On this episode of A Touch From Above, Dr. Luauna Stines shares how real faith works beyond what we can see. Through powerful testimony—from revival in Korea to building Prayer Mountain—she challenges listeners to trust God’s timing, step out in faith, and partner with Him for what’s ahead.
Welcome to A Touch From Above with Dr. Luauna Stines from the Prayer Mountain in Ramona, California. Today’s episode is the conclusion of God does not change. In today’s program, Dr. Luauna will explain why many Christians think they understand faith. and do not know how it works in daily life. Living in a world marked by disappointments and unfulfilled promises, Christians who genuinely comprehend faith and the assurances given by Jesus are empowered to transform their own lives and make a difference in the world around them. Let’s join our host, Dr. Luauna Stines, as she explores this important topic.
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When I was in Seoul, Korea, I preached in probably five to six churches a day. We were so busy. I had a beautiful driver. They set me up in a wonderful apartment, because over there everybody has high-rises apartments, you know. And they had a driver that would pick me up. The driver would pick me up, take me to one church. I’d preach there. Then they had a little, the churches were massive. When we say, oh, a mega church in America, it’s nothing compared to Seoul, Korea. They’re baby churches. Oh, you come to my baby churchy and preach for me this day. Oh, Pastor Luauna, you come preach my baby. It’s only baby churchy. I say, okay, no problem. I don’t care, baby churchy, whatever. We get there on a Wednesday. I think Pastor Joe was with me at that time. We get there on a Wednesday and they said, oh, you preach at 12 o’clock. All business people come to churchy. They come for prayer at 12 o’clock. You preach message. I said, okay. So they took us in a back room and way up in the, I think it was like the 10th floor. And they had a little studio there. So Pastor Jill had a room to rest and I had a room to rest because it was about an hour before the service. So I’m in there and I’m just praying in the spirit, praying in the spirit. Then they come in. Oh, we brought you tea. You like a tea? You know, so you have your tea. And I’m praying and I’m praying and I’m praying. And then they come to get me. I have no idea where the church is or what room it is. I’m thinking it’s in a room. A room. So… All of a sudden, my interpreter comes up there, and she says, we will be going in five more minutes. I said, okay. So we go through the back, the back stairway, and then we catch an elevator, and we go down a couple floors, and we go into the back area, and suddenly we’re on this massive stage. And I’m sitting on this stage, and I looked at my interpreter, I said, This is baby churchy? Oh, this is very baby churchy. Only three years. I go, I’ll take you to America and show you what a real baby church is. And there were, I think, 7,000 in that afternoon service. We preached. After that, they said, oh, you must stay for evening service. You must preach for evening service. We have tonight’s service. Please stay. Everything is an E at the end. I don’t know if you know that. Churchy. Pastor, you come. Preachy. Churchy.
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I said, okay, no problem. So we stayed, and that night, the church doubled in size, baby church of 14,000. I looked around, I thought, my goodness. I said, how many years? She goes, three years only, baby churchy. I said, man, we are in trouble in America. I said, we are in big trouble. Three years. Oh, pastor, pray. Have faith. Work with Holy Spirit. Work with God. People get busy for Jesus. You see, faith to believe who God is. When I was in Korea and when I saw what God did there, and then they said, you go to Prayer Mountain. You go preach at Prayer Mountain in Seoul, Korea. I go, Prayer Mountain? Oh, yeah. You meet big churchy. They pick you up by bus. They take you up to Prayer Mountain. I said… Okay. So we went to the big church, waited for the bus, big bus, city bus, 60 some people start piling in. We’re piling in the bus. We get in the bus. We take the bus. It takes an hour to two hours. I think it was an hour and a half to get up to the prayer mountain. We get up to the prayer mountain and we get off the bus. And lo and behold, I step off that bus and I’m shocked. I look around And I said, is this a church? Oh, no, this is Prayer Mountain. Many people from all Christians come from all over to pray, to work with God, praying in Holy Spirit. And so I said, okay. So I went and put all my stuff away in one of the little locker things, and they had a room for me. I put everything away, and then I started taking a walk around the Prayer Mountain. And I walked around the Prayer Mountain, and I walked around this area, and all of a sudden I see these little teeny things Prayer closets. And I go, what is this? My interpreter is with me. She goes, oh, prayer grotto. Prayer grotto for private prayer. I go, how many are there? She goes, 350. I go, 350 prayer grottos? So I go take, I said, you go. I’m going to walk around Prayer Mountain. So it was 12 acres. So I’m walking around. And I’m walking by the prayer grottos. Now, they’re pretty small. They’re just like our little prayer closets, but smaller. Maybe because they’re smaller, like Miss Anna. The Asian are smaller. So I’m walking and all these shoes are outside these little doors. All these shoes are there. And as I’m walking, I’m hearing, Hananim, Hananim, Hananim means God. And they’re praying in the Holy Spirit. And all of a sudden I’m hearing, Oh, Abba Father, you know, California. They’re praying for California. They’re praying for New Mexico. They’re praying for Florida. They’re praying for this. They’re praying for China. They’re praying for all these things. And I’m walking through all of these prayer grottos, and I’m hearing them cry out for America, and I am crying. I am crying listening to them cry out for America. And then I walk around to another area, and I see another little gazebo area, shade area, and there’s all these seniors. They’re probably about 80, 85 years old, and they’re all praying. They’re interceding. and they’re praying in the Holy Spirit. And then I walk over to the other side and then there’s a youth group, 18 year old, 19 year old. And then there’s a college students area and all these people are praying and they’re crying out to God and they’re from all over. Seoul, Korea. Well, what happened was a revival and they understood that they had to partner with God in order to have that great revival. So while I was there, they offered me a beautiful church. They offered me a church that already had been established. They offered me a radio program. daily radio program in Seoul Korea with an interpreter but when I was at the prayer mountain God spoke to me so clearly I thought God we’ve missed it in America we’ve missed it we have so much religion on every corner and we are not partnering with you Oh God please forgive us Oh Lord and the Holy Spirit told me in my heart just like a nudge. I can’t even explain to you where God spoke to me and said, go back to America. I did not send you here to keep you here. Now remember, I’d already been there a year. I didn’t bring you here to keep you here. Go back to your homeland and build a place of prayer. Build a place of prayer for my people. And I will draw them from the north, the east, the south, and the west. I will draw them to my holy mountain. And there they will see my glory and my presence. They will bring their sacrifices and it will be accepted before me. And when God spoke that to me, you’ve got to remember… I didn’t understand anything. Number one, I was not a builder. Number two, I had no idea where God wanted me to build a prayer mountain. So I had come back to America. I didn’t know where. I started from up Washington, Oregon. Every major city I stopped, rented a hotel and just prayed in the spirit. I mean, prayed for hours, nothing. Next one, LA, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, all the different places, just pray, pray, pray. Didn’t feel anything. I had never been to San Diego, never. Got to San Diego, Hotel Circle, Motel 6. We’ll keep the light on for you. I rented a couple days there, and I was just praying in the spirit, just praying. Boom, and the Holy Spirit says, behold, there is much land. That’s it. That was the first time I heard that, behold, there is much land. I knew right then that it was somewhere here in San Diego that God wanted to build a prayer mountain. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So by the time that I realized, okay, we’re in San Diego, we’re going to build a prayer mountain, we didn’t know where. We’re in a little teeny studio that’s no more than 450 square feet wide. four girls. That was it. We took out sleeping bags. We had one desk, one computer, write the vision down, make it plain to see, wrote the vision down. And then I begin to pray. We didn’t even have an apartment for how long? I don’t even remember how long we didn’t have it. Maybe a year. Then we finally got an apartment, a two bedroom apartment. And continue to pray. First month, second month, third month, fifth month, eighth month, nine month, tenth, twelfth month. I’m not seeing anything. Faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. All of a sudden, I’m driving around over by Tom Bill Lane, which is off of Wildcat Canyon. I had saw a piece of land there, and a lady called me up and said, I heard you’re looking for some land. I got some land off of Tom Bill. You want to come and see it? So I went to go see it. And I mean, it was like the prime deal. She said, I’ll give you this land. It has a granny nook, has a brand new house. It has, I think it was six acres, six acres of land. Let me shut this off. Six acres of land. She said, and you know what? I’ll carry it for you. And you know what? It’s only, I’m going to sell it to you for only $285,000. That was a deal. I thought, okay, let me think about it. So I went into prayer. I’m praying. I’m praying. Pastor Jill and Bev are saying, wow, that’s great. That’s awesome. That’s a deal. That’s a steal of a deal. Got to remember, it’s acreage, brand new house she just built. She was getting married. She said, I’ll carry it. I have to move. I’m moving towards LA, Orange County. I can’t remember where she was moving. And she said, you know what? I’ll carry it for you. All you got to do is put 10,000 down. I’ll carry the whole thing for you. Now, naturally, in your own mind, you think, gee, that’s a deal. Let’s get it. And somebody would jump on it. But I went back and I began to pray and pray and pray. And I told Pastor Jill, I said, I’m not feeling it. Something ain’t right. I said, I can’t do it. She goes, really? I said, yeah, I don’t know what it is. I feel a check. The Holy Spirit is saying, don’t do it. The land is right around the corner. So anyway, it was, what, two weeks later, I’m driving down Highway 67, and the Holy Spirit says so clear to me, there’s your land. And I looked right out there, and I looked, and the chain was across the driveway. I looked, and the Holy Spirit says, there’s your land. I thought, wow. Okay. I didn’t know how. Faith is what? The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Somebody say, God raised the dead. God doesn’t change. God is not limited by time or space or your future. God’s not limited by any of that. God moves in his timing. Learning to wait upon the Lord is probably the hardest thing you’ll ever do is to be still and and know that He is God. You see, because God had a bigger plan than I could even imagine. If I would have stepped into that land over on Tom Bill Lane, it was no more than a couple years later that whole area burnt. You see, God knows our tomorrow. God knows our future. God is a God who does not change. The Bible says that we can be led by the Spirit for the perfect will of God. Amen. God is able. God calls those things that are not to the human eyes as if they were. You gotta hear me. God calls those things that are not to the human eyes so that we can see. You see, God has something so great for you and I. You see, I had no idea that God would move in his power. God would open the door for this land, 25 beautiful acres. God had a bigger plan. And Danny, God’s not finished with you yet. God’s not finished with you yet. You’re going to get out of that stinking chair. You’re going to get up and you’re going to walk. And God’s going to see you walk and do great things on this mountain. Amen? You see, in your mind, all you see is this. But this is nothing. You see, I saw what God did in Korea. I saw what God did. What is God doing to America? He’s going to lead America to a place of prayer. Why? Because America has forgotten their God. And the only thing that’s going to take us into that close relationship is that prayer, working hand in hand with God. Amen? Do you know Jesus? I love this. In John, let’s go there really quick. In John… Chapter 10, I think it is. The authority that God has. Oh, my goodness. You know what he tells the scribes and the Pharisees? I loved it. Jesus said, therefore, my father loves me because I laid down my life that I may take it up again. Let me say that again. And then he goes and he says this, no one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down. What’s he talking about? I have power to lay my life down? And then he says what? I have power to take it again. This command I have received from my Father. You see, Jesus had the power to go to the death and raise himself up from the dead. We serve a God that is powerful. We don’t serve a weak God. We serve a God that has everything under his control. Somebody say amen. You see, we have to work with God. We have to work with him. You have to understand how important it is. You know, the Bible says in Romans chapter eight, read it in verse 11. But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, let me stop there. But if the spirit of him, Jesus, who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, do you understand? Who’s dwelling within us? The Holy Spirit’s power. The power that raised Jesus from the dead dwells within us. He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. God gave us a key there. You see, by the spirit of the living God who dwells within us, he gives us the power to move the mountains that are in our way. I don’t care what people are going through. God is the healer. He’s the redeemer. He’s the savior. He’s the rock of ages. He doesn’t change. Somebody say he doesn’t change. He doesn’t change. He doesn’t change. Let me go to John chapter 2 really quick. Look what he says in John chapter 2, reading in verse 19. Where are you? Oh, my goodness. Jesus answered and said to them, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again. What God are you serving? What God are you serving? You see, in three days, I will raise it up again. Do you understand what he was saying? He said, I have power and authority. I have all dominion to reign. I have the dominion. You see, God is looking for people to partner with him. When you think about our God, our God is a God of miracles. Our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We work with God. We work with him. You know, when you are, I know it sounds really crazy, but when you are weed eating, or when I’m on my tractor, I am working together with God to build his temple. When you are out there in that brush and you’re cutting and you think, oh my gosh, this is insane. No, it’s not insane. God has a plan. God is watching our faithfulness. Amen? God is watching. You see, I could have given up. I could have said after a year of praying, Jesus, you know what? Maybe you don’t want a prayer mountain. But God said it, that settles it. I didn’t question it. God said, I want you to go back and build a prayer mountain. I’m not a builder. I’m not a contractor. I don’t know any of that. I didn’t have the money to do that. I just was stepping out by faith. God calls those things that are not as if they were, and he puts them in our human eyes as so that we can see with the eyes of faith, for we walk by faith and not by sight. It is God who does all things exceedingly abundantly above all that we can even begin to think or ask. Somebody say amen. You see, you must rise above with the Holy Spirit of the living God. Oh my goodness, you have to rise to God’s realm. Don’t stay in your natural realm. Don’t allow your flesh to stay in that natural unbelieving doubt and fearful and look at my condition and it’ll never work. No, no. You have to see far beyond the human limits and ability. God raised the dead. Somebody tell your neighbor, God raised the dead. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. You see, don’t think evil. You have to not allow yourself to enter into the woes me’s. You can’t allow yourself to enter into, well, I don’t know, this really looks bad. No, the children of Israel were in slavery. Remember that? And God saw and heard their cry and sent a deliverer. Abraham was 100 years old when God said, Abraham, you are going to have a child. And Abraham said, are you kidding? And Sarah was 90. And Sarah was like this. Because she heard. She heard the report. You are going to have a child. And she went, we ain’t done it in so long. Are you kidding? I don’t think it’s possible. And you know what the angel of the Lord said? Why is Sarah laughing? And Sarah said, I’m not laughing. But Abraham believed God. Abraham believed God. You know what God had to do? He had to say, Abraham, get out of your tent. You imagine, Abraham’s 100 years old. Abraham, wake up. Wake up, Abraham, wake up. Get out of your tent. So I can imagine Abraham, oh my gosh, it’s hard enough for me to get up. Okay, where’s my stick? I’m getting out of the tent. He’s getting out of the tent and he gets out and it’s pitch dark. Now I gotta go pee. He’s old. Now what? And he gets out of the tent and God says, Abraham, look up. Huh? Look up. Count the stars. So Abraham is looking up and he says, God, there’s too many for me to count. One, two, count the stars, Abraham.
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Where was I at? There’s too many for me to count. But God had to show him that he would be the father of many nations and as many stars as he saw that God would give him sons and daughters, his inheritance. When Abraham was dead, dead and his seed was no more God said I raise the dead Abraham you’re gonna have a child you’re gonna sleep with your wife she’s gonna have the seed and she’s gonna bring forth generation to generation to generation, all the way to you and I. This is why in Sunday school, when you were younger, you used to sing, Father Abraham had many sons, many sons had Father Abraham. You see, God knew the ending. God knew the ending even at the beginning. God calls those things that are not as if they are. He already saw Abraham with the children. Listen, some of you single people, don’t get discouraged. Well, I’m too old to find a mate now. Stop it. God called Abraham was 100. Aren’t you glad you’re not 100? God calls those things that are not as if they are. God is faithful to bring you a wife. God is faithful to bring you a husband. God is faithful to bring you finances. God is faithful to give you a Holy Ghost plan. God is able to do all things exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can even begin to think or ask. God raised the dead. Amen? You’ve got to see far beyond your natural human limits. Our limits are small. Your arms are short. God’s arm is not short. His eyes, he doesn’t wear bifocals. He doesn’t have a hearing aid. He’s not deaf. He can hear. He can see. His arm can reach out and touch every single thing that we need. Somebody shout hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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