You Have Been Told the Truth Badly. That was the title of the sermon. But first there is big news:

The Tent comes down at 9 tomorrow morning. The crusade doesn’t.

That’s the night in one line. Mario Murillo said four days wasn’t enough for Albany, and tonight he put a building and three dates on the screen: The Egg, downtown Albany, November 29, 30, and December 1. A few blocks from the Capitol Building. “Jesus is driving His Hummer right up to the gates of the capital of the state of New York.”

But he made us wait for it, because first there was worship, and then there was a sermon he described as life and death for everyone in the room.

Worship

The night opened with a prayer that set the terms: this is a destination night, where you receive the fire and the anointing to preach the Gospel to the prisons, the city, your church, your family. Then Catherine Mullins took it.

She started with surrender, hands up across the Tent, a shout on the count of three, and went straight into, “I’m Free.” “I am not ashamed to praise like this. Some say it’s foolishness, but I say it’s worth the risk.” From there to the Cross song: “You took the Cross and You broke Your body, You shed Your blood, now the sinner can’t stay. My debt is paid and my record is clean. I couldn’t do it, so You did it for me.” The band turned it into a chant, only God can do it, and the Tent took it over.

“Praise” came next, the valley and the mountain, “I’ll praise when I’m sure and praise when I’m doubting,” and then it broke into “praise will break the chains” until the whole place was saying it. Catherine kept pushing: “My God is alive. How could I keep it inside?”

Then she stopped and prophesied. She asked how many believed we’re taking territory for the kingdom tonight, tomorrow, and the next day. “Revival is not just coming to Albany. Revival is here.” She decreed it in Jesus’ name, because the same Spirit that raised Him lives in us, and went into “Let the Heavens Open Up.” Before the second pass, she said something worth keeping. That song can sound like it belongs to the younger people, but there’s a radical call on every generation to carry the sound of revival. She thought about Caleb, Joshua, Moses. “The older they got, the more powerful they became.” So she prophesied that the heavens are opening over this region and God is using the generations.

Then came the war set. “You are who You say You are, You do what You say You’ll do.” “Let the lion roar,” the Lion of the tribe of Judah, “it’s getting louder, it’s getting stronger.” “Prepare the way of the Lord.” And the line the Tent shouted the hardest: “He’s not a baby in a manger anymore. He’s not a broken man on a cross. He didn’t stay in the grave. He’s not staying in heaven forever.” He’s alive.

Catherine stopped again. She said tonight felt a little different, and she felt strongly that we were literally breaking ground for what God wants to do in November. She said a long time ago she got done with singing songs for the sake of singing songs. “We want to partner with the will of God on earth and see His kingdom established.” When we say people get ready, Jesus is coming, what she sees in the spirit is strongholds breaking and God leaning over the balcony of heaven to respond to His people. So she asked for our voices, and she got them. Oh valley, be raised up. Oh mountain, be made low. Over that she decreed a shift on Albany, a shift on the government, abortion broken, sexual perversion broken, in Jesus’ name.

She welcomed the King of Glory into the Tent and named what happens when He comes. “This is where cancer disappears. This is where depression vanishes. This is where suicidal thoughts have to bow their knees to Jesus. This is where gender confusion dies at the feet of Jesus.”

Then it came down. “What a God.” “If the best thing that I’ve seen is Your glory, then I’ve seen it all.” “I Need You More.” And finally “I Exalt Thee,” which is where Mario found us. He didn’t move on right away. He had us sing it one more time and told us to drown out the worship team.

The Finney Quote

Mario said he doesn’t know of a night that’s ever been filled with more good news than this one. “It is evident that a visitation of God has come to Albany, New York.” Thousands were watching online from nations around the world. He thanked Catherine and the band, thanked the fire choir at the front, and put a quote on the screen.

Charles Finney: “Theaters are full, churches are empty, because the world knows how to tell a lie well and the church tells the truth badly.”

That was the sermon. “Many of you have been told the truth badly. But tonight you’re going to see the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

The Announcement

By faith, he’d promised an announcement tonight. Rather than say it, he put up a slide.

The Egg. November 29, 30, and December 1. “This crusade continues.”

He said it plainly: we’re going downtown, a few blocks from the Capitol building. “Albany, New York is going to see signs and wonders.” Then he caught a few faces. “Don’t give me that Albany look. I don’t want to see that Albany look.” Thursday night, have your turkey, watch your football. “But Sunday night, November the 29th, bring your in-laws and your outlaws. And they’re gonna see the power of God.”

He went to the text he’d be preaching from.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NKJV).

“What it is telling us is that modern preaching has left all of this behind.” Finney did it. Wesley did it. Billy Graham did it. “What we’ve lost in the American pulpit, we’re going to regain.”

To the Pastors

He had every pastor and preacher in the Tent stand, told the camera to scan them, and told us to clap louder for them than we’d ever clapped for him. Then he explained why.

He said, “I am not a rogue preacher. I believe in the local church, and it would be silly not to, because I lead souls to Christ and they have to go somewhere.” He’s watched churches double after a crusade. One tripled. One pastor hosted the Tent on his campgrounds, penciled Mario in for the next summer, then called back embarrassed: they’d baptized 500 people since, the building was too small, and if they doubled again he didn’t know what they’d do. “The reason that our fruit remains is because we preach the Gospel, not a derivative.”

The pastors sitting here, he said, don’t fit the category of telling the truth badly. They fit the category of standing tall in controversy and losing people because they refused to preach a Woke Gospel.

Then he turned on the people who left. If you left a church in Albany because it condemned abortion, or because it believed marriage is between a man and a woman, “shame on you. Because you abandoned your post.” And the “I wasn’t being fed” crowd got it worse. “That’s confusing church with McDonald’s hamburgers. You wanted a Christian drive-through.” You don’t pick a church because you love the choir and the youth program is amazing. You pray, and God assigns you. Assignment means your heart breaks when their heart breaks. When the storm comes, you don’t bail.

“There are some glorious, good men and women of God in this city. And I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that their churches are packed out every Sunday.”

He had one warning before he preached, and he wanted it heard. After my departure savage wolves will come in among you. He goes where other preachers don’t want to go, and after the breakthrough, they want to come. “Don’t let them in. They’re wannabes and they’re not led of the Lord here.” Every gift, every sermon, every teacher, everyone in the fivefold ministry that Albany needs already lives in Albany. “You have everything you need right now.”

He also passed along a piece of Psalm 72 for every pastor in the room, and a promise. “Pastor, this is the night that your turnaround started.”

Greater Is He Who Is in You Than He That Is in the News

He started the sermon with Isaiah 50:4, the tongue of the learned and a word in season to the weary, and said his entire reliance was on the Holy Spirit, not eloquence.

Then he went after the news. There are devils that own these outlets, and all they want is for you to stay agitated and afraid. Nervous people buy things. They sell you something because something’s wrong with you, then sell you a fix for the mess the first thing made. “The Devil is using cortisol to keep you on edge, to keep you nervous, to lock you into dying before your time.” Luke 21 said men’s hearts would fail them. “How did the Bible know heart disease would be the number one American killer?” Doom scrolling. What we need is the word of God.

Every believer needs to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. He said it twice.

Back to 2 Corinthians 10. “Pastor, you’re not a regular leader. You’re a supernatural leader.” He then added a comment about psychiatrists: “You need to be careful not to pay someone $300 an hour who might be crazier than you are.”

He told us where he started. UC Berkeley, among the brainiacs and the intellectuals, communists, back in the day. “None of these demons are new to me.” He spent ten years there, God gave him a handful of students, the Jesus movement broke out, and over 2,000 university students became disciples of Jesus Christ.

“There are voices in Albany that have been allowed to go without accountability for a long, long time. But that day is over. The college professor no longer has unchallenged authority.” University students are going to be told the truth. High school students are going to be told the truth. The Gospel is not an opinion, not a fable, not a fairy tale.

Albany Is Going to Become a Model for America

He laid out the plan for a low-information church.

If there’s going to be an awakening, the first transformation is getting rid of the low-information Christian. You’re going to know your Bible. You’re going to know why you believe. Be ready to give an answer for the hope that lies within you. “Albany’s going to become a model for America.”

How? Pastors are going to love each other in this city. Mario made us shout it. “Competition. It’s going out the window.”

He talked about Pastor Charlie. He said the Lord showed him how many times that man’s heart has been broken, and how in the face of total adversity he decided to build a bridge instead of tearing people down. “I believe that more than anything else, it’s been his attitude that brought me to this city.” Mario thinks they’re more alike than Charlie realizes, because neither of them cares about fame.

Destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. Somebody in this room has had a habit for 20 years. “Tonight conviction is going to descend on this crowd. God is going to turn a wife beater into a model husband. God is going to deliver the alcoholic in one step, not twelve. The suicide spirit is going out of this Tent. Fear, depression, and doubt replaced by warriors.”

Clowns Entertaining the Goats

Then the second quote, this one from Spurgeon, and he read it twice: “A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the Church will have clowns entertaining the goats.”

“We are in that age.” Churches built entirely on marketing. The Holy Spirit welcomed out. Their chorus: Holy Spirit, you’re not welcome in this place. And here is what those churches didn’t tell you.

Truth 1: There’s no other way to God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6 NKJV).

He said this is exactly where the Devil got in. The church decided it’s a hard word America can’t bear. So he took us to 1964, the Los Angeles Coliseum, 120,000 people gathered to hear Billy Graham. No smoke. No skinny jeans. No fog machine. On the scoreboard, one verse: I am the way, the truth, and the life. “The draw was a verse.” The Santa Monica Freeway backed up for 30 minutes with people who never made it in.

Then he turned it on the Tent. He’d prayed about Albany and heard it called a graveyard. So explain the people under this Tent. “You think it’s me? It’s not me. You can’t explain this as a man. This is God’s hour of visitation on Albany, New York.”

He studied Billy Graham, his hero. People accused Graham of being too simple. What he’d actually done was spend all day with God, not just to learn what to say but what not to say. “Can you imagine if all of these preachers in America would one Sunday quit saying what’s in their own mind and only spoke what the Holy Spirit told them to? America would be revolutionized overnight.”

Truth 2: You have no excuse.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse (Romans 1:20 NKJV).

Mr. Atheist, Mr. Agnostic: you don’t get to say you’d serve God if He proved He was real. You already know. What you’re really asking is how to get out of serving Him. You’d love to blame your parents, society, anybody. The Bible says no excuse.

Truth 3: God has given you proof.

That’s why the crusades are called Living Proof. “We don’t rely on any speculation. What heals the sick under our Tent is the truth of the Gospel.”

Acts 17:31, Paul in Athens, the upper crust, and Paul didn’t spare them because of the degrees after their names. God has appointed a day. You will die. You will stand before God. And He has given proof to everyone by raising Christ from the dead. “Your proof of God’s power to change you is in the resurrection of Christ.” That’s why the disciples wouldn’t stop talking about it.

He had a side word for the professors. “Many college professors are a bunch of bullies. Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size?” When you tell a young mind that America is an evil country, and you bend and twist history because you’ve got tenure, “you’re nothing but a bully. Well, I don’t need your grade. I’m not taking your class.”

Not Ashamed

Then he turned to the church. “Albany, if we’re gonna get along, we’re gonna have to get some things straightened out real fast.” Number 1: we’re going to stop being ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek (Romans 1:16 NKJV).

“I hope the news media is listening, because I ain’t scared of you. The good news will destroy the fake news.” He drilled one phrase: it is the power of God to everyone. He made us say it back until it stuck. There’s no hopeless case in the presence of Christ. Nobody too sick, too addicted, too evil, or too broken. “It’s the power of God to that relative that you don’t want to be over on Turkey Day.”

And a point he said he wished he were a better preacher to make: “Until you understand the Gospel yourself, the world will not understand it. Until it overwhelms you, it will not overwhelm them.”

Canceling the Hall Pass

This is where the sermon went for the throat.

He addressed the intellectuals, the intelligentsia, the politicians, the LGBTQ+ advocates, and the people who believe everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want. “I’m canceling your hall pass today.” Do you really care about poor people? About racism? About injustice? About addiction?

He told the Malibu story. He was invited to preach at a church where the movie stars go, and at dinner the night before, the pastor asked him for a favor: no altar call. Mario didn’t say yes and didn’t say no. He gave him the look. The pastor took it as a yes.

Back in his room he penciled in a sermon called “The Party’s Over.” God said that’s not it. There aren’t any parties in Malibu anymore. God told him to turn on the television (a first) and pay attention to the commercials. Eating disorder clinic. Betty Ford. A domestic violence encounter group. Ten commercials in a row for rehabilitation centers. He had his sermon.

He stood in front of Malibu and said, last night I was going to preach the party’s over, until I realized you aren’t partying anymore. You don’t have a free night. Monday you’re at the eating disorder center. Tuesday you’re at Betty Ford. Wednesday you’re at the domestic violence clinic. “And you don’t know Jesus. And let me tell you about the Cross. It is your one-stop shopping. You kneel at the Cross, and the drugs go away. The violence goes away. The racism goes away.”

Then the line he called the most controversial thing he’s said since he got to Albany, and he said he’d find out if he survived it. “You’re not honest about homelessness. You’re not honest about women’s rights. You’re not honest about transgender people. You’re not honest about injustice and racism if you leave Jesus out of the conversation. You’re lying to us.” He called the social engineers posers who care about human need just enough to keep the federal funding. “You don’t want the cure because your money goes out the window.”

He spoke directly to the governor of New York. He granted she probably has some genuine concern for suffering people. “But after a while it becomes fair game to question your motives if you not only don’t mention Jesus, but you prevent others.” Then the number he wanted us to remember: with government money spent on methadone and heroin therapy, 7% are cured. Add what he called the David Wilkerson factor, the baptism in the Holy Spirit in Teen Challenge, and it turns from 7% to 80%. “You don’t want a cure because Jesus is the cure.”

Why Satan Scandalized Divine Healing

He said he had one more point with 85 subpoints. (He was kidding. Mostly.)

There’s a reason Satan has worked harder to scandalize divine healing than anything else. Of everyone who’s prayed for the sick, two stand out as his heroes: Oral Roberts and Kathryn Kuhlman. You’ve heard horrible things about both. “You need to be re-educated.” He and Mechelle once spent ten hours with Oral Roberts, and Mario said he’s never met a person more like Jesus.

Then a story he got from Luis Palau over dinner in downtown Portland. A Baptist evangelist lecturing him on divine healing.

Decades ago, Oral Roberts got so discouraged he took a hotel room in Portland and wouldn’t talk to anyone. Billy Graham happened to be preaching in town, and Oral’s wife called him: your brother in Christ is in desperate need of encouragement. Billy went up and knocked. “Who is it?” “Billy Graham.” “Go away.” (Mario: “This is how you know you’re discouraged.”) Billy said he’d stay all night if he had to, so Oral opened the door. And Oral said, “Billy, every time the media talks about me it’s negative, and every time they talk about you it’s positive.”

Billy told him about Africa. After a meeting, walking to his trailer, an African woman with a crippled child came and held the child up to him. “She thought I was you.” There was nothing he could do. He felt helpless. And Billy Graham said he would give anything, all the accolades in the press, to feel the power of God go through his right hand the way Oral did every time somebody was healed. Just once.

“We have got to get to the point where we don’t care if we’re criticized. We’re gonna lay hands on the sick anyway.” Healing, tongues, prophecy, the power of God. “We are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.”

Renting Another Day of Powerless Ministry

Then Acts 3, the man at the Gate Beautiful. The best-known paraplegic in Jerusalem. Everybody knew him. Every day he held up the cup the same way, and every day Peter put money in.

Mario believes that man was supposed to walk long before the day he did. And he believes the same about Albany. “I believe that there are miracles that are supposed to have happened in Albany years ago.” Church debts that should have been paid off, but a businessman didn’t obey. Marriages that weren’t supposed to end in divorce in this city, and did.

Why did Peter wait? Mario thinks he was afraid. Peter had watched them decide to kill Jesus, and it wasn’t over His teaching. Society will let your preaching slide. “But when it’s connected to miracles,” that’s when they come for you. Peter did the math: heal this man, get arrested, become a martyr like Jesus had told him he would die. So every day he put in a coin instead. “Every time he gave him money, he was renting another day of powerless ministry. And that’s going on in all the churches.”

A pastor once asked Mario why his church doesn’t see miracles. God told Mario the answer and Mario tried to make God deliver it Himself. The pastor insisted. “God said you don’t have miracles because you can live without them. You can run your church without them. It’s not life and death for you.”

“Pastor, you will become an unstoppable force by God when you quit preaching as though the Gospel was an opinion. It’s not an opinion. It is a fact. And if you start preaching it like it’s a fact, God is gonna give you signs and wonders and miracles.”

Peter got arrested, exactly as he feared. Dragged in front of what Mario called the five heads of the crime families in Jerusalem. And notice what they’d just done: they labeled the healing a crime. Practicing medicine without a license. Teaching other than the state religion. They completely ignored what God did. “Just like the left is ignoring the power of the Spirit to heal heroin addiction.”

By what power or by what name have you done this? (Acts 4:7 NKJV). And Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, answered them with a correction. If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole (Acts 4:9-10 NKJV).

Crime, good deed. Crime, good deed. We’ve been told that witnessing to someone is being judgmental. He recounted a run-in with one of “the alphabet people” who said, I identify as a woman, that should be enough, don’t judge me. Why are you judging me? Mario replied, “Because I identify as a judge. I thought that was the game we were playing.” 

“Pastor, that’s what Albany is doing to you, judging you for a good deed.” Believing in one nation under God is not racist, not improper, not anathema. It’s a good deed. It’s American history. “Our freedom is dependent on keeping Christ as Lord.”

“Are we going to stop apologizing for the Gospel of Jesus? Are we going to start to realize that the one thing that Albany needs is the power of God?”

The Altar Call

Eyes closed. He said you can call his style brash and confrontive and maybe unloving, “but you don’t understand how much love is saturating every syllable of what I’ve said.”

He made it about the joy you don’t have, the peace you wish you had, the fear you do have. And the fact that the world is going by the book. The world system Revelation warned about is forming every day (he believes artificial intelligence will accelerate it). Wars and rumors of wars. Earthquakes. Which means one day Christ will appear, and everyone will decide: heaven or hell, God or the Devil, truth or a lie.

“Tonight, I don’t want you to leave this Tent without a new life.” He wanted people to be able to say the property of their soul had been fully transferred from the Devil to God. You could say no. You could say you go to church. But nothing can quiet the truth screaming in your ear that the one thing that matters most hasn’t happened yet.

Then Philippians 2:13. Every motivational speaker in the world says people need 2 things, the desire to change and the power to change, and nobody can find them. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. “The desire and the power. It’s there, it’s for you, it’s waiting for you.” To be the father you always wanted to be. The husband. The wife and mother.

He offered the prayer of agreement, Matthew 18:19, and asked for hands. “A forest of hands have gone up.” Then he had them stand, find an aisle, and come. “Step forward, man of God. You’re gonna be a man of God.” They kept coming. “There are miracle after miracle after miracles happening tonight.”

Before the prayer he told them why this time would stick. “It wasn’t you that finally decided to come up here. It was God’s power that drew you.” A hundred times you’ve tried to turn over a new leaf. This didn’t begin in your will. It began in God’s heart.

He told them to remember the date. September 16, 2026. The night they stood at the front of a Tent and told Satan, “I’m done with you. I don’t have any more invested in you.” And told Jesus, “Take all of me. Not part of me, all of me.”

The prayer went the way it always does: I see You on the Cross, my sin nailed to it, three days later You rose, and now You’ll live in me as I surrender. Then he turned to the rest of the Tent and said what he says every final night, and means every time. Don’t judge this meeting by how many miracles you see. Appreciate watching souls get saved. “If you think there’s something better, then there’s something wrong with your Christianity.” If the service ended right now, it would be an epic, towering victory. “But here’s the good news. There’s still more.”

He parted the aisles like the Red Sea (his words) and sent them out to the counselors, with a warning to the new converts: even if a casket rose up on this stage, it would be nowhere near the miracle you just received, because yours lasts for eternity. Then the Tent stood and welcomed them out. “I am so proud of this audience.”

He told an NBC story while the counselors worked. Years ago they came to his house during the Swaggart and Bakker scandals, looking for a gotcha: how can you believe the Gospel is valid when men who lived by it fell? Mario countered, “They weren’t living by the Gospel when they fell. They had the values that you have. It was your values that messed them up.” Then the reporter asked whether he was a charismatic or a Pentecostal. Mario asked him, “Which one sounds more dangerous?”

Then he asked the band for some old-school, foot-stomping, devil-stomping camp meeting music. They gave it to him. “Look What the Lord Has Done,” and then a song about lacing up your boots and riding with Jesus wherever He goes. From the platform the band declared it: “There’s a group of warriors under this Tent who are saying that New York shall be saved.”

The Journal

Everybody remembers little Micah being healed this week. His parents came up on the stage and handed Mario a bag, and he assumed it was a sweet little gift. What they didn’t know is that Mario had just finished a three-year prayer journal, the one where he writes the most important things God tells him (“I don’t trust preachers that don’t have secrets with God”), and he’d been searching for the next one. Every journal he and Mechelle looked at was too small, too this, too that.

He waited until he got back to his room to open the bag. “Michelle, this is the journal I’ve been looking for right here.” He almost cried. He writes in it every day, and he said he’ll think about that family every time.

Time Bombs

He said the healing would go differently tonight, and explained why with Elisha.

Elijah was bombastic. Elisha’s style was to set a time bomb that went off long after he left. They buried him standing up, and when a dead soldier got thrown into his grave and landed on his bones, the man came back to life. “When you can raise the dead after you’re dead, and you’re a skeleton, you are bad to the bone.” He went to the other side of the Tent with that one. “That’s just good theology right there.”

He knew what was in the room, and he told us. Someone right here who needs stomach surgery and won’t, because the pain is going. A man over here injured by a fall on his left side, and it’s become a circulation problem in the arm and the leg. five people over there with the after-effects of COVID, burning lungs and pain that racks the joints. In the back, a woman married for many years whose husband died, who can’t heal from it, stuck and afraid even with people around her, and it’s starting to weaken her body.

“The Lord said all these things are here, but He said, I don’t want you to call them out.” No laying on of hands. Because if you’re healed here and someone associates it with Mario, that’s a certain amount of victory. But if the miracles happen when you get home, when nobody’s around, “suddenly that sets spiritual time bombs all over Albany.” Why not an explosion in every church this Sunday morning? Reports of miracles from every pulpit?

He said many would be baptized in the Holy Spirit in the next few minutes, others would get fresh fire, and then the healings. Hand over your heart: “I believe it’s time for my miracle. When no one can get the credit except You, that is the best miracle.”

Hands up for healing. Then, mid-instruction, he stopped. “Wow, right there. Multiple sclerosis. That’s you. You’re not gonna be in remission, you’re gonna be healed.”

There were so many hands that people laid hands on each other, shoulder to shoulder. The Tent prayed it together. By Your stripes I am healed. Then over the person next to you: in the name of Jesus, I command that sickness to come out of your body. Now is your miracle. Now is your healing. Then pray in the Spirit. And the Tent did, louder when he asked for louder.

“There is more power from the Spirit flowing right now than at any moment in this Tent crusade.”

Last word on healing: do not limit God. “You say, Mario, I was wanting a word tonight. You got a healing. Did you come here for a word or for a healing?” Some of you will find the completion of your miracle on the way home. Then testify. “This could start a fire, a citywide fire, if all of you testify.” He asked everyone who believed they’d been healed in the last few minutes to stand, and they stood all over the Tent. “Look at all these miracles.”

The Revival Sin

Before Frank closed it, Mario had one more thing, and he called it the most important.

You prayed for this. You prayed and prayed and prayed. And now it’s here. So don’t commit the revival sin. Peter was in jail. The church made a lot of prayer for him. The angel let him out, he walked to the gate and knocked, and a young lady heard him, and instead of opening the gate she ran inside and said Peter’s out there. And the people who’d been praying for exactly that said it must be his ghost.

“The worst thing that could happen to this night would be for you to revert back to regular Christianity after you prayed for this.” Then, to the Tent that’s been filling up since Sunday: “You caused this mess. You interrupted my life. How many of you gonna go with it?”

He said that he and Mechelle have fallen in love with Albany. He said it twice. And he’s coming back for the leftovers.

The closing prayer called it what it was. Not a wrap-up. A launch. “You’re launching us into the inner cities.”

What Happens Now

The chairs went on the racks. The Tent comes down at 9 a.m. And the week that opened with Albany being called a spiritual graveyard closes with three dates on the calendar in the heart of the capital.

In the closing video Mario stood by one chair and said it changed his life, because a woman from Calgary, Alberta sat in it after God told her to fly to Albany and she’d be healed, and she was the first person he called out, and cancer left her body. “The way God spoke to her, to come here, I believe God is speaking to you to come to The Egg.”

He asked for prayer meetings to spring up everywhere between now and then. He asked us to start deciding now who we’re bringing. Nobody is going to be able to ignore what’s happening in downtown Albany at the end of November.

Living Proof continues at The Egg Downtown Albany, NY Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, November 29, 30, and December 1 at 6:30 p.m. nightly, all seats are free.

Bring someone. Bring your in-laws and your outlaws!