Mario has been preaching over a span of 50 years. And he said that the message tonight is the one he’d point to as important.
“Twenty years from now, if the Lord tarries, someone’s going to ask me, what do you think was the most important sermon you ever preached in all your ministry. This one tonight I believe is the one that I’ll say.” He dated it from the platform. Sunday night, June 14th, 2026. The title: “Do What the Occasion Demands.” He framed it the way A.W. Tozer told preachers to frame everything, like you’ll stand before the throne of God at the end and give an account for why you said what you said.
That’s the weight he put on it before he read a single verse. The rest of the night earned it.
The Worship
Catherine and her band carried it again, and they came in like Jehoshaphat’s choir sent out ahead of the army. That wasn’t an accident of mood. Catherine stopped mid-set and told the story straight out of 2 Chronicles: a king surrounded by three armies who answered not with weapons but with praisers marched to the front. “So you mean to tell me that they’re facing literal armies. Some of you are facing real life situations.” Then the room sang it back at the problem. Praise will break the chains.
It moved through “Praise” (the one built on the line as long as I’m breathing I’ve got a reason), then into the heavier prophetic material. “Lion of Judah,” with the whole Tent roaring on cue. “Is He Worthy.” “What a God.” A long stretch on the firstborn from the dead coming back on a cloud, every knee bowing, the other gods named as lies. The set wasn’t background. It was warfare with a melody, and by the time they landed on “Holy Ground” the room had gone quiet enough to hear it.
There was also a deliberate altar moment inside the worship, before Mario ever preached. The team had everyone lift their hands as an act of surrender. “Jesus, you’re in charge of our lives, we’re not.” Then a word landed that was for the young people specifically: “There’s a cry inside of a generation, and it’s the sound of wild abandonment for the things of God. He’s setting apart a generation for His glory.” That line is going to matter later in the night. They were calling it out before Mario got to it.
Catherine shared a picture she’d been given: the room seen from above, magnified, and the enemy in it suddenly much smaller than anyone had realized. “I saw the Lord coming and he just did this simple flick and all of a sudden the enemy was out of your life.” Then the decree. “There is a shift in the room tonight. And it’s not because you’re here, it’s not because I’m here, but it’s because the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is in here.”
The Emergency Room
Mario walked up and immediately said he was about to do something out of order. The sermon wasn’t ready to start yet, because there were people in the Tent in a state of emergency and he refused to preach his message while they were still lost.
“Your soul before God is in a state of emergency.” He read 2 Corinthians 4:3, But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing (NKJV), and went after veiled gospels and the preachers who preach them. “There is nothing lower than a preacher who preaches a half gospel. They are worse than a surgeon who would do an operation with dirty hands.” The God of this age has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe, he said, and the preacher who veils the Gospel is as blind as the sinner listening to it. Blind leaders of the blind.
Then the woman at the well. The line he says rocked his life: if you knew the gift. Mario read it as Jesus diagnosing blindness, not scolding sin. Five husbands and a common-law man because she didn’t know the gift. “You don’t need to be that person.” He named what was in the Tent by zone. Anger over here. Depression over there. Addiction. And in scattered places, a spirit of suicide. “What makes you go back after you promised yourself a hundred times you’d never put another needle in your arm.” He said no religion ever placed value on human life the way Jesus did, drew the contrast with Islam plainly (Allah asks the devoted to kill and die for him, Jesus came and died for us), and pushed people toward the only thing that breaks the power of Satan. “Buddha can’t do it. Oprah can’t do it. No religion can do it. Only Christ.”
Then he had them close their eyes, told them they’d feel a strange pull, the lie that you can keep a life the Bible calls immoral and have God too, and he called for hands. Hands went up. He told them to stand, get to the nearest aisle, run if they had to. And they came. From everywhere. He routed them out to be prayed over, told the room to welcome them into the family, and refused to let the moment pass as anything less than the main event. “This is what we came to Stockton for.”
He set up the rest of the night with one line aimed right at the people he’d just led to Christ: even if a dead body came up out of a coffin under the Tent, that miracle wouldn’t come near the one they’d just received.
The Sermon: Do What the Occasion Demands
Text was 1 Samuel 10:6-7. Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. And let it be, when these signs come to you, that you do as the occasion demands; for God is with you (NKJV).
Then he told the truth as he sees it. “California is an unmitigated disaster.” He was born in San Francisco, watched his hometown get destroyed by ideas he can name, and he didn’t soften it. There’s no blindness like woke blindness, he said, because to defend it you have to ignore everything it does. He kept pulling himself back from politics and insisting he was being spiritual, then naming rigged elections and the L.A. ‘clown show’ anyway. The point underneath the heat: California is home to 15 million born-again Christians, more than any state in the country, “but you wouldn’t know it.”
Capernaum, and the Sign They Asked For
Here’s where the sermon found its heart. John 6:30. Jesus is in Capernaum, the place that had seen more mass healing than any city in the history of the planet, predicted 700 years out through Isaiah’s word over Zebulun and Naphtali. The disenfranchised northern region. Second-class citizens whose kids weren’t trained in the law, the corridor every invading army marched straight through. And Jesus made it His home and healed tens of thousands.
And then, right after He fed 5,000 with a couple fish and a loaf, the crowd asked Him for a sign. “He has just eradicated cancer and leprosy from the county, and you need a sign.” They wanted manna from the sky, instead of the bread already in their hands.
Mario turned it on the room. “How many of you saw all the people that were healed during this Tent crusade? How many of you thanked God for those healings?” The danger he was naming is Capernaum’s danger: standing in the middle of the miraculous and asking for something better. He read Matthew 11:23, Capernaum exalted to heaven and brought down to Hades, Sodom would have survived if it had seen what Capernaum saw. Then he aimed it. “God is looking at California, and he’s about to do battlefield promotions.” Generals made privates. Brave unknown privates made generals.
The Rebuke to the Charismatic Movement
He said it into the camera on purpose. “I do not like a lot of what I see in the Charismatic Movement.” Prophecy turned into a game. Miracles turned into a moneymaker. Signs and wonders treated as passé when they’re holy. “I want a revival, not a freak show.” What the occasion demands, he said, is a supernatural Church that can lay hands on the sick, cast out devils, speak with new tongues, and won’t back down or fear man. The non-supernatural church is a dinosaur. “The Church will not be relevant to California after this year unless it can cast out devils.”
The One Who Came Back
Luke 17:11-19. Ten lepers healed, one returns to give glory, and he’s the foreigner. “Are you part of the nine or the one?” The nine were all Jewish. The one was a Samaritan. Mario held the room there, because the whole Capernaum warning had been about exactly this. Gratitude is the difference between a region that keeps the visitation and one that loses it.
The Woman With the Issue of Blood
For the last movement before he prayed for the sick, Mario said his tone changed. The first two demands he could roar. This one he felt gentleness about, because it’s aimed at the people who freeze the second God starts to heal them.
Mark 5:25. A certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians (NKJV). He read her desperation, the gift of faith that gave her a specific expectation, the certainty that touching the hem would end twelve years instantly.
Then he described the people in the Tent who hear their own condition called out and freeze anyway, who decide it’s safer to stay sick and in control than to surrender and be healed. “Nothing hurts me more than that.”
And he made the struggle itself the proof. When he calls someone out and they hesitate, that’s not failure. “If I were faking it, they would respond instantaneously. The fact that there is a struggle proves to you that it’s real.”
Then he stopped preaching and the healings began.
The Healings
This is where the room came apart in the best way.
It started with the children and the young in one section. A young woman with a spine condition. A young man with asthma in his lungs. And then a child, and Mario wouldn’t stop at asthma. He had the father stand and hold the boy. “You know that child doesn’t just have asthma. There’s something else going on there.” He named it: the lungs, the heart, something that happened at birth with the heart, and the brain. All three healed at once.
At that the father began to weep. And as Mario kept talking to him, as more got revealed about the boy, the man set his son down and ran. Across the front of the Tent, back again, and again, nothing left in him but glory to God over what had just happened to his son. Mario caught it from the platform. “He’s not just running because of his son. He too has been healed.” The boy and the father both.
A diabetic condition with the heart and pancreas. Headaches and blurred vision, more than one person carrying it, a whole section of the Tent on its feet at once.
Then the man with the white hair and the black coat. They’d told him he couldn’t be cured. Everything tried, nothing worked. Before, he walked in slow, stiff, painful steps, and Mario demonstrated it, the labored shuffle, that’s how you’ve been walking. Then he spoke to him the way Peter spoke to the man at the Beautiful Gate and told him to walk. The man walked. Across the front, faster, arms up. No stiffness. No hesitation. No pain in a body that had been locked up a moment before. Mario named more coming off him as he moved: back, chest, feet, and then no malignancy left anywhere in the body. No cancer.
A woman who’d waited 15 years, excruciating nerve pain, healed and walking, with the gallbladder and liver and dissolving gallstones named on top of it.
A man in the back, green hat, an accident, the rotator cuff and the whole right arm in agony. Told to move it. No pain.
And then the long one. A woman Mario said had suffered at the hands of the medical profession, told by some that she was crazy, who’d asked God to take her life because she couldn’t carry it anymore. He said five parts of her body would be healed but the first was her mind. He traced it back to a brutal attack when she was a little girl, said that’s where the body started shutting down, named an auto-immune disease where the body attacks itself, the wrecked immune system, the antibiotics that made it worse. “This woman is being brought back from the dead. Only Jesus!” Her name was Charlene. He told her she was a healing evangelist, had her stand, and lay hands on another woman. And called cancer out of her body. “I bind cancer in the name of Jesus. And it’s going now.”
There were more than these. These were the ones that filled the front of the Tent.
Where We Go From Here
Mario closed pointing straight at tomorrow. He said if the people do two or three specific things, there will be more miracles tomorrow night than there were tonight. A greater flow than what just happened. He believes it, and after watching a father run laps across the Tent and a stiff man walk free, the room believed it too.
He said good night to the livestream and told the thousands watching across the Central Valley that he loved them. The corridor of glory he saw years ago, Red Bluff down past Bakersfield, he said the livestream turned out to be the answer to how it would ever reach every one of those cities at once. Right now, he said, they’re listening in virtually every city in the valley. “Wake up, church.”
The Living Proof Tent Crusade continues this week in Stockton.
Monday, June15 through Wednesday, June 17. 6:30 PM each night.
Lifesong Church — Stockton, CA
GLORY TO OUR GOD!!!
Excellent, dear warrior brother! Amen to all done and all said. Every healing and every salvation. Every straight and true exhortation, rebuke, or encouragement. All from the heart of God! Stand and Deliver, by His anointing and conviction!
Glory to God. He is so worthy of all praise and adoration. Thank You Jesus.
Wake up Church!
Keep it coming Holy Spirit!
Let Your Fire spread south all the way to San Diego!
California has been ravaged in the Spirit and desperately needs hope!
God bless you Pastor!
I’m believing for this to be the spark of Revival that we have been asking for!
Stay surrendered and vulnerable Brother!
You are right where He wants you in the mighty name of Jesus!
Dear Brother Mario,
ALL GLORY TO GOD!!!
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!!
Will continue to pray for this to continue all across America and around the world!
BLESSINGS UNENDING!
Hallelujah
Praise the mighty name of Jesus 🎚️🕊️🫶🏻
God is on the move; BELIEVE & RECEIVE! oh, children of a Mighty God: praise HIM !! He alone is worthy, our Warrior King Yeshua!
Please come to
Myrtle beach, SC
PRAISE THE LORD!!!!! HALLEJUAH!!!!
As I read this, I weep! Not with sadness but with FAITH & KNOWING GOD wants California redeemed! I grew up in Southern California. This is where I came to know JESUS and the POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION! It’s also where the devil stole my virginity and my 1st baby! I have had such mixed emotions about California but as I read and see what HOLY SPIRIT is doing through these tent meetings, HIS FIRE remains in my belly that possibly I need to be a part of this. So Mario, I know this is nothing short of HOLY GHOST POWER moving through you and your team to bring California back to it’s Rightful place…..the Son flower state, the state that worships the SON of the LIVING GOD! Thank you thank you thank you Mario for obeying and moving in HIS TIME! I love you! Most of all I love YOU FATHER GOD, JESUS and HOLY GHOST! I hear RECOMPENSE! I wold so much love to be part of this! ONLY GOD!
Is there anyplace to see the whole service not live.
Before I have a chance to even finish reading this, I want to send many thanks to Papa God, that it’s My First email of The Day & Trust Holy Spirit to show me what He wants me to SEE!!
All Hail King
Jesus!!! 🕊️
May God bless you, Mario, man of God. There are still many more in America who need to be touched by the hand of God. And the rest of the world needs to see it. God wants the world to see what His Son has done for all. Even the donkeys, if they would just stop braying and listen!
Glory to God!!!
🙌🏽❤️🙌🏽
I am asking for prayer for my husband, Jim who had recently been diagnosed with cancer. It is stage 4 esophageal which there is no cure. He begins chemo and radiation this week as well as immunotherapy. We are both believers and praying for a complete cure.
Glory to God! What a great night.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU JESUS CHRIST MY SAVIOR, HEALER AND VERY BEST FRIEND FOREVER AND EVER AMEN!!!!!!!!
We need more of this now! !!!
More, more, more across America, Isreal, and around the world. PTL it is time for those who have been marginalized to meet Jesus the redeemer. You go Mario with God’s speed. Lord keep this man strong in spirit, soul and body for such a time as this.
Thanks again Larry for this blog. Only you left out the slow train coming that Mario mentioned. Although it describes the mercy of the delay of Jesus, there’s another train on the tracks. It’s an unstoppable freight train with a conductor named Mario. This team of people he put together are amazing. I’m so thankful like the leper who went back to Jesus, for what they’re doing.California can either look back at this moment with joy, or look back like Lot’s wife.Godspeed to all who make this ministry possible! And take the Gospel to the lost souls in NY.
Please pray for my family to be restored and to glorify the Lord in truth and love
I’ve followed Mario since 1992. It is great that he is still a man of God after so many fell. Wish I could make it to California to sit in one of his meetings.
Thsnk you team for your faithful obedience that encourages , inspires and elevates the church toward our original design and purpose.
I LIKE ALL THESE MIRACLES THAT GOD GIVES. MARIO, PRAY THAT GOD WILL TOUCH MY WIFE AND I AND MY FAMILY AND ALL WHO NEEDS CHRIST. I HAD A DOCTOR TELL ME YOU HAVE A LOT OF DOCTORS CHECKING YOU AND I TOLD HIM , YEA AND I WOULD LIKE TO GET RID OF ALL OF THEM DON,T KNOW HE TOOK THAT. GOD BLESS YOU MARIO AND YOUR FAMILY AND TEAM.
Praise God Almighty and Messiah Jesus
I want to thank and bless everyone who is a part of this movement. Godspeed brothers and sisters. May the will of God be done, and let His Kingdom come. Bless you Mario.
Dear Mario, when will you head to Arizona. I live in Tucson AZ. We need this desperately here. I thank God! you have not changed all these years when you preached in Prescott AZ. When I heard you. I have followed your tent revivals. I have prayed that you would come to tucson, all of Arizona. We may be not as big as California but evilness is just as bad here. I have been praying for that kind of ministry for a long time. I just want to thank you for being an Evangelist of God. I have not heard anyone in my life time as you and I am not young but my Spirit feels 20 yrs old. When I see people waking up from there slumber in the states, i get so excited i know my prayers are being heard.So I will continue to pray that church wake up and get out of churches and go to meet people in there backyards, streets . Speak Good News of Jesus Christ… i will continue praying and believe revival an awaking, miracles, healing people filled with the Holy Spirit. AMEN
Two indelible remarks that stained my spirit.
Paraphrase: Those demanding manna from heaven while in the midst of the bread of life before them.
Then he described the people in the Tent who hear their own condition called out and freeze anyway, who decide it’s safer to stay sick and in control than to surrender and be healed. “Nothing hurts me more than that.”
The difference in a miracle and an observer.
Two indelible remarks that stained my spirit.
Paraphrase: Those demanding manna from heaven while in the midst of the bread of life before them.
those who decide it’s safer to stay sick and in control than to surrender and be healed.
The difference in a miracle and an observer.
Praise Yah!!!!!Holy,Holy, is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come! Praise be him glorious name for ever and ever! I pray that he will continue to light a fire under all of us so that many more will receive him! Amen and Amen!
God Bless the entire MMM team, volunteers, and those who found their way to the tent despite the obstacles.
We love you all so much!!!
Thank-you Jesus!!!
I attended a meeting in S.C. I prayed desperately for healing for my spine. I always believed that I had 100% of faith in Jesus for healing. But something must have happened because I did not receive healing in that meeting. There was a woman with the exact same diagnosis to her spine that I have and she was healed.
If I could please ask for prayer for my spine I know that Jesus heals from many miles away. So if you could please pray for me that Jesus heal my spine that is bent and twisted that Jesus would heal me I would be so very grateful to Jesus and I sing his praises to all that would hear me.
Thank you Darlene Peterson.
Gaffney, S C
Oh my, such a fantastic read about what our Loving God is doing there! Praise and Honor to God who wants us to know Him and He wants to help us and heal us to His glory. May all those people be brought to a good Bible believing church and stay with Christ and tell others about Him. Spread the love of Christ to others in California!
Wow so awesome. God is moving there. Praying he starts moving in Northwest Indiana.
So grateful to God for His healing and deliverance using Mario and Holy Spirit to transform California into the Kingdom. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU GOD!
Praise the Lord! He is soooo loving and forgives us of sins we aren’t even aware of! I’m asking for prayer for my husband, Frank, who has Parkinson’s and Dementia. He’s in a memory care center. Please pray for him. We’ve Ben married for 60 years. We meant when we were 12 years old. I feel like I’m losing half of me. Please pray for us?
That’s the stuff I have dreamed about and had a small touch in my own ministry.
I totally agree with Mario’s comments about the church and the charismatic movement and so on. Little wonder preachers like us are not popular but we are not in a popularity contest. Well done…
Pastor Robert Carter
Bashan Ministries
Australia
AMEN AMEN AMEN AND AMEN NOW IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS!
Can we watch the tent services in Ohio?
A sovereign God is action
Surely a night of glorious praise to our wonderful Savior and Lord. He is King of Kings.
Our God is mighty in power. California is in need of revival like the days of old only greater.
I have been following this Ministry for years and have been the recipient of many of Mr. Murillo’s books.
I would be so grateful for intercession for my daughter, Julie-Frances HASSANALI, to accept the gift of Jesus’ Salvation.