In Season and Out of Season

Anthony: Happy Monday. This is In Season and Out of Season, a ministry where we believe that Jesus still heals, Jesus still saves. Jesus is alive. He’s active and he wants to encounter you today.

Lord, open up the wells of heaven, open up the wells of healing, open up the wells of salvation and eternal life. Lord, begin to break chains by your spirit. Begin to let people understand. Do you know who you are in Christ? That you are more than a conqueror, that nothing today can separate you from the love of God.

We believe that Jesus can heal you today through the radio. Maybe heal you of oppression, heal you of depression, heal you of obsession. We want to be obsessed with the Lord Jesus. We want to wake up and tell the Lord Jesus, "I love you. I bless you, Lord. Today is your day." But Jesus, it’s only by your grace that we can do that. It’s only by your grace we can be saved. It’s only by your blood that we can be made right with God.

To be righteous is to be in right standing with God, and there is no other way than the blood that Jesus shed for you and for me on Calvary. Without the shedding of blood, there is no atonement for sin. Nothing you can do. Jesus is here. Take salvation. Take my kingdom. Take it today. I’m here with my dear friend Teresa. She’s known Father Tom—how many years did you know Father Tom?

Teresa: Close to 30 years. We met in the 90s. A friend had called me at work and said she was having difficulty breathing. She’d been battling asthma for years and asked if I could go with her to a healing service at the Espousal Center in Waltham on a Wednesday night. I said, "Sure." She picked me up after work.

I’m a pharmacist. I was busy in my hospital pharmacy career. I was also analytical—prove it to me, evidence-based everything. Cecilia picked me up after work and we drove to the Espousal Center in Waltham. She asked me to just come to this healing service with her.

We went in, and first there was the mass. This priest came out, and I thought, "I love this priest." He was so genuine. That was Father Tom DiLorenzo. That was the very first time I met him, thanks to Cecilia Carney. Bless her. She’s probably having a great day in heaven today.

He said the mass and it was just beautiful. I saw him as so humble, so genuine, just filled with the love of God. That’s what came out of him. He just radiated the love of God. After the mass, everybody started coming up around the altar to be prayed over by Father Tom.

He went to the first person and prayed over this fellow. It was like he leaned toward the person, put his hand on the fellow’s head, said something, and the next thing I know, the fellow was on the ground laughing. I thought, "Whoa, this is not good. This is something’s wrong here. This is not Catholic." I didn’t know the Holy Spirit.

Then he went to the next person and the exact same thing happened. He leaned over, put his hand on this fellow’s head, and said something. I didn’t know he was praying in the spirit. The fellow fell on the ground and started laughing. I said, "Cecilia, what is going on? This is terrible. You’re not going up there, are you?" She said, "Yeah, come."

She dragged me up there. When Father Tom came to her first, he put his hand on her head. I said, "You’re not going to let him push you down." She said, "No, no." Next thing I know, she was on the ground. She was silent. She wasn’t laughing or crying; she was just silent. He came to me, and I took like a football player stance and said, "He’s not pushing me down. I’m not going to fall for any of this."

When he passed, I went back to my seat thinking, "I wish I had my car. I’d be out of here." At the end of the mass, he said, "If it’s your first time, you’ve got to come back three times before you make any decisions." I’m thinking, "This is wacky. I’ve never seen anything like this. I don’t think this is good." Cecilia gets up and I said, "Cecilia, did you know this was going to happen?" She said, "Yeah."

We drove out to the car and as we were driving away, she wasn’t wheezing. She wasn’t shaking. She wasn’t struggling for breath. I saw her healed of asthma that night after Father Tom prayed over her. I’m a hospital pharmacist. My entire career has been at major teaching hospitals. To see her healed in just a few minutes after Father Tom placed his hand, I didn’t understand it.

I said, "I’ve got to go back next week and find out what’s going on here." Thirty years with him, pretty much every week, sometimes twice a week. All the Sunday nights at Holy Rosary in Winthrop and those glory nights. Anthony, he’s the one who led us to have an actual experience of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Those glory nights were amazing.

Anthony: Amen. Doctor Jesus. We have doctors on this earth. God bless them, God uses them, but there’s one doctor who sits above every other doctor, every other degree, every other certification. His name is Doctor Jesus. Because he is risen, anything can happen at any time. For those who have faith, and for even those who don’t have faith yet, I’ll use my faith in Christ to allow him to heal you.

What does healing do? It brings people to conversion. It’s about the kingdom of God. Jesus is the king. He came to install his kingdom. Church is supposed to be fun, supposed to be filled with joy and love and holy laughter. We need holy laughter. The good news is that Father Tom gave it to us. He struggled and he suffered and he strived for the Lord, and he gave it to us.

Where he left off, we begin. These glory nights are not ending; they’re going to double in power. Come Wednesday, it’s going to double in power. The Lord’s already giving us stuff that we want to do to just let his presence come in a new and powerful way. God is moving greater now. We’re in the end times where gross darkness is covering the earth, but the good news is where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.

There’s more room for grace now than ever. But you need to know how to tarry with the Lord. God wants to bless us abundantly, but he can only give us blessings that we can handle. He’s not going to give us something that we can’t steward well. Lord Jesus, let the fire fall right now. Let the glory fall.

When the realm of the kingdom comes on earth, God does things in God-like ways. We can’t put him in a box. Everyone wants to set the service and then try to squeeze the Holy Spirit into that. You just can't do it because God is supernatural. Tell them about when everyone smelled the tobacco.

Teresa: Let me just say one thing about the divine physician. One thing that Father Tom always taught me was thank the doctors for the diagnosis but go to the Lord for the prognosis. Being in hospitals my whole life, I 100% thank the doctors for the diagnosis but go to the Lord for the prognosis.

What you were saying about those glory nights, especially at Holy Rosary, and now we’re seeing it in greater—it makes me think the Bible says the latter glory will be greater than the former glory. Here at St. John’s in Quincy, we’ll be seeing more of the greater glory. One night at Holy Rosary, we’ve got hundreds of glory stories to hopefully get people excited for the things the Lord is doing in our day.

One night we were at Holy Rosary with Father Tom in the glory. We started smelling tobacco—the smell of tobacco. Somebody said they smelled tobacco and other people said, "I smell tobacco too." Lots of people were smelling tobacco. As we prayed, we said, "Lord, why? Why are we smelling tobacco?" The Lord showed Father Tom that he was healing people of cigarette addictions, of tobacco addictions.

That night, everyone who was there in the church who had a problem with cigarettes or was smoking was freed from the addiction to cigarettes. In the glory, anything is possible. We’d get smells like—I remember cotton candy the first time. That reminds me of when we were kids and would go to a fair or something. We’re like, "Lord, why are we smelling cotton candy?" He was just so pleased that his children were with him having a joyful night. Just as a parent would love their children to be joyful and having a fun time at the fair.

We’ve seen in the glory people healed of all kinds of things. A woman one night, I remember she was there and she couldn’t hear out of one ear. Father Tom prayed over her and she started getting her hearing back. He had her go a number of steps away and someone led her with her back to Father Tom so she couldn’t hear or see what he was saying.

He would say things and she could repeat them. As she got farther and farther away, her hearing came back. She was healed and her hearing fully restored. With God, all things are possible. One of the other things Father Tom really did was he made the Bible come alive. As a lifelong Catholic, I had never read the Bible. I had read children’s book Bibles but never a Bible.

Father Tom would declare scriptures and say, "Read the Bible." I started reading the Bible and I realized God speaks to us when we read the Bible. His word is active and alive. It’s a two-edged sword able to discern the works of the heart. He made the scripture come alive. For us Catholics, we just love the different parts of the church. I have Baptist friends who know the Bible inside and out, so I would call them and say, "Where’s this in the Bible?"

Some of the Pentecostal friends that we’ve met who know the Holy Spirit and have been moving in these things for decades—we’re like, "Let’s come together so we can learn from you, you can learn from us, and the body of Christ can be strengthened." Father Tom was just so good at doing that. I’m grateful.

Anthony: I’m grateful too. He loved Jesus and he loved anyone who loved Jesus. Baptist, Pentecostal, whatever. Jesus is King. Jesus and his blood is the only way to heaven. It’s all about the Lord Jesus Christ and what he did for us on the cross, but the inheritance he gave to you. From the cross, Jesus said it is finished. Take the keys to the kingdom.

If God’s not moving in my life, it’s not on Jesus; it’s on me because I’m not doing what Jesus is calling me to do. It’s interiorly. It may just be a little thing. It may be to give a little, to step out in faith and evangelize, to fast. Step by step, the Lord completes our book. There’s a scroll written about you in heaven, and God wants you to get to the end of your scroll, but he goes chapter by chapter. You can’t move to the next chapter until you learn, until you completed chapter two. You can’t go to chapter three.

We don’t want to get ahead of God. Wherever you are is where you need to be to get to the next level. Life is exciting with Jesus. All these stories are not to exalt Father Tom. I could give you stories too. It’s not to exalt me. It’s to exalt Jesus and allow you to understand the inheritance you have. Mark 16:20 says, "And the disciples went everywhere and they preached and the Lord worked through them, confirming his word by many miraculous signs."

But you’ve got to speak his word. You’ve got to have faith and wisdom that God still heals and God still saves and God still restores. Jesus Christ, he’s the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and even today for you, he has plans for you. He has plans for this ministry. Ministry update: just because Father’s in heaven, he’s operating from the other side of the realm, in the church triumphant. We’re the church militant on earth.

Whether people understand or not, we’re united. It’s just another realm or dimension. Father can pray for us and intercede for us and affect the ministry and ask God to do miracles. His prayers are so efficacious. This ministry is going to grow. It’s going to grow, and we’re so grateful for everyone who’s continued to give because you love Father, but more so you love the proclamation of the gospel in the realm of the kingdom. This is God’s ministry. It always has been. It’s Jesus’s ministry.

Jesus said, "Lord, if you don’t want it to go, don’t provide the money and it won’t go." But Jesus is going to provide because through the new revelation that the Lord is going to operate through whoever comes upon this mic, the revelation that was released by Father in his tapes and we get to listen to them—there’s going to be thousands and thousands of people who are not only saved but brought into the kingdom. We’re not just going for salvation. We’re going for an army of Christ followers who love Christ, who understand the power of Christ, who understand who they are in Christ.

When the devil wakes up, he’s shaking in his boots because he knows, "Oh, oh, they’re learning. They’re learning who they are, the inheritance they have." Jesus gave you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and all the works of the enemy. The devil belongs under your feet, but are you trampling on him? That’s the thing. It’s up to us. Everything’s by God’s grace, but it’s up to me to do what the Lord is calling me to do, to become who he’s calling me to be.

Teresa: The stories, they’re not just stories; they’re testimonies of what God is doing. It just reminded me of that scripture that says that we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. All of these glory stories or testimonies are advancing the kingdom and they’re the landing strip for the Lord to do it again. When we give our testimony, the spirit of Jesus, the prophecy, it’s for him to do it again.

As many times as we may have told some of these testimonies, it’s worth it. I saw another thing. One night this woman would tell the same testimony over and over again about how she had to have oxygen with her. She always carried her oxygen everywhere. She would come and she would tell that same testimony and I didn’t realize that every time she told it, someone else in the glory was getting healed. We overcome by the blood of the lamb, the word of our testimony, and it’s the landing strip for Jesus to work again.

Anthony: That’s right. The old school healing evangelists, they would just go up and just tell stories and tell testimony. As they begin to speak about healing and miracles, people would just start being healed. The power of God would just start falling upon people. What we speak of should manifest. When we speak healing, people should be healed. When we speak salvation, people should come to give their life to the Lord Jesus Christ because there’s a realm.

People were telling me that their life was changed by coming to Glory Night. Completely changed. When I met Father Tom, I walked in one way and I walked out the other. Jesus met me. He encountered me. It wasn’t about religion, wasn’t about church—those things are good, but without a relationship with Jesus, you’re just doing things. Once the Holy Spirit opens your eyes of what’s really going on in the mass and the confessional and the Eucharist, then it’s like, "Oh my gosh." You can’t keep him out.

Without that knowing and loving Christ, it’s all just actions without relationship. Jesus wants to meet you today. I had to do the eulogy at my grandfather’s funeral and they were like, "You’ve got to tell stories about him." So I gave him a story or two, but I said as much as he loved golf or baseball, he’s up there with the Lord Jesus and he wants this whole family coming. I preached the gospel and I preached how you get to heaven.

There’s no way you should ever be on the pulpit and not preach Jesus. There’s no way you should ever speak to someone and not preach Jesus. You’ve got to allow people to understand that heaven is a gift. Heaven isn't earned. For you, it’s a gift. You just say, "Lord Jesus, today I give you my life. I ask for you to forgive me for my sins. Fill me with the Holy Spirit because I surrender my life to you."

I believe in my experience we’re born three times in this world. I’m born when I come out of my mother’s womb. I’m reborn the day I’m baptized. I’m born the day as an adult I decide to stop playing around with God and to give my life to him, to surrender my life to the Lord Jesus Christ and to live to serve and love Jesus Christ only in a more profound way. Three births. That’s what I’ve experienced and the best birth is when I was old enough to understand it, I was old enough to receive it, I was old enough.

I had to enter into the atmosphere of heaven. Angels swerving around everywhere. The Holy Spirit and the kingdom of God descending upon the church. People being healed. Happy Catholics, people waving flags, yelling, praying in tongues. I wasn’t intimidated. I was saying, "Hey, something real," because my spirit knew. My spirit knew this is what’s happening in heaven. This is what I was created to live in. This is where the power of God is pouring into the church, pouring in upon me.

Oh, river of God, flow down on me. Oh, river of God, flow down on me. Oh, river of God, come set me free. Oh, river of God, flow down on me.

When you get in the river, it washes away all your doubts and fears and trauma and insecurity and you become flowing. The reason why it’s a river is because you just jump in and it takes you downstream. Now, it doesn't happen all at once, certainly not. The Lord’s purifying me as he is you day by day by day. But the Holy Spirit empowers you to hear the voice of God and know the Lord Jesus and to do hard things for the kingdom. Things that are impossible for man, but with God are possible.

You actually have a motivation to do things that you would never want to do, to give all your money to the kingdom, to begin to fast, not eat food. Why would I not want to eat food for days and weeks? Because I want Jesus more. I want the presence of God more. Why would I want to go out and preach and pray for people and suffer for people? That’s the Lord Jesus that begins to live and dwell and abide in you and you become like Christ—a living sacrifice. Not about love of self; it’s about love of God. Until we meet the Lord Jesus, everything we do is about us and love of self because it feels good for me and it makes me feel this way.

But when we meet Jesus Christ, it becomes about the love of God and it becomes about serving the kingdom and serving the Lord Jesus Christ. From that place, you get more joy, you get more purpose, you get more meaning in your life because you start to obtain the life of Christ, which he wants to give you today—not for me, not only for Father, not only for Teresa, but for you. This is why you’re hearing it because the Lord wants to bring you into what he’s brought us into. That’s the ministry of this radio—to bring you in, not to get you to say the sinner’s prayer once. Amen. We want you to receive the gift of salvation, but Jesus has so much more for you if you will surrender.

Teresa: When I started being the pharmacist when I saw this stuff, I thought, "Medicate them." I thought we should put—that’s how—so if you’re out there and you’re not yet into the fullness, just as the Lord made a way for me through Father Tom, he’ll make a way for you. Now I just love—I do just what the Blessed Mother said at Cana: do whatever he tells you. However the Lord is speaking, whether it’s through the scriptures, through a friend, through nature, through a sign, that we just come alive.

I’m tiny. I’m less than five feet and I always complained—I didn’t love being the shortest one in every picture. Then one year I went with Maria Vadia to Africa and ended up ministering to the Batwa pygmies in Southwestern Uganda. I was weeping because I was the same height as these beautiful pygmies. The Lord will use you however you are, however he made you. Stay close to him because he’s got great plans. Jeremiah 29:11—he’s got really good plans beyond what you can ask or imagine.

Anthony: That’s right. He created you perfectly to achieve the mission that he sent you here for. You’re not here to just be wishy-washy, to linger around the earth. You’re here to be a missile for the Lord Jesus Christ. I’m preaching to myself. It’s been a really hard three months since Father went, but God uses all things for the good.

Jesus is King. Jesus is on his throne and Jesus wants us to continue to move forward. He uses all things for the good. He converts suffering into grace when you just receive it with love and give it back to the Lord Jesus. It becomes light. Today Jesus wants to encounter you with his love. We want to invite you on Wednesday to come to Glory Night at 7:00 at St. John’s in Quincy and just come praise and worship with us and allow God to use vessels to pray.

He wants to give you new life every day. We’re only here for a little bit of time. We want to max out our time for the Lord Jesus Christ upon this earth. So Lord, as this broadcast ends, just flood them with the Holy Spirit. Flood them with the power of God. Flood them with the glory of the kingdom, Jesus. Just encounter them in a new way today that you never have before. Just let the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. God bless you.