Special Service with Joan Pearce #3: Carrying the Glory of God

Joan Pearce teaches in this message that God’s heart is for the whole earth to be filled with His glory, and that believers are the ones who carry it. Preaching from Isaiah 6, Isaiah 60 and Isaiah 61, she shows how an ordinary, imperfect Christian is cleansed, filled with the Holy Spirit and sent out to love people, pray for the sick and lead others to Jesus. This is the third service of her visit and picks up from Joan Pearce Healing Service: Divine Miracles & Faith Ministry.

Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the sermon, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps you can take this week.

Sermon at a Glance

This special service was posted on March 25, 2025, after two nights of meetings with evangelist Joan Pearce at New Testament Church. It runs about 74 minutes. Joan Pearce opens with a story from the start of her ministry, introduces her new children’s books, invites testimonies from the earlier services, and then preaches from Isaiah 6 before praying over everyone who wants God’s heart for people.

Her central point is simple: the glory of God is not meant to stay on a platform or inside a building. It rests on ordinary believers who stay in His presence, and it draws people to Jesus wherever those believers go.

Testimonies From the Atmosphere of Heaven

Joan Pearce begins with a reminder that ministry rarely starts smoothly. At only the fourth church she ever preached in, a man stood up within seconds, shouted at the pastor for letting a woman preach, and took his family out. The pastor came up, put his arm around her and told her not to let it shake her, so she kept preaching.

She then introduces her children’s books on the miracles of Jesus. One tells of the ten lepers, and it leads into the testimonies. Only one leper came back to thank Jesus (Luke 17:11–19), and she believes that sharing your testimony and giving all the glory to God is one of the ways you keep your healing. A woman named Terry shares that a doctor had told her she needed surgery on her leg, and that she was healed while sitting in her seat on the first night.

Mary describes feeling a sudden heat when Joan breathed into the microphone while speaking about the wind of the Holy Spirit, and then noticing that her leg, which had hurt all day, no longer hurt. Joan never prayed for either woman. Her explanation is that when the atmosphere of heaven fills a room, healings happen, because you are not receiving from the person at the front; you are receiving from Jesus right where you sit.

A couple then share that Joan had seen an anointing on them like light and oil and prayed that they would work together in ministry. Less than two weeks earlier, one of them had dreamed of oil pouring down on them both. Already planning a second year of Bible college, they received her word as confirmation.

Isaiah 6: The Earth Filled With His Glory

Joan Pearce turns to Isaiah 6:1–4, where Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up and the seraphim cry, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!” God’s heart desire, she says, is that the whole earth be filled with the glory. Then she asks who that glory is, and answers that we are the manifestation of God’s glory.

This is not our own righteousness, which is like filthy rags. When Jesus died on the cross He made a new covenant with us. Adam’s fall cast humanity out of the garden, but Jesus became the second Adam and restored us, so that we are joint heirs with Christ and children of the King of kings. She urges the church to stop thinking of themselves as small and to see themselves as royalty.

Believers are no longer part of this world. As Colossians 1:13 says, we have been delivered from the power of darkness and conveyed into the kingdom of the Son. Because of that, Joan teaches, the glory of God will be manifested in the earth through you and me as we share the gospel.

She links this to the previous night’s message about how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel (Romans 10:14–15). When the glory rests on you, people will be drawn to you like a magnet. You do not need a sign saying you are a Christian; they will sense something about you by the Spirit and want to know what it is.

How Joan Pearce Stays in the Glory of God

In the schools she teaches in churches, one of the first lessons is how to stay in the presence of God. We live in a world that is not friendly to faith, she says, with commercials and billboards constantly bombarding us. So she keeps the Word playing. She falls asleep to the Bible, sometimes starting in Matthew and waking after it has played through to Revelation, and she prefers Scripture to anything else.

The reason is to stay in the atmosphere of heaven so that you radiate God’s glory everywhere you go. Old paintings show halos and rays around Jesus, she notes, because the artists were trying to show the anointing they recognized.

Isaiah 6:4 says the house was filled with smoke. Joan Pearce admits she gets in trouble for saying churches should want the real thing rather than a smoke machine: the glory that comes in and hovers over a whole crowd. She tells of preaching a salvation and healing message in a leper colony in the Philippines. When she opened her eyes, a glory cloud hung over about a hundred people lying on cots.

She never touched any of them. Afterward, she reports, letters came saying that about thirty people were healed of leprosy. She shares it as her testimony of the kind of glory God wants every believer to walk in.

Woe Is Me: Undone, Cleansed and Sent

Isaiah’s response to the vision was, “Woe is me, for I am undone!” (Isaiah 6:5–7). Joan Pearce says we may still carry a lot of baggage, but the Holy Spirit, given as the guarantee of our inheritance (Ephesians 1:13–14), does the cleaning. Jesus catches the fish; the Holy Spirit is the fish cleaner, and the church should not try to do His job.

She tells a true story from her early years at Word of Faith. During street outreach in Pasco, Washington, the Holy Spirit told her to take home a young woman who had been working as a prostitute, and she lived with Joan for six months. At church some women whispered about her clothes, and she felt so rejected that she wanted to leave.

During worship, though, the young woman ran to the altar, took the microphone, confessed her addiction and cried out for Jesus to save and change her. The Holy Spirit took over the service. A dress code nearly drove her away; the Holy Spirit drew her in.

Joan Pearce also shares her own story. The moment she was saved, God took away her habit of using the Lord’s name in vain, and soon after, two packs of cigarettes a day. When she was called to ministry, she saw a vision of a rusty, bent and split chisel and heard the Lord say it was her. He used it anyway, then polished it with steel wool and straightened it with a hammer.

The lesson is that God uses people as they are. If you wait until you are perfect to witness, you will never do anything for God, and you will stand before Him having buried your talent (Matthew 25:14–30). Like Peter, you have to step out of the boat and start walking on the water, trusting God instead of your own understanding.

Then comes the call in Isaiah 6:8–11: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Joan notes the word us: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are asking who will go. Isaiah answered, “Here am I! Send me.” The people he was sent to had dull hearts and heavy ears, and when he asked how long, God’s answer amounted to this: keep going.

The table below follows how she applies each moment of Isaiah 6 to believers today.

Arise and Shine in the Eleventh Hour

As long as there is seedtime and harvest and breath in our bodies, Joan says, we keep preaching. God breathed His breath into Adam, and once we receive Jesus, the breath of God is in us. She quotes Jesus’ words that we did not choose Him, but He chose us and appointed us to go and bear fruit (John 15:16).

We are in the eleventh hour, she says, and points to the parable of the workers hired throughout the day (Matthew 20:1–7). The landowner asked why they stood idle, and they said nobody had hired them. Joan tells the church, and everyone watching, that they have all been hired. Nobody can stand before Jesus and claim no one called them into the vineyard.

Her refrain is that you do not need three dreams and a vision to tell somebody about Jesus. You do not need one to cook an extra pot of food for a grieving family, to visit someone in a nursing home, or to sit in a hospital waiting room and quietly offer to pray for a family whose loved one is in surgery. Be kind, she adds, and never push.

At the hospital where her husband Marty’s father was dying, the family of a man in the next room refused to let her talk about Jesus. Then the nurse recognized Joan from television, and Joan explained what to do. The nurse led the man to Jesus before he died.

Next she reads Isaiah 60:1–5: “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.” Darkness will grow deeper, she says, while believers grow brighter, with a gray area of people having a form of godliness but denying its power (2 Timothy 3:5).

She describes her own conversion. Listening to the New Testament on cassettes, she sat in Mass one day and wept, realizing she had never known Jesus. No church membership, she stresses, takes anyone to heaven without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the one mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5). Isaiah 60 also promises that sons and daughters will come home, and she believes a revival is coming in which backsliders and grandchildren return.

Anointed to Go: Isaiah 61 and the Mind of Christ

Why does God want all this? Because He so loved the world (John 3:16–17). Joan Pearce says she was twenty-six or twenty-seven before she knew that verse, and she always reads verse 17 with it: Jesus did not come to condemn. She had believed she was worthless and stupid, and she could not read.

When God told her to start a neighborhood Bible study, fifty people soon crowded her house, and she cried whenever they asked her to read. As others laid hands on her, she heard the Lord promise full-time ministry if she read from Genesis to Revelation in a year. She began reading with her daughter’s help, and within a year she was in full-time ministry.

So do not worry if you are not polished, she says. Just be obedient. Like Isaiah, we have been cleansed, now by Jesus, and filled with the Spirit, so we are to do what Isaiah 61:1–3 describes: preach good tidings to the poor, heal the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives and give beauty for ashes and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

She encourages everyone to study to show themselves approved (2 Timothy 2:15), offering cards with Scriptures for leading someone to the Lord on one side and to the baptism of the Holy Spirit on the other. Then she reads 1 Corinthians 2:9–16: eye has not seen nor ear heard what God has prepared for those who love Him.

When revival breaks out, she says, God will use misfits and even children. But you prime the pump by starting: study, witness, love people. You are the temple of the Holy Ghost, and He wants out. A hug, a box of groceries or a few gas cards all count. Because the Holy Spirit lives in us, we have the mind of Christ, and as we step into God’s will we go from glory to glory. She has made many mistakes, but God called David a man after His own heart (Acts 13:22). He is looking for a heart that loves Him.

She ends by praying for everyone who wants God to reveal His heart to them, asking Jesus to make them soul winners who love people instead of condemning them. The host pastor adds that there is a river whose streams make glad the city of God (Psalm 46:4), and each ministry gift brings its own stream.

Carrying the Glory This Week

Here are practical steps drawn from this Joan Pearce message:

• Keep the Word playing. Put the Bible on at night or while you work, so the atmosphere of heaven, not the noise of the world, fills your mind.
• Give God the glory out loud. Like the one leper who returned, tell someone what Jesus has done for you and give Him all the credit.
• Start before you feel ready. Do not wait for three dreams and a vision. Cook a meal, visit a nursing home or offer to pray in a hospital waiting room.
• Stop sorting people by appearance. Let the Holy Spirit be the fish cleaner and welcome people who do not look like church people yet.
• Study and stay obedient. Read the Word daily, as 2 Timothy 2:15 urges, and say yes the moment the Holy Spirit prompts you.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 A rough start: her fourth time preaching
• 4:42 The ten lepers and why testimony keeps a healing
• 5:34 Terry’s testimony: healed while sitting in her seat
• 6:37 Mary’s testimony and the atmosphere of heaven
• 8:43 A couple’s dream of oil and a call to Bible college
• 10:43 Isaiah 6: the whole earth filled with His glory
• 12:59 Translated into the kingdom, drawn like a magnet
• 13:53 How to stay in the presence of God
• 16:50 A glory cloud over a leper colony
• 17:41 Woe is me: the Holy Spirit as fish cleaner
• 20:07 The woman from the streets who ran to the altar
• 27:57 Here am I, send me
• 30:56 The eleventh hour: you have all been hired
• 32:03 You don’t need three dreams and a vision
• 32:59 The nurse who led a dying man to Jesus
• 35:08 Isaiah 60: arise and shine
• 36:11 Finding Jesus while sitting in Mass
• 45:51 John 3:16–17 and learning to read the Bible
• 51:27 Isaiah 61, 2 Timothy 2:15 and 1 Corinthians 2
• 58:33 The mind of Christ and a prayer for God’s heart

Joan Pearce Special Service Series

This message is part of a short run of special services with Joan Pearce at NTC Ministries:

• Previous: Special Service with Joan Pearce #2: Being a Witness for Jesus
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Frequently Asked Questions

Can someone be healed without anyone praying for them?

In this service, two women testified that they were healed while sitting in their seats, and Joan Pearce says she never prayed for either of them. Her explanation is that when the atmosphere of heaven is present, people receive directly from Jesus, not from the minister. She even encourages listeners who hear a prophecy over someone else to claim it for themselves and receive it where they are.

Why does Joan Pearce write children’s books?

She says children today need encouragement because the world is coming against them. Her books on the miracles of Jesus place children inside each story so they learn they can pray for friends, share what they have and trust Jesus when they hit a wall. One story uses walking on the water to teach that faith lets them do what nobody else can do.

Does God only use people who have it all together?

No. Joan points to her own story: she could not read, used the Lord’s name in vain and smoked heavily when she was saved, and God showed her a rusty, bent chisel and said He would use it. She also notes that David sinned badly, yet God called him a man after His own heart. God is looking for a heart that loves Him and obeys.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Isaiah 6:1–4 — the whole earth is full of His glory
• Isaiah 6:5–7 — woe is me, for I am undone
• Isaiah 6:8–11 — here am I, send me
• Colossians 1:13 — conveyed into the kingdom of the Son
• Luke 17:11–19 — the one leper who returned to give thanks
• Matthew 20:1–7 — workers hired at the eleventh hour
• Isaiah 60:1–5 — arise, shine
• Isaiah 61:1–3 — anointed to preach good tidings
• 1 Corinthians 2:9–16 — we have the mind of Christ

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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