Tony Alamo, September 9, 2026

Tony Alamo How To Have God's Life Living In You Part 156: Shield of Faith, Difficulty Mountains, and Ghana Letters Tony Alamo devotes program 258, part 156 of his teaching series, to the shield of faith, reads his decades-old vision of a mountain climb with his late wife Susie, shares conversion letters from Ghana, and hears salvation testimonies from Leah Swetten and his wife Sharon Alamo. Opening Prayer and Shield of Faith Teaching Tony Alamo opens the broadcast identifying it as program number 258, part 156 of his ongoing series How to Have God's Life Living in You, and tells listeners a free tape or CD copy is available for the asking. He leads an opening prayer built around the shield of faith, explaining that faith and prayer are the same shield, since it is God who quenches, in his words, all the fiery darts aimed at believers. He asks for the outward anointing of the Holy Spirit to fall on the service, for the sick to be healed, for souls to be saved, and for those who have fallen away to return before it is too late, closing with an amen answered by co-host Jeannie Alamo. He then performs his own recording of Where Man's Love Stops, God's Love Begins, and afterward reminds listeners not to put their trust in man but to raise the shield of faith through constant prayer. Letters From Ghana With the song finished, Tony Alamo turns to co-host Jeannie Alamo for the mail. She reads first from a listener named Mustafa in Ghana, who writes that the ministry's World Newsletter has changed his life, that everyone he shares it with has received Jesus as Savior, and who asks for more literature, a visit to the ministry, and a 3X t-shirt like ones he has seen others wearing. Alamo tells staff to send the t-shirt along with more literature and Messiah booklets. Jeannie then reads a second letter, from a young man named Enoch in Mankessim, Ghana, who says he accepted Christ after reading Alamo's booklet The Messiah and asks for Bibles, preaching cassettes, t-shirts, a Bible dictionary, and a concordance for his church. Alamo compares the volume of mail to what he recalls from the old Perry Como Show, saying he has never seen letters like these from anywhere else in his career. The Difficulty Mountains Vision Jeannie Alamo then reads a lengthy piece of Alamo's own literature called Difficulty Mountains, describing a vision he says came shortly after marrying his late wife Susie. In it he climbs a steep mountain with unusual strength while Susie struggles behind him, and the scene shifts from color to black and white, just as it did in an earlier vision foretelling their marriage and shared ministry, as a hellish storm descends. He connects the vision to their actual wedding at Red Rock Baptist Church in Las Vegas, where a storm struck before the ceremony, and recalls that singer Hank Snow, a stranger to him at the time, stood as best man, a detail Alamo corrects on air from Las Vegas to Nashville as their later meeting place. The reading interprets the storm as decades of persecution against the ministry orchestrated, in Alamo's telling, through Rome, the media, and world government, a claim offered as his own understanding of prophecy rather than settled fact, and closes urging listeners to endure to the end. A Spoken Salvation Prayer Turning from the reading, Tony Alamo leads listeners through a spoken salvation prayer, asking them to tell the Lord they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that God raised him from the dead, and to invite him into their hearts to wash away sin. He tells listeners their prayer has been heard and answered and that they can know they are saved, then leads a longer prayer of thanksgiving, describing the Holy Spirit entering a believer's spirit as being raised from death to life and seated in heavenly places. He tells anyone who has prayed along to raise their hands and worship, framing the moment as the practical answer to the sermon's theme, since the shield of faith is itself the act of praying such words aloud. He then calls for a volunteer from among those present to come forward and share a personal testimony on the air, telling the room not to be nervous despite the broadcast reaching, he estimates, several hundred million listeners worldwide. Testimonies From Leah Swetten and Sharon Alamo A woman who identifies herself as Leah Swetten steps up first, saying she was saved more than sixteen years earlier after years as an alcoholic and drug addict in Reno, Nevada, feeling hopeless despite sensing a calling on her life. She says a piece of the ministry's gospel literature reached her, that she prayed the salvation prayer printed in it, and that she was invited to join and serve the ministry, where she remains today. Tony Alamo then introduces his wife, Sharon Alamo, noting she shares his Romanian Jewish heritage and was bat mitzvahed. Sharon recalls a childhood in an Orthodox home in California where the rituals never felt meaningful, describes asking God as a child to flicker her bedroom light as a sign about Jesus, and later feeling a supernatural wind confirm that Jesus was the Messiah. She says she tried other churches before finding this ministry, where the teaching matched scripture, and credits the Lord with the husband she since married. Closing Teaching and Program Information Alamo closes the hour by returning to teaching, drawing a parallel between the violence that led God to send the flood in Noah's day and the violence he sees in the world today, and stating that God will next purge the Earth with fire rather than water. He calls Rome, in the biblical sense of a corrupt world church and media system, the source of the era's violence, including the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, a claim offered as his own reading of prophecy. He then discusses David's many wives, arguing polygamy given by God is not itself condemned in scripture even as adultery and homosexuality clearly are, urging listeners to read the Bible carefully before judging others. Sharon Alamo closes by giving the ministry's website, Texarkana, Texas post office box, and phone and fax numbers for requesting a free copy of program 258 on tape or CD. Alamo signs off with a final song, Let Him Be All You Need for Tomorrow.