In Season and Out of Season

Narrator: Behold, I stand at the door and knock. This is In Season and Out of Season, a Bible teaching ministry with Father Tom DiLorenzo.

Father Tom DiLorenzo: Good day, good day, it's Father Tom and Anthony today. A blessed New Year, a New Year that belongs to Jesus. My New Year doesn't belong to me, it belongs to the Lord. And we want to see the things of God during this New Year. We want to see the action of the Holy Spirit. We want to see people converted, changed, some becoming priests, maybe others becoming sisters. Wonderful things, families being built up in Jesus.

We want to see good things happen because we are not serving a God who sits on a throne and does nothing. We are serving the Lord who is in our lives, not on a throne doing nothing, but someone who sends his Holy Spirit that things would be accomplished. And one of the most important things to be accomplished is that as we preach the word of God, people come to learn in their hearts about salvation, that they're saved through the blood of Jesus, that God has a plan for their lives, and that they're called to be apostolic. That means go out of yourself, draw people and bring them to Christ one at a time. When you've got good news, you're going to share it.

Many years ago on Route 1, there was a steakhouse. What’s it called? Hilltop. Many years ago, people would go there and do you know what you’d get? Wonderful rolls, a big salad, a T-bone steak. And if you want dessert, it was Grape-Nut pudding. And it was for cheap, it was five dollars as they began. And they had crowds coming.

I tell you that's the way it should be with the word of God. Crowds coming because people get fixed, because people get healed, because people find jobs, because God supplies the needs of these people and they become generous to other people. We are serving a God who is active, not a God who sits on a throne and does zilch. Active, "I will be with you always," he says, "even unto the end of time."

Anthony: So in this New Year 2026, the Lord has really convicted me that it’s time for us to step it up. We want to build our virtue and be virtuous people, but we need to learn how to be spiritual people. We need to learn how to tarry in the spirit, how to overcome the works of the enemy, how to walk in the inheritance of who we are in Christ.

The original priesthood, which God created man for, was not the proclamation of the gospel, it was a demonstration of the gospel, that man was called to demonstrate the power of God. In this year, words are power, but I've heard enough words. We need to see the power of God being demonstrated, but we need to learn how to tarry in the spirit. Miracles don't just occur, miracles are tarried in in prayer, in fasting. In the spiritual realm, the currency of the spiritual realm is sacrifice.

The witches, they have a priesthood to demons, and the witches and the warlocks and the wizards and the Satanists, they make us look like children many times. They'll go to their séances and churches for eight, ten hours, they'll fast for weeks at a time because they want power. And they get power, and they begin to really just dismantle us as Christians.

But here's the thing, there's a remnant of Christians where the power of old wants to return, where miracles want to be released, where demons want to be cast out, where we walk in the inheritance that Jesus walked into. But we need to learn how to tarry in the spirit.

Today we are in Matthew 4:23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom. When the kingdom of God comes, all the works of the enemy are wiped out. Salvation is a full-order deal. Not only are we saved from hell when we die, but we're saved from hell and the works of hell while we're on this earth. And we’re sent out in the name of Christ to destroy all the works of hell.

And healing, Jesus was preaching the gospel and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then his fame went throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics, and Jesus healed them. Great multitudes followed him from Galilee, from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

I've witnessed this in Father Tom's ministry where, as God displayed his power of healing, casting out demons, releasing the kingdom, people have come from all over the world to encounter Jesus through Father Tom. People are tuned in from all over the world to encounter healing through Jesus through this ministry.

Why? Because people are looking for the real thing. People aren't looking to play church anymore. Jesus is going to love you, you're going to make it to heaven, but you weren't created for comfort, you were created for greatness. And all the world can give you is comfort. It’s time to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

The Lord is really convicted me, Father Tom, it's time for me personally to get back into the spirit realm this year, to begin to fast for a day, two days, three days, to pray in tongues for four hours a day. And some days I work 12 hours, no excuses. If God calls you to do something, he gives you the grace to do it. But as Christians, we need to discipline ourselves. A man without discipline is a house without walls.

Yes, we have Jesus as our Lord and Savior, but we need men and women of God. Are you willing to sell out your life for the Lord Jesus? Jesus is a healer, Jesus saves, Jesus delivers. Every great man or woman of God is great because they became nothing, they emptied themselves unto death and allowed Jesus Christ to fill them.

But before every blessing, the Lord calls us to a greater level of consecration. Before every blessing, the Lord calls us to sacrifice for him. This year, will you allow your life to be a living sacrifice for the Lord Jesus Christ as he sacrificed himself on the cross? What are you going to give up this year? What are you going to add to your spiritual life this year? When are you going to say, "Lord, I no longer live for myself, but only for you. Give me my destiny"?

You can push on the Lord until he gives you the destiny you require. "Lord, I'm not going to eat until I feel your presence. I'm not going to eat until you do something in my family's life. I'm going to pray until you heal my children, until you bring provision, until you bring the power of God on. Not for me, so that I can glorify you and bring people into the kingdom."

Father Tom DiLorenzo: Oh my, this is real preaching today in the New Year. Real preaching, God doing something. And that’s what it’s all about. It’s God entering history. He started in the womb of the Virgin Mary, oh before that. He started in the Old Testament when he called Abraham. But now he has given us his Son, and his Son has given us the Holy Spirit.

And I tell you, where the Holy Spirit is, things happen. I don't care what church you belong to, if the Holy Spirit is given freedom, things happen. When the Holy Spirit is not given freedom, the same thing that happened last year is the same thing that's going to happen now: nothing. That's not God's will. Nothing is not God's will. God's will is transformative. It changes people. God's will makes us look a little bit like Jesus himself.

Oh, we need the Holy Spirit. We need the power of God. And we can step into it. You see, we're living in the day of Pentecost. We're living in the power of the Holy Spirit. Nothing is impossible with God. That's reality. I know you've got troubles. I've got troubles too. But nothing is impossible with God. If I depended upon my troubles, I wouldn't be here today. My troubles belong to Jesus, and with Christ's help, they will be taken care of.

But I'm not going to stop proclaiming the name of the Lord because I've got troubles. I'm going to preach the word of God by the grace of God, troubles and all. And when people come to me with troubles, I understand. But you do not allow those troubles to interfere in your life. Do not allow those troubles to interfere in your life with Christ. Because I've got troubles, I give myself to Jesus, and things begin to happen. Have you given yourself to Jesus in this New Year? Not only us, but you too. People come to listen to us and do nothing. Don't even bother to listen to us because what we say is something we have to do.

Surrender is the Christian life. We've just finished an old year and got a New Year, but will this New Year be the same as last? Nothing happened. I want things to happen. "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you." That's God's word. And God works through weak people. Weak people, you just have to give your weakness over to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Anthony: Weak people and crazy people, people who are crazy enough to do the will of God, to sell out. If you have troubles, I'll give you the secret how to cure all your troubles. You keep your eyes on Jesus. You stay solely focused on the Lord Jesus Christ and his mission for you.

And you know what Jesus will do? He'll take care of all the troubles for you. He'll give you the solution. The devil wants you to focus on your troubles and then you're stuck. You've got to have focus on the Lord Jesus Christ. When you let the Lord Jesus fight your battles for you, then you win because the Lord has the answer.

He's just looking: will you trust in me? Will you surrender to me? I have given you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and all the works of the enemy, and nothing will harm you. But you've got to learn how to tarry in the spirit. You've got to learn whether we're living for ourselves or living for the Lord Jesus Christ.

And if I'm living for the Lord Jesus Christ, all the things of the world lose their importance. And that includes comfort, that includes food, that includes nice cars, houses. I just need enough for the Lord to provide me with time with him and the ability to go and preach his word. Do you have the fire in you? The Lord gives out the fire. But you know when the fire would come? When there was a sacrifice on the altar.

When you get serious about the Lord Jesus—are we getting serious? There's a spiritual realm that controls everything we see. Our life is a reflection of what's going on in our soul and our spirit. So when we have an issue, we go into the spirit realm and we start declaring. I declare every work of the enemy destroyed. I declare healing in my body. I declare healing for my children. And we come and we take authority as sons and daughters of God. The devil should never have any authority in the spiritual realm.

But the truth is most non-Christians are more spiritual than Christians. For a lot of Christians, it's just about doing religious activities, but not this year. Your eyes are going to open to see in the spirit. Your ears are going to open to hear the voice of God. You're going to understand who God created you to be in Christ. You're going to learn how to tarry until you get results.

We should be controlling the spiritual realm. When the man of God walks into a room, that whole room should come under the power of God. Angels should be released, the kingdom should be releasing, people should be healed, people should be weeping under the power of the Holy Spirit.

I've been lacking, I've been making excuses, no more. Because we're only on this earth maybe 80, 90, 100 years. We've got to sell out for the Lord Jesus Christ and souls. How many souls are going to hell? And it's our responsibility, it's our duty to display the kingdom of God.

For me and my life, hearing the gospel was never enough. I had to walk in the Holy Rosary and see the demonstration of God’s power. A lot of people have far greater faith than me. I didn’t have that realm of faith. I saw power outside the church, I never saw it inside of it.

But when Father Tom and Maria laid hands on me, when I was slain in the spirit, when demons started coming out of me, when I saw Heather come out of the wheelchair, when the doctor said she was going to be bipolar for life, and she came off 21 medications and the Lord healed her and she’s now medicine-free, depression-free, bipolar-free. This is who Jesus is. Jesus is the healer.

But the world is looking for the sons and daughters of God who are going to manifest his power, who are going to tarry in the spirit, who are going to make a sacrificial life for the Lord Jesus Christ. You've been waiting on Jesus for 20 years, but he's waiting on you. But this is the year, this is the year that you're going to learn who you are, learn how to control the realm of the spirit, how to decree the word of God, how to walk in the inheritance of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let me say it again. We all have a priesthood, not a ministerial priesthood like a Catholic priest, but a priesthood that we minister directly to the Lord Jesus Christ. But when God created Adam and Eve, the priesthood was not with the proclamation of the kingdom, it was with the demonstration of the kingdom of God here and now. And that was what Jesus left for us.

Father Tom DiLorenzo: Demonstration. Where do you find it? If you find it someplace, the Holy Spirit’s working. Demonstration. Go to an AA meeting. Demonstration. Not to church. Everyone sitting on a seat has been delivered from alcohol. Demonstration. Why are we so quiet? Why are we so happy with nothing happening? I don’t know. "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you." That’s God’s word.

Anthony: It's buried under the flesh.

Father Tom DiLorenzo: And it's buried under the flesh, and it's got to come out. And guess who the people are that are going to demonstrate this power? You, me, us. That's what's happening. This is a New Year, but not only a New Year, we need a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That's what the church needs. We don't need another meeting, we need a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit and a surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Surrender. Paul said it: "I live no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me." Paul said it. Are we living it? He says, "I live no longer I, but Christ lives in me." Like who's living in you? Me? No, that's not the way it should be. "I live no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live, I live by grace and faith in the Son of God who loved himself, loved me, and gave himself for me."

This is real stuff. It's a New Year, a New Year with new power. That power was available in the old year, but we were sleeping or we were satisfied. Satisfied. Don't ever get satisfied. There's more of God no matter who you are and what you've experienced. We're talking about an infinite God with infinite power and infinite love and infinite mercy. That's who we're talking about. We're not talking about some prophet, we're talking about God Almighty who gave himself for you on the cross of Jesus Christ. He forfeited the divine glory, he emptied himself, forfeiting the divine glory so that you and I would become children of God filled with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus. We have no idea what he did on the cross. We have no idea. If we preached the cross and what happened on the cross every minute of the day, we'd never come to an end of it because the cross and the work of the cross is infinite, done by an infinite Lord Jesus. The cross, no salvation without the cross.

But it didn't end on Good Friday. It ended and began on Easter Sunday. It ended and began in the power of the resurrection. What did Jesus say on that first Easter? He breathed on them. We need him to breathe in us. Artificial respiration. We need him to breathe in us. He breathed on them and he said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven, whose sins you retain are retained."

Now Catholics believe that. We have a sacrament called Penance. I see people's lives getting changed by the forgiveness of sins. But there's more than the forgiveness of sins, there's the power of the Holy Spirit working in our bodies, doing things that he did in Acts 2 and 3 and 4. But you see we've got to be available, we've got to be willing to be called stupid, foolish. Don't listen to them. They're not very Catholic. I don't care what they say about me. I'm going to continue to preach Jesus. Some people think I'm nuts, but that's okay. Sometimes I think I'm nuts, but that's another story.

Anthony: That's a goal for 2026. Ten people call you nuts for the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a year that you wake up, that I wake up, Father Tom wakes up, because whether you realize it or not, we're all in a spiritual battle. As men of God, we're men of war. As women of God, we're women of war. Those who take the kingdom take it by violence. Not physically, spiritually.

When's the last time you've done spiritual violence to the kingdom of God? You know what happened when St. Patrick came back to Ireland? It was filled with snakes and pagans. He said, "Enough." He went on the mountain for 40 days. He fasted, he prayed, he sought God, and he came down from that mountain with power of God upon his life. And every warlock, every witch, every snake, every serpent, he cast them in the name of Jesus. To this day, no more snakes.

It only takes one person who's wild enough to do the will of God, one man or woman of God who will sell out to the Lord Jesus Christ. And maybe for you it's not 40 days, but the Lord is calling you to a higher place. The Lord wants to take you outside of yourself. The spirit is buried under the flesh and we need to kill the flesh. We need to mortify the flesh. We need to pray in tongues. I came in the chapel this morning, I said, "Father, I've been praying in tongues so much I lost my voice." But hallelujah, now I feel the fire on me.

Do you want the fire of God? I want the fire of God. You never want to look at a man or woman of God and see "I want what they have," because you don't know the sacrifice they paid to get to where they are. There's a sacrifice to move up the realms of the spirit. But guess what? New levels, there's new devils, but God has it for you. We don't want to be fearful. We want to be in authority. When you come in a room, you want to command that room in the name of Jesus by your presence. People are either going to flood in or they're going to run away. You want to be hot or cold. Don't be lukewarm, Jesus says he's going to spit you out. No more.

Be hot or cold because hot people know they need Jesus and cold, you're going to suffer so much that you're going to come to him. This is a year of your destiny. Father, in these moments, pour out the fire of God. Let there be a baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. Let their eyes be opened to who they are in Christ. Let them begin to tarry in the spirit for power. If every man or woman of God was filled with power, the whole world would come to the gospel. Father, 2026, a year of no more namby-pamby.

Father Tom DiLorenzo: No more namby-pamby. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. Whose witness are you today? Go tell someone about Jesus. Go tell someone who's desperate about Jesus. Get out of your comfort zone. Step out into faith. Faith believes without seeing. Go do something today that only a Christian would do. Do it in the name of Jesus. Say to the Lord, "Lead me and I'll do it. Lead me and it’s done." God bless you.

Narrator: This has been In Season and Out of Season with Father Tom DiLorenzo. And remember that this ministry is supported only by the donations of listeners. So please help as the Lord leads you. Father Tom DiLorenzo, P.O. Box 602, East Boston, Massachusetts, 02128. In Season and Out of Season.