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When You Yield To God, Multiplication Follows ... English
What if the one thing missing isn’t another strategy but the power to live it? Amy sits with international evangelist Charles Robinet for a raw, joy-filled conversation about surrender, the Holy Spirit, and what happens when ordinary people say yes. Charles shares how, at fourteen, a minister counted down from ten and heaven interrupted—launching a journey that would take him from Chicago streets to nearly a hundred nations. No degrees, no pedigree, just obedience and a growing conviction: the arm of the flesh can’t accomplish what only the Spirit can.
We unpack how Jesus’ command to wait for power still reshapes ministry today, and why so many leaders feel stuck when they substitute polish for presence. Amy tells the moving story of her son hearing the Spirit “in his stomach,” echoing the promise of rivers of living water. Charles points to Joel 2 as a lens for our moment: sons and daughters prophesy, dreams and visions abound, and the outpouring spills across denominations and borders. From Catholics to Baptists, Muslims to atheists, the Holy Ghost is filling hungry hearts. The kingdom is breaching our constructs.
The episode crescendos with vivid testimonies from Brazil: a historic day of Pentecost with 3,000 receiving the Holy Ghost, followed by a stadium where 12,000 were filled in one service and 3,000 more watching on TV. A hesitant young woman named Amanda was equipped to speak the word of faith and watched a rushing wind moment sweep the arena. Even a coven leader who came to curse the meeting was filled and baptized in Jesus’ name on live TV, rising from the water free and radiant. The throughline is mentoring and multiplication—raising voices, releasing gifts, and letting God turn addition into exponential harvest.
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Welcome to GPS, Gospel, Prayer, and Salvation, where we explore deep topics with a fresh perspective and discover faith, hope, and the joy of sharing life's adventures with Jesus. So let's dive deep into the gospel, delve into the power of prayer, and discover the joy of salvation together. GPS, your spiritual journey starts now.
SPEAKER_01:Hello and welcome to another episode of GPS Gospel, Prayer, and Salvation. My name's Amy Elizabeth. I'm the general manager of KFXB and WTJR. Welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you with us today. And I have a very special guest I'd like to introduce you to, International Evangelist Charles Robinet. Welcome to the show, sir. So great to have you here today with us. And we are actually meeting for the first time today.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, ma'am.
SPEAKER_01:And it's been great. We've been having some great conversation already.
SPEAKER_02:We've been crying already.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yes. Holy Spirit is with us today.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And um, I'm just so blessed to have you here. We got connected through a mutual friend, Pastor Tyler with uh UPC Church in Dubuque, Iowa. Yes, ma'am. Um he's a dear friend of both of ours, and so I'm just very blessed that he brought you to the studio today so that we can hear all about what the Lord's doing through your ministry and in the kingdom. And um, so thanks for being here. But I'm gonna pray before we get started with our conversation. So, Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you. Lord, we thank you for the ministry of CTN. Lord, we thank you for using us as vessels for your Holy Spirit. Lord, I just pray over this entire episode today, Lord. I pray that it glorifies you. Lord, just give us the boldness. Give us the boldness, Lord, to speak truth, anoint our mouths to share the gospel, to break chains. Holy Spirit, below on this episode, take it to places that we can't go ourselves. Lord, give people eyes to see and ears to hear what you have for them. Lord, you are a very personal God and you have a very personal message for every single one that is listening to this show and watching this episode today, Lord. And I thank you that you love them so much, Lord, that you have a personal plan for their life, that you have a call in their life, Lord. You want to see everyone equipped for the good works of your ministry, Lord. And I just thank you so much in Jesus' name.
unknown:Amen.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. Well, let's get started. Um, can you just share with the audience a little bit about who you are and um what the Lord's been using you for in ministry? You're a traveling worldwide, traveling international evangelist.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, ma'am.
SPEAKER_01:And you've already been sharing some amazing stories about some of your travels. So, yeah, just introduce yourself a little bit to the audience.
SPEAKER_02:Well, we've been talking for about 30, 40 minutes already, and we've been crying about everything God is doing all around the world. Um I wasn't really raised um in the truth. I I was kind of raised in downtown Chicago, um, and my family didn't come to the truth until I was about 14 years old. But I can remember uh when I came to my first um apostolic church service, and there was this minister that was preaching, and he was just out of control. I mean, he was standing on chairs and he was hollering, and um, you know, for me, being somebody who had never been in an apostolic setting, that was very disconcerting. But I remember him standing on a chair in front of me, and I remember him saying to me, just looking me right in the eyes with laser focus, and he said, He said, You are going to receive the spirit in 10 seconds. Wow. I didn't even know what the spirit was, but I knew I'm feeling something in this place I'd never felt before. I knew I was feeling something I couldn't deny. I knew I was feeling something that had to be real because I'd been in all these other places and never felt God this way. And I remember that evangelist started counting, and he was like, ten, nine, eight. I'm not even saying that's scriptural, I'm not saying that's biblical, but I'm saying that it happened, and I remember him counting. I don't even remember him ever getting to one. Wow, but I I I remember something picked me up out of that seat, brought me to the altar, and I remember throwing my hands in the air, and all of a sudden, just sounds I'd never spoken before began to flow out of me. And of course, at that point in my life.
SPEAKER_01:No framework for that.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, no framework for it. I had no way to process what was happening, but I knew God was in it, and I felt this power, and I felt this spirit of revelation, and that same service. I got baptized in Jesus' name. And so at 14 years old, I have this amazing, revelatory, um, unexplainable, yet undeniable experience with the king of fire, like you said. It was fire that came out of me. And from there, this journey of faith began. And um, you know, I went from there, you know, three years later I went to Bible school. I I backslid in Bible school, which is a terrible thing, um, and wound up joining the U.S. military. But while I'm in the military, God just miraculously turned my life around, called me into the ministry, and that exposure to foreign fields in the military just began to produce in me a desire to serve God in any capacity, any place, any land. And, you know, since I was 19 years old, I've been traveling all over the world serving God, and uh had the privilege to minister in almost a hundred nations around the world, have seen well over a million people receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, uh, their personal fire filled with the Spirit and multitudes of thousands baptized in Jesus' name, multitudes of nations that have just begun to see great revival. And so it's just been an amazing journey. And, you know, to for your audience's sake, um I've never, you know, had any Bible school training in the fact that I'm not, I don't have a degree of any kind. I barely graduated high school. Um, but what I found is that if I would just submit to God and I would just flow in the Spirit, get in the flow, that He would carry me places I didn't deserve, that I couldn't qualify myself for. And so this journey began by being spirit-filled and just being open to His voice. And now I tell my daughters all the time, I say, baby, you know, I want you, obviously, I want my babies to, they're not babies, they're 20 and 17, but I tell them all the time, I say, I want you to put all the tools you can in your belt, get a good education, um, you know, position yourself to be used of God in every way that you can. But when all that's said and done, the greatest gift that you can get a hold of is the gift of the Holy Ghost, because that gift is going to open doors for you that no man can shut. Don't depend on the arm of the flesh, don't depend on our degrees and and and all of these talents and abilities. You depend on the spirit and God will maximize and multiply open doors and and giftings and acceleration and capacity that you can't even, it won't add up on paper. When you look at my life, it does not add up. No mathematician can add this up. How did this nobody from nowhere wind up preaching the gospel and all of these nations and seeing how does that happen? It doesn't with all of the math of this world, but with the spirit, you can do anything.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. Anything. Amen. That reminds me of so my son was baptized in the Holy Spirit at 14 as well, with no framework. I was sharing you with you earlier. You know, I grew up Catholic and Lutheran and then at an evangelical church, and they loved Jesus, but they didn't believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, they didn't, they didn't speak on it, they didn't teach on it. And so my kids were raised in a great Bible teaching church with people who love the Lord, but they didn't teach about the Holy Ghost. And so we were on a mission trip one time with um a bunch of other people from different churches, and I had said to one of the pastors, hey, if my son asks you about being, you know, baptized in the Holy Spirit, feel free. Because I actually prefer other people ministering to my kids than myself because I want them to develop that relationship with the Lord outside of you know their relationship with me. And and so it ended up 10 p.m. one night. We're on the front porch of the house they they rented for this mission trip we were on, and he's standing in the middle of the circle of 10 of us, and we're all laying hands on him. He gets baptized in the Holy Spirit, and the pastor says, So what are what are you hearing? What do you hear? And he says, and with no framework. Wow. Because he wasn't raised with it. You know, I didn't really teach my kids about it at the time because I hadn't been taught about it. And he says, I can hear it, but it's like I hear it right here in my stomach.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:And you can't, you know, you And that's biblical. That's biblical.
SPEAKER_02:Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.
SPEAKER_01:And he had no framework for that. No one had taught him that. Incredible. And yeah, where do you what what are you feeling? What do you hear? He said, I can hear it from my stomach. And so, you know, we were talking in a previous conversation that kids are like the Holy Spirit is just falling on teenagers and young adults in this time. God is busy, God is moving, He's doing things where that people don't have frameworks for, they don't have cord works for, they've never heard in this stuff. And they experience it, and then you read about it in the Word, which is the most amazing revelatory thing that you can open up God's word after you experience something and you see it in the Bible, and you say, I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_02:We're living in the greatest hour of kingdom prophetic revelation that there's ever been. And this, you know, if you look back in Joel chapter two, and it it talks about in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters are gonna prophesy, and you got dreams and visions going everywhere. This Bible prophecy is literally happening every day right now. And people think it's small because they have no framework and maybe they're not connected, and because we have built this paradigm that you know everything happens within these constructs that we have created for ourselves. But the kingdom is literally breaching all of these constructs and breaching all of these religions and breaching all of these ideology and philosophies, and I'm seeing this everywhere. Catholics are being filled with the Holy Ghost, Baptists are being filled with the Holy Ghost, Lutherans are getting the Holy Ghost, Muslims by the thousands are getting the Holy Ghost, uh, atheists, um, Pentecostals are getting the Holy Ghost. You're seeing this global prophetic fulfillment of God's word, and we should not push back against this and go, well, that doesn't fit my picture. But guess what? Your picture doesn't matter. You're this is God's picture. We are living in the last days, and God is gonna do what God's gonna do, and you can be one that fights him, or you can be one that just opens your arms and says, get in the river. Just get in, get yourself an inner tube, baby, and just get in that inner tube and just flow. Because that's the best place to be in the kingdom, is in the flow. And you know, the one of the greatest gifts I think that come with this spirit-filled uh experience that you're talking about, Miss Amy, is is this this amazing spirit of revelation. You want to know things about God, you want to walk in dimensions that you have only dreamed of and that you've only had visions of, you want to to see capacity increase and territory enlarged, and you want to see ministries explode. All of that happens through the spirit of revelation that comes by being filled with the Holy Ghost. And you should not be averse to this. Don't push off the spirit. All of your listeners, all of your viewers, join the global army. We're not debating doctrine here today. We're simply saying let the spirit determine the doctrine, let the spirit determine the flow. Just yield to the spirit, and from there we can start talking about anything we want to talk about. But the beginning of every look, John chapter 3. Let's not act like that's not a Jesus orchestrated, kingdom-orchestrated conversation. If you want to be born again, it's gonna happen by water and it's gonna happen by spirit. This is Jesus. Jesus tells Nicodemus, hey, this is how you get it. You want to get in the flow, it comes by water and it comes by spirit. And you see this carry on over into Acts chapter 2. Peter, a backslidden disciple, let's act like let's not act like that's not true. The guy like forsakes Christ, he curses, he's all jacked up, his everything's fallen apart, he runs back to his old career and he gets a personal invitation to Pentecost. You tell Peter also.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:And Peter shows up, and here amongst eleven who didn't run, didn't flee, didn't deny, didn't cuss, he's chosen to stand up and preach the gospel on the day of Pentecost. And he gets up and preaches exactly what Jesus preached to Nicodemus. And he said, You better repent and you better be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For this is the this promise is unto you, to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord of God should call. How amazing that God chooses Peter to preach this same message that Jesus preached to Nicodemus. That's the beginning, that's the entry, it's not the culmination, it's the entry point. Come on and get the spirit and let's talk about everything else.
SPEAKER_01:Amen.
SPEAKER_02:Come on and get the spirit of revelation, the spirit of truth. Now we can talk about the kingdom. Come on and let's be spirit-filled because that's where the power is. You want to evangelize your city? Get the power. The power and the spirit of revelation is gonna open up your eyes to what God is trying to do in your city, not what you're trying to do.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. Jesus said, Stay here until you've received the gift of the Holy Ghost. Yes. Do not go out and pass it.
SPEAKER_02:Marry me in Jerusalem. Yes, do not go out until you've received you can't do anything. That's an amazing revelation, Amy. He was saying, you can't do this without the Holy Ghost. Amen. What I'm about to send you to do, this global prophetic fulfillment of Joel chapter 2, you can't do without my power. That's why you have so many pastors that are frustrated, so many pastors that are quitting, so many pastors that are depressed, because they have decided to depend on the arm of the flesh. And because they have neglected the arm of the spirit, their churches cannot grow, their ministries cannot grow, their vision cannot succeed. Everything in the kingdom begins with a Terry in Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. That's where it starts. Preach it.
SPEAKER_02:I love your spirit. I I told my wife, I said, this girl, she is legit. I I mean, I've forgive me, but I've been following you on Instagram some and just watching what you're saying and feeling and just trying to get a feel for your. I told Pastor, I said, there's something special about this girl. Thank you. She is, she's she's a powerful woman of God.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you. Well, I'm blessed because I get to go, I do get to do church with all kinds of people in this studio when I have guests in.
SPEAKER_02:It's amazing. Yeah, it's yeah, gift of God.
SPEAKER_01:Such a blessing. I have so many questions on my head. So um, you know, we're talking about you're you're a world-traveling evangelist. You see the Holy Spirit moving in all kinds of countries, all kinds of people. Um, can you share with us a story of watching the Lord move in this younger generation? We've been talking about kids that really have no framework for um the gift of the Holy Spirit and and how they encounter him and what's happening in these revivals in in other areas. Can you share with us a couple stories?
SPEAKER_02:I'm a big believer in the partnership of faith, and I'm a big believer in apostolic mentoring. I don't think that me and you need our moment, but we need to create kingdom momentum in the next generation. Yes. So my ambition and my desire is never to have my moment. My ambition and my desire is to create kingdom moments for the next generation so that they can multiply what God wants to do in these last days. If if I'm the only person who's doing this, shame on me. If I'm the only person who can have a moment, shame on me.
SPEAKER_01:Well, he's a God of multiplication.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, the whole deal is multiplication. It's not addition. Everything God desires to do is the multiplication of his kingdom. And so we do these crusades all over the world and we um we open it up. I I was telling you before, we have between 500 and about 750 people every year that come from all over the world to go on crusades with us and to be a part of these apostolic mentoring moments and momentum moments. And I will tell you one of the most amazing testimonies of equipping for multiplication. Um there we were on a crusade in the nation of Brazil, and it was the first time Brazil ever had the day of Pentecost, where ever over 3,000 people were filled with the Holy Ghost in one service.
SPEAKER_01:Wow.
SPEAKER_02:And I remember we had a team of about maybe 60 people.
SPEAKER_01:I'm just thinking of the noise.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, girl.
SPEAKER_01:It's 3,000 people praying in tongues together.
SPEAKER_02:That's there were about 12,000 people there at this crusade. And I remember um it was about two hours before the crusade service began. And remember, Brazil had never seen a day of Pentecost yet, but we'd been prophesying it and we've been praying for it, that there would be a day of Pentecost, that this nation would have its first 3,000 soul revival, like Acts chapter 2. And so I'm sitting in the room praying with my wife, and we're, you know, two hours away from this service kicking off, and I'm gonna speak the word of faith to these 12,000 people, and we're gonna see a day of Pentecost. And God speaks to me, and God said, You're not speaking tonight. God said, There is a young woman on this crusade that you are to equip for the work of ministry, and I'm going to use her to multiply this around the world.
SPEAKER_01:That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02:So I called this young lady to my room, and I said, You know, my wife and I sit with her and we're like, the Lord said, You're going to speak the word of faith tonight. And oh, she had so many excuses. She was like, Oh, Brother Robinette, no, it can't be me. This I don't do this, this is you, this is your deal. And I said, if this sound like the perfect one. Perfect candidate. Perfect candidate to be used of God. Anybody who doesn't feel qualified, come on, let's go. Let's go. Um, but anyhow, we had a long conversation. My wife and I prayed for her, we encouraged her, and I remember that night when this this whole crowd began to shout the name of Jesus. It was so loud in that place. They were shouting, and I had Amanda walk to the pulpit, and my wife and I came behind behind her, and a team came around her, and we put our hands on her as she began to speak the word of faith. And I will never forget it. How when she shouted hallelujah in that last moment of the word of faith, all of a sudden it was a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all of the house where we were shouting. And instantly, I'm talking, instantly, they begin to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance. And it was so amazing how God has taken Amanda, and she has preached from that moment. That woman of God has preached all over the world and has seen thousands upon thousands receive the Holy Ghost. But to me, that is what these crusades are about. It's not about my moment, it's not about my ministry, it is about God's kingdom goal, vision, plan of multiplying his ministers, multiplying his mission, and taking us from addition to multiplication globally. And, you know, we went from there, and the very next year, this is how amazing God is. So we saw 3,000 that year broke that that day of Pentecost goal. The very next year we're in a stadium in Manaus, Brazil, where 38,000 people gathered, and in one service, 12,000 people were filled with the Holy Ghost, speaking with other tongues. And it was broadcasted on TV live. And the reports came in afterwards that 3,000 more watching live on TV were filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost. 15,000 people in one day filled with the Spirit. But one of the greatest testimonies was that day a coven of witches came to that crusade and they sacrificed an animal outside underneath this big billboard, cursing God, cursing his people, that came into the crowd, cursing us. But when the Spirit fell, God filled that lead witch with the gift of the Holy Ghost. I baptized that witch in Jesus' name live on TV in the stadium. And when she came up out of that water, oh, you should have seen it. Take that devil. Not today, Satan. All of a sudden, she came up with such a freedom and a victory and a joy, and her whole paradigm had shifted, and she was not bound, she was free, and the spirit had brought liberty that that nothing in this world could ever give. It was so amazing, Amy. I I wish you had been there to see it. Um you gotta go somewhere with me. I well, we were just talking about that, so my wife and I would be so honored to have you come with us somewhere and see that and be a part of that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that sounds amazing.
SPEAKER_02:It's amazing.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, just say yes. Here I am, Lord, send me where we go in, Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:That's been my life motto, I guess. Just yes. Whatever you want to do, yes. I'm unqualified, but I say yes. I have no degrees, but I say yes. It's like, you know, I joke all the time, um, you know, both of my daughters. My youngest daughter wrote a book and published it last year. And then my oldest daughter is dropping her first book October 1st. And um, you know, and I've written two books, but I'm so uneducated, you know, and so I tell my daughters, I I tell them all the time, babies, babies, if you just say yes to God, the things that you feel like you would need qualification for, the things that you think you need education for, God will take you and set you down in places and allow you to do things that are so beyond the arm of the flesh. Amen. The Spirit of the Lord will open doors that no man can shut. And I've been so grateful in my life. I I look over my shoulder at the places God has put me and the the things that He has allowed my family to do that are so beyond explanation, beyond the math of this world. And but it's because we said yes, Amy.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. Amen. Can you pray for our audience?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yes.
SPEAKER_01:And um, you know, there's so many different things we could pray for, but I really feel like we need to pray for, um, of course, if anyone is desiring the gift of the Holy Ghost, yes. It's so important. And then also, um, you know, anyone that just is feeling called to ministry and feels like that they're not equipped. Yes. Or they're not worthy. Yes. Or they don't have the degrees. Yes. But they feel like they are being sent to you. If you could do that, yeah, that would be great.
SPEAKER_02:I would tell your audience, if you want to receive the Holy Ghost, the fastest way to receive the Holy Ghost is to do exactly what Peter said on the day of Pentecost, and that is to repent of your sins. It's so important that you say to God, God, I'm sorry. God, forgive me for whatever life I've lived, whatever sins I've committed, whatever failures I've had, whatever evil thoughts, evil words, evil deeds, that is the quickest way to empty out of self, to empty out of all of that carnality, to empty out of all of those failures, mistakes. When you ask God to forgive you, this is what is so amazing to me, Amy. The Bible says godly sorrow worketh repentance. When you feel sorrowful for your unrighteousness, that's when God can fill you up with rivers of living water and put his righteousness upon you. And so it's so important here today that you just don't don't, this is not just something that that I can give you, I can't give it to you, but God can give it to you. But the way to receive it is to repent of your sins. The Bible said if we confess our sins, God is faithful and God is just to forgive us of all of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So as we're praying today, go ahead and ask God to forgive you. As you're praying today, ask God to cleanse you of all of those evil things. And I'm gonna pray the prayer of faith over you. And in your living room, in your car, wherever you're listening right now, God is going to fill you with the gift of the Holy Ghost, and sounds are gonna come out of your mouth that you've never made before. By the authority of the word of God, and by the power of the name of Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Ghost that is already moving upon you, I command you to receive the promise of God that is yea, and amen. Receive ye the gift of the Holy Ghost right now. Receive the Spirit in the name of Jesus, be filled with the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus. Receive open doors that no man can shut.
