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I’m so delighted to be back at one of my
favorite places in the world I’m at the
Dream Center in Los Angeles California
and what an amazing Place God is doing
miracles in this place every day 24
hours a day no matter they never take a
break they never break for Christmas or
Easter or they never take a step back
and say let’s regroup let’s it is
ongoing all the time they have had over
200
000 people come through the programs
here at the Dream Center through the
years
from drugs addiction to Brokenness to
sex trafficking people who have been
through living literal hails and they’re
restored they’re put back together
they’re told and introduced to the King
of Kings Jesus Christ to changes their
life and really breaks curses off of
people’s lives for Generation I’m
sitting with one of the founders of this
amazing Ministry the one and only
Matthew Barnett we love you so much love
your family so much
great with your wife and family that
just have done so much for the kingdom
of God
you’re happy to have you hey it’s a
tremendous um honor to be here
especially on a floor like this you know
you see the background we’re on one of
the floors here at the Dream Center and
I look at that whole building in the
background and I see you and your
ministry and your partners your hand is
in this place 24 hours a day of serving
and helping people and um it’s almost
like you’re you’ve sponsored this whole
campus and it’s incredible because you
know there’s so many things that have
left our city so much heartbroken a lot
of good things have left 30 percent of
the churches in La have closed 30
percent
and so we have this landmark building we
have the old Queen of Angels hospital
where 700 residents live here every
single day whose lives are being
restored and it’s a challenge but you
guys every step of the way have helped
us to help more people especially during
this crisis that we’re in right now and
I’m just so thankful to be with you well
we’re honored to play a a small part
um and what we recently I was uh in uh
in a little gathering of people of
leaders and you and your dad were there
and you and and you guys ministered to
us
and um the Lord just spoke to my heart
again he’s done it through the years you
know we’ve done several things here
several projects here I know we
um made up you know a lot the wonderful
friends and partners said let’s build a
human sex trafficking Wing yeah in this
building and we’ve partnered with you on
that we’re honored to do that and then
one of the ones my favorites was the
emancipated miners building that we did
that provided housing for that
transition out of uh
out of the foster home that many of the
18 year old kids would end up on their
own in the streets and we’ve got that
transition house and I love that and you
told me about your dream for the women’s
Veterans Home yeah and we were able to
uh
through these amazing people they made a
miracle happen yes hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of dollars over all
together over 2.1 million but we’ve got
a big announcement Matthew after I heard
you guys Minister and after I heard you
your dad ministered and you ministered
there and just it just so touched my
heart again that there’s no other place
like this in America maybe not in the
world and by the way you have inspired
thousands of dream centers around the
world to be birthed and Ministries like
it all over the world you are a
prototype of
what a generation is crying out for when
you look at fentanyl when you look at
a hundred thousand people young people
mostly dying I mean it’s it’s
unbelievable I heard somebody on the
radio the other day said it was like if
you had a um a a 747 crashing every week
wow would that would that alarm you and
that’s how many people are dying from
drug addiction and overdoses and the
only answer is places like this and uh
so as you guys were speaking and
ministering I just heard that gentle
Whisper of the holy spirit it’s always
been my dream
to give your ministry a one million
dollar gift it’s always it’s been in my
dream for over 30 years to give a
million dollars to the Dream Center and
one one guest and uh we’re gonna do that
we are able to do that and God’s going
to help us to do that and we’re thrilled
about it and we know that when you give
it into this place into this ministry
it’s that it’s that hundredfold good
ground that Jesus talked about that will
produce Eternal
Eternal results and we’re on a floor
that is for families they’re homeless
families and even walking through here
it just messes you up a little bit in a
good way
because uh you can be immune you can see
on the news the the streets and the
needs and the and the poor and the and
the uh homeless and the hungry
and you can just say well that’s just
how it is but when you walk through a
place like this and you realize Jesus
said in Matthew
which is amazing that’s your name to
Matthew 25
that as you do it unto the least of
these
you’re doing it to me yeah so we’re
giving you precious people who give and
help us
are giving this to the Dream Center but
really we’re giving it to Jesus because
he lives here
he’s fed here he’s clothed here he’s has
his medical needs met here you have so
many outreaches in this place it’s
unbelievable I don’t know how you manage
it I don’t know how you do it well you
know I can’t think that breaks my heart
the most and I know our team is you know
families come in and they have nothing
right I mean they’re like a trash bag in
their car and these little children are
checking in and they walk into these old
hospital rooms they remodeled into
places for families to live
and they see like a bed and we put a
little bear on there to let them know
that you know safety comfort
and the kids are jumping up in the bed
and screaming I haven’t slept in a bed
in years and like how is this possible
in America like kids are jumping up and
down saying I can’t believe I get to
sleep in a bed and they grab that bear
like you just bought them a Rolls-Royce
and just hugging it and like and they
just it’s just so it shocks me I think
I’ve seen it all but when I see the
children’s expression on the basic
little things that are provided and then
have a year to live because of your
ministry and all of your viewers to have
a a year it gives you a real chance to
make it so 30 days it’ll help you let
them live in here for a year or longer
but years ago save up and and you know
if they can you also have job placement
yep opportunities and in Ministry that
helps
we do we have job placement we have GED
programs we have counseling we have free
food every single day to help them and
the goal is really
um you know what Betty Carson was here I
was talking about how all of our
programs are a year longer and he
stopped he looked at me and he said
that’s exactly what’s necessary because
the brain needs time to he goes into
this whole medical reason of why a year
is good wow I looked at my and I said
well yeah that’s exactly why we do it
you know I didn’t realize that we just
do it because people need the holy
spirit is is smarter than a brain
surgeon which Ben Carson is of course
and people need the luxury of time
that’s we call it the Dream Center time
you know when people don’t have time to
make bad decisions they hustle they try
to find a way in the streets to make it
they sell their bodies they deal drugs
because how else are you going to make
it when you’re on the hustle you’re just
trying to get through but here you know
we try to get people away from that
hustling mentality and say look you have
time so good you have time to let the
word of God work in you you have time to
let our church services get in your
spirit you have time to allow all those
things to to grow in your heart and so
by really some of these mothers are
coming here 18 19 years of age they were
emancipated themselves uh they don’t
really know how and then they get parent
coaching and all of this and then it’s
kind of like the scripture the child in
the house of the Lord yes and um because
sometimes it takes time for those root
issues to come out and then to be
rebuilt and the kingdom wise so that’s
why I love about our approach to
homeless families is because you know
sometimes it’s beans and rice and Jesus
Christ you know it’s like right to the
core so but that’s the way it should be
because this whole housing first system
that our government’s under like don’t
challenge people to change just put a
roof over their head no accountability
that’s just not going to do it people
are starving for job skills training but
more than that a spiritual Mentor Bible
studies accountability to really not
only minister to their need but really
minister to their potential
and even as we’re talking what is
powerful about being here on this
property you were talking about they
finally have a bed their own bed with a
little little bear love bear and
I hear a baby uh sound off down the down
the hall and it and it and it and it
touches your heart
because
the answer is is to care the answer is
we can’t uh you’re it’s almost like your
mentality is we can’t do everything but
we’re going to do something yeah and you
just keep adding to that something
another layer and another layer and now
we’re going to build another layer here
at the Dream Center we’re going to be a
part and I believe people are watching
this program today
and you can really make a difference
and I don’t care how you do it just let
God speak to you let him tell you what
to do and think of your own
grandchildren
think of your own children like we’re
hearing little uh Little Voices down the
Halls here and every once in a while
even it sounds like a baby crying and to
have a place that they can come that
they’re safe
that they they can sleep at night and
it’s clean and they’re fed and they’re
clothed and they’re educated and and the
peace of mind of that mother laying her
head down that’s been living in a car or
out on the streets and say my children
are safe tonight what is what do you
think that what do you think we could do
greater than that I know of nothing so
it’s pretty amazing tell us about this
um this great need you mentioned to me
earlier when we were talking that you
have a waiting list of families always
tell us about that yeah you know we have
a waiting list over 100 families trying
to get housing
and you know he was just so discouraging
during covert we like at least try to
get a floor going but it pretty much
stopped in a few days that’s when the
escalation of prices of the building
costs were so high and so we just said
well you know what we’ll just hold on
just pray for a miracle one day to
actually go on and Tackle this floor
just like this one an entire Hospital
floor big rooms to be able to help
people and uh to open up over 20 more
rooms for families which is about 100
people a day of housing it’s just a lot
and uh so we said well we’ll just kind
of put that the back burner and maybe
five ten years down the road we’ll be
able to even think about tackling it and
um
five months down the road we get a call
from you guys to say it’s possible now
we can we can get that waiting list and
get families in because
that’s that’s my greatest treatment you
know the the movie years ago came out
Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith yes
there’s a scene in there where him and
his son are like in a in a train station
and they’re all over the corner and he’s
in the bathroom just with his son
holding him so he can sleep at night
that was a scene that pretty much struck
America to its core right but realizing
that happens every single day with the
people that we’re reaching out to we’re
providing a place out of train stations
and and and now with the whole floor to
be able to do so much more I mean you’re
not just reaching the 20 plus families
you’re reaching hundreds of families
because everyone’s at different levels
some families need six months to get
back on their feet again some need a
year but there’s a constant opening of
families coming into this place who are
being helped and so to even think that
this is possible for us to even start
going on this is
is beyond anything we ever dreamed
because you know we just been throwing
all the water out of the boat over the
last couple years during covet and yeah
you know we lost a million dollar one
million dollars of income because our
youth groups the short-term missions
couldn’t come here right um you know
speaking trips for my dad and I raise
money and and you know I I I for the
first time in my life I thought man it
might be over die and the Lord said well
if it’s going to be over go out serving
and so we just started serving what we
had and the Lord began to bless it and
bless it and now sending you guys in our
lives and now we’re not just thinking
about survival we’re thinking about
conquering now come on and taking more
and I love you guys so much I want to
thank you your heart is it all over this
campus you’re here everywhere your your
legacy lives in every room in this
campus literally in addition to all that
you support 170 men and women are drug
and alcohol rehab program I mean when
today I just walk to the campus they
were all doing circles prayer walk
circles and um people addicted to
Fentanyl and meth that’s also a program
that you guys have support with your
monthly giving and so
I I’m just kind of bewildered that we’re
actually at a place now that we can
think about going forward and adding and
growing in a time of people think that
way they just throw it out there I’m
just going to throw it out there
I believe that there are 50
people or Ministries or foundations or
corporations
that could step up right now in this
nation and I want to I want you to match
that if you can match what our ministry
is doing match it and bless them because
this is the Lord’s work and he will
bless anyone who will do it and thank
you partners
as we are sending every month now we
started it and we’ll just finish it till
we’re completely done with it a hundred
thousand a month until we’ve completed
our gift of a million dollars and then
we’ll keep doing our monthly support
like we’ve been doing for a long time
we’ll be back in 90 seconds with more of
Jensen Franklin’s message over 75 000
people face the harsh reality of
homelessness every single night in Los
Angeles it’s truly heartbreaking to know
that among these vulnerable individuals
are families and innocent children
imagine their desperation as they wander
the streets hungry and without a place
to call home for over a decade Jensen
Franklin media Ministries has partnered
with the Dream Center in Los Angeles to
provide a place where people whose
dreams have been shattered find the love
of Jesus and in the process they find
wholeness New Hope a fresh start because
of you we have provided a home for
emancipated minors who had nowhere to go
we built a house for homeless women
veterans suffering from PTSD and now we
are continuing our partnership with the
Dream Center and building the Freedom
House for homeless families it’s a
program that presents struggling
homeless families with several powerful
opportunities not only will they have a
bed to lay their head on at night but
the entire family will be fed they’ll
receive help for their education
counseling as well as learning new
skills that will help them provide for
their family and their future by
contributing to this crucial project you
honor the very words spoken by Jesus in
Matthew 25 40. truly I tell you whatever
you did to one of the least of these
brothers and sisters of mine you did for
me today you have the power to provide
them with the hope they so desperately
seek go online to see how you can be
involved
it’s one thing to add a floor it’s
another thing to have all the people
that have to support that fool the
workers the supplies the food I don’t
know how you do it how do you how do you
think when you pull up on this campus
how do how does your mind uh how do you
feel when you see the families and the
lives that are being changed do you know
I think Pastor Jensen when I used to try
to see this Hospital you know Assist on
the Hollywood freeway it’s 400 000
square feet it’s the biggest landmark in
all of La everybody wants our land
because it’s still about you know
valuable and they they pull up and you
can see the Dream Center and right
behind it you can see the Hollywood Sign
yeah and Hollywood says bring your youth
will make them famous but oftentimes
they turn into drug addicts and they end
up on the street and then right below
the Hollywood sign I see this Hospital
that is a real dream and that is picking
up the pieces of the of the broken
Hollywood dream and it sits right
underneath that sign is really where we
pick up the The Broken Pieces of What
the fall stream really was and help them
get their lives back together again and
so when I pull up and I see that
hospital and the Hollywood sign behind
it I say this is God’s dream for your
life and man’s dream is disappointing
but when people find God’s dream when
um there’s endurance in it there’s
potential in it we just don’t Minister
people’s needs we miss her potential and
um it just kind of warms my heart every
day that the most um visible land in all
of Los Angeles belongs to God’s kingdom
and his people who are investing into
the lives of others and so it’s the real
dream it’s it’s God’s dream and to think
that all the roots we’ve been able to
put down here in this city and stay when
everybody is leaving I always say the
most powerful message to the community
is to stay and that’s how you change the
atmosphere of the community by
outlasting the drug dealers outlasting
The Pimps whoever stays the longest will
win the battle for influence I love and
you guys have allowed us to stay nearly
three decades through all the
impossibilities and I know sometimes
television Hypes the need in LA but
they’re not over hyping if anything
they’re under hyping what’s really going
on it’s worse yeah what even television
shows I’ve never seen I feel like kind
of like Nehemiah now it’s like you know
kind of rebuilding the walls of the city
with people who are helping us with a
common heart but um you know when times
get tough we just put down deeper roots
and we just keep fighting for the hearts
and souls of people
well we want to thank you for being a
part we want to thank you for helping us
help great Ministries we do three things
with resources that you give to this
ministry number one we preach the gospel
all over the world over 200 Nations we
translate these messages that you watch
every week into different languages it
goes all over the world we’re always
enlarging that secondly we
produce materials written materials
books Bibles all kinds of materials
things that we can do to get the gospel
out and then lastly we love to give
generously to Great Ministries
partner with them you know we can try to
do everything ourselves or you can find
a great ministry that that has a track
record that is Integris that does what
they say they do only they exceed it
they can’t even describe what they do
until you come and see it for yourself
and we try to come alongside and say
here take this gift last year in our own
hometown of Gainesville Georgia we were
able to give a million dollars to a
homeless Center there but this year the
Lord says the Dream Center needs to be
that gift and you are wonderful Partners
make those kinds of miracles happen and
I can truly say it is the greatest joy
in my life to just I’m just searching
all the time what would you have us do
Holy Spirit yes and I want to thank you
for making that happen and we’re going
to continue to do that if you’re
watching this today and you would say
you know I need a miracle in my home in
my family I want to encourage you to do
something help make that Miracle happen
for someone else then God has a way of
making it just come back around
and Target the very great need in your
own life and I want to pray for you
today and I want to believe God with you
would you pray number one that we would
see just all that we need to do to help
this ministry do what they’re doing and
then pray for the Dream Center Matthew
Barnett and the amazing team here that
they would absolutely have more than
enough and then that God would bless
this new floor this new project of up to
a hundred family a hundred people uh
being blessed is it a hundred people or
a hundred things 100 families 100 years
in the course of that year will come
through this floor by God’s grace
because you made it happen because
you’re getting to it today because you
do more than just say yeah somebody
needs to do something but you say I am
the one and this is the place and now is
the time and I’m gonna just listen to
that whispering God’s of God’s little
voice in my ear and I’m going to give to
that because it’s going to make a
difference I want to pray for you today
Father I thank you for every person
who’s viewing
and I just pray today for every home and
every family that’s going through any
kind of crisis
and today what we make happen for others
you know how to make it happen for our
families and they may be in Arkansas
they may be in Alabama they may be in
Tennessee or Oregon or I don’t know
where people are watching this Florida
New York and you may feel like God I
need a miracle in my own home well as we
provide a floor at the Dream Center
through this million dollar gift that
we’re giving the Dream Center as we
provide a floor for a hundred families
who are homeless to come through and be
clothed and fed and have somewhere to
sleep and eat and get their lives back
together and restore it and most of all
find Jesus I pray that you would Target
families and homes that are watching
this program I know what it is to have a
need in my own family I know what it is
to go through pain and suffering and
know that it looks like the enemy is
going to win with with your child or
with your grandchild and in the name of
Jesus Lord we just pray the power of
your name the power of your blood cover
every home represented in this audience
today
speak to people and let them know that
you are the god of their families and
that you know how to reach and restore
and say
in Jesus name maybe you’re watching this
program you’d say I need a change in my
life let it start with you just say
Jesus I receive you as my Lord and
Savior Wash Me cleanse me and heal my
life in my family and if you’re watching
this today
and you need prayer there’s a number on
the screen go to that number and pray
and if you prayed that prayer we’ve got
free gifts we want to give you like a
devotional for the next 30 days it’s
free it’s our gift to you just go online
the address is there and all you have to
do is just say I’m reaching out there’s
all kinds of materials that’ll be a
blessing to you and if you’re watching
this today and you’d say I’d love to be
a part of what God is doing through that
Ministry and particularly that floor
that Kingdom connection is providing
then I appreciate your support and you
can help us make a difference in a
hundred families right here on the floor
that we’re making happen through the
amazing Dream Center and Pastor Matthew
Barnett thank you for making that
Miracle happen ask the Lord what it had
you do and then just boldly do it and
let’s see what we can do together thank
you so much God bless you
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