, there's somebody here who’s blind in their right eye. God's going to heal it.” And even when I said it I'm thinking “I can't believe I  just said this to a little Baptist church.” And all of a sudden, this little old lady, little small lady in the back goes “Well that's me. I'm blind,” and, and, “Well come on up.” So she came up and my students put their hand on her and all of a sudden she goes “I can see! I can see! I can see!” And she screams, jumps up in the air. I’ll never forget this, jumped out of her shoes and started running around the church and then the altar filled up. And to that point, you could hear crickets chirp.

 

Evangelist Josh: Yeah.

 

Dr. Ray: But I'll never forget that story. The point is the power of God brings glory to God and people get–

 

Evangelist Josh: Yes.

 

Dr. Ray: –saved. And um, and we need the power of God. But what I hear about you is you see this a lot.

 

Evangelist Josh: Oh, I mean, this is what we see every weekend. You know uh, we see this every time we're out ministering. And that's what happened since that point in ‘96. You know now, all these years later, every time that we minister, that's the flow. The miracles, signs, wonders, salvations, deliverance, healing. You know, a lot of people you know uh, may have this or that, you know. Like, you know, they specify on one or two things. And I agree, you can't preach the full whole, full counsel of God in one meeting. But um, but revival is everything. Revival is everything. It's healing, it's miracles, it's, it's bless– it's the blessing of God, it's, it's uh, it's um you know, salvation. It's ever- everything happens, and all things happen. And so we see this happen every single place we go. Really, nearly every place we go we could extend the meetings.

 

Dr. Ray: Wow.

 

Evangelist Josh: But, but you know, but I can't do that everywhere I go. So you know we uh, we want to continue. We want to take it to places. We don't want it to just to be in one place; we want to take it to many places.

 

Dr. Ray: And that's– yeah, that's what I heard about you. That's what, that, that's the reputation that you have. Praise God for that. It's interesting, the old school terminology of revival, it's a meeting that's more than one night or it's usually, it's a night meeting and you go two or three nights and people are getting saved. But your definition of revival is quite different.

 

Evangelist Josh: Mhm. Yeah, yeah. It, it's everything and everybody getting– You know, really I mean, revival is about returning to your first love. That's what revival is about in a nutshell. It's an awakening to God and it's a returning to your first love. Now uh, and, and when it– that's that's a personal revival; and that happens to a hungry heart. And then, when one person gets a fire, then it starts to leak, then other people catch a fire and it's like a domino effect and that's when you have a revival in a church. And then that's when you do continue it. You know, I'm, I'm, I believe in extended meetings but I don't extend everywhere for months and months on end. But I do believe in extended meetings because I believe in the compound interest of the Holy Ghost.

 

Dr. Ray: Right.

 

Evangelist Josh: You know, the compound putting one thing on top of another. We do it with kids at summer camp. You know, one night after another night after another night, by the end of summer camp the kids' lives will change. Adults need the same thing. Adults need the same thing, that, that, that total saturation. And so, that's when there's Church revival. And then when you see national revival is when many churches are so on fire that it hits whole cities and it starts catching on fire and then you've got a whole regional and then a national revival. And what we're really believing for is a third great awakening where the whole nation wakes up to God.

 

Dr. Ray: Amen. Lord knows our nation needs it. Or nation needs it, the church needs it. And I'm agreeing with you because what I'm hearing - I'm a big picture guy and I, I'm, like uh, with my school, I get to work with a lot of different types of churches, denominations, um, you know, independents, uh, Pentecostal, uh, Evangelical, you name it. And but I keep seeing little fires all over the– little fires that are starting. You know, fires that are starting. And I still see a lot of stuff to me that's just entertainment, but I do see revival fires of the Holy Spirit, you know, sparking here and here and here and here. I don't think it's getting the publicity that a lot of things are getting. You know, that Asbury Revival got some publicity. But there are there are supernatural, powerful things happening in a lot of churches right now today. 

 

Evangelist Josh: Oh, abs- yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I mean, there's, there's many churches that I know of that are ex– expl– They're not having meetings every day but they're exploding on every side that people are getting saved every single week. People are getting baptized in the Holy Ghost, people are getting baptized in water. There's a lot of things, there's a lot of places where there's, there's powerful activity of the Holy Spirit, you know. Now, not everybody wants revival though. Not everyone wants a move of God. And you would think I wonder why that, you know, I won– wonder why that is, because sometimes uh, the status quo is comfortable. Probably one of the biggest enemies to revival is being comfortable.

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah.

 

Evangelist Josh: Being comfortable. I always like to say this: revival is messy, you just got to get a backbone. Revival is messy, delivering people is messy. You know, the church sanctuary is not a pristine you know, clean little place, it is a delivery room. You know, it's good, it is you know, it's, it's where, it's where people are com– coming to meet God. And I think I think as pastors, as ministers, if we, if we started to think about that and put that as a priority as this Sunday, I want people to meet God. I want people to come to know God. And uh, which, which means they're going to have to be separated from their stuff. They're gonna have to be separated from some things. And that can be messy. And it can be messy but it's okay, but it's okay, it's okay because it's good news and uh, and, and the Lord is going to touch people. And so, and I believe you know, revival can happen anywhere, any place to anyone that's hungry. And I think I already said that but I want to re-emphasize that you know, because a lot of people are like “Well, it's got to be the right portal or the right this or the right that.” Listen, you know I believe… listen, I was just at Brownsville. Just Brownsville Assembly. The long– the longest running revival in American history, right? And run five years. And I was just there this week, and what a powerful place that is. And there's still, the presence of God is still so strong that, and the meetings that we had were phenomenal, phenomenal. We probably could have extended all these meetings. But… I mean, incredible. People getting touched. It was, it was incredible. And, and a lot of people say “Well, well the Lord you know uh, doesn't you know uh, you know the, the Lord is um, you know, doesn't live in buildings made by man's hand.” That, that is true. That is true. That's why God can move anywhere but when God moves in a place, when God moves in a place, it's like a handkerchief from Paul. It's like a handkerchief from Paul. There is a residue of the anointing. There is a residue of the anointing. And I believe that and I've, and, and uh, and, and, and, and that's what I saw. That's what I saw at Brownsville. But the, but, but the thing is, is it doesn't just have to be in one place. Revival can spread everywhere because God's no respecter of person and He's no respecter of places. He– I tell you what, He is a respecter of His presence. His presence. And He wants His presence to be everywhere and to be in every church and every church should be a place where you walk into that place and the presence of God hits you…

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah.

 

Evangelist Josh: …like a freight train and your life can be changed…

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah.

 

Evangelist Josh: …in Jesus’ name. I believe that.

 

Dr. Ray: I remember going to a few places like that and there's not very many where you could walk in the room and there’s the presence of God; the anointing um, the anointing would hit you. I joined a church here in Orlando uh, 17 years ago and it's not convenient to my house at all, at all. I walked in the building, as soon as I stepped in the door the Holy Spirit hit me and said “This is where I want you to be.”

 

Evangelist Josh: Um…

 

Dr. Ray: But I know what you're talking about. There's a– you– the anointing is with us. We carry– we're the temple of the Holy Spirit.

 

Evangelist Josh: True.

 

Dr. Ray: But He's in buildings. I mean, He, He can be in the spot. I mean, I've been there and I've even seen it inside a building where the anointing is stronger in one place in the building than another place in the building.

 

Evangelist Josh: Yes.

 

Dr. Ray: I don't want to get sidetracked on that but you know I've experienced…

 

Evangelist Josh: Right.

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah, I know… But what would you say to a pastor who's hungry for the move of God or the power of God to hit his church but he's not, but they're struggling? How would you encourage a pastor? I think there are a lot of pastors out there that you know, “I really want this for my church. I really want to see a move of God in my church.” What would you tell a pastor?

 

Evangelist Josh: Number one number, one number one: be hungry yourself. Make sure that you're the most hungry person in the room. You and God have to go– you have to go with God, you have to encounter God yourself person– personally.

 

Dr. Ray: Right, right.

 

Evangelist Jsoh: Once you're doing that, once you're going after Him with a fervor that you've never been, never had before and a hunger that you've never had before, then you start preaching and teaching about it. You start professing the word about it. You know, you start preaching about miracles. You just keep knocking on it. You start preaching about the supernatural, you start preaching about angelic activity. You start preaching about why, you know, how Peter went to Cornelius's house and while Peter yet spoke, the Holy Ghost fell, you know. Or, or about, you know, what happened with Paul and uh, and the revival and Ephesus where they, you know you, where they brought all their witchcraft and they burned them in the middle of the city. I mean, you start just preaching all revival, miracles, signs, wonders… You know, it's not just going to show up when you're preaching on the three steps to happiness or something, you know? I mean, it's not, it's not going to come in one of your creative sermon series, it's gonna come when you're— what you– whatever you want, you've got to speak out of your mouth because the power of life and death is in the tongue and the Bible says our tongue is the pen of a ready writer. So it means you write, you write out with your tongue what you are believing for. And so I would say those are probably the two most important things: you be the most hungry person in the room and then start speaking out of your mouth what you are believing God for and start teaching that to the people. And what that will do, number three, is it will call, it will call people. It will call people and they will start to burn like you're burning and it will call people uh, uh to, to want what you're speaking about.

 

Dr. Ray: You know, years ago– I, I just, I 100% agree with what you're saying…

 

Evangelist Josh: That's… hopefully that helps.

 

Dr. Ray: And if you're a pastor or church leader um, listening to the show, pay attention, pay attention. Uh, that, that's really, really key. I mean, it's simple but it's so, so important. I know years ago, the Lord kind of… He convicted me, or I don't know if He, maybe He was rebuking me, I don't know. He said - because I do a lot of teaching, I do a lot of preaching - and He said “Never teach it or preach it if you're not willing to do it.” And then I realized and then I began to realize that if I was teaching on healing, I should expect people to get healed. Salvation, people should get saved. If I'm preaching on deliverance, people should start getting deliverance. Whatever I was teaching and preaching, I began to believe that God would confirm His word. And He did, and he did. And it every single time, whatever it was, whatever, whatever the topic was uh, the Holy Spirit would confirm it and it would happen. But the Lord spoke to me and I started expecting that. I was like, “You know what, I'm not going to talk about healing without expecting somebody to get healed and without expecting a lot of people to get healed.” So um, yeah.

 

Evangelist Josh: Correct. I mean, that, and, and that', that's what I encourage every single pastor to do. And listen, that's what we help churches do. We are local church. You know, we're an uh, we're, you know, we're evangelists, myself and my wife, but we love the local church. I was a local church pastor for 16 years, youth pastor, associate pastor, did everything that you possibly can do in the church. Senior pastor for 16 years and then for the last 15 plus years we've been on the road traveling as evangelists and, and that's what we do. We believe in the local church, we believe that the gates of hell will not prevail against the local church and we want to help the local churches move into revival. You can have baby dedications, water baptisms, all those type of things, and have the move of God. You can make the announcements about the car wash and then lay hands on the sick, then they will recover. You got– you can do– the only thing– you know, some people say “Well, I can't do all of these things and do this. I can’t– we got this baby thing and this…” You can do it all. You can have it all. You can have a church that is thriving, that is a wonderful local church, that is discipling people, and have a move of the Holy Spirit like no other. You can have it all. And we show pastors how to do that. And that's, that's really what I want our legacy to be.

 

Dr. Ray: Oh that's powerful. That's powerful. I remember when Jesus was confronted uh, look at by John's disciples and He said “Well tell John,” you know, “you don't just believe the works that I, the words that I say, believe the works that I do.” Even Jesus said you know what, it's not just what I say it's what I do. And…

 

Evangelist Josh: Right.

 

Dr. Ray: …that's so critical for us. Um, you know, so many years we, we've talked about it and we've preached it and we've taught it and then we never let it happen. You know um, I call it doing the stuff.

 

Evangelist Josh: Right.

 

Dr. Ray:  I know for me in my church um, we used to–

 

Evengelist Josh: That’s a John Wimber, that's a John Wimber quote. 

Dr. Ray: What was that? The uh…

 

Evangelist Josh: Doing the stuff, doing the stuff. “When are going to get to do the stuff?”

 

Dr. Ray: Doing the stuff, that's right. That's what he's, that's where he got started. “When are we going to do this stuff?” Um, yeah. I was kind of raised under that, that type of thing. But uh, I know with mine, with my church um, we would have these four-hour services. The service was planned for an hour and a half, we ended up being four hours and we didn't– and it felt like it was 30 minutes. But I remember so many times all I would do is just say “Come, Holy Spirit.” We just, we, “We invite You,” and then as I invited the Holy Spirit to come, I expected Him to show up and He would show up. And could literally– I've seen the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost if you're Pentecostal, Holy Spirit if you're Charismatic. You know, you got to get that straight. Charismatic: Holy Spirit. Pentecostal: Holy Ghost. And uh, so… but I watched, I've watched the Holy Spirit take over a service, literally take over our service where I would literally sit down and just watch the manifestations taking place all over the church. I'm talking about healings and worship and slaying the spirit and people being set free and prophes– all kinds of stuff happening. And it was just giving Him time. One of the keys I think is give Him time. Don't, don't program Him out of your service.

 

Evangelist Josh: Yeah. You have to make room for the Holy Ghost. Make room. You must make room. And what I like to call make room and put a demand on the anointing. Whatever you're pulling on will come to you. The woman with the issue of blood knew this better than anybody else. She tugged on the hem of Jesus's robe and, and, and He… everything that was in Him came to her. Said there was virtue or power or a surge that came to Him, to her from, from Him. So, so you've really got to make room for God and you've got to pull on the anointing. Put a demand on that anointing and it will, and, and it, and it will come to you. 

 

Dr. Ray: Amen.

 

Evangelist Josh: I, I believe that.

 

Dr. Ray: One, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that people don't talk about is boldness and sometimes you've just got to be bold. 

 

Evangelist Josh: Yes.

 

Dr. Ray: You got to go for it.

 

Evangelist Josh: Yes, that’s true.

 

Dr. Ray: You just gotta go for it. And you don't always feel anything. I can tell you uh, miracles I've seen where I felt nothing. And a cancer is healed right in front of my eyes, you know?

 

Evangelist Josh: Correct.

 

Dr. Ray: But, I’m willing to go for it. And…

 

Evangelist Josh: I thank God– I thank God for feelings but a lot of times I don't feel anything I just go to– you know, Smith Wigglesworth said this, “I started in the flesh but I ended up in the spirit.”

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah.

 

Evangelist Josh: So yeah, I started, basically he started ministering with no feeling of, of anything, and then by the end of it all the whole, the glory had come down and so…

 

Dr. Ray: Amen. I think stepping out, being bold is uh, be, you know, be bold, go for it, lay hands um, do the, do the stuff, you know?

 

Evangelist Josh: Right, right.

 

Dr. Ray: Do the stuff. But um, I like what you said. You put a demand on the Holy Ghost, a demand on the anointing. I like that.

 

Evangelist Josh: And you can do that. I know a lot of people, “Oh, put a demand on God? That seems so, kind of, you know...” Well, that's kind of what He asked us to do, you know? And put a demand on his word, you know? I mean, speak His–

 

Dr. Ray: Definitely.

 

Evangelist Josh: Yeah. Believe His word, you know? And uh, and, and He… and signs and wonders follow the preaching of the word of God…

 

Dr. Ray: Absolutely.

 

Evangelist Josh: …according to Mark chapter 16. I mean, it, it, it, it will, it will happen. And um… So, so these are the type of things that we are seeing in America that we are doing in the, you know, in the American church. I go abroad also but my main focus is America. I believe God called me to be a missionary to America and I've come from the UK and my main mission field is this land; and I really see fires burning in all 50 states, extended meetings, uh… And I'm not talking way off in the future, I'm talking about right now. Now is the time for revival. Don't wait. And especially, if, if there's a pastor listening here, don't think “Oh, you know, maybe I'll call, maybe, maybe he'll be good for our conference a year and a half from now.” No, no. You strike while the iron's hot. Go, go bring whoever you need to bring in. Do whatever you need to do. Do it spontaneously. That's what I want to encourage people to do. Do things spontaneously don't have to always plan everything way in advance, do things spontaneously. God is moving across the land right now. We are in the beginning stages of the greatest move of God in human history. And that's what I, that's what I believe in. And so now is the time to pull the trigger. If you're ever going to have extended meetings, if you're ever going to have a move of God, this is the hour to do and I see it. I see it from sea to shining sea and everywhere the flag flies and every territory of the United States. A powerful move of God from the White House to every house. I believe that in Jesus’ name.

 

Dr. Ray: Amen. And folks, I'm talking to Evangelist Josh Radford, and um, the power of God is with you, amen? The anointing is with you. As we’re recording, I see him, I can just I can feel the anointing. And I do want– if um, if someone is interested in your ministry wants to contact you, maybe uh, have you come to their church, how would the– how is the best way to contact you? Tell us about your ministry, your best way to contact you and…

 

Evangelist Josh: Our ministry is called Revival Life. Revivallife, two “l’s” .net. And uh, or you could just look us up on social media, Josh Radford, R-a-d-f-o-r-d. You can look us up on, look me up, every. I'm on every single social media. You know, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, everything. And you can, you can look us up and uh, and contact us and send me a private message on any of the social media or you can just go to uh, josh@revivalife.net, that's my email and uh… you, you Google my name and Revival will come up. And I've, I've heard quite a few stories of people Googling my name, Revival will come up and they show up at a meeting, God touches them. So, so uh…

 

Dr. Ray: That’s so good.

 

Evangelist Josh: So do that and get in touch. I will respond to everyone. Everybody that calls, I will personally respond to you.

 

Dr. Ray: Yeah. Well, it's really cool to talk to a true Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost evangelist, amen. Amen, amen. Well, you know, God's always had fire starters. Throughout history, there's been fire starters.

 

Evangelist Josh: Amen, amen.

 

Dr. Ray: and I feel you are a fire starter. And so um, you know, if you're, you're listening to me and you're a pastor, you want to start a fire in your church, the- this, Josh can be your guy. Amen. He can be your guy. Well uh, any final words before we close?

 

Evangelist Josh: I just want to say: go after the Lord. You know, the secret to seeing your whole church engulfed in the fires of the Holy Spirit is your life engulfed in the fires of the Holy Spirit. I say pastors, it's time to rededicate ourselves, our hearts. Put our hearts on the altar, put our, our hearts uh, in, you know, in front of the Lord. Turn our lives totally to Him. I don't mean you're backsliding or anything like that, I mean just surrender everything. It starts with you as the leader. You, know John Maxwell, we have that famous saying, “Everything rises and falls on leadership and it starts with you.” That's how revival is. They will follow the leader that burns with fire. And I want to encourage you to go after God with everything you've got. Your people will follow you.

 

Dr. Ray: Amen. That's a good word. That is a good word. Well, thank you guys for listening. Thank you for listening to the show, I appreciate you. Again, this is Dr. Ray Self,  this is Self Talk, and I am very happy to have special guest Evangelist Josh Radford. If you don't feel the anointing, uh, just listening to him talk I don't know if you're breathing. But how about closing us with prayer?

 

Evangelist Josh: Absolutely.

 

Dr. Ray: Thank you, Pastor– Evangelist Josh.

 

Evangelist Josh:  Father, right now in the name of Jesus, every person listening to us, I pray that the power of the Holy Spirit would encounter them. Lord, touch them in a mighty, mighty way. Fill their hearts with Your flame. Let it burn deep down on the inside of them right now. I thank You for a special touch all over the world, wherever this podcast is heard I thank You for touching the hearts of every man, woman, boy, and girl let they– let them feel a tangible touch of the anointing flowing right across all these airwaves in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.

 

Dr. Ray: Amen. Amen. Thank you again. Uh, appreciate you, Evangelist Josh. Thank you for being with us today, it really is an honor. I would say an honor and a privilege but it's kind of a cliche - we won't do that. But I'm very glad you're with us, okay?

 

Evangelist Josh: Amen.

 

Dr. Ray: Thank you everyone and uh, God bless you. 

 

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