This was supposed to be the final night. It isn’t.
Mario walked up to the microphone tonight and announced that the Stockton crusade isn’t ending. It’s escalating and the Tent stays up. For the next four weeks, 1,000 soul winners will move across Stockton’s streets, schools, and neighborhoods as a deployed evangelistic army. The Tent becomes a prayer mountain, open daily, with church services, outreach gatherings, and continuous intercession.
Then in June, Mario and Catherine return for four more nights. From the 14th through the 17th. What was billed as a closing night turned into a commissioning.
Mario said it himself, watching the altar fill: “How could we take this Tent down?”
\Catherine Mullins and band were back tonight, and they came in swinging. The worship set didn’t drift toward a soft landing. Dancing on the Grave moved into Washed in the Water moved into a flat-out altar call from Catherine herself. She stood at the platform and called a generation to purity. “You’re going to start deleting phone numbers that you were never meant to have. You’re going to start stomping on some cell phones tonight.” She decreed holiness over a generation. She named the lie, the one that says the Church doesn’t need to be radical anymore, and answered it: “There is a man named Jesus, and He healed sickness. He healed diseases. And He’s worthy of radical praise.”
The audience shouted ‘compromise has got to go’ until it sounded like a battle cry, which is what it was.
Then I Speak Jesus. Then Holy Forever. Then Is He Worthy, the whole crowd answering the question back into the Tent like they were the elders themselves. Catherine called specific healings from the platform during worship: sexually transmitted diseases, generational shame, the graves of depression and suicide and pornography. “There’s a change in the atmosphere,” she said. And the worship kept building until Mario walked out.
Mario opened with a confession. “This morning, the Devil told me to leave town. And that’s when I knew. When the Devil wants you out, you stay.” Then he laid out the plan.
A thousand evangelists and four weeks of street ministry. Being trained to go into neighborhoods, schools, the business community, the media. The Tent will remain standing as a prayer mountain. Daily prayer, daily outreach, daily salvations. And then on June 14-17, the four greatest nights this ministry has ever put under canvas.
He told the story of Marysville, California, where he took the Tent down too soon. Drug addicts kept coming to the empty lot for a full month afterward, still feeling the residue of God’s presence on the ground. He said it like a man who learned a lesson once and refused to learn it twice.
Then he called for the war chest. He didn’t dress it up. “These are war bonds.” He commanded the wealthy to be generous, “if you own a business and you’ve complained about the gangs and the drugs and the crime in this city, and you’ve given to a politician, God bless you, but I’ll tell you what we’re going to do with this money. We’re going to turn it into souls and miracles.”
The sermon title was original to Mario tonight, and he knew it, “Why Are All Your Friends Becoming Christians?“. The premise: a trend is happening. Tax collectors and harlots are entering the kingdom before the religious. People who should be the last ones at the altar are showing up first. Why?
Three reasons.
First, they’re reading the signs of the times. Mario walked through Matthew 24. False messiahs, wars and rumors of wars, nation against nation, famines, pestilences, earthquakes. He pointed at Iran, at Israel, at the headlines that keep the world on a string. “Your friends read the Bible, and they came up with this. It’s going by the book. All of it is going by the book. And I read the book. I read the end of the book – and God wins!”
Second, they’ve tried everything else. This is where the sermon broke open. Mario told the story of preaching in Malibu years ago, where the pastor warned him not to give an altar call. The movie stars’ careers couldn’t survive a photograph of repentance. But Mario watched late-night TV in his hotel and saw commercial after commercial: Betty Ford for the alcoholics, Schick Center for the anorexics, Al-Anon, domestic violence hotlines, transcendental meditation. He said to them, “You don’t have a free night,” going from clinic to clinic looking for one piece of healing at a time. He said, “Let me tell you what the cross of Christ is. It’s your one-stop shopping. You walk to the cross and the eating disorder goes away. The marriage is healed. The drugs are gone.”
He quoted C.S. Lewis: “I don’t believe in Jesus because I can see Him. I believe in Jesus because by Him I see everything else.”
He cited Peter in John 6:68, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (NKJV) Where else is there? Buddhism? The church of Oprah? Positive thinking? Drugs? They helped a little, fixed nothing. Then comes Jesus, and everything falls into place!
Third, Christians are witnessing again. Mario announced the disbanding of “the Christian Witness Protection Program.” He pointed to John 1:41 where Andrew finds his brother Simon and brings him to Jesus. “Somebody brought you here because they love you.” Bibles are selling. Pews are filling up. Americans are returning to church in numbers the data is still trying to catch up with. The lukewarm get spit out, he reminded them. The hot draw their friends in.
He told the Godfather III story with the pope and the pebble in the fountain that had soaked for hundreds of years and yet was still bone dry inside. Some people have been around the water of the Spirit their whole lives and never let it in. He stopped and called them.
Mario called them up by section. Over here, over here, over here. The aisles filled. He told the Tent he could see the faces and many of these were first-time decisions, the unmistakable look of someone who had never done this before. He kept calling. The Tent kept emptying out into the front. “How could we take this Tent down?”
He led them through the sinner’s prayer — Jesus on the cross proving love by giving everything, Jesus rising three days later proving power over every evil habit and every destructive emotion. Then he sent them out to the prayer team. And the worship team, and the choir of young voices filled the altar area to worship.
When Mario returned to the platform he set aside his prepared sermon. He’d had a message ready called Moment or Movement, and he told the tent why he wasn’t preaching it. ‘I’m not preaching it because you all put your backpacks on,’ he said, reminding the people of one of the songs the worship team sang during the altar response.
Then he moved straight into the healings. And the healings tonight were specific.
A woman in the audience identified by Mario as a woman in ministry with her pastor present beside her. She received what Mario described as God’s hand reaching in like a scalpel and cutting something malignant out of her body. Multiple growths, he said. They would be gone when she got her next scan. Then her hearing was healed. Her balance. The dizziness, the cancer, the arthritis. Mario kept stacking the conditions as her pastor laid hands on her ears.
Three women in one section, all battling cancer, were called out and stood together while Mario cursed the cancers in the name of Jesus.
A woman with what sounded like an MS-type diagnosis, body-wide nerve disease, debilitating, with a horrible prognosis from her doctors. She was called out for healing of seven symptoms running from her head to her feet.
A woman with migraine headaches and seizure-like episodes. And her sleep healed alongside her head. Mario named “agitation” as the root and commanded it out.
A woman Mario identified as an ‘on-fire signs and wonders missionary’, willing to break into places others couldn’t go, healed of stomach and head conditions.
Multiple healings prayed in Spanish. Mi hermano, vamos a orar (my brother, let’s pray) for heart, knees, lower spine, family. El Señor me dijo todo eso (The Lord told me all that).
Then the corporate healing. Mario told everyone with sickness in their body to raise a hand, told everyone else to touch their shoulder, and led the entire Tent in a declaration of Mark 16: “These signs will follow them that believe. In my name, they will cast out devils. They will speak with new tongues. And they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (NKJV)
He called for those healed to stand. They stood.
Before closing, Mario stopped the room and gave it a marker. “You are on the cusp of the greatest spiritual history of Stockton. From the day this city was founded to this day, this will be the greatest spiritual visitation that it has ever seen. You’re on the cusp of it. God has allowed you to be a part of it. And remember this night when we did the impossible by extending this tent crusade for several weeks.”
What comes next?
The Tent stays up for four weeks and the Living Proof Tent Crusade transitions into a deployed army with street ministry, school assemblies, business community outreach, daily prayer under the Tent. More information will be coming for those who want to enlist as one of the 1,000 evangelists. The Stockton churches are invited to host the overflow.
And then Mario Murillo and Catherine Mullins return to the same tent in the same field.
Sunday, June 14 through Wednesday, June 17. 6:30 PM each night.
LifeSong Church, Stockton, California.
Pray. Show up. Bring someone. We’re not waiting for revival. We are the revival!
We’ve been praying for this City and this County for years. This City is considered one of the worst in the nation in crime and economically. There has been a Principalities of murder, death, drugs, gangs., and homelessnes over this area. The Presence of God needs to step in.
I’ve met my wife at a Mario Morillo meeting over 50 years ago. Seattle needs Jesus more than ever now. I am in good shape for helping put up a tent. Please get in touch.
Paul
Praise the Lord for loving all HIS people so much that HE would heal all those with repentant hearts and minds, whose eyes have been opened to Jesus’ pure love showering down on Stockton, California ! Why? Because HIS people keep coming & Mario and precious team are willing to be Jesus’ heart and voice & pure love
Praise God!
How exciting to hear this news!
We’re in agreement with you and ask HOLY SPIRIT to send mentors, shepherds to disciple, with the 5 fold for the perfecting of the saints and bring them into their calling, to the stature and measure of Messiah YESHUA and unity of the body in love, every joint supplying to the anointing breaking yokes ,to HIS GLORY…Shalom Shalom
Awesome Mario. I believe a major key is after people get saved they must be baptized in the HG. Calls for the baptism in the HG must be given like calls for Salvation. The Azuza Revival was mainly about people getting baptized in the HG. Acts 19:2 Paul asked certain disciples Have you received the HG since you believed? This question needs asked again.
Oh hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! May God be glorified in this next month. I’m so proud of you for listening to God and extending the crusade. Please know how seriously you will be in my prayers! And keep the updates coming! They are thrilling!
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit” the LORD says—that is the way hearts are revived, souls are saved.
Thank you Mario for hearing, and obeying, God’s commission to preach the Word, call on Jesus for the salvation, the healing of souls He died for!
Our prayers for the “Glory Corridor” here in California (my home state, where we live—in Kern County).
All Glory To GOD ALMIGHTY! Praised Be YOU LORD JESUS Our KING… Thank YOU For YOUR GRACE and BLESSINGS upon Stockton, California. GLORY! GLORY!! GLORY!!! HALLELUJAH!!! Come LORD JESUS, Come… HALLELUJAH!!!
Praise the power of the Holy Spirit to to come to Stockton and change lives and the city for Jesus. He is the only One who can do this. All glory, honor and praise to Jesus Christ the Savior of the world!
Phrase God, for obedient, pastors, that listen to the Holy Spirit instead of men.
Thank you Mario. I try to read your letters single everyday. I pray one day that I am able to attend a tent REUNION. I stand with you in the Mighty Name of Jesus! My prayer for the last 20+ years is that I live to be 120. I told God I would serve Him and help lead to those that yearn for salvation to Him. It’s all about Jesus! I have 50 years to go. I pray God protect all of you. I pray He provide every need and that He continue to lead your ministry into every broken city thirsting for His love. His Word. Amen 🙏🏼🎚️🙌🏼🎶☮️♥️🐝🐞🐛🐌
Thank you Mario. I try to read your letters everyday. I pray one day that I am able to attend a tent REUNION. I stand with you in the Mighty Name of Jesus! My prayer for the last 20+ years is that I live to be 120. I told God I would serve Him and help lead to those that yearn for salvation to Him. It’s all about Jesus! I have 50 years to go. I pray God protect all of you. I pray He provide every need and that He continue to lead your ministry into every broken city thirsting for His love. His Word. Amen 🙏🏼🎚️🙌🏼🎶☮️♥️🐝🐞🐛🐌
Wow! Wow! Wow! God is on the move! 🔥
Thank you Mario. I try to read your letters everyday. Hopefully one day I will be able to attend a tent REUNION. I stand with you in the Mighty Name of Jesus! My prayer for the last 20+ years is that I live to be 120. I told God I would serve Him and help lead to those that yearn for salvation to Him. It’s all about Jesus! I have 50 years to go. I pray God protect all of you. I pray He provide every need and that He continue to lead your ministry into every broken city thirsting for His love. His Word. Amen 🙏🏼🎚️🙌🏼🎶☮️♥️🐝🐞🐛🐌
Love what God is doing in Stockton.
This is Stocktons time of Visitation.
To God be ALL the glory
This is a work of the SPIRIT through a yielded vessel..so we pray and continue to pray and then pray more,then we…🙏🔥
Praise God Mario knew the devils lie and heard God and obeyed GODS VOICE.I pray those of us who cannot go to participate will give up something we normally buy and send the money to Mario’s ministry, Like the early Christians in Acts we can give what we save to support the enormous street EVANGELISM through Mario’s ministry over the next weeks. God will bless us and all the gifts no matter how small or big. What we send God will multiply. As you give start PRAISING GOD FOR the greatest move of God and SOULS saved Stockton and California have ever seen, To God be the Glory for what HEHAS DONE!
We stayed awake long enough to hear Mario’s announcement. What a movement!
Cathrenine left nothing in the tank. Kathy and I were so joy-filled to see all of the young people praising God.
Praise God, Praise God, Praise God!!!!!!!
Thank you Brother Mario for your complete obedience to the LORD! May your many crusades harvest many souls for the Kingdom of God! And I praise God for what He is doing through you in Stockton, CA!
I am praying for you and your team, Mario. Thank you for the encouragement with what is happening in these last days! May God Bless You And Keep You And Continue To Give You Favor. To God Be The Glory In Jesus Christ.
What a mighty and faithful God!
I’ve never heard of anything like this. God bless the ministry and all that happens under the tent over the next 4 weeks!
Glory to God!
Can Mario come to the Chicago Area?
Amen! What an awesome God we have! Thank you Mario for hearing the call and coming to Stockton where hopelessness is everywhere. We prayed for this for so long. People have told me that they have been healed from this crusade. May the Glory of God continue to fall over your ministry, this crusade and Stockton. Blessings
Prayers and partnering with Stockton from the Midwest, can’t wait for next service for update of what the 1000 does
GLORY!!!!!
Praise the God of Heaven and Earth! Revival has come to Northern Calif. We have been waiting a long time for this! Don’t pass us by, Abba!
Go into the highways and biways and draw all men and women and our youth unto yourself, Father. Thank you for what you are doing here in California. Change us forever…all the way to the capital!
yeah LORD!!!
Do your work in every city across our nation.
Your people will be volunteers in the day of Your power.
For blessed is the national whose God is the LORD!
Hallelujah! So many prayers have gone up for Stockton! Sharing this encouraging news with our El Dorado County intercessors prayer group! Thank You Jesus! Stockton belongs to You. Let Your rivers flow through this city!
May this be the tip of the iceberg for God to wrap this awakening around the globe. So grateful to be able to see the amazing grace spreading out in Stockton and on across the USA and including HI. To God be alllllllll the glory. PTL for this outreach.
Many thanks again to MMM for hammering away at California.Just as the war in the Middle East is going after the head of the snake.In the war at home California is that snake. It’s like when Jonah was sent to Nineveh,only now The Holy Spirit is there to bring repentance.Im sure when the body of Christ take to the streets, the greatest helper of all time will be there! I’m looking forward to see the end result of what The Lord Of Hosts is doing in California.The collapsing of our nation from the inside has to stop somewhere. And satan’s crimes against humanity can be stopped. But until we realize this war has 3 fronts we can’t win.The world,the flesh, and last but not least the devil. I think Mario is right on target with what God is wanting to do in California and the rest of the country. Like Mario said there’s no better place to start a wildfire than the state that invented them.GODSPEED TO MMM and all that are part of this endeavor.
Thank you LORD JESUS for what YOU are doing in Stockton. Whilst reading this blog I felt the awesome SPIRIT OF GOD drench me, all over my body.
GOD bless this ministry and may thousands and hundreds of thousands be saved and filled with the HOLY SPIRIT !!!
Please pray for my family that they will all come and be radically saved 100%!!
God is on the move!!
God is so awesome and amazing!!!! Thank you Mario
Murillo Ministries for being bold and brave and courageous stepping out in faith being obedient to what
God calls you to do. I pray that
Other Pastors and evangelists
Let The Holy Spirit move them to action.
Hallelujah, God is definitely moving!
Keep up the good work brother Mario,
tell those demons to flee and get out of town
in Jesus’ Mighty Name!
I forgot the numbers to send some money. Will you please send to me
Do you mean text to give? Text MMM to 77977
Thank you!