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Alan, brother, will you come and just lead

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I just feel that you're supposed to do

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this for a little while.

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Amen, church?

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Amen?

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Come on, brother.

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Just come in.

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I'm just going to give two or three

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announcements while he's getting ready to go.

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Again, if you have cell phones, be sure

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they're turned off and not distracted or silenced.

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Again, if there's anybody who wants a quiet

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place to pray, off to my left, your

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right.

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If anybody needs a nursery, there's one out

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there provided.

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Also, in front of the sound booth back

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there, there's a little box.

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We're not going to hold any offerings as

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such, but if anybody wants to bless the

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local church here for the expenses that they

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have chosen to shoulder at this time, they've

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provided food and all the facilities, you're welcome

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to do that.

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There's a little box back there.

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That's everything.

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I can do all things through Christ who

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gives me strength, but sometimes I wonder what

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he can do through me.

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No great success to show, no glory of

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my own, but in my weakness he is

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there to let me know.

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His strength is perfect when our strength is

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gone.

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You carry us when we can't carry

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on.

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Raised in his power, the weak become

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strong.

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His strength is perfect when our strength is

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gone.

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But we can only know the power that

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he holds when we understand just how deep

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our own weakness goes.

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Then his strength in us begins when ours

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comes to an end.

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And then he hears our humble cry and

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proves again.

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His strength is perfect when our strength is

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gone.

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You carry us when we can't carry

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on.

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Raised in his power, the weak become

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strong.

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His strength is perfect when our strength

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is gone.

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So in Jesus' name we press

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on.

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In Jesus' name we press on.

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Dear Lord, with the prize so clear

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before our eyes, we find your strength to

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press on.

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So when the valley is steep, when

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the mountain is steep, when the body is

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weary, and when we stumble and fall, when

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the struggle is hard, when we're battered and

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scarred, when we've spent our resources and

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when we've given our all, in Jesus' name

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we press on.

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Dear Lord, with the prize so clear

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before our eyes, we find your strength

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to press on.

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Lord, I'm yours.

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Lord, I'm yours.

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I've been born with life so precious.

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I'm brand new.

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I'm brand new in you, my Jesus.

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Lord, I'm yours.

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I am yours.

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You hold all my life in your hands.

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And when I hear your spirit calling me,

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I will follow.

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I will follow because I am yours.

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Pick up thy cross

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and follow me.

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I heard my Savior say,

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I gave my life to

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ransom thee.

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Surrender your all today.

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Lord, wherever you lead, we'll go.

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Lord, wherever you lead, we'll go.

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We will follow you, Christ, because you love

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us so.

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Wherever you lead, we'll go.

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It may be through some shadow's day, or

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o'er some stormy sea, we'll still follow

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you, Christ, whatever the cost.

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Wherever you lead me, wherever

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you lead, we'll go.

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Wherever you lead, we'll go.

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We will follow you, Christ, because you love

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us so.

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Wherever you lead, we'll go.

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You just ask one thing, Jesus, just be

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Jesus in me.

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No other me but thee.

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Let your resurrection power come and fill me

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this hour.

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Jesus, just be Jesus in me.

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Let's sing those words, Jesus, be Jesus in

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me.

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No other me but thee.

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No other me but thee.

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Resurrection power, resurrection power, fill me, fill me

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this hour.

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And Jesus, be Jesus in me.

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Our Heavenly Father, we bless your name, Lord,

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tonight.

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And we worship you, Lord, for who you

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are.

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Oh, Jesus, be Jesus in me.

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No other me but thee.

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Resurrection power, fill me this

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hour.

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And Jesus, be Jesus in me.

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And Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary,

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pure and holy, tried and true

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with thanksgiving.

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I'll be a living sanctuary

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for you.

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Wherever he leads, I'll go.

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Wherever he leads, I'll go.

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I'll follow my Christ who loves me

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so.

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I'll follow my Christ who loves

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me so.

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Wherever he leads, I'll go.

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Can you stand and lead us in prayer,

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please?

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Amen.

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Brother Craig, if you'll come.

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Brother Don had asked me earlier if Leon

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would come give his testimony.

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Leon is a man that we as a

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church begin to pray for by name, he

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and his brother, many, many months ago.

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And I'd said more than once that the

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day God saves Leon also be the beginning

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of revival in Barnsdall.

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And he calls me big brother, I call

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him little brother.

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You can see why that's funny right now.

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But he's going to share with you.

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First of all, I want to thank you,

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Jesus, for giving me time to speak tonight,

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dear Lord.

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I want you to protect all these speakers.

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The God-fearing people that come to preach,

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dear Jesus, we appreciate it immensely.

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Okay, here we go.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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On December the 22nd of last year, I

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had a doctor's appointment.

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I had to go take a stress test.

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I went over and took the stress test.

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You don't hear from him unless something's wrong.

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About three or four days after that, he

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called me and said he needed to talk

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to me again.

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So I go back over there.

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He said, I had a heart transplant or

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bypass.

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They're 96.

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Well, two of them plugged up.

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Anyhow, getting back to the deal.

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The main artery in there showed I had

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it blocked 70%.

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He said, well, we're going to have to

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go back up in there and check it,

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see if we can put a stent in

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there.

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I've got a couple of stents already in

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there.

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Two of them had plugged before, and he

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unplugged them, or it was almost plugged.

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But anyhow, I went back to the 26th.

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He said, you're going to have to go

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up in there and see what he can

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do.

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I said, well.

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I swore I wouldn't do it again.

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My wife, she didn't want me to do

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it.

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But I thought, well, I better go do

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what he says.

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So I go back over there.

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He made me an appointment for the 2nd

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of January.

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So I go over there.

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Brother Brian and Jeff, Brother Jeff come over

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there.

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All my family was there before we went

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into the deal.

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They prayed for me.

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I was laying there on that deal, and

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they put their hand on my knee.

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When they was praying, I felt a little

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tingle.

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I went in there to get the treatment.

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He went up in there, and he was

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jabbing around on there.

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First thing he came back up and said,

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there's not no blockage in there.

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How can you find any?

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I said, well, thank you, Jesus.

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Tell us what happened before you were ever

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healed.

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New Year's Eve when you came to my

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office.

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Oh, yeah.

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I forgot the best part, didn't I?

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I'm nervous, you see.

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Anyhow, Jeff had been trying to get me

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to come to church for 4, 5, 6

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years.

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I wouldn't pay no attention to him.

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He kept on nagging and nagging.

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Finally, I said, well, I might go to

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church, but I said it's not going to

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be out there on a hill.

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I said, I don't believe the way they

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do.

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Anyhow, I was laying there.

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The 30th of December, I was laying there.

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I stay in the front bedroom, and there's

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a guard light out there in the front.

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It shines through the window.

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It's not real bright, but you can see

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light through it.

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I've got one of them digital clocks there

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on the end of the bed.

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Anyhow, I go to bed about between 11

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and 11.30. I'm laying there, and I

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had this congestive heart failure, and I can't

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lay on my back and sleep.

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So I was laying there on my back.

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Well, I'd never prayed in 40 or 50

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years.

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I decided to flop over on my left

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side and go to sleep.

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Well, when I turned over, I died.

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Everything went black.

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I couldn't see nothing, no feeling, no nothing.

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I don't know how long I was there.

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It seemed like five or ten seconds, but

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I don't have any idea how long it

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was.

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Well, when I finally came back around, I

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checked my pulse.

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I said, Lord, if you'll let me get

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through this tonight, I'll get right with you

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tomorrow.

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So I didn't sleep real well that night,

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needless to say.

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But anyhow, the next morning, I went down

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to Jeff's, and I told him what the

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deal was.

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Well, we came out and got with Brother

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Brian, and I got right with the Lord,

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and I've been happy camper ever since.

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And I know he's still alive because he

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can look at me and see what he's

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done to me.

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Thank you, Brother Brian.

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I'm not going to let him go yet.

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One more thing.

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What did you do the next day?

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Your brother.

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Well, me and my brother, we hadn't spoke

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for four or five years.

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We got a little fused.

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Well, the next day after I got saved,

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I went up there to apologize to him.

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Well, I went up there, and his daughter's

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pickup was sitting there.

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So I said, well, I don't want to

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go in there while he's got company.

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He'll have to blow up.

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Well, I went back to town, and the

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Spirit wouldn't let me go home.

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I stopped down at the Gertz Cafe and

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sat there for a minute.

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I said, well, the Spirit told me to

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go back up there and apologize, so I

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went back up there and apologized.

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We've been friends ever since.

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Amen.

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Thank you, Brother Adrian.

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Praise the Lord.

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Good evening.

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Welcome.

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Why don't you step up here, and Brother

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Joel, you come up here and pray for

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Greg and Mark Greening.

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Are you here tonight?

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He's not here.

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Brother Greg, Gordon, you want to come up

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here, too, again and join us for prayer?

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Lord Jesus, we commit our brother to you

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today, Father God.

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We pray, Lord Jesus, that as he speaks

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your word, that you would fill him full

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of the fire of your Holy Spirit, Lord

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Jesus.

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That you'd fill him full of your power

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and your anointing to speak your word of

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truth, Lord.

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Lord God, we pray, Father God, that you

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would fill him with a mind of wisdom,

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Lord Jesus, to accurately divide your word, Lord

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Jesus.

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We pray that you would keep him from

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temptation, Lord, to only speak your word of

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truth and integrity, Father God.

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We pray, Father God, that you would come

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through with such an anointing that you would

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touch every heart in this place, Lord Jesus.

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That you would touch every mind, Lord Jesus.

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That, Lord, that your fire would cleanse out

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the sin of our hearts, Lord Jesus.

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And that your fire would bring us to

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repentance, Lord Jesus, before you, Lord God.

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We pray that over our brother today, Father

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God, and over this place, in Jesus' name.

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Yes, Father, we just commit, Lord, this meeting

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to you, God.

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We commit this meeting to the authority and

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headship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And, Father, we thank you that this dear

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brother, Greg, is here to minister your word,

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Lord, by your Spirit, for your glory.

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And we just stand in awe of not

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of a man, but, Lord, of you and

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how you use servants, how you use vessels

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for your honor and your glory.

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Lord, let no flesh get glory here, Lord.

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Not one person in this room be any

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glory unto, but unto the Lord of heaven

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and earth.

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Unto his Son, Jesus Christ, be all the

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glory and honor.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Well, I'm incredibly honored to be here tonight.

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I know this is God's remnant.

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Folks that gather from all over the country,

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even parts of the world.

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For no other purpose than to glorify the

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living God.

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You know, when we stand in this place

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tonight and think about what God is doing

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and where we really are, there's hope.

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And the message I sense God wants me

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to bring tonight is that there really is

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hope that there's a breakthrough that really can

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happen.

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But we have to truly understand where we

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are.

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You know, in Matthew 16, 1 and 2,

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the Word of God says that we're to

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understand the signs of the times.

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If I were to ask you, where are

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we really tonight?

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I mean, really?

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You know, we've had prayer and awakening conferences

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now for 20, really in some places, 30

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years in this country.

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And yet, our nation is now in the

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biggest collapse in the history of the world.

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Why is that?

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And yet, there's hope.

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God's remnant is deepening.

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There's a turning point in some parts of

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the world.

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We're seeing it, not so much in North

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America yet.

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But tonight, I really believe God wants us

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to see how to go past the wall

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that we sometimes seem to hit.

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We pray, we pray.

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We see God do some wonderful things.

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We see some mercy drops.

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But somehow, so far, there's been a wall.

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We haven't quite gotten past it.

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What is it that God is saying to

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His church tonight?

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That He gets glory.

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That He can finally pour out His mighty

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presence in such a way that no human

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can touch it or take credit.

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We are at a desperate turning point.

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If I were to ask you tonight, what

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are the signs of the times?

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We could all state most of them.

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You know that North America is the only

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major continent where Christianity is not expanding with

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all our churches.

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That's an astounding sign.

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We know that 70 to 75 percent of

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churches in America and Canada, for that matter,

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are either plateaued or declining.

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Now, what we're going to look at for

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just a moment is what God must quicken

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in our heart to make sure we really

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do understand just how desperately urgent it really

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is that we cannot just keep having prayer

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movements.

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It has to have a turning point.

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Something, the break has to come.

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Where is that?

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When does that happen?

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Baptisms, as you know, in America for the

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last ratios have been going like this for

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50 straight years.

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We're going to kind of take a moment

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and see where we really are.

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Now, what's happened to programs and strategies and

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innovative methods?

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Well, they've all just exploded through the roof.

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That's interesting.

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In the middle of all of our education

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and strategies, the baptisms have been going like

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this.

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Now, what's happened to morals and family strength

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and church unity in America and Canada in

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the last 40, 50 years?

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Well, they really haven't gone like this.

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I don't have to tell you.

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They've gone like this.

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What we're in right now is not a

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decline.

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It can only be called an unmitigated collapse.

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It's happened on our watch, our prayer movement.

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You say, well, Brother Greg, you're being negative.

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Not at all.

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Don't hear that at all.

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The prayer movement's deepening.

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That's the hope.

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But there has to be a turning point.

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We can't just keep being content, which you're

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not.

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You're the remnant.

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But where are we?

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The baptisms like this, the morals like this.

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We're seeing something that is incredible.

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Many of the baptisms that are, the few

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that are being baptized are not there in

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three months.

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Evidently, there's a lot of false evangelism going

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on.

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So we're really at an urgent moment.

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This is interesting.

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In fact, this has never happened, to my

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knowledge, in the history of Christianity.

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We're now in the middle of a 30

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-year prayer movement in America.

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You say, what do you mean by that?

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Well, more books have been written on prayer,

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revival, awakening in the last 30 years than

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the 300 before that.

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We've seen an incredible explosion of strategies and

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prayer movements and prayer ministries in the last

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30 years.

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Yet in the middle of that, America has

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moved to not the edge of judgment, in

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judgment.

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In fact, in many ways, if you know

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the signs of judgment, they're screaming at us

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that we're right on the edge of cataclysmic

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judgment.

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Now, the question is tonight, how could this

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have happened?

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Praise God, there's an answer.

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And praise God, the Word of God says

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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and

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forever.

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And guess how it was before most of

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the last mighty explosions of the manifest presence

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of God?

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It was really dark most of the time.

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But folks, in some ways, not as dark

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as where we are now.

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America's been really bad before, but we've crossed

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some barriers.

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What is God saying to His church right

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now to take us to a place where

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He's able to really release His manifest presence?

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Not just mercy drops.

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I mean like the mighty flood of God.

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If I were to ask you tonight, can

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you clearly remember 1904?

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I think I know what your answer would

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be.

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Nobody can remember that.

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The reason I ask, that's the last time

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there's really been, and this may be arguable,

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but probably the last time there's been a

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real global awakening that swept the entire earth.

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None of us really remember that.

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We've seen mercy drops.

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We've seen some little splashes since then.

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But nothing like the real thing when God

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just explodes in power.

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In fact, one of the disturbing signs that

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we're going to try to address tonight is

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that we really have seen a lot of

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little mercy drops that really don't become a

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flood.

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We're seeing an enormous number of little flashes

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of revival that just really quickly fizzle out.

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Why is that?

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We need to understand that.

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Otherwise, we keep doing the same thing.

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And one of the worst things that could

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ever happen to us is that we begin

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to think we're further advanced than we really

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are.

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And that can happen to all of us.

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And pride can get a hold of us

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even at the point of prayer.

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It really can.

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We can think we're more spiritual or more

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00:32:03,770 --> 00:32:06,030
powerful than we really are.

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But folks, there's good news tonight.

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00:32:08,870 --> 00:32:10,790
Someone said the prayer movement in America, the

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00:32:10,790 --> 00:32:12,850
only way you can explain how we've had

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this big, loud, conspicuous prayer movement, and things

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00:32:16,070 --> 00:32:17,610
have not declined but collapsed.

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Someone said, well, it's been a mile wide

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but a half inch deep.

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It's been an awful lot more about give

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me, give me, and bless me, bless me

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than cleanse me, change me, use me, and

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glorify yourself only.

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But great news tonight, folks, it really is

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deepening.

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And most of the prayer movement, a lot

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of it's been very real.

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It's just deepening now.

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And I'm convinced of the core of my

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being the group that gathers in places like

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this.

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You're that part that's deepening.

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So I want to try to bring some

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things tonight from the Word of God, I

555
00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:46,910
believe God wants me to share with you,

556
00:32:47,710 --> 00:32:49,970
that basically is the turning point where we

557
00:32:49,970 --> 00:32:52,130
go past the wall we've been kind of

558
00:32:52,130 --> 00:32:52,850
coming up to.

559
00:32:52,850 --> 00:32:55,290
And we really see, the Word of God

560
00:32:55,290 --> 00:32:58,470
says in 1 Corinthians 4, 20, that the

561
00:32:58,470 --> 00:33:00,230
kingdom of God is not in talk.

562
00:33:00,950 --> 00:33:01,990
Now, we can all talk good.

563
00:33:02,070 --> 00:33:03,730
We can all, most of us, not me,

564
00:33:03,810 --> 00:33:05,430
but most can preach good.

565
00:33:06,110 --> 00:33:07,770
And we can do good meetings, and we

566
00:33:07,770 --> 00:33:08,850
know how to do prayer conferences.

567
00:33:10,790 --> 00:33:12,330
But where's the explosion of baptisms?

568
00:33:13,150 --> 00:33:14,730
That's not the only sign.

569
00:33:15,430 --> 00:33:16,350
But where's the explosion?

570
00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:17,390
I mean the real thing.

571
00:33:18,110 --> 00:33:19,550
That's what we're going to see tonight where

572
00:33:19,550 --> 00:33:20,390
God brings us to.

573
00:33:20,390 --> 00:33:24,630
And praise God, there is tremendous hope, even

574
00:33:24,630 --> 00:33:25,190
in darkness.

575
00:33:25,330 --> 00:33:27,410
Even if the bottom really falls out.

576
00:33:27,490 --> 00:33:28,530
And it very well may.

577
00:33:29,490 --> 00:33:31,470
But that's when the presence of God can

578
00:33:31,470 --> 00:33:32,370
explode like a river.

579
00:33:32,830 --> 00:33:33,770
I'm going to ask you to take your

580
00:33:33,770 --> 00:33:36,510
Bible and turn to, well you don't have

581
00:33:36,510 --> 00:33:38,170
to turn to 2 Chronicles 7, 14.

582
00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:40,070
I do want to quote it in the

583
00:33:40,070 --> 00:33:41,110
spirit of the Hebrew text.

584
00:33:41,210 --> 00:33:42,570
Sometimes we miss it a little bit in

585
00:33:42,570 --> 00:33:42,910
the English.

586
00:33:43,770 --> 00:33:45,850
But if you would turn to Acts chapter

587
00:33:45,850 --> 00:33:47,250
1 and verse 4 through 8.

588
00:33:48,210 --> 00:33:51,970
That is such an incredible, beautiful picture of

589
00:33:51,970 --> 00:33:52,830
the turning point.

590
00:33:53,510 --> 00:33:55,070
When I mean we're not just praying for

591
00:33:55,070 --> 00:33:56,250
a Bible, we're seeing it.

592
00:33:56,810 --> 00:33:58,450
When we're not just crying out.

593
00:33:58,530 --> 00:34:00,450
I mean the presence of God, it's not

594
00:34:00,450 --> 00:34:01,250
a little drop.

595
00:34:01,350 --> 00:34:03,430
I mean it's the kind that changes communities.

596
00:34:04,310 --> 00:34:06,370
I love what happened in Wales in 1904.

597
00:34:06,610 --> 00:34:08,650
Just remind us who God really is.

598
00:34:09,570 --> 00:34:11,330
You know, 1900, that little country was about

599
00:34:11,330 --> 00:34:12,350
as dark as it could be.

600
00:34:12,429 --> 00:34:13,590
In fact, in some ways they were worse

601
00:34:13,590 --> 00:34:14,050
than us.

602
00:34:14,570 --> 00:34:15,489
In some ways they weren't.

603
00:34:15,489 --> 00:34:17,429
But the people of God began to do

604
00:34:17,429 --> 00:34:18,870
the two things we're going to talk about

605
00:34:18,870 --> 00:34:19,250
tonight.

606
00:34:19,810 --> 00:34:22,530
They took their quiet times deeper and really

607
00:34:22,530 --> 00:34:23,449
embraced cleansing.

608
00:34:23,670 --> 00:34:25,870
Not legalism, but grace-based cleansing.

609
00:34:26,489 --> 00:34:28,350
And I mean the presence of God started

610
00:34:28,350 --> 00:34:29,989
teaching them how to pray for a Bible.

611
00:34:30,130 --> 00:34:31,550
How to experience the fullness of God.

612
00:34:31,870 --> 00:34:33,030
They didn't have little quiet times.

613
00:34:33,110 --> 00:34:36,690
They had intense, powerful times along with God.

614
00:34:36,989 --> 00:34:38,530
Then they embraced prayer meetings.

615
00:34:38,870 --> 00:34:41,510
Real prayer meetings about souls and about the

616
00:34:41,510 --> 00:34:42,370
presence of God.

617
00:34:42,469 --> 00:34:44,810
About repentance and getting right with each other.

618
00:34:44,810 --> 00:34:46,290
And man, it wasn't long.

619
00:34:46,370 --> 00:34:47,650
Well, it was about four years.

620
00:34:47,810 --> 00:34:51,889
But in 1904, there came God's suddenly moment.

621
00:34:52,370 --> 00:34:53,670
Isn't that a nice thought?

622
00:34:54,250 --> 00:34:56,450
We've been praying for 30 years for a

623
00:34:56,450 --> 00:34:57,510
mighty move of God.

624
00:34:57,670 --> 00:34:59,790
But you know Richard Owen Roberts, one of

625
00:34:59,790 --> 00:35:01,430
the greatest men of God of our generation.

626
00:35:02,190 --> 00:35:04,150
And someone asked him one time, Do you

627
00:35:04,150 --> 00:35:05,390
have much hope for America?

628
00:35:05,990 --> 00:35:06,990
He said, If you're asking me do I

629
00:35:06,990 --> 00:35:08,310
see a lot of good signs, no.

630
00:35:08,930 --> 00:35:10,070
And if you're asking me do I see

631
00:35:10,070 --> 00:35:11,750
a lot of health in the church, no.

632
00:35:11,870 --> 00:35:13,290
But then he got that twinkle in his

633
00:35:13,290 --> 00:35:13,570
eye.

634
00:35:13,570 --> 00:35:15,350
And he said, But you know what, I

635
00:35:15,350 --> 00:35:19,990
believe in the God of suddenly moments.

636
00:35:21,770 --> 00:35:25,030
You know folks, when God really moves, I

637
00:35:25,030 --> 00:35:26,970
mean when it's His time, we don't tell

638
00:35:26,970 --> 00:35:27,350
Him when.

639
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:30,650
But all of a sudden, He's so real.

640
00:35:30,850 --> 00:35:33,750
Anything we thought before was revival, we find

641
00:35:33,750 --> 00:35:33,950
out.

642
00:35:34,270 --> 00:35:35,990
Man, He's so real.

643
00:35:36,170 --> 00:35:38,010
In Wales that happened in 1904.

644
00:35:38,030 --> 00:35:40,410
All of a sudden His manifest presence, His

645
00:35:40,410 --> 00:35:41,750
glory, His holiness.

646
00:35:41,750 --> 00:35:44,470
He made Himself so real that within 6

647
00:35:44,470 --> 00:35:47,370
months, 100,000 people joined the churches by

648
00:35:47,370 --> 00:35:47,890
conversion.

649
00:35:48,010 --> 00:35:49,190
Now let's put that in perspective.

650
00:35:49,410 --> 00:35:50,810
You know what that would look like in

651
00:35:50,810 --> 00:35:51,190
America.

652
00:35:51,630 --> 00:35:53,410
Percentage wise, based on population.

653
00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:55,810
In fact, there was a little miner by

654
00:35:55,810 --> 00:35:57,850
the name of Evan Roberts, believing God for

655
00:35:57,850 --> 00:35:58,790
that very thing.

656
00:35:59,070 --> 00:35:59,890
100,000.

657
00:36:00,290 --> 00:36:02,210
Well, to do that in America, you and

658
00:36:02,210 --> 00:36:04,490
I would have to believe God for 30

659
00:36:04,490 --> 00:36:08,190
million Americans to get radically born again and

660
00:36:08,190 --> 00:36:10,470
join churches and go to work for God

661
00:36:10,470 --> 00:36:13,210
and still be there 5 years later for

662
00:36:13,210 --> 00:36:14,790
that to happen in the next 6 months.

663
00:36:15,810 --> 00:36:16,810
Would that change America?

664
00:36:18,330 --> 00:36:20,890
Everything from Washington to Hollywood and everything in

665
00:36:20,890 --> 00:36:21,230
the middle.

666
00:36:21,390 --> 00:36:23,270
Ladies and gentlemen, that's basically what God did

667
00:36:23,270 --> 00:36:24,570
in Wales in 1904.

668
00:36:26,190 --> 00:36:27,810
That's the God we're praying to and the

669
00:36:27,810 --> 00:36:29,230
God whose presence we're in tonight.

670
00:36:30,170 --> 00:36:31,370
But how does He do it?

671
00:36:31,450 --> 00:36:32,590
What's the principle?

672
00:36:32,750 --> 00:36:34,190
What does He want to do in us

673
00:36:34,190 --> 00:36:36,350
so that suddenly moment comes?

674
00:36:36,350 --> 00:36:37,990
So we don't spend the next 10 years

675
00:36:37,990 --> 00:36:41,210
just having conferences and just praying.

676
00:36:41,410 --> 00:36:43,650
That's tremendous because that's where it all comes

677
00:36:43,650 --> 00:36:43,990
from.

678
00:36:44,290 --> 00:36:45,770
But there's got to be a turning point.

679
00:36:47,170 --> 00:36:49,510
Well, these passages really, really tell us.

680
00:36:49,890 --> 00:36:51,470
Before I read the Word of God, I

681
00:36:51,470 --> 00:36:52,110
always pray.

682
00:36:52,230 --> 00:36:53,670
You know, we should never, ever read the

683
00:36:53,670 --> 00:36:54,310
Word casually.

684
00:36:54,970 --> 00:36:56,070
So I'm going to ask that we bow

685
00:36:56,070 --> 00:36:57,410
before God one more time.

686
00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:00,480
And I so praise God.

687
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:01,620
You're not here to hear speakers.

688
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:02,800
You just want to hear God.

689
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,860
In the quiet of this moment, just between

690
00:37:05,860 --> 00:37:09,840
you and God, would you just praise God

691
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,700
for giving His only Son to die for

692
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:12,880
you?

693
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,320
Just praise God for Jesus right now.

694
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,100
Would you praise Him that His grace is

695
00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:24,700
greater than all of our sin and weakness?

696
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,860
That He justifies us, though we're a work

697
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:32,420
in progress?

698
00:37:37,740 --> 00:37:39,820
Would you praise Him that with God nothing

699
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:40,680
is impossible?

700
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,640
Would everyone ask God to give me His

701
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,780
words in the Holy Spirit and us ears

702
00:37:49,780 --> 00:37:50,180
to hear?

703
00:37:58,260 --> 00:38:00,080
Oh, Father, how we praise You that by

704
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,820
the blood of Your Son we can call

705
00:38:01,820 --> 00:38:02,740
You Abba, Father.

706
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,620
That we can come, Lord, to Your very

707
00:38:05,620 --> 00:38:06,020
throne.

708
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,640
And, God, we come only in that blood,

709
00:38:07,860 --> 00:38:08,940
only in that name.

710
00:38:10,660 --> 00:38:12,620
Father, we know we can't worship, we can't

711
00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:14,440
pray, we don't have an ounce of sincerity

712
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:15,980
or purity without Your grace.

713
00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:18,640
But thank You, Lord, that we're not without

714
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,320
Your grace.

715
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,740
And it's in that grace, Lord, that we

716
00:38:21,740 --> 00:38:22,060
come.

717
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,880
And, Lord, we're asking You tonight, just take

718
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,200
us to a whole new level of just

719
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,020
loving You, Lord.

720
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,380
And, Lord, just trusting You.

721
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,300
And, Lord, surrendering everything to You.

722
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,480
Lord, by Your grace that we're utterly dead

723
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,140
to ourselves that You alone may live.

724
00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:37,720
Lord, take us to a whole new level

725
00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:38,640
of faith tonight.

726
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:41,540
And, Lord, a new level of turning points.

727
00:38:41,660 --> 00:38:43,360
So, God, we can see the breakthroughs in

728
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:44,760
our marriages and churches.

729
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,940
And, Father, help us not to get so

730
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:48,540
enamored with what needs to happen in America.

731
00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:50,160
We miss our families and church.

732
00:38:51,020 --> 00:38:54,860
Father, tonight, take us to deeper faith, deeper

733
00:38:54,860 --> 00:38:58,100
love, deeper passion, deeper power, deeper surrender that

734
00:38:58,100 --> 00:38:59,840
You alone may get glory, that the break

735
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,640
-in may finally come.

736
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,820
We ask it for Your namesake, for Your

737
00:39:03,820 --> 00:39:04,240
pleasure.

738
00:39:04,660 --> 00:39:06,420
God, we confess Your name's the only name

739
00:39:06,420 --> 00:39:06,980
that matters.

740
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,620
And, God, Your kingdom's the only kingdom that

741
00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:10,020
counts.

742
00:39:10,140 --> 00:39:11,900
And, God, Your will is the only will

743
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:14,100
that really is any matter.

744
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,660
And, Lord, that we matter only because we

745
00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:17,420
matter to You.

746
00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:19,720
And I've been created in Your image.

747
00:39:19,860 --> 00:39:20,500
We praise You.

748
00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:21,140
We honor You.

749
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,180
We exalt You, Lord.

750
00:39:23,420 --> 00:39:24,520
Take this time.

751
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:25,820
And, Lord, take us to a whole new

752
00:39:25,820 --> 00:39:28,340
surrender to You that You get glory for.

753
00:39:28,460 --> 00:39:30,600
We ask it in Jesus' blessed holy name.

754
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:32,040
Amen.

755
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,800
Well, 2 Chronicles 7, 14, as someone said,

756
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,060
it's the most quoted and least experienced passage

757
00:39:38,060 --> 00:39:38,820
in all the Bible.

758
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,560
I hope that's not true, but it may

759
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:40,800
be.

760
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,480
But let me quote it in the spirit

761
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,280
of the Hebrew text.

762
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,760
It really would read in the context more

763
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:46,300
like this.

764
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,200
If my people, which are called by my

765
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:53,500
name, will desperately, in utter brokenness, humble themselves

766
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:54,180
before me.

767
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:55,700
It's not, God, we need You.

768
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,840
It's, God, we've got to have You.

769
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:58,460
And, God, we're undone.

770
00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:01,280
And, God, we desperately need You manifest.

771
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,140
It's a desperate kind of humbling.

772
00:40:03,340 --> 00:40:04,840
It says, if we will pray.

773
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,320
But it would really read more like, if

774
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,820
my people will fervently cry out to me

775
00:40:08,820 --> 00:40:11,640
with utter fasting and tears, not just, Lord,

776
00:40:11,740 --> 00:40:13,840
it's in revival, but that kind of prayer

777
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,440
that the Spirit of God gives.

778
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:16,820
We can't work it up or fake it,

779
00:40:16,940 --> 00:40:18,460
but He says, that's what we have to

780
00:40:18,460 --> 00:40:19,600
have, and He'll give it to us if

781
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:20,080
we want it.

782
00:40:20,620 --> 00:40:22,720
And so, He'll even give us the want

783
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:22,880
it.

784
00:40:23,540 --> 00:40:25,220
We can even ask Him to strengthen our

785
00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:25,520
will.

786
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:26,260
Isn't that great?

787
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:28,440
Much of what we have is a will

788
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:28,860
problem.

789
00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:30,500
If we wanted to pray more, we would.

790
00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:32,280
We can trust God and ask Him for

791
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:32,560
that.

792
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:33,540
He can even do that.

793
00:40:34,180 --> 00:40:36,300
My people will cry out fervently.

794
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,360
And then it says, and seek my face.

795
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,760
Well, that means to admit His face has

796
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,040
not fully turned toward us.

797
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,980
It's very important that as prayer members we

798
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:45,660
stay very humble.

799
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,640
And not start thinking we're further along than

800
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:49,480
we really are.

801
00:40:49,580 --> 00:40:50,860
At the same time, we don't be discouraged.

802
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:51,940
We shouldn't be.

803
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,280
But folks, pride is a very subtle thing

804
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:55,040
to get a hold of us.

805
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,860
So, we must humble ourselves to admit, Father,

806
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,260
we haven't seen the breakthrough yet.

807
00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:01,500
And we're not satisfied with mercy drops for

808
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:02,220
Your name's sake.

809
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,420
And Lord, we want to seek Your face.

810
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,120
That means intimacy, total surrender to Your Lordship.

811
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,040
Not just, God, fix our economy.

812
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,280
Or, Lord, God, don't let us be persecuted.

813
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,340
Boy, if that's our motive for revival, we

814
00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:17,020
can forget it.

815
00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:20,280
That's worthless, that's shallow.

816
00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,020
In the early church, they rejoiced because they

817
00:41:23,020 --> 00:41:24,260
were beaten half to death.

818
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,380
God can give us that passion and grace.

819
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:27,340
We have to want it.

820
00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:28,360
And He'll give it to us.

821
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:29,700
And the remnant's headed there.

822
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:30,300
It's exciting.

823
00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:33,060
So, my people will pray that way.

824
00:41:33,140 --> 00:41:35,040
Seeking my face, my glory, my kingdom.

825
00:41:35,220 --> 00:41:37,020
Not our comfort, not just our pleasure.

826
00:41:37,020 --> 00:41:38,440
Or us to brag about it.

827
00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:40,680
But then He said, and turn from the

828
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:41,200
wicked ways.

829
00:41:41,220 --> 00:41:43,100
That would mean, God, go through me with

830
00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:44,240
a fine-tooth comb.

831
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:45,680
Especially my motives.

832
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,300
Especially my inner meditations.

833
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:51,420
That unyielded self that will hide on us.

834
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,600
It's just, Lord, I want You to have

835
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:54,120
everything.

836
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:54,880
He said, then.

837
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,460
Which says a lot different than just saying

838
00:41:56,460 --> 00:41:57,880
a little four-line prayer.

839
00:41:58,580 --> 00:42:00,420
And so, what God is calling us to

840
00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:02,300
is that passion of prayer.

841
00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:04,780
And God's seeking heart that He gives us.

842
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,260
And that's what He's doing in this remnant.

843
00:42:06,260 --> 00:42:07,700
And it's going to a whole new level.

844
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,480
Here's the good news tonight.

845
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:12,360
There's a little remnant of believers.

846
00:42:13,340 --> 00:42:15,100
And not just in America, but especially around

847
00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:15,500
the world.

848
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:16,740
And I tell you, in the last three

849
00:42:16,740 --> 00:42:17,440
to five years.

850
00:42:18,220 --> 00:42:19,820
I'm talking about the intercessors now.

851
00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:21,520
I'm talking about people that do know God,

852
00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:22,020
walk with God.

853
00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:22,660
Listen.

854
00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:25,240
It is altogether different now.

855
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,580
The time they spend has just exploded.

856
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:29,160
It's happened.

857
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,780
And many times they've got tears running when

858
00:42:31,780 --> 00:42:33,160
they pray they never have had before.

859
00:42:33,660 --> 00:42:35,160
And they're getting words from God.

860
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,960
They're not just hoping God will send revival.

861
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:38,520
They know He's going to in their church

862
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:39,800
because they've got a word and they believe

863
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:40,200
in God.

864
00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:42,600
Folks, revival doesn't come from just hoping one

865
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,180
will come and saying, Boy, we need it.

866
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,120
It comes from having the kind of faith

867
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,300
where you really believe it by revelation.

868
00:42:49,220 --> 00:42:50,300
And it's a word.

869
00:42:50,380 --> 00:42:51,220
And that's where He's taking it.

870
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:52,660
That's what's happening in that remnant.

871
00:42:53,260 --> 00:42:54,840
They're seeing breakthroughs in their marriages.

872
00:42:55,820 --> 00:42:57,600
For years, they've seen their kids and grandkids

873
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:58,200
kind of struggle.

874
00:42:58,300 --> 00:42:59,260
Some of them have them going the wrong

875
00:42:59,260 --> 00:42:59,360
way.

876
00:42:59,420 --> 00:43:00,780
Did you know we're in an epidemic of

877
00:43:00,780 --> 00:43:03,260
ministers and Christian leaders whose families are being

878
00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:04,240
spiritually slaughtered?

879
00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:05,100
I mean, an epidemic.

880
00:43:05,340 --> 00:43:05,840
It's not a little.

881
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,420
It's just an explosion among many intercessors.

882
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:10,100
But guess what?

883
00:43:10,140 --> 00:43:12,360
In this little remnant, they're getting a little

884
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:13,940
better handle on some real warfare.

885
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,140
And I mean, they're seeing some mountains come.

886
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,460
They're seeing these kids change.

887
00:43:17,780 --> 00:43:19,700
They're seeing their neighbors get saved, which is

888
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:21,440
really what it's about for the glory of

889
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:21,700
God.

890
00:43:22,060 --> 00:43:22,980
It's not just praying.

891
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,560
Man, they're seeing the souls get saved.

892
00:43:24,620 --> 00:43:25,800
They're seeing the mountains move.

893
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,460
They're seeing the marriages change.

894
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:28,440
And it's happening.

895
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:30,500
Tell me, are you in that remnant?

896
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,580
I mean, no hands or anything, but just

897
00:43:32,580 --> 00:43:32,940
be honest.

898
00:43:32,940 --> 00:43:34,000
Are you really there?

899
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,300
I mean, we can all go to conferences.

900
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:37,540
You know, we can all get up here

901
00:43:37,540 --> 00:43:38,140
and give sermons.

902
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:41,040
What's the reality?

903
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:43,600
You got it.

904
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:44,840
You probably wouldn't be here.

905
00:43:45,060 --> 00:43:46,420
And that remnant's growing, folks.

906
00:43:46,860 --> 00:43:50,000
Well, he says, when you pray like that,

907
00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:52,340
and it's God's grace in us, he said,

908
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:53,500
I'm going to hear, I'm going to forgive,

909
00:43:53,620 --> 00:43:54,540
and I'm going to heal the land.

910
00:43:54,620 --> 00:43:55,880
But let me look, if you will, to

911
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:56,700
Acts chapter 2.

912
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,720
I'm sorry, Acts chapter 1 and verse 4.

913
00:44:00,980 --> 00:44:02,440
Acts chapter 1 and verse 4.

914
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,420
And being assembled together with him, he commanded

915
00:44:04,420 --> 00:44:06,560
them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to

916
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:06,820
wait.

917
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,300
And, of course, we understand that didn't mean

918
00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:10,240
go have a committee meeting or go have

919
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:10,500
a meal.

920
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,120
It meant go really pray together, united, really

921
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:14,840
seek God.

922
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,580
But not just pray and seek God, but

923
00:44:16,580 --> 00:44:17,260
believe God.

924
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,280
That they were really believing God for something.

925
00:44:19,380 --> 00:44:20,780
Look what verse 5 says.

926
00:44:22,700 --> 00:44:24,040
John truly baptized with water.

927
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,540
You should be baptized with the Holy Spirit

928
00:44:25,540 --> 00:44:26,680
not many days from now.

929
00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:28,460
And they were believing God for that.

930
00:44:28,540 --> 00:44:29,620
Of course, that hadn't happened to them yet.

931
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:30,760
If you're saved, he's in you.

932
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:31,940
He's come inside of you.

933
00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:34,500
But the Bible does also clearly say that

934
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:35,880
to save people, we can really lose the

935
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:36,140
fullness.

936
00:44:36,720 --> 00:44:38,200
We can really lose the full power.

937
00:44:38,380 --> 00:44:40,420
We can really lose the full yieldedness.

938
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,160
Therefore, the Spirit gets kind of grieved and

939
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:43,440
quenched.

940
00:44:43,540 --> 00:44:44,900
And it's subtle, but it's very real.

941
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:46,940
So he was talking about them not only

942
00:44:46,940 --> 00:44:49,000
having the Spirit, but obviously walking in the

943
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:49,580
power of the Spirit.

944
00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:51,240
Verse 8, he says, this is what it's

945
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:52,080
going to look like.

946
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:53,680
And it's a pretty good measuring stick.

947
00:44:53,740 --> 00:44:54,420
It really is.

948
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:56,600
You know, we're really a generation.

949
00:44:56,740 --> 00:44:58,280
We've got so many study courses, and they're

950
00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:58,980
really good.

951
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:01,080
We've got so many ministries, so many tapes,

952
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,220
and really good stuff.

953
00:45:03,620 --> 00:45:05,940
And this passage didn't exactly apply to this,

954
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,560
but I think it's kind of in the

955
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:07,900
ballpark.

956
00:45:08,020 --> 00:45:09,760
It says, sometimes we can be ever learning

957
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,100
and ever coming to the knowledge of the

958
00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:11,420
truth.

959
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:14,720
We can be ever talking and studying, but

960
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:17,920
not really moving into the real manifest presence

961
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,800
of God in our local churches.

962
00:45:20,060 --> 00:45:21,400
That's where it really hits the road, not

963
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:22,700
at a conference, but at the local church

964
00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:23,520
and in the family.

965
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:25,920
Well, he says, this is what it's going

966
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:26,380
to look like.

967
00:45:26,780 --> 00:45:28,620
You'll receive power when the Holy Spirit's come

968
00:45:28,620 --> 00:45:30,240
upon you, and you shall be witnesses to

969
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:32,340
me right here in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the

970
00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:33,060
uttermost part of the earth.

971
00:45:33,300 --> 00:45:34,400
Man, you talk about a miracle.

972
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,020
What was right outside those doors?

973
00:45:36,780 --> 00:45:38,680
You know, sometimes, well, it's tough in America

974
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:39,380
today, boys.

975
00:45:39,460 --> 00:45:40,240
Hard to reach people.

976
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,120
What was outside those doors?

977
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,560
The Roman soldiers who wanted to hang them

978
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:44,060
on a cross.

979
00:45:44,420 --> 00:45:45,800
The Jews who wanted to kill them.

980
00:45:46,380 --> 00:45:47,460
Every cult in the world.

981
00:45:47,580 --> 00:45:49,860
Talk about a demon-possessed atmosphere.

982
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,540
It was incredible what they were facing.

983
00:45:51,660 --> 00:45:52,460
He said, you're going to walk right up

984
00:45:52,460 --> 00:45:53,360
to those Romans and those Jews.

985
00:45:53,420 --> 00:45:54,200
You're going to win them to Jesus.

986
00:45:54,460 --> 00:45:55,940
That's what he was saying.

987
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,580
You're not going to hide anymore, because they've

988
00:45:57,580 --> 00:45:58,060
been hiding.

989
00:45:58,660 --> 00:46:00,200
But he also, he wasn't telling them it

990
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,160
was going to be a miracle by the

991
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:01,320
minute.

992
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:02,820
He also said, many of you are going

993
00:46:02,820 --> 00:46:03,580
to die.

994
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:05,600
Going to die.

995
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:06,640
They're going to kill your children.

996
00:46:08,020 --> 00:46:09,560
Did you know that's what's happening in India

997
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:10,540
and places around the world?

998
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:11,600
I was with a bunch of men in

999
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,940
India about three years ago, and they were

1000
00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:14,600
from North India.

1001
00:46:14,980 --> 00:46:16,480
And they said they've already killed one or

1002
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:17,540
two of our friends, and when we go

1003
00:46:17,540 --> 00:46:18,740
back home, some of us are going to

1004
00:46:18,740 --> 00:46:18,940
die.

1005
00:46:19,020 --> 00:46:19,760
They know who we are.

1006
00:46:19,780 --> 00:46:20,220
And you know what?

1007
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:21,520
They're going to kill our children.

1008
00:46:22,820 --> 00:46:24,080
You know, it's one thing to give your

1009
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:24,480
own life.

1010
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,780
What about giving your child to be tortured?

1011
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:29,740
You know what I saw in those men's

1012
00:46:29,740 --> 00:46:29,980
eyes?

1013
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:31,720
It broke me.

1014
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:32,220
It humbled me.

1015
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:32,880
It changed my life.

1016
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:33,620
I saw joy.

1017
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:35,380
I saw joy.

1018
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:36,100
I saw determination.

1019
00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:37,780
And when I got back to the States

1020
00:46:37,780 --> 00:46:39,880
to my safe place, three months later, I

1021
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,240
heard three of those men were dead, and

1022
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:43,360
two others had to just leave their houses

1023
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,140
and leave everything.

1024
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,440
But, oh, the power of God in those

1025
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:47,640
men's lives and ministries.

1026
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,980
Folks, he's taken us to a kind of

1027
00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:53,600
joy that doesn't get shaken by the economy

1028
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,320
or anything else.

1029
00:46:54,780 --> 00:46:56,320
He's taken us to a kind of power

1030
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:57,820
we'll witness, and it works.

1031
00:46:57,900 --> 00:46:58,800
You know what happened.

1032
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,640
The Spirit of God came, and they went

1033
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,460
out witnessing, and the first thing they got

1034
00:47:02,460 --> 00:47:03,580
accused of was being drunk.

1035
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:04,880
Anybody accused of being drunk lately?

1036
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:06,860
They had so much joy and so much

1037
00:47:06,860 --> 00:47:08,920
boldness, so much power, but it wasn't long

1038
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,740
that they realized these guys aren't drunk because

1039
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:12,180
their words didn't hit them here.

1040
00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:14,640
Their words went straight here.

1041
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,400
And that's what we lack today so much.

1042
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,920
Well, yeah, we can be good talkers, but

1043
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,020
it's not in talk, it's not in slickness.

1044
00:47:22,180 --> 00:47:23,960
It's real power.

1045
00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:26,960
Well, they had it, and the world got

1046
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:27,300
reached.

1047
00:47:27,380 --> 00:47:29,540
That's what's happening in so many places around

1048
00:47:29,540 --> 00:47:29,940
the world.

1049
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,580
And we ask the question, how did they

1050
00:47:33,580 --> 00:47:34,000
get that?

1051
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:34,880
What was that?

1052
00:47:34,940 --> 00:47:37,300
We've got the Spirit in us, so where

1053
00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:37,900
is that?

1054
00:47:38,020 --> 00:47:39,880
Well, we want to talk for just a

1055
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,980
moment about the one thing that has to

1056
00:47:41,980 --> 00:47:45,200
happen in us as individuals to go past

1057
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:46,980
that barrier and really move into that next

1058
00:47:46,980 --> 00:47:49,300
realm where the Spirit of God explodes finally.

1059
00:47:50,140 --> 00:47:51,800
And that doesn't mean we measure everything by

1060
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:52,180
experiences.

1061
00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:53,100
We'll go through valleys.

1062
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:54,200
We'll go through times of warfare.

1063
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:55,860
It's not all measured by numbers.

1064
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:57,780
The folks ought to be there sometimes.

1065
00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:00,020
But we see these mighty moves of God.

1066
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,240
We should never be satisfied that it never

1067
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:02,700
happens.

1068
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:05,560
And so here's what God is doing right

1069
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:06,200
now in this remnant.

1070
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:07,900
Let me give you one other Scripture that

1071
00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:09,560
illustrates the kind of prayer we're talking about.

1072
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,340
What we're saying is in Acts they had

1073
00:48:11,340 --> 00:48:12,020
a type of prayer.

1074
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,180
That 10-day prayer meeting, that's pretty intense.

1075
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,460
And there's not just a prayer meeting.

1076
00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:19,660
Folks, it was a cleansing meeting.

1077
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:20,500
You say, how do you know?

1078
00:48:20,540 --> 00:48:21,280
It doesn't say it.

1079
00:48:21,340 --> 00:48:22,620
Well, that's kind of what they did that

1080
00:48:22,620 --> 00:48:24,540
time of year in that type of thing.

1081
00:48:24,780 --> 00:48:26,380
But you know what they had to decide

1082
00:48:26,380 --> 00:48:27,360
in that 10 days?

1083
00:48:27,460 --> 00:48:28,420
They had to decide, we're ready to walk

1084
00:48:28,420 --> 00:48:29,560
out there and get our heads cut off.

1085
00:48:29,660 --> 00:48:30,780
They had to decide that because up to

1086
00:48:30,780 --> 00:48:31,960
that point they'd been hiding.

1087
00:48:33,740 --> 00:48:34,900
You know, now I believe in that 10

1088
00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:36,780
days they prayed, they sought God, they were

1089
00:48:36,780 --> 00:48:38,100
getting ready to surrender their whole heart, and

1090
00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:40,380
that's always the missing key to revival.

1091
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:41,400
It's not just prayer.

1092
00:48:41,660 --> 00:48:43,920
It's always prayer and utter yielding.

1093
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:44,460
That's it.

1094
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,020
That's the big missing element.

1095
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:47,720
But praise God is coming back.

1096
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,540
Well, they had that, and God at His

1097
00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:52,500
point in time, He moved that suddenly moment.

1098
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:53,980
They were totally different.

1099
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:54,540
They went out.

1100
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:55,220
They witnessed.

1101
00:48:55,340 --> 00:48:55,980
It wasn't fancy.

1102
00:48:56,260 --> 00:48:58,600
I jokingly say if you read Peter's sermon,

1103
00:48:58,740 --> 00:48:59,160
you know what?

1104
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,300
He'd have flunked a preaching class at seminary.

1105
00:49:01,380 --> 00:49:02,900
There wasn't three points and a poem in

1106
00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:03,100
there.

1107
00:49:03,140 --> 00:49:05,020
Anyway, it's a rough old sermon, brother.

1108
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:07,360
But the power of God was so that

1109
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,740
a rough fisherman, 3,000, got baptized on

1110
00:49:09,740 --> 00:49:10,200
the spot.

1111
00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:11,680
You know how much power that was?

1112
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:12,660
You know what those people were doing?

1113
00:49:12,660 --> 00:49:13,820
They got publicly baptized.

1114
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:15,720
They were becoming a public enemy of the

1115
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:17,240
Roman government, putting their head on the chopping

1116
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:17,460
block.

1117
00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:18,160
That's repentance.

1118
00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:20,700
That's salvation.

1119
00:49:22,180 --> 00:49:24,500
We don't get that kind of power by

1120
00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:25,860
just studying Bible and doing conferences.

1121
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,500
It's about a certain type of personal and

1122
00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:30,360
corporate prayer.

1123
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,040
But we're going to see the personal for

1124
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:32,580
just a moment.

1125
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:33,660
James 5, 16.

1126
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,040
You're very familiar with this passage.

1127
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:36,680
Probably don't even have to turn to this

1128
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:36,840
one.

1129
00:49:36,860 --> 00:49:38,360
The great revival passage, as a matter of

1130
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,000
fact, at least the principle is.

1131
00:49:40,380 --> 00:49:42,500
It says, Well, I'm sorry.

1132
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,820
It says, You know, that's a real big

1133
00:49:47,820 --> 00:49:48,640
little so that.

1134
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,380
That so that means that the deep, deep,

1135
00:49:51,460 --> 00:49:54,200
deep cleansing and utter brokenness and humility doesn't

1136
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,040
happen first, neither does it release the power

1137
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:56,420
of God.

1138
00:49:56,500 --> 00:49:57,260
That's what it means.

1139
00:49:57,580 --> 00:49:58,720
But then it goes on to give a

1140
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:01,420
principle about revival producing or any kind of

1141
00:50:01,420 --> 00:50:02,160
producing prayer.

1142
00:50:02,740 --> 00:50:06,260
It says, There's an implied word here.

1143
00:50:06,380 --> 00:50:07,420
The implied word is only.

1144
00:50:07,420 --> 00:50:10,420
It is only the effective, fervent.

1145
00:50:11,220 --> 00:50:14,020
That means anointed, impassioned, real spirit anointed.

1146
00:50:14,300 --> 00:50:15,580
It is only the effective.

1147
00:50:16,140 --> 00:50:17,220
You know, that would mean it's got a

1148
00:50:17,220 --> 00:50:17,960
lot of faith in it.

1149
00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:19,360
That means we're not just saying prayers.

1150
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:19,960
We're believing.

1151
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:21,260
It's effective.

1152
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:22,020
It's strategic.

1153
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,740
It's guided by the spirit.

1154
00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:27,140
You know, revival producing prayer is never general.

1155
00:50:28,820 --> 00:50:29,720
Never general.

1156
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,600
You ever read the great prophets of the

1157
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,420
Bible that within the prayers they prayed when

1158
00:50:34,420 --> 00:50:35,280
God did mightily?

1159
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:36,720
Boy, they didn't say God send revival.

1160
00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:39,320
Man, they understood what God had to do

1161
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:40,860
to send revival and they were praying those

1162
00:50:40,860 --> 00:50:41,660
things with God.

1163
00:50:41,740 --> 00:50:42,520
Their prayers deepened.

1164
00:50:42,980 --> 00:50:46,240
The prayers of Daniel, prayers of Nehemiah, obviously

1165
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:47,120
the prayers of Jesus.

1166
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:48,740
Did you know we see that in history?

1167
00:50:48,860 --> 00:50:50,960
Those men and women God used to birth

1168
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,040
those mighty turning points when the spirit of

1169
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:53,760
God did explode.

1170
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,120
When you go back and read their prayers,

1171
00:50:55,660 --> 00:50:57,840
honestly they had about ten or twelve elements

1172
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:58,440
in them.

1173
00:50:59,540 --> 00:51:01,820
Really, God generally does about at least seven

1174
00:51:01,820 --> 00:51:04,500
or eight things in his church to really

1175
00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:05,900
bring the manifest presence of God.

1176
00:51:05,940 --> 00:51:07,780
Do you know exactly what they are?

1177
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,600
And are you praying those by the spirit

1178
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:09,980
of God?

1179
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,780
I'm not saying there's exactly eight.

1180
00:51:12,180 --> 00:51:14,160
I'm sure most of you do.

1181
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:14,840
You're doing it.

1182
00:51:15,460 --> 00:51:17,040
But did you know we've done studies that

1183
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,900
the vast majority of believers don't have any

1184
00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:20,200
earthly idea in the world how to seek

1185
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:20,720
God's face?

1186
00:51:20,940 --> 00:51:22,220
They'll say God send revival.

1187
00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:23,580
They say it two or three times and

1188
00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:24,500
then we start looking at each other.

1189
00:51:24,540 --> 00:51:25,340
They don't know what else to say.

1190
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,520
Well, these folks, when it says the effective,

1191
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,280
that means we're really praying with the spirit

1192
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:32,660
of God.

1193
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,380
It's not just some general little flippant one

1194
00:51:34,380 --> 00:51:34,820
-line prayer.

1195
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:36,520
It doesn't mean it's legalism or complicated.

1196
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:37,900
But we're praying with God.

1197
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:38,900
We're praying in real faith.

1198
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:40,660
We've got the fervent anointing of God.

1199
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,660
And obviously all that comes from the righteous

1200
00:51:43,660 --> 00:51:46,040
man, which means the utterly, totally yielded heart,

1201
00:51:46,100 --> 00:51:47,960
not just somebody that's saved back there somewhere.

1202
00:51:48,540 --> 00:51:50,460
And so this is where God is taking

1203
00:51:50,460 --> 00:51:50,640
us.

1204
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:51,740
How is he doing it?

1205
00:51:51,820 --> 00:51:53,520
Well, he's doing it the same way he

1206
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:54,220
always does it.

1207
00:51:54,220 --> 00:51:57,240
Folks get a, believers get a vision for

1208
00:51:57,240 --> 00:51:59,280
intimacy and surrender to Jesus.

1209
00:51:59,660 --> 00:52:02,440
They get a vision for Jesus himself, not

1210
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,200
just some blessing, not just some answer, not

1211
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:06,720
just some miracle, which is fine.

1212
00:52:07,260 --> 00:52:09,500
But they really want time with Jesus.

1213
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:11,320
You know, first thing Jesus said when he

1214
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:12,880
said teach us praise, he said shut the

1215
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:13,740
door and go in your closet.

1216
00:52:13,860 --> 00:52:15,240
Now he was saying a lot of things

1217
00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:17,540
about the Pharisees and legalistic.

1218
00:52:17,780 --> 00:52:18,800
He was not about that.

1219
00:52:19,180 --> 00:52:20,540
But we see in the life of Jesus,

1220
00:52:20,660 --> 00:52:22,540
he always made much, much, much time to

1221
00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:23,380
be alone with the Father.

1222
00:52:23,380 --> 00:52:26,480
And we see that in this remnant I'm

1223
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:28,620
telling you about of pastors and lay people

1224
00:52:28,620 --> 00:52:29,140
in this country.

1225
00:52:29,260 --> 00:52:30,680
That is the common denominator.

1226
00:52:31,260 --> 00:52:32,720
Over the past three or four years, God

1227
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:33,580
has convicted them.

1228
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:34,460
They've stopped short.

1229
00:52:34,620 --> 00:52:35,480
They're rushing God.

1230
00:52:35,860 --> 00:52:38,340
And they've settled for more average type devotions

1231
00:52:38,340 --> 00:52:41,760
rather than this fervent, effective, absolute yielded heart.

1232
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,100
And what we're seeing there, they're realizing, is

1233
00:52:44,100 --> 00:52:46,320
that they've shortchanged the cleansing part.

1234
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:48,260
They were quite a bit on the asking

1235
00:52:48,260 --> 00:52:50,040
part, maybe even pretty good on the praise

1236
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,200
part and the petition part, even a little

1237
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:53,040
bit on the intercession.

1238
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,780
But that really absolute searching of the heart,

1239
00:52:55,920 --> 00:53:00,200
not legalism, but spirit-led, grace-based, biblical,

1240
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:01,300
absolute search.

1241
00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:02,880
That's missing in a lot of lives.

1242
00:53:03,420 --> 00:53:04,700
You go back and look at Jonathan Edwards

1243
00:53:04,700 --> 00:53:07,620
and George Whitefield and Wesley and on and

1244
00:53:07,620 --> 00:53:08,380
on and on and on.

1245
00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:10,180
Men, I mean, really, really knew God.

1246
00:53:10,980 --> 00:53:12,360
And that was never missing in their quiet

1247
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:12,560
times.

1248
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:13,640
It's coming back.

1249
00:53:13,740 --> 00:53:14,620
People are understanding.

1250
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:15,940
I've been rushing God.

1251
00:53:15,980 --> 00:53:17,180
We're the busiest society.

1252
00:53:17,260 --> 00:53:18,600
I'm sure Canada is a lot like America,

1253
00:53:18,780 --> 00:53:20,280
but we're the busiest society.

1254
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,720
In fact, we're called the instant society.

1255
00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:22,720
Do you know why we're called the instant

1256
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:23,240
society?

1257
00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:24,740
We invented everything instant.

1258
00:53:24,860 --> 00:53:27,180
Instant coffee, instant tea, instant soup, instant breakfast,

1259
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:28,040
instant bank business.

1260
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:29,060
We invented it.

1261
00:53:30,020 --> 00:53:31,560
Guess what else we tried to invent about

1262
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:32,360
40 years ago?

1263
00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:34,040
Instant quiet times.

1264
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,160
No muss, no fuss.

1265
00:53:35,300 --> 00:53:37,440
Read a scripture or two, read a devotion,

1266
00:53:37,620 --> 00:53:38,500
say a prayer, and you're done.

1267
00:53:38,860 --> 00:53:40,080
And I know this group right here, you're

1268
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:40,880
doing a lot more than that.

1269
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,200
But folks, most aren't.

1270
00:53:43,260 --> 00:53:43,780
And you know what?

1271
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:47,280
Even many leaders, what's really being seen is

1272
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:48,760
even many of us that have been intercessors,

1273
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,240
the Lord's taken us to a whole new

1274
00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:54,080
level of cleansing.

1275
00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:55,780
Let me give you an illustration.

1276
00:53:57,300 --> 00:53:58,820
By the way, you know better than to

1277
00:53:58,820 --> 00:54:00,600
pray for experience, don't you?

1278
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,380
That's a lot like praying for patience.

1279
00:54:03,500 --> 00:54:04,000
Be careful.

1280
00:54:04,300 --> 00:54:05,480
I didn't know any better.

1281
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,820
Right when I graduated from seminary in 1983,

1282
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:09,380
I prayed, Oh, Lord, give me experience.

1283
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:10,080
What did he ever?

1284
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,340
First church out of seminary was the most

1285
00:54:12,340 --> 00:54:12,900
horrible.

1286
00:54:13,220 --> 00:54:14,320
And this is not an opinion.

1287
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,080
This is what history professors said.

1288
00:54:16,140 --> 00:54:16,900
This is the truth.

1289
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:20,440
It was the worst moral and legal scandal

1290
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,140
and disaster in the history of the entire

1291
00:54:23,140 --> 00:54:24,380
Southern Baptist Convention.

1292
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:25,700
It was my first church.

1293
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,780
Now, praise God, I didn't cause it.

1294
00:54:28,820 --> 00:54:30,360
It happened before I got there, okay?

1295
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:31,820
I could have caused it, but I didn't.

1296
00:54:32,340 --> 00:54:33,600
But right before I went to this church,

1297
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,700
when an associate pastor, minister of evangelism, about

1298
00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:36,740
to go to my first church, it was

1299
00:54:36,740 --> 00:54:38,820
in a very big, large southern city.

1300
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,400
It was in a very high crime area.

1301
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,540
I was scared to go, honestly, because it

1302
00:54:42,540 --> 00:54:43,860
was going to be a very tough situation.

1303
00:54:43,860 --> 00:54:45,500
Right before I went there, I turned on

1304
00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:46,740
the 6 o'clock news, and there was

1305
00:54:46,740 --> 00:54:48,080
that church on the 6 o'clock news.

1306
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:49,200
It wasn't a publicity campaign.

1307
00:54:49,780 --> 00:54:50,880
They were leading a woman out of that

1308
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,000
church in handcuffs.

1309
00:54:52,740 --> 00:54:55,140
Accused of child sexual abuse in the church

1310
00:54:55,140 --> 00:54:55,540
daycare.

1311
00:54:55,700 --> 00:54:56,760
This was 1984.

1312
00:54:56,980 --> 00:54:58,240
You hadn't even heard of such a thing.

1313
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,600
Biggest scandal and most horrible thing in Memphis,

1314
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:01,080
Tennessee.

1315
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:03,140
And this church is now in a horrible

1316
00:55:03,140 --> 00:55:03,560
mess.

1317
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,620
And three weeks later, they called, and they

1318
00:55:05,620 --> 00:55:07,120
said, We can't call a staff member.

1319
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,620
To be honest with you, I went, I'm

1320
00:55:09,620 --> 00:55:10,220
glad you can't.

1321
00:55:10,220 --> 00:55:11,120
I was scared to go.

1322
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,040
But then it kept getting worse every day,

1323
00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:14,160
and they called me back, and they said,

1324
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:15,300
Would you still pray about coming?

1325
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:16,840
I said, Oh yeah, I'll pray about it.

1326
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:17,660
I thought, I'm not going.

1327
00:55:20,070 --> 00:55:22,310
But I prayed, and God said, You're going.

1328
00:55:22,430 --> 00:55:23,650
Folks, I hadn't been there six weeks.

1329
00:55:23,710 --> 00:55:25,590
That thing blew up like an atomic bomb.

1330
00:55:26,030 --> 00:55:27,950
They arrested the pastor that was there.

1331
00:55:28,530 --> 00:55:30,050
Accused of child sexual abuse.

1332
00:55:30,130 --> 00:55:30,790
Now a lot worse.

1333
00:55:30,870 --> 00:55:32,990
Now devil worship in the church baptistry.

1334
00:55:33,670 --> 00:55:35,290
And then they arrested two more people.

1335
00:55:35,390 --> 00:55:36,410
And I'm right in the middle of this

1336
00:55:36,410 --> 00:55:36,770
now.

1337
00:55:37,130 --> 00:55:38,310
Kid right out of seminary.

1338
00:55:38,750 --> 00:55:40,210
The legal bills started exploding.

1339
00:55:40,310 --> 00:55:41,390
This was a church about 200 or 300

1340
00:55:41,390 --> 00:55:42,010
on a Sunday morning.

1341
00:55:42,010 --> 00:55:42,970
Had a big billing debt.

1342
00:55:43,070 --> 00:55:43,650
Didn't have any money.

1343
00:55:44,010 --> 00:55:45,110
The legal bills started exploding.

1344
00:55:45,270 --> 00:55:46,830
The summit got to three million dollars.

1345
00:55:47,330 --> 00:55:48,170
It was just hopeless.

1346
00:55:48,930 --> 00:55:50,250
And they forgot to tell me the church

1347
00:55:50,250 --> 00:55:52,250
was divided right down the middle without the

1348
00:55:52,250 --> 00:55:52,770
legal battle.

1349
00:55:54,290 --> 00:55:55,490
I mean, folks, it was bad.

1350
00:55:56,150 --> 00:55:57,170
Well, it gets even worse.

1351
00:55:57,250 --> 00:55:59,070
Six months into this, I'm now their pastor.

1352
00:56:00,610 --> 00:56:01,370
I have no experience.

1353
00:56:01,430 --> 00:56:02,510
I have no idea what to do.

1354
00:56:02,690 --> 00:56:03,610
I'm scared to death.

1355
00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:05,330
So, we do have a program to get

1356
00:56:05,330 --> 00:56:05,810
our hands on.

1357
00:56:05,890 --> 00:56:07,190
We even started a good prayer ministry.

1358
00:56:07,370 --> 00:56:08,150
I mean, we tried everything.

1359
00:56:08,230 --> 00:56:08,750
Good stuff.

1360
00:56:09,670 --> 00:56:10,730
That church was dying.

1361
00:56:10,730 --> 00:56:14,170
Folks, this stuff, these legal battles went on

1362
00:56:14,170 --> 00:56:16,930
for five solid years.

1363
00:56:17,090 --> 00:56:17,970
I'm not exaggerating.

1364
00:56:18,050 --> 00:56:19,430
That church was on the 6 o'clock

1365
00:56:19,430 --> 00:56:21,270
news for five years, about three or four

1366
00:56:21,270 --> 00:56:22,830
nights a week, leading the former pastor out

1367
00:56:22,830 --> 00:56:23,730
of the church in handcuffs.

1368
00:56:24,050 --> 00:56:25,370
Now, what kind of chance is a church

1369
00:56:25,370 --> 00:56:25,690
like that?

1370
00:56:25,710 --> 00:56:26,610
Well, it didn't have a chance.

1371
00:56:26,710 --> 00:56:27,310
Neither did I.

1372
00:56:27,550 --> 00:56:29,310
I was so beat up and worn down.

1373
00:56:30,290 --> 00:56:31,330
And I was kind of moaning and groaning.

1374
00:56:31,410 --> 00:56:32,410
Lord, we've done all we can do.

1375
00:56:32,510 --> 00:56:36,250
We went to 10,000 people in six

1376
00:56:36,250 --> 00:56:36,510
weeks.

1377
00:56:36,890 --> 00:56:38,870
About 30, 40 little old people went door

1378
00:56:38,870 --> 00:56:39,090
to door.

1379
00:56:39,090 --> 00:56:41,290
10,000 people in six weeks and not

1380
00:56:41,290 --> 00:56:42,710
one person visited our church.

1381
00:56:42,810 --> 00:56:43,550
It was that bad.

1382
00:56:44,350 --> 00:56:45,550
Lord, we've done all we can do.

1383
00:56:45,630 --> 00:56:46,670
And, Lord, we've had a prayer ministry.

1384
00:56:46,870 --> 00:56:48,070
And, Lord, I've had a good quiet time.

1385
00:56:48,170 --> 00:56:49,710
And I'm just going to have to get

1386
00:56:49,710 --> 00:56:50,230
out of the ministry.

1387
00:56:50,410 --> 00:56:51,250
I'm just beat up.

1388
00:56:53,130 --> 00:56:54,590
That's when the Lord showed me what was

1389
00:56:54,590 --> 00:56:54,890
wrong.

1390
00:56:56,010 --> 00:56:57,590
And, you know, by human standards, I had

1391
00:56:57,590 --> 00:56:58,610
an okay quiet time.

1392
00:56:59,770 --> 00:57:01,370
But God showed me, you're stopping short.

1393
00:57:01,490 --> 00:57:02,170
You're rushing me.

1394
00:57:02,210 --> 00:57:04,190
And He said, what you're really doing, you

1395
00:57:04,190 --> 00:57:06,830
haven't embraced the absolute deep cleansing of your

1396
00:57:06,830 --> 00:57:07,090
heart.

1397
00:57:07,150 --> 00:57:08,390
And I thought I had, you know.

1398
00:57:08,390 --> 00:57:09,810
And you know what we're finding in a

1399
00:57:09,810 --> 00:57:12,310
lot of precious Americans, even some intercessors.

1400
00:57:12,690 --> 00:57:14,890
What we mean by embracing deep cleansing of

1401
00:57:14,890 --> 00:57:16,370
the heart and what God means are really

1402
00:57:16,370 --> 00:57:16,730
different.

1403
00:57:17,670 --> 00:57:19,590
And what we mean by absolute yielding and

1404
00:57:19,590 --> 00:57:21,290
what they understood in the great awakenings is

1405
00:57:21,290 --> 00:57:21,650
different.

1406
00:57:22,590 --> 00:57:24,390
But God's helping us come back to a

1407
00:57:24,390 --> 00:57:25,070
deeper yielding.

1408
00:57:25,150 --> 00:57:26,290
And, of course, have you ever noticed the

1409
00:57:26,290 --> 00:57:28,950
Lord is always right when He says something

1410
00:57:28,950 --> 00:57:29,330
to you?

1411
00:57:29,430 --> 00:57:30,530
And sure enough, He was right.

1412
00:57:30,830 --> 00:57:32,330
So He showed me this list of about

1413
00:57:32,330 --> 00:57:34,930
200 scriptures that was in some of the

1414
00:57:34,930 --> 00:57:35,570
great awakenings.

1415
00:57:35,570 --> 00:57:38,210
He said, pray through that one real slow.

1416
00:57:39,230 --> 00:57:40,110
I started that.

1417
00:57:40,230 --> 00:57:41,170
Folks, it wasn't long.

1418
00:57:41,230 --> 00:57:42,310
He started showing me attitudes.

1419
00:57:42,550 --> 00:57:45,030
People, I said I'd forgiven down deep, deep,

1420
00:57:45,110 --> 00:57:45,270
deep.

1421
00:57:45,330 --> 00:57:46,050
I really hadn't.

1422
00:57:47,170 --> 00:57:48,470
Selfishness, deep, deep, deep down.

1423
00:57:48,510 --> 00:57:49,530
I didn't realize was there.

1424
00:57:49,710 --> 00:57:51,070
And the Lord started doing the work.

1425
00:57:51,130 --> 00:57:51,990
And I was so beat up.

1426
00:57:52,130 --> 00:57:53,770
I was really beat up.

1427
00:57:53,950 --> 00:57:55,090
But the joy came back.

1428
00:57:55,590 --> 00:57:57,750
And the situation was worse than ever.

1429
00:57:57,850 --> 00:57:58,690
I mean, it was awful.

1430
00:57:58,790 --> 00:57:59,210
You know what?

1431
00:57:59,250 --> 00:58:00,690
They thought I was having a nervous break

1432
00:58:00,690 --> 00:58:01,050
down there.

1433
00:58:01,070 --> 00:58:02,310
I was up there so full of joy.

1434
00:58:02,310 --> 00:58:03,890
They said, Greg, you need to go see

1435
00:58:03,890 --> 00:58:04,350
a doctor.

1436
00:58:05,990 --> 00:58:07,010
I said, I'm not crazy.

1437
00:58:07,130 --> 00:58:08,010
Let me tell you what's happened.

1438
00:58:08,250 --> 00:58:09,290
And the Lord had become real.

1439
00:58:09,590 --> 00:58:11,990
See, folks, He don't need good situations to

1440
00:58:11,990 --> 00:58:15,270
give us joy or power.

1441
00:58:16,650 --> 00:58:17,690
But you're not going to get it in

1442
00:58:17,690 --> 00:58:19,610
shallow prayer time on the run or cleansing

1443
00:58:19,610 --> 00:58:20,990
that's about one and a half pages long.

1444
00:58:21,610 --> 00:58:22,830
Now, I'm not talking about legalism here.

1445
00:58:22,890 --> 00:58:23,510
I'm not talking about you've got to do

1446
00:58:23,510 --> 00:58:24,630
it every day or God won't fill you.

1447
00:58:24,690 --> 00:58:25,330
I'm not talking about that.

1448
00:58:26,010 --> 00:58:27,870
But we are talking about really, truly deep,

1449
00:58:27,970 --> 00:58:29,030
deep, deep yielding.

1450
00:58:29,150 --> 00:58:30,670
And that's where many are missing.

1451
00:58:31,070 --> 00:58:32,510
Well, the Lord began to do a work,

1452
00:58:32,610 --> 00:58:33,730
and then the Lord led me to ask

1453
00:58:33,730 --> 00:58:35,330
the people if they would change their quiet

1454
00:58:35,330 --> 00:58:37,170
times from the 10 or 15 minute kind

1455
00:58:37,170 --> 00:58:38,590
to really, and not legalism.

1456
00:58:38,710 --> 00:58:40,390
We said, shoot for 30 minutes to an

1457
00:58:40,390 --> 00:58:40,590
hour.

1458
00:58:41,270 --> 00:58:43,450
And again, don't get out of clock necessarily,

1459
00:58:43,590 --> 00:58:46,070
but just, and really embrace this deep cleansing.

1460
00:58:46,550 --> 00:58:48,910
And God had shown me if just a

1461
00:58:48,910 --> 00:58:50,670
remnant of your people would really go to

1462
00:58:50,670 --> 00:58:52,530
that level, He said, I can begin to

1463
00:58:52,530 --> 00:58:53,350
move in this church.

1464
00:58:53,770 --> 00:58:54,810
But if they won't, I'm not going to

1465
00:58:54,810 --> 00:58:55,170
do much.

1466
00:58:55,350 --> 00:58:56,190
Well, let me tell you what happened.

1467
00:58:57,850 --> 00:58:59,670
I challenged them to take their quiet times,

1468
00:58:59,750 --> 00:59:00,870
you know, 30 minutes to an hour and

1469
00:59:00,870 --> 00:59:03,550
really add absolute deep cleansing of every area

1470
00:59:03,550 --> 00:59:05,250
of their life and begin to pray for

1471
00:59:05,250 --> 00:59:05,630
souls.

1472
00:59:05,750 --> 00:59:06,670
There was a little woman in my church

1473
00:59:06,670 --> 00:59:07,570
named Polly.

1474
00:59:07,690 --> 00:59:09,110
She was about the quietest, shyest woman I've

1475
00:59:09,110 --> 00:59:09,930
ever known in my life.

1476
00:59:10,010 --> 00:59:11,150
In fact, she had a stuttering problem.

1477
00:59:11,510 --> 00:59:12,370
And she had a lot of pain in

1478
00:59:12,370 --> 00:59:12,630
her life.

1479
00:59:12,690 --> 00:59:13,770
She was a nice Christian lady.

1480
00:59:13,850 --> 00:59:14,850
She was kind of an intercessor.

1481
00:59:15,210 --> 00:59:16,330
And she prayed quite a bit.

1482
00:59:16,510 --> 00:59:18,850
But there was a level of absolute yielding

1483
00:59:18,850 --> 00:59:20,230
she thought she'd experienced.

1484
00:59:20,310 --> 00:59:21,150
She really hadn't.

1485
00:59:21,390 --> 00:59:21,970
You know what?

1486
00:59:21,990 --> 00:59:23,670
If we were really doing revival praying, more

1487
00:59:23,670 --> 00:59:24,750
of our churches would be in revival.

1488
00:59:25,770 --> 00:59:27,830
And again, I'm not saying that about you,

1489
00:59:27,930 --> 00:59:29,270
because your church may well be.

1490
00:59:29,690 --> 00:59:31,250
But what we're seeing, many have gotten content,

1491
00:59:31,350 --> 00:59:32,690
just pray for year after year after year

1492
00:59:32,690 --> 00:59:34,130
after year for revival, and it never comes.

1493
00:59:36,070 --> 00:59:36,930
There comes a point.

1494
00:59:37,190 --> 00:59:38,070
Some of it's timing.

1495
00:59:38,250 --> 00:59:39,030
Some of it's timing.

1496
00:59:40,330 --> 00:59:42,990
But with many, there's a deeper level of

1497
00:59:42,990 --> 00:59:45,710
faith that He's going to take us to

1498
00:59:45,710 --> 00:59:47,250
and a deeper level of yielding and power.

1499
00:59:47,370 --> 00:59:48,270
A deeper level of fullness.

1500
00:59:48,390 --> 00:59:51,250
Well, Miss Polly, she heard about this quiet

1501
00:59:51,250 --> 00:59:53,470
time, and she realized, I'm not doing that.

1502
00:59:53,470 --> 00:59:54,690
She embraced this.

1503
00:59:55,350 --> 00:59:57,050
And the Lord started showing her things in

1504
00:59:57,050 --> 00:59:58,610
life over that month.

1505
00:59:58,670 --> 00:59:59,850
He showed her about 12 things in her

1506
00:59:59,850 --> 01:00:01,910
life, some attitudes, some things down deep.

1507
01:00:02,150 --> 01:00:03,670
And she was a nice lady, you know.

1508
01:00:04,030 --> 01:00:06,030
And then the woman began to change.

1509
01:00:06,650 --> 01:00:09,630
And she started saying things like, an hour

1510
01:00:09,630 --> 01:00:10,210
just flies.

1511
01:00:10,850 --> 01:00:12,730
Didn't even realize it's gone so fast.

1512
01:00:12,790 --> 01:00:14,510
She said, Brother Greg, she said, I didn't

1513
01:00:14,510 --> 01:00:15,750
know God could be that real to you.

1514
01:00:15,850 --> 01:00:17,150
She even said, I used to think people

1515
01:00:17,150 --> 01:00:19,430
that said God spoke to me were weird.

1516
01:00:19,570 --> 01:00:20,590
I thought they were hearing voices.

1517
01:00:20,730 --> 01:00:22,510
She said, boy, God speaks to you.

1518
01:00:22,510 --> 01:00:24,250
You know, I never could have said it

1519
01:00:24,250 --> 01:00:24,850
as well as she did.

1520
01:00:24,910 --> 01:00:26,810
She said, when you get your heart absolutely

1521
01:00:26,810 --> 01:00:28,290
clean, I mean, the real thing.

1522
01:00:28,570 --> 01:00:29,330
She said, you know what?

1523
01:00:29,350 --> 01:00:30,670
Your hearing clears up, doesn't it?

1524
01:00:32,790 --> 01:00:33,770
Folks, it really does.

1525
01:00:34,250 --> 01:00:34,770
God's holy.

1526
01:00:34,890 --> 01:00:36,350
We're under grace, but folks, that doesn't mean

1527
01:00:36,350 --> 01:00:37,370
sin's no big deal anymore.

1528
01:00:38,670 --> 01:00:40,850
Well, it kept getting better, and Polly started

1529
01:00:40,850 --> 01:00:41,530
seeing power.

1530
01:00:41,650 --> 01:00:42,910
I mean, she started seeing answers.

1531
01:00:42,970 --> 01:00:44,550
She'd been praying for it for 20 years.

1532
01:00:44,970 --> 01:00:47,030
And now, boom, boom, she was seeing some

1533
01:00:47,030 --> 01:00:47,750
incredible things.

1534
01:00:47,790 --> 01:00:49,570
But the biggest change, and folks, this is

1535
01:00:49,570 --> 01:00:51,170
where God's taking the remnant.

1536
01:00:51,250 --> 01:00:52,470
This is where He's calling us to go.

1537
01:00:52,470 --> 01:00:54,570
You know, with God, it's all about heart.

1538
01:00:56,110 --> 01:00:57,890
It's not so much what we know.

1539
01:00:58,110 --> 01:00:59,330
It's the heart.

1540
01:00:59,450 --> 01:01:00,190
It's the passion.

1541
01:01:01,210 --> 01:01:02,750
It's not the lips.

1542
01:01:02,870 --> 01:01:03,570
It's the heart.

1543
01:01:04,070 --> 01:01:07,710
Loving Him, loving souls, loving His presence, hating

1544
01:01:07,710 --> 01:01:09,990
sin, not because I might hurt from it

1545
01:01:09,990 --> 01:01:11,830
or might miss a blessing, but because it

1546
01:01:11,830 --> 01:01:12,530
grieves Jesus.

1547
01:01:13,750 --> 01:01:15,290
And Polly got the heart of God after

1548
01:01:15,290 --> 01:01:15,990
about three months.

1549
01:01:16,510 --> 01:01:17,690
She came to me one day, and she

1550
01:01:17,690 --> 01:01:19,090
said, Brother Greg, I've still got pain, but

1551
01:01:19,090 --> 01:01:20,010
I've got joy like I've never had in

1552
01:01:20,010 --> 01:01:20,370
my life.

1553
01:01:20,370 --> 01:01:22,390
And she said, Brother Greg, I've still got

1554
01:01:22,390 --> 01:01:23,670
problems, but I've got peace now.

1555
01:01:24,110 --> 01:01:25,570
She said, Brother Greg, it's so different.

1556
01:01:25,730 --> 01:01:26,870
She said, I've grown more in three months

1557
01:01:26,870 --> 01:01:27,890
than I've grown in 30 years.

1558
01:01:28,150 --> 01:01:31,010
This was an intercessor now, before this.

1559
01:01:31,550 --> 01:01:33,790
And she said, Brother Greg, I always knew

1560
01:01:33,790 --> 01:01:34,850
I was supposed to pray for lost people,

1561
01:01:34,850 --> 01:01:35,630
and I prayed for a few.

1562
01:01:36,350 --> 01:01:38,370
But she said, Brother Greg, now that Jesus

1563
01:01:38,370 --> 01:01:39,730
is just so real to me, she said,

1564
01:01:39,730 --> 01:01:41,150
I can't keep from praying for lost people.

1565
01:01:41,510 --> 01:01:43,070
She said, I've got 30 lost people I'm

1566
01:01:43,070 --> 01:01:44,290
praying for on every single day.

1567
01:01:44,550 --> 01:01:45,270
I said, 30?

1568
01:01:45,370 --> 01:01:46,730
That kind of convicted me, you know.

1569
01:01:47,370 --> 01:01:48,690
And she said, yeah, 30.

1570
01:01:48,750 --> 01:01:50,170
And then she said something that really spoke

1571
01:01:50,170 --> 01:01:50,690
to me.

1572
01:01:50,790 --> 01:01:51,750
She said, Brother Greg, I want to ask

1573
01:01:51,750 --> 01:01:51,850
you.

1574
01:01:51,910 --> 01:01:53,570
She said, sometimes when I'm praying for them,

1575
01:01:53,590 --> 01:01:54,550
I love them so much, I want to

1576
01:01:54,550 --> 01:01:55,470
see them saved so bad.

1577
01:01:55,790 --> 01:01:57,610
She said, sometimes I feel tears rolling down

1578
01:01:57,610 --> 01:01:58,110
my face.

1579
01:01:58,170 --> 01:01:58,670
She looked at me.

1580
01:01:58,730 --> 01:02:00,310
She said, I've never done that much before

1581
01:02:00,310 --> 01:02:01,150
about lost people.

1582
01:02:01,790 --> 01:02:03,250
She said, I do that about my problems.

1583
01:02:04,530 --> 01:02:06,090
But she said, Brother Greg, is that normal?

1584
01:02:07,610 --> 01:02:08,570
You know, I had to say to her,

1585
01:02:08,570 --> 01:02:10,730
probably for most believers, it really isn't, unfortunately.

1586
01:02:10,910 --> 01:02:12,210
But I said, it's real normal for Jesus.

1587
01:02:12,350 --> 01:02:13,030
Please don't stop.

1588
01:02:13,110 --> 01:02:13,950
She said, I'm not going to stop.

1589
01:02:15,090 --> 01:02:16,390
He's more real than he's ever been in

1590
01:02:16,390 --> 01:02:16,890
my life.

1591
01:02:17,010 --> 01:02:18,650
And then she came to me the final

1592
01:02:18,650 --> 01:02:19,170
month.

1593
01:02:19,430 --> 01:02:21,050
See, the reason I'm telling you this, this

1594
01:02:21,050 --> 01:02:21,990
is where he's taking us.

1595
01:02:22,710 --> 01:02:24,650
He's taking us to a new passion about

1596
01:02:24,650 --> 01:02:27,270
souls, about himself, about holiness.

1597
01:02:28,290 --> 01:02:30,050
Not legalism, but the joy of holiness.

1598
01:02:30,750 --> 01:02:31,910
And his presence.

1599
01:02:32,270 --> 01:02:33,650
And it's incredible.

1600
01:02:34,090 --> 01:02:35,230
But the fourth month she came and said,

1601
01:02:35,290 --> 01:02:36,230
Brother Greg, I've got to talk to you.

1602
01:02:36,470 --> 01:02:38,070
And remember, she's real shy and stutters.

1603
01:02:38,250 --> 01:02:40,150
And she said, Brother Greg, I'm scared to

1604
01:02:40,150 --> 01:02:40,330
death.

1605
01:02:40,410 --> 01:02:41,230
I said, what happened to your peace?

1606
01:02:41,270 --> 01:02:41,850
Why are you scared?

1607
01:02:41,850 --> 01:02:43,670
She said, well, Brother Greg, this morning in

1608
01:02:43,670 --> 01:02:45,770
my time with God, he told me I've

1609
01:02:45,770 --> 01:02:47,550
got to go witness to all 30 of

1610
01:02:47,550 --> 01:02:48,350
those lost people.

1611
01:02:50,050 --> 01:02:51,530
She said, I'm not certified.

1612
01:02:51,910 --> 01:02:52,790
I'm not trained.

1613
01:02:52,930 --> 01:02:54,130
I said, I don't care if you're trained

1614
01:02:54,130 --> 01:02:54,430
or not.

1615
01:02:54,510 --> 01:02:55,430
I said, can you read?

1616
01:02:55,470 --> 01:02:56,230
She said, yeah.

1617
01:02:56,730 --> 01:02:57,910
I said, take this little track.

1618
01:02:57,970 --> 01:02:59,510
I think it's Billy Graham's track.

1619
01:02:59,730 --> 01:03:01,810
Read these five scriptures real slow, one at

1620
01:03:01,810 --> 01:03:02,110
a time.

1621
01:03:02,470 --> 01:03:03,930
I said, when getting this one about repentance,

1622
01:03:04,050 --> 01:03:05,590
make sure they really mean they mean something.

1623
01:03:06,470 --> 01:03:08,030
That there's not some flippant little prayer.

1624
01:03:08,690 --> 01:03:10,030
She said, just read these scriptures.

1625
01:03:10,030 --> 01:03:12,470
I said, I thought the way you're praying,

1626
01:03:12,590 --> 01:03:12,970
that's it.

1627
01:03:13,870 --> 01:03:14,390
And you know what?

1628
01:03:14,430 --> 01:03:16,150
She said, well, I think I can do

1629
01:03:16,150 --> 01:03:16,310
it.

1630
01:03:16,430 --> 01:03:18,330
And you know, ladies and gentlemen, God wouldn't

1631
01:03:18,330 --> 01:03:19,150
let her not do it.

1632
01:03:19,490 --> 01:03:20,910
Over about the next six weeks, she went

1633
01:03:20,910 --> 01:03:22,190
to all 30 of those lost people.

1634
01:03:22,330 --> 01:03:22,850
One by one.

1635
01:03:22,890 --> 01:03:23,230
You know what?

1636
01:03:23,250 --> 01:03:24,050
I've been to most of them.

1637
01:03:24,090 --> 01:03:25,050
They didn't much want to hear me.

1638
01:03:25,550 --> 01:03:26,790
And some of them heard me preach, and

1639
01:03:26,790 --> 01:03:27,470
they didn't get saved.

1640
01:03:28,290 --> 01:03:29,450
But when that little woman went up to

1641
01:03:29,450 --> 01:03:30,630
them in the power of the Holy Spirit

1642
01:03:30,630 --> 01:03:32,150
of God, praying for them like she had

1643
01:03:32,150 --> 01:03:33,170
been for about two months.

1644
01:03:33,530 --> 01:03:34,810
And our church at that time was not

1645
01:03:34,810 --> 01:03:35,310
in revival.

1646
01:03:35,310 --> 01:03:38,130
And I want to tell you, he used

1647
01:03:38,130 --> 01:03:39,850
that little woman to start that church in

1648
01:03:39,850 --> 01:03:40,110
revival.

1649
01:03:40,210 --> 01:03:40,610
Not me.

1650
01:03:40,690 --> 01:03:41,430
He used that little woman.

1651
01:03:41,690 --> 01:03:43,230
And I'll tell you what happened.

1652
01:03:43,310 --> 01:03:44,690
She went to those 30 people.

1653
01:03:45,250 --> 01:03:46,610
And some of them were teenagers that she

1654
01:03:46,610 --> 01:03:47,590
knew and had a burden for.

1655
01:03:48,750 --> 01:03:50,150
And the people who went with her said,

1656
01:03:50,210 --> 01:03:51,130
you know, it wasn't very pretty.

1657
01:03:51,230 --> 01:03:51,710
She stuttered.

1658
01:03:51,730 --> 01:03:53,330
She'd have probably flunked this whole winning class.

1659
01:03:53,930 --> 01:03:55,410
But the power of God bestowed on that

1660
01:03:55,410 --> 01:03:55,890
little woman.

1661
01:03:56,010 --> 01:03:57,890
At 21 out of 30, got saved on

1662
01:03:57,890 --> 01:03:58,430
the spot.

1663
01:03:59,250 --> 01:03:59,910
And you know what?

1664
01:03:59,970 --> 01:04:01,270
I know what you might think.

1665
01:04:01,310 --> 01:04:02,270
You'd be right to think it.

1666
01:04:02,310 --> 01:04:03,550
Well, did they just say the prayer to

1667
01:04:03,550 --> 01:04:04,790
be nice to Polly or to get her

1668
01:04:04,790 --> 01:04:05,110
to leave?

1669
01:04:05,210 --> 01:04:06,050
That's not salvation.

1670
01:04:06,390 --> 01:04:07,930
I'll tell you what her fallout rate was.

1671
01:04:08,030 --> 01:04:08,710
It was zero.

1672
01:04:09,310 --> 01:04:11,710
I baptized 21 over 21 in about six

1673
01:04:11,710 --> 01:04:13,950
weeks after the little lady left with Jesus.

1674
01:04:14,290 --> 01:04:17,530
God used that little intercessor, that quiet, shy,

1675
01:04:17,610 --> 01:04:19,550
little beat-up woman, to bring our church

1676
01:04:19,550 --> 01:04:21,930
from just praying for revival to actually seeing

1677
01:04:21,930 --> 01:04:22,250
it.

1678
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:27,360
Are you a Miss Polly yet?

1679
01:04:28,060 --> 01:04:30,120
We're not going to say 21 out of

1680
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:30,860
30 every four months.

1681
01:04:30,940 --> 01:04:32,080
I'm not trying to put anybody on a

1682
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:32,840
false guilt trip.

1683
01:04:33,020 --> 01:04:34,240
It's not always that fast.

1684
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:36,480
But, folks, it's time to see the power

1685
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,400
and some fruit.

1686
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,240
We can't just be content just to keep

1687
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:42,520
praying.

1688
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:47,120
And praying that doesn't connect with souls and

1689
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,300
neighbors and family, if it gets too general,

1690
01:04:51,060 --> 01:04:53,740
it's not quite in line with the Holy

1691
01:04:53,740 --> 01:04:53,980
Spirit.

1692
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:54,580
He's both.

1693
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:55,900
And you know what?

1694
01:04:55,940 --> 01:04:56,580
It's so exciting.

1695
01:04:57,100 --> 01:05:01,380
We're seeing God's intercessors, God's remnant, come back

1696
01:05:01,380 --> 01:05:02,340
to a surrendered heart.

1697
01:05:02,340 --> 01:05:03,160
And they're getting a joy.

1698
01:05:03,420 --> 01:05:05,040
They're getting a faith they never had.

1699
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:06,580
Their faith is going deeper.

1700
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:08,280
They're getting a power when they pray.

1701
01:05:08,340 --> 01:05:09,480
They're getting the tears back.

1702
01:05:09,700 --> 01:05:11,320
And they're beginning to see.

1703
01:05:11,380 --> 01:05:12,720
And, again, it's not all about just seeing

1704
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:13,220
the result.

1705
01:05:13,300 --> 01:05:14,980
We have to pray sometimes for years.

1706
01:05:15,420 --> 01:05:16,200
Nothing wrong with that.

1707
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,560
But tonight, can you see Brother Greg?

1708
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:21,400
In that area.

1709
01:05:21,500 --> 01:05:22,040
That area.

1710
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:23,140
And this is what he's asking us to

1711
01:05:23,140 --> 01:05:23,840
covenant to do.

1712
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,140
And it's a covenant, not a feeling.

1713
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:26,800
He's asking us to covenant.

1714
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:28,480
I never will forget it.

1715
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:29,560
Polly said, What do I need to do

1716
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:30,220
to go deeper with God?

1717
01:05:30,220 --> 01:05:31,360
I said, You need to show up for

1718
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:31,920
practice.

1719
01:05:32,740 --> 01:05:33,940
She said, You're starting a class.

1720
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:34,900
I said, I can't help you.

1721
01:05:35,700 --> 01:05:37,260
I said, Would you set that clock 30

1722
01:05:37,260 --> 01:05:38,180
minutes to an hour early?

1723
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:40,620
Get along with God and really embrace that

1724
01:05:40,620 --> 01:05:40,860
cleaning.

1725
01:05:40,980 --> 01:05:42,500
Don't think, I don't need it.

1726
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:44,900
If I needed it, I'd just know it.

1727
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:46,040
Maybe not.

1728
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,040
She did that, and some people in the

1729
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:50,860
church did that, and God's so moved.

1730
01:05:51,500 --> 01:05:52,740
Now, the second thing God's doing.

1731
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:54,080
He's not only calling us.

1732
01:05:54,380 --> 01:05:55,340
This is exciting.

1733
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,220
God's people really are praying those 10 or

1734
01:05:58,220 --> 01:06:00,800
12 things scripturally that God has to do

1735
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:01,400
to bring revival.

1736
01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:03,100
I mean, they know exactly what they are.

1737
01:06:03,420 --> 01:06:04,540
They are praying them.

1738
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:05,600
I'm not going to name them here.

1739
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:07,600
I'm sure you know them, but if you

1740
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:09,100
don't, they're on a little card back there

1741
01:06:09,100 --> 01:06:10,640
you can get right out of Scripture.

1742
01:06:10,780 --> 01:06:12,380
But really, there's about 10 or 12 things,

1743
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,100
at least 8, that God really has to

1744
01:06:15,100 --> 01:06:16,560
do in this church to really bring the

1745
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:17,580
mighty move of His Spirit.

1746
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:19,780
And he says we're co-laborers with Him.

1747
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,220
He wants to do it through our prayers.

1748
01:06:21,260 --> 01:06:23,200
It's all Him, but He wants our prayers

1749
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,040
to line up with His mind and Spirit

1750
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,000
and be specific and be strategic.

1751
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:28,280
That's really happening.

1752
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,220
I do conferences a lot, and I often

1753
01:06:31,220 --> 01:06:32,560
will ask people, how many of you believe

1754
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:33,740
revival in spiritual ways?

1755
01:06:33,820 --> 01:06:34,760
I only hope for this nation.

1756
01:06:35,180 --> 01:06:35,900
Every hand will go up.

1757
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:39,280
Then I'll let people bow their heads.

1758
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:40,200
I'm not trying to embarrass anybody.

1759
01:06:40,660 --> 01:06:41,560
I'll say, how many of you in your

1760
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,560
daily quiet time, man, do you passionately cry

1761
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:47,640
out, plead with God, at least in 7

1762
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,500
or 8 specific ways for God to move?

1763
01:06:51,020 --> 01:06:51,660
Now, be honest.

1764
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:53,020
Don't raise your hand if you don't.

1765
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:53,880
You know what happens?

1766
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,680
Usually about 2 or 3 percent of the

1767
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:57,440
hands can remain up.

1768
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,740
Many have gotten stuck praying kind of on

1769
01:07:00,740 --> 01:07:01,360
the surface.

1770
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:05,200
But the great news tonight, that remnant, man,

1771
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:06,660
they've given God time.

1772
01:07:06,820 --> 01:07:08,220
Their prayers are now going deeper.

1773
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:09,580
They're praying in the mind of God.

1774
01:07:11,300 --> 01:07:13,240
Not perfectly, but they understand the mind of

1775
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:13,340
God.

1776
01:07:13,340 --> 01:07:13,980
They're praying with Him.

1777
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,000
Am I describing you tonight?

1778
01:07:16,060 --> 01:07:16,720
Probably am.

1779
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:18,860
But if I'm not, would you be willing

1780
01:07:18,860 --> 01:07:21,840
tonight to say, I want to become a

1781
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:23,220
Mr. and Mr. or a teenage poly.

1782
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,920
We're seeing teenagers take their prayer lives deeper.

1783
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:27,160
You wouldn't believe what he's doing to their

1784
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:28,820
lost friends and their parents.

1785
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:30,940
Oh, God is so moving.

1786
01:07:31,100 --> 01:07:33,560
But it starts when we're saying, God, I

1787
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:35,300
want to go to the effective, fervent prayer

1788
01:07:35,300 --> 01:07:37,700
of an absolutely yielded heart that really does

1789
01:07:37,700 --> 01:07:39,540
bring the flood like it did with Elijah.

1790
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:43,280
And tonight, it's time to move toward the

1791
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:43,560
flood.

1792
01:07:43,740 --> 01:07:45,580
We can't just keep year after year doing

1793
01:07:45,580 --> 01:07:46,100
conferences.

1794
01:07:46,260 --> 01:07:46,800
And we can.

1795
01:07:48,020 --> 01:07:49,280
And it's in God's time.

1796
01:07:49,380 --> 01:07:50,060
I don't know it's timing.

1797
01:07:50,820 --> 01:07:51,680
Doesn't mean anything's wrong.

1798
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:53,600
But we need to make sure it isn't.

1799
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:54,480
And that's what he's doing.

1800
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,260
There's a second thing God's doing in his

1801
01:07:56,260 --> 01:07:57,980
remnant right now that relates to 2 Chronicles

1802
01:07:57,980 --> 01:07:59,920
7, 14, relates to James 5, 16.

1803
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,180
It's in the area of united prayer, prayer

1804
01:08:04,180 --> 01:08:07,440
groups, prayer in families, prayer with husbands and

1805
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:07,800
wives.

1806
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,160
This is crucial and often omitted.

1807
01:08:11,660 --> 01:08:12,460
Prayer meetings.

1808
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:14,800
Something happened in the 1950s.

1809
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,880
A good question would be, what happened in

1810
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:21,020
the 1950s that caused baptisms to start going

1811
01:08:21,020 --> 01:08:22,439
like this and morals like this?

1812
01:08:22,500 --> 01:08:24,760
What happened in the 1950s in the church

1813
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:25,520
in North America?

1814
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:27,340
Well, programs exploded.

1815
01:08:27,500 --> 01:08:28,300
Strategies exploded.

1816
01:08:28,420 --> 01:08:29,340
Education exploded.

1817
01:08:29,460 --> 01:08:31,420
Innovative methods, all that exploded.

1818
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:32,660
Family stuff exploded.

1819
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,779
You know, leadership materials, all that exploded.

1820
01:08:35,899 --> 01:08:36,840
All that went through the roof.

1821
01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:39,819
But what happened in the 1950s?

1822
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:40,540
Prayer meetings.

1823
01:08:40,660 --> 01:08:42,800
Those prayer meetings basically left the church.

1824
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:44,260
Now, what did Jesus say?

1825
01:08:44,260 --> 01:08:46,660
Matthew 21, 13, Mark 11, 17.

1826
01:08:47,140 --> 01:08:49,220
He said, My house shall be called a

1827
01:08:49,220 --> 01:08:54,180
house of strategies, committees, preaching.

1828
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:55,240
Sure.

1829
01:08:57,340 --> 01:08:58,340
Called the house of prayer.

1830
01:08:58,420 --> 01:08:59,380
What kind of prayer was he talking about

1831
01:08:59,380 --> 01:08:59,899
when he said that?

1832
01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:00,899
Well, you just say prayer.

1833
01:09:01,020 --> 01:09:02,439
When you're at church, he was talking about

1834
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:04,540
the corporate prayer of the temple.

1835
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,200
The early church, we would all agree, they're

1836
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:07,660
our pattern.

1837
01:09:07,779 --> 01:09:08,500
They're the example.

1838
01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:11,040
What kind of prayer did they have?

1839
01:09:12,060 --> 01:09:12,859
Corporate, continuous.

1840
01:09:13,340 --> 01:09:14,939
When the day of Pentecost came, they didn't

1841
01:09:14,939 --> 01:09:15,340
stop.

1842
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:16,620
They just went into second gear.

1843
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:17,620
Sure, they witnessed.

1844
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:18,279
Sure, they preached.

1845
01:09:18,420 --> 01:09:18,899
Sure, they taught.

1846
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:21,899
But they were constantly praying together corporately for

1847
01:09:21,899 --> 01:09:22,500
souls.

1848
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:23,560
You know what happened?

1849
01:09:23,979 --> 01:09:25,720
When that hopeless church I told you about

1850
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:27,380
in Memphis, and it was just hopeless, and

1851
01:09:27,380 --> 01:09:29,640
we were dying and all that, the turn

1852
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,000
started when the people, the intercessors in the

1853
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,620
church, took their quiet times even deeper.

1854
01:09:34,460 --> 01:09:36,180
They weren't content just to keep praying.

1855
01:09:37,100 --> 01:09:38,800
They took their cleansing even deeper, and then

1856
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:39,840
God's Spirit began to move.

1857
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:42,260
And the next thing God said to me,

1858
01:09:42,260 --> 01:09:44,260
He said, You're not a New Testament church.

1859
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:45,760
You know, you never want to hear that

1860
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:46,260
from the Lord.

1861
01:09:47,399 --> 01:09:49,180
How do you define a New Testament church?

1862
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,359
Well, we would say by doctrine.

1863
01:09:51,939 --> 01:09:53,300
Yes, but that's not all.

1864
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,280
It has to be by doctrine and practice.

1865
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:58,140
It has to be both.

1866
01:09:58,860 --> 01:10:00,680
And if we don't have powerful united...

1867
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:01,400
It doesn't mean they've got to be a

1868
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:02,000
big number.

1869
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:03,620
They may not be.

1870
01:10:03,900 --> 01:10:05,820
But if we don't have powerful united corporate

1871
01:10:05,820 --> 01:10:08,820
prayer in church, and powerful prayer groups united

1872
01:10:08,820 --> 01:10:11,160
together in church, and if husbands and wives

1873
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,860
are not praying together at home, Jesus said,

1874
01:10:13,940 --> 01:10:15,120
My house shall be called a house of

1875
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:15,220
prayer.

1876
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,400
Obviously, that's the temple He's talking about, the

1877
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:17,660
church.

1878
01:10:17,740 --> 01:10:19,300
But also, where is this temple now?

1879
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:20,680
To us.

1880
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:22,340
That would certainly mean our families.

1881
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:24,940
So what we've seen in America is that

1882
01:10:24,940 --> 01:10:27,520
the devil duped the church into thinking just

1883
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,460
studying about prayer or studying about this, that,

1884
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:31,300
and the other, doing conferences about it, was

1885
01:10:31,300 --> 01:10:32,940
the same as in our churches and families

1886
01:10:32,940 --> 01:10:35,300
absolutely uniting together in corporate prayer.

1887
01:10:35,740 --> 01:10:36,940
And we weren't doing that in that church

1888
01:10:36,940 --> 01:10:37,360
in Memphis.

1889
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:39,780
And so the Lord showed me, if you'll

1890
01:10:39,780 --> 01:10:41,360
call your people back and start one.

1891
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:42,640
I said, Lord, they won't come.

1892
01:10:42,740 --> 01:10:43,320
He said, I don't care.

1893
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:45,860
It's not their church.

1894
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:48,760
You've got to decide whose church it is,

1895
01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:49,660
who we're going to please.

1896
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:52,360
Start real prayer.

1897
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:54,820
He let me start it with a prayer

1898
01:10:54,820 --> 01:10:55,140
group.

1899
01:10:55,260 --> 01:10:56,320
And I invited all 300.

1900
01:10:56,500 --> 01:10:59,160
By that time it wasn't 300, but five

1901
01:10:59,160 --> 01:10:59,940
years into this thing.

1902
01:11:00,460 --> 01:11:01,640
I told them, folks, we're going to meet

1903
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:02,760
for about two and a half hours.

1904
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:04,880
I said, we're not going to eat anything.

1905
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:05,960
Boy, that made it real bad.

1906
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:07,840
And I said, I'm not going to bring

1907
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:08,360
you devotion.

1908
01:11:08,900 --> 01:11:09,720
What in the world are we going to

1909
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:09,940
do?

1910
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:12,280
The first 30, 40 minutes you're going to

1911
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,720
be alone with God with scriptures laying in

1912
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:15,480
search of every corner of your whole heart.

1913
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:16,940
Then we're going to come out and worship

1914
01:11:16,940 --> 01:11:18,180
God together a little while.

1915
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:19,600
Then, you know, the list of 60 lost

1916
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:21,760
people we've been praying for for five years

1917
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:22,740
and only four or five of them have

1918
01:11:22,740 --> 01:11:23,080
been saved.

1919
01:11:23,300 --> 01:11:24,340
We're going to pray for every one of

1920
01:11:24,340 --> 01:11:25,700
them name by name as the Spirit of

1921
01:11:25,700 --> 01:11:26,200
God leads us.

1922
01:11:26,260 --> 01:11:28,660
We're going to fast by the Spirit of

1923
01:11:28,660 --> 01:11:30,700
God, not legalism, not to brag about it,

1924
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:31,740
but we're just going to obey Him.

1925
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:32,700
He didn't say if you fast.

1926
01:11:32,780 --> 01:11:33,720
He said when you fast.

1927
01:11:34,340 --> 01:11:35,320
He said we're just going to obey Him.

1928
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:37,900
And we're going to then pray for that

1929
01:11:37,900 --> 01:11:39,080
point the Spirit of God in our church,

1930
01:11:39,220 --> 01:11:40,040
His manifest presence.

1931
01:11:40,460 --> 01:11:41,220
And we weren't unified.

1932
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:42,420
I'd done conflict resolution.

1933
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:43,320
It was running out of my ears.

1934
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:44,180
Those people weren't unified.

1935
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:47,580
And the Lord said we're going to pray

1936
01:11:47,580 --> 01:11:49,020
for unity, real unity.

1937
01:11:50,180 --> 01:11:51,480
And so they began to do that and

1938
01:11:51,480 --> 01:11:53,260
after promoting it for six weeks and telling

1939
01:11:53,260 --> 01:11:54,100
them we're going to show you how.

1940
01:11:54,180 --> 01:11:55,260
You don't even have to pray out loud

1941
01:11:55,260 --> 01:11:55,940
if you don't want to.

1942
01:11:56,180 --> 01:11:57,040
It's going to change your life.

1943
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:57,860
It's going to change your family.

1944
01:11:57,940 --> 01:11:58,940
It's going to be the most wonderful thing.

1945
01:11:59,180 --> 01:12:00,160
It's going to change our church.

1946
01:12:00,460 --> 01:12:01,680
Only 12 people showed up.

1947
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:02,880
I didn't think we'd have 12.

1948
01:12:04,910 --> 01:12:06,750
So what God's doing in His remnant right

1949
01:12:06,750 --> 01:12:08,630
now, He's helping us to start prayer groups

1950
01:12:09,310 --> 01:12:10,830
and get real serious about it.

1951
01:12:10,870 --> 01:12:12,510
He said, well, you find one.

1952
01:12:12,570 --> 01:12:13,550
It may be only two or three.

1953
01:12:13,690 --> 01:12:16,190
It may be, or start prayer meetings and

1954
01:12:16,190 --> 01:12:18,070
they're doing it, especially at home.

1955
01:12:18,230 --> 01:12:20,270
Folks, if husbands and wives aren't praying together,

1956
01:12:20,330 --> 01:12:21,390
I'm not talking about praying at a meal.

1957
01:12:22,530 --> 01:12:23,970
We're not talking about just saying a little,

1958
01:12:24,130 --> 01:12:24,870
you know, now I'm going to lay me

1959
01:12:24,870 --> 01:12:25,270
down and sleep.

1960
01:12:25,370 --> 01:12:26,550
We're talking about really praying together.

1961
01:12:27,810 --> 01:12:29,550
And one of the things we're noticing is

1962
01:12:29,550 --> 01:12:31,390
that the families that really get back to

1963
01:12:31,390 --> 01:12:34,550
this and take it serious and really learn

1964
01:12:34,550 --> 01:12:36,730
how to recognize strongholds in their kids.

1965
01:12:37,030 --> 01:12:39,190
The Bible says we've got weapons, 2 Corinthians

1966
01:12:39,190 --> 01:12:39,770
10, 5.

1967
01:12:39,830 --> 01:12:41,370
That will demolish them.

1968
01:12:41,730 --> 01:12:42,990
That doesn't mean you put up with it.

1969
01:12:43,050 --> 01:12:43,950
That means they're gone.

1970
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:49,320
Most people don't know what their weapons are.

1971
01:12:50,460 --> 01:12:51,340
Couldn't name them.

1972
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:54,380
Not praying together.

1973
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:56,640
There's a power in praying together that's this

1974
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:57,100
unique.

1975
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:58,880
He said when two or three are together

1976
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:01,240
in my name, there's something that's, it's always

1977
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:02,780
been all history revivals.

1978
01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:05,080
The remnant's coming back to this.

1979
01:13:05,220 --> 01:13:06,940
And those prayer groups are now getting deeper.

1980
01:13:06,940 --> 01:13:08,060
They're adding that cleansing.

1981
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:09,820
And they're getting the tears and they're getting

1982
01:13:09,820 --> 01:13:10,280
promises.

1983
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:11,500
They're getting faith.

1984
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:13,080
And the power of God's being released.

1985
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:13,660
It's happening.

1986
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,840
They're not just praying forever.

1987
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,300
They're seeing the breakthrough come in their church,

1988
01:13:18,440 --> 01:13:20,500
their local church, in their family, in those

1989
01:13:20,500 --> 01:13:21,180
lost neighbors.

1990
01:13:21,980 --> 01:13:24,440
When this bunch did this within four months,

1991
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:26,440
I've never seen anything like it.

1992
01:13:27,340 --> 01:13:29,100
Number one, God did a work in us.

1993
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:30,580
Tears started flowing.

1994
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:34,140
People started getting promises, just like this church

1995
01:13:34,140 --> 01:13:34,580
has seen.

1996
01:13:34,580 --> 01:13:37,260
And it's incredible.

1997
01:13:37,380 --> 01:13:40,060
Within four months, 45 of the 60 had

1998
01:13:40,060 --> 01:13:41,420
been gloriously born again.

1999
01:13:41,540 --> 01:13:42,640
I mean the real thing.

2000
01:13:43,340 --> 01:13:45,560
Their list grew to about 190 of them

2001
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:46,440
got saved within a year.

2002
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:47,460
And I've never seen anything like it in

2003
01:13:47,460 --> 01:13:48,040
my life.

2004
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:49,800
And we'd always done the outreach.

2005
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:50,880
And we all always do that.

2006
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:52,540
But oh, the presence of God.

2007
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:54,020
And the manifest presence of God set it

2008
01:13:54,020 --> 01:13:54,380
on the church.

2009
01:13:54,440 --> 01:13:55,520
And I don't want to mislead you or

2010
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:55,900
overstate.

2011
01:13:55,980 --> 01:13:57,640
This church didn't have sweeping revival.

2012
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,040
It was a good mercy drop.

2013
01:13:59,100 --> 01:13:59,760
That's all.

2014
01:14:00,020 --> 01:14:01,220
And it was sure His grace.

2015
01:14:01,300 --> 01:14:02,380
We didn't deserve it.

2016
01:14:03,580 --> 01:14:04,800
Folks, He's pretty gracious.

2017
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,660
If we'll humble ourselves to say, Father, I

2018
01:14:07,660 --> 01:14:09,140
want to go back to a deeper level

2019
01:14:09,140 --> 01:14:10,260
of uniting with others.

2020
01:14:11,460 --> 01:14:13,100
That's what's happening in God's remnant.

2021
01:14:13,260 --> 01:14:14,000
Has that happened in you?

2022
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:15,340
I'm sure it has in many of you.

2023
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:19,660
But if it hasn't, tonight God might say

2024
01:14:19,660 --> 01:14:21,520
to you, is there a prayer group you

2025
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:22,760
could pray more regularly with?

2026
01:14:22,820 --> 01:14:24,920
Or maybe decide we're going to pray together

2027
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:25,740
in our family deeper.

2028
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:26,920
We're going to learn how to tear down

2029
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:27,700
strongholds.

2030
01:14:28,740 --> 01:14:29,460
It's happening.

2031
01:14:29,460 --> 01:14:31,840
You know, Gallup Research did a poll.

2032
01:14:33,480 --> 01:14:34,500
A few years back.

2033
01:14:34,580 --> 01:14:35,700
You know, Gallup, they're not Christian.

2034
01:14:35,820 --> 01:14:37,780
They did this poll, and they found out

2035
01:14:37,780 --> 01:14:39,620
it's about one in two marriages end in

2036
01:14:39,620 --> 01:14:39,920
divorce.

2037
01:14:40,020 --> 01:14:40,740
That's no surprise.

2038
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,060
But this group asked them to do another

2039
01:14:43,060 --> 01:14:44,300
type survey.

2040
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:45,060
And you know what they found?

2041
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,380
They found the families that really prayed together.

2042
01:14:47,480 --> 01:14:48,440
And again, I'm not talking about just said

2043
01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:48,940
a prayer at a meal.

2044
01:14:49,060 --> 01:14:50,960
I mean really prayed together regularly.

2045
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,000
You know what the divorce rate was?

2046
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:56,560
It was one in 1,256.

2047
01:14:57,460 --> 01:14:58,820
And I have to believe the one might

2048
01:14:58,820 --> 01:14:59,300
have been lying.

2049
01:14:59,300 --> 01:15:00,020
I don't know.

2050
01:15:01,460 --> 01:15:03,900
But folks, what a difference it makes.

2051
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:07,040
It's not what we believe about prayer.

2052
01:15:07,220 --> 01:15:08,700
It's not what we study about it, what

2053
01:15:08,700 --> 01:15:10,260
we preach about it, what we talk about

2054
01:15:10,260 --> 01:15:10,360
it.

2055
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:11,940
It's what we do.

2056
01:15:12,940 --> 01:15:13,720
It's the depth.

2057
01:15:13,860 --> 01:15:14,700
It's the real tears.

2058
01:15:14,780 --> 01:15:15,560
The real cleansing.

2059
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,140
Praying those 10 or 12 things in the

2060
01:15:18,140 --> 01:15:19,420
power of God.

2061
01:15:19,940 --> 01:15:20,680
And it's happening.

2062
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:21,460
It really is.

2063
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,380
I'll give you one illustration that may encourage

2064
01:15:23,380 --> 01:15:23,640
you.

2065
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:27,040
Because we are in an epidemic of godly

2066
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:29,280
people with kids and grandkids being slaughtered.

2067
01:15:29,620 --> 01:15:30,840
There was a woman in my church named

2068
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:31,200
Addie.

2069
01:15:31,260 --> 01:15:33,140
And I've seen men do the same thing.

2070
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,120
But Addie's son Darren was moving away from

2071
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:35,380
God.

2072
01:15:35,420 --> 01:15:36,000
He was 19.

2073
01:15:36,140 --> 01:15:37,100
He was in a nosedive.

2074
01:15:37,440 --> 01:15:38,600
He was just wrecking his life.

2075
01:15:38,660 --> 01:15:39,540
And she was so burdened.

2076
01:15:39,580 --> 01:15:40,880
She'd pray for three years.

2077
01:15:40,980 --> 01:15:42,240
Prayed her head off that Darren would be

2078
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:42,580
touched.

2079
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:44,200
And she was a nice Christian lady.

2080
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:46,280
But again, she'd stop short of the kind

2081
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,260
of quiet time we're talking about tonight and

2082
01:15:48,260 --> 01:15:50,240
praying with others the way we're talking about

2083
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:50,640
tonight.

2084
01:15:52,260 --> 01:15:54,000
And she heard this message I'm bringing to

2085
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:54,380
you tonight.

2086
01:15:55,060 --> 01:15:56,400
And it dawned on her I'm stopping short

2087
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:57,840
in my quiet time, but I'm also not

2088
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:00,400
praying with others in the kind of united,

2089
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,460
fervent prayer that really does bring the breakthrough

2090
01:16:02,460 --> 01:16:03,760
and tears down the strongholds.

2091
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:05,540
So she came one Sunday and she said,

2092
01:16:05,860 --> 01:16:06,860
I want to go deeper and I want

2093
01:16:06,860 --> 01:16:08,160
to make a covenant with God not by

2094
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,160
my emotions, but by His will in me.

2095
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:11,100
And she did.

2096
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:13,060
And she committed extra time to God.

2097
01:16:13,180 --> 01:16:14,320
She embraced this deep cleansing.

2098
01:16:14,820 --> 01:16:16,160
She said, God, show me how to tear

2099
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:17,840
down these strongholds in my son's life.

2100
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,040
Lord, show me what my weapons are and

2101
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:20,660
how to use them.

2102
01:16:20,860 --> 01:16:22,000
And she began to go deeper.

2103
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,460
And over about seven weeks, every Sunday, she'd

2104
01:16:24,460 --> 01:16:25,140
come down to the altar.

2105
01:16:25,500 --> 01:16:26,940
And this was a nice lady, but God

2106
01:16:26,940 --> 01:16:28,940
had showed her things in her heart deep

2107
01:16:28,940 --> 01:16:30,420
down that were, you know, real deep.

2108
01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:32,560
People she said she'd forgiven down deep she

2109
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:33,560
hadn't.

2110
01:16:34,380 --> 01:16:36,340
Began to show her unbelief in her heart.

2111
01:16:36,420 --> 01:16:37,840
You know, folks, Jesus said, It'll be unto

2112
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:38,840
us according to our faith.

2113
01:16:39,540 --> 01:16:41,140
It's real easy to get the faith beat

2114
01:16:41,140 --> 01:16:41,780
out of us today.

2115
01:16:41,900 --> 01:16:42,280
It's real easy.

2116
01:16:42,300 --> 01:16:43,980
And you don't even realize it's happening sometimes.

2117
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,260
But real deep in our heart, we're not

2118
01:16:46,260 --> 01:16:47,940
expecting God to break through anymore.

2119
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:49,360
And Addie was there.

2120
01:16:50,140 --> 01:16:51,200
And so God showed her a lot of

2121
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:51,780
things in her heart.

2122
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:53,580
By about the sixth week, I saw her

2123
01:16:53,580 --> 01:16:54,740
face change in the prayer meeting.

2124
01:16:55,820 --> 01:16:57,620
And she'd stand up before and she'd cry.

2125
01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:58,900
She was so burdened for Darren, but her

2126
01:16:58,900 --> 01:16:59,300
face changed.

2127
01:16:59,340 --> 01:17:00,300
She had a big old smile on her

2128
01:17:00,300 --> 01:17:00,560
face.

2129
01:17:00,980 --> 01:17:02,240
And she said, Y'all keep praying for

2130
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:03,820
Darren, but God's going to touch my son.

2131
01:17:04,220 --> 01:17:05,440
And boy, I had to ask her.

2132
01:17:05,500 --> 01:17:07,200
I said, Addie, have you seen Darren lately?

2133
01:17:07,300 --> 01:17:08,820
Because he wasn't saved.

2134
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:11,440
And she said, Oh, I know he's not

2135
01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:11,600
saved.

2136
01:17:11,660 --> 01:17:12,900
I said, Addie, why are you so happy?

2137
01:17:13,300 --> 01:17:14,200
What's going on with you?

2138
01:17:14,460 --> 01:17:15,300
Listen to what she said.

2139
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:16,080
This is so powerful.

2140
01:17:16,180 --> 01:17:17,280
And this is what God's done to bring

2141
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:21,040
revival in local churches and in neighbors and

2142
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:21,480
in families.

2143
01:17:21,860 --> 01:17:23,380
She said, Brother Greg, seven weeks ago, I

2144
01:17:23,380 --> 01:17:26,340
was praying hard, but there was some things

2145
01:17:26,340 --> 01:17:27,780
deep in my heart I hadn't yielded.

2146
01:17:27,860 --> 01:17:28,560
They were hindering the Spirit.

2147
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:29,480
I didn't even know it.

2148
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:31,540
And she said, Brother Greg, my faith wasn't

2149
01:17:31,540 --> 01:17:32,020
mountain moving.

2150
01:17:32,140 --> 01:17:34,020
She said it was less than it takes.

2151
01:17:36,220 --> 01:17:38,880
And then she said, God's shown me some

2152
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:41,160
things about strongholds, but the biggest thing, she

2153
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:42,840
said, Brother Greg, two weeks ago in my

2154
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:44,680
time with God, God gave me two promises

2155
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:45,420
for my son.

2156
01:17:45,500 --> 01:17:46,740
I don't know how, when my son's going

2157
01:17:46,740 --> 01:17:47,200
to be saved.

2158
01:17:47,480 --> 01:17:48,900
I think he's going to be a minister.

2159
01:17:50,380 --> 01:17:51,500
I thought, Boy, I hope you're right.

2160
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:54,540
Well, you see what happened to her?

2161
01:17:54,900 --> 01:17:57,000
She was now praying with a word from

2162
01:17:57,000 --> 01:17:57,320
God.

2163
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:00,600
Well, some prayers take years, even when you

2164
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:01,280
get a word from God.

2165
01:18:01,340 --> 01:18:02,240
This was a nice quick one.

2166
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:03,500
A month later, the church started at 10

2167
01:18:03,500 --> 01:18:04,040
o'clock at night.

2168
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:04,660
The buzzer rang.

2169
01:18:04,740 --> 01:18:05,620
It was Darren out there.

2170
01:18:06,380 --> 01:18:07,200
He was nervous.

2171
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:08,300
I thought, well, he's on drugs.

2172
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:08,920
He looked awful.

2173
01:18:09,060 --> 01:18:10,160
He was pacing back and forth.

2174
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:11,720
I went to the door and he ran

2175
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:11,880
in.

2176
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:12,640
So I got to talk to him.

2177
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,120
I went down to my office and he

2178
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:15,240
kept saying, I can't stand it.

2179
01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:16,740
I said, well, can't you stand it?

2180
01:18:16,740 --> 01:18:17,560
He said, I don't know what's the matter

2181
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:17,820
with me.

2182
01:18:17,860 --> 01:18:18,560
I said, what's the matter with you?

2183
01:18:18,700 --> 01:18:20,180
Finally, I said, Darren, just stop.

2184
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:20,680
What's happening?

2185
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:21,780
He looked at me and said, Greg, I

2186
01:18:21,780 --> 01:18:23,180
don't know what's wrong with me, but for

2187
01:18:23,180 --> 01:18:24,920
the last seven weeks, all I can think

2188
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:26,120
about is God.

2189
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:28,880
I said, Darren, what do you mean by

2190
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:29,040
that?

2191
01:18:29,060 --> 01:18:30,440
Because he'd get in trouble before and he'd

2192
01:18:30,440 --> 01:18:31,760
even pray the sinner's prayer and he didn't

2193
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:32,480
mean it and nothing happened.

2194
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:34,720
But that man was under conviction, folks.

2195
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:35,600
I mean conviction.

2196
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:38,100
He said, I've got an evil heart and

2197
01:18:38,100 --> 01:18:38,880
I can't change.

2198
01:18:39,780 --> 01:18:40,880
That man got on the floor and got

2199
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:41,360
saved.

2200
01:18:41,860 --> 01:18:42,320
He got up.

2201
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:42,840
You could see it.

2202
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:43,960
His face was different.

2203
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:45,460
Sunday morning, he ran down the aisle.

2204
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:47,000
The church rejoiced.

2205
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,360
God gave him those beautiful singing voices you've

2206
01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:50,160
ever heard in your life.

2207
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,100
He's now one of the strongest deacons in

2208
01:18:52,100 --> 01:18:52,960
Nashville, Tennessee.

2209
01:18:53,460 --> 01:18:55,240
Two years ago, at his own expense, went

2210
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,040
on a big, dangerous mission trip to Russia.

2211
01:18:57,180 --> 01:18:59,760
Last year, a big, expensive mission trip to

2212
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:00,040
Germany.

2213
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:01,380
Guess what happened last November?

2214
01:19:01,740 --> 01:19:05,260
He got ordained as a minister.

2215
01:19:07,450 --> 01:19:08,410
Precious intercessors.

2216
01:19:09,450 --> 01:19:11,870
Our God has not lost his power.

2217
01:19:13,010 --> 01:19:15,450
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, just

2218
01:19:15,450 --> 01:19:16,870
like in 1904 in Wales.

2219
01:19:17,810 --> 01:19:19,150
He's the same yesterday, but we cannot be

2220
01:19:19,150 --> 01:19:22,850
content just to keep praying, unless that's what

2221
01:19:22,850 --> 01:19:23,250
he wants.

2222
01:19:24,770 --> 01:19:26,770
If we've done all we can do, if

2223
01:19:26,770 --> 01:19:30,410
we're a Miss Polly, then we're there.

2224
01:19:30,650 --> 01:19:31,250
We just wait.

2225
01:19:31,870 --> 01:19:33,650
And many are getting there.

2226
01:19:34,990 --> 01:19:38,990
But tonight, one other thing I share with

2227
01:19:38,990 --> 01:19:39,110
you.

2228
01:19:39,130 --> 01:19:41,710
What he's doing in this effective, fervent prayer

2229
01:19:41,710 --> 01:19:45,810
of an absolutely yielded heart, and this search

2230
01:19:45,810 --> 01:19:48,810
meal God, he's giving us joy when the

2231
01:19:48,810 --> 01:19:50,010
answers don't come.

2232
01:19:50,290 --> 01:19:51,750
You know, sometimes he has to say no.

2233
01:19:52,450 --> 01:19:54,350
Sometimes we're not going to see revival where

2234
01:19:54,350 --> 01:19:54,690
we are.

2235
01:19:54,770 --> 01:19:55,710
Somebody else may get to.

2236
01:19:55,750 --> 01:19:56,210
We don't.

2237
01:19:57,310 --> 01:19:58,630
Sometimes we're not going over a mountain.

2238
01:19:58,750 --> 01:19:59,290
We're going through it.

2239
01:19:59,330 --> 01:20:00,070
In fact, a lot of times.

2240
01:20:00,650 --> 01:20:02,130
Sometimes he doesn't remove all the warfare.

2241
01:20:02,450 --> 01:20:03,770
In 1994, I had a disease.

2242
01:20:03,850 --> 01:20:05,190
You get them a tick bite called Lyme's

2243
01:20:05,190 --> 01:20:05,410
disease.

2244
01:20:05,610 --> 01:20:06,410
They didn't know what I had.

2245
01:20:06,710 --> 01:20:07,530
I got mistreated.

2246
01:20:07,750 --> 01:20:10,110
It ended up doing devastating damage to my

2247
01:20:10,110 --> 01:20:11,050
neurological system.

2248
01:20:11,110 --> 01:20:12,490
In other words, it did real serious brain

2249
01:20:12,490 --> 01:20:12,910
damage.

2250
01:20:13,070 --> 01:20:14,230
People say, we can tell that.

2251
01:20:15,290 --> 01:20:16,490
But it wasn't the kind that make you

2252
01:20:16,490 --> 01:20:18,910
dumb, but it totally destroyed my energy.

2253
01:20:19,010 --> 01:20:20,330
They said, you're going to quit the pastor.

2254
01:20:20,430 --> 01:20:21,510
I'd been a pastor for 10 years.

2255
01:20:21,990 --> 01:20:22,390
And they were right.

2256
01:20:22,430 --> 01:20:22,970
I couldn't function.

2257
01:20:23,370 --> 01:20:25,050
And they said, you can't write any more

2258
01:20:25,050 --> 01:20:25,790
books, that's for sure.

2259
01:20:26,710 --> 01:20:27,310
And they were right.

2260
01:20:27,390 --> 01:20:29,010
Just right before I quit, I was begging

2261
01:20:29,010 --> 01:20:29,670
God to heal me.

2262
01:20:30,990 --> 01:20:32,330
And you know what God said to me?

2263
01:20:32,430 --> 01:20:33,330
Boy, I didn't want to get...

2264
01:20:33,330 --> 01:20:34,630
Of all the passages in the Bible, I

2265
01:20:34,630 --> 01:20:35,290
didn't want to hear this one.

2266
01:20:35,330 --> 01:20:37,170
It was 2 Corinthians 12, 9.

2267
01:20:38,410 --> 01:20:40,090
Paul was begging God to remove his thorn,

2268
01:20:40,190 --> 01:20:41,410
and God said no.

2269
01:20:43,210 --> 01:20:44,710
God kind of said the same thing to

2270
01:20:44,710 --> 01:20:44,930
me.

2271
01:20:44,930 --> 01:20:46,730
I was in awful agony, awful weakness.

2272
01:20:47,270 --> 01:20:48,410
I had no quality of life.

2273
01:20:49,430 --> 01:20:50,230
He said, I'm going to heal you.

2274
01:20:51,750 --> 01:20:52,690
But he said, I'm going to show you

2275
01:20:52,690 --> 01:20:53,970
something missing in your prayer time.

2276
01:20:54,010 --> 01:20:54,490
And you know what?

2277
01:20:54,550 --> 01:20:55,370
There I was.

2278
01:20:55,410 --> 01:20:57,070
We'd seen a touch of revival in 1989.

2279
01:20:57,250 --> 01:21:03,790
But by 1984, ever so slightly, I'd slipped

2280
01:21:03,790 --> 01:21:05,390
away from that deeper surrender.

2281
01:21:05,530 --> 01:21:06,570
Didn't even know it.

2282
01:21:07,770 --> 01:21:09,050
He said, I'm going to take you back

2283
01:21:09,050 --> 01:21:09,770
deeper.

2284
01:21:11,230 --> 01:21:12,110
And he said, I'm not going to heal

2285
01:21:12,110 --> 01:21:12,410
you.

2286
01:21:12,870 --> 01:21:13,850
But you're going to have more joy than

2287
01:21:13,850 --> 01:21:14,490
you've ever had.

2288
01:21:15,490 --> 01:21:16,450
And you're going to have a lot more

2289
01:21:16,450 --> 01:21:17,610
power than you ever had when you were

2290
01:21:17,610 --> 01:21:17,990
healthy.

2291
01:21:18,750 --> 01:21:19,770
That's 30 books ago.

2292
01:21:19,850 --> 01:21:20,890
And I wasn't a writer when I was

2293
01:21:20,890 --> 01:21:21,150
healthy.

2294
01:21:21,930 --> 01:21:23,290
I can't write anything, folks.

2295
01:21:24,070 --> 01:21:25,230
Listen, if God can use me, he can

2296
01:21:25,230 --> 01:21:26,150
use anybody.

2297
01:21:26,290 --> 01:21:26,990
I'm so unworthy.

2298
01:21:28,230 --> 01:21:30,070
Tonight, what he's doing, because there's going to

2299
01:21:30,070 --> 01:21:31,290
be times he's going to have to say

2300
01:21:31,290 --> 01:21:31,550
no.

2301
01:21:32,410 --> 01:21:34,430
There's going to be times the situation's not

2302
01:21:34,430 --> 01:21:34,950
going to change.

2303
01:21:35,930 --> 01:21:39,910
What he's after is joy in him and

2304
01:21:39,910 --> 01:21:41,250
contentment in him.

2305
01:21:41,270 --> 01:21:42,730
No matter what the bank account says or

2306
01:21:42,730 --> 01:21:45,810
what the doctor says or what the situation

2307
01:21:45,810 --> 01:21:48,130
is, folks, this is what he's after.

2308
01:21:49,110 --> 01:21:51,130
Because probably hard times are really coming.

2309
01:21:52,110 --> 01:21:53,030
But you know what?

2310
01:21:53,970 --> 01:21:56,310
God's remnant tonight is going deeper.

2311
01:21:56,430 --> 01:21:57,670
I'm going to ask right now with our

2312
01:21:57,670 --> 01:21:59,190
heads and hearts before God.

2313
01:21:59,830 --> 01:22:01,390
With every head and heart, just for a

2314
01:22:01,390 --> 01:22:02,430
moment, bow before God.

2315
01:22:04,850 --> 01:22:06,630
I feel led tonight to kind of share

2316
01:22:06,630 --> 01:22:09,210
two messages.

2317
01:22:10,250 --> 01:22:11,550
But I want us to have a time

2318
01:22:11,550 --> 01:22:14,430
between these to just reflect.

2319
01:22:15,790 --> 01:22:16,670
And then we're going to have a major

2320
01:22:16,670 --> 01:22:19,530
time to reflect toward the very end tonight.

2321
01:22:20,470 --> 01:22:22,610
But with your heart bowed before God, I'd

2322
01:22:22,610 --> 01:22:24,030
ask you to pray through this.

2323
01:22:25,470 --> 01:22:27,090
Are you in that remnant?

2324
01:22:28,750 --> 01:22:31,910
And I'm talking about what we say, but

2325
01:22:31,910 --> 01:22:34,610
I mean the heart of hearts, that in

2326
01:22:34,610 --> 01:22:39,890
your heart chamber, you and God, that you

2327
01:22:39,890 --> 01:22:42,770
can say that there's a passion, there's some

2328
01:22:42,770 --> 01:22:46,710
tears, at least some, for souls, for lost

2329
01:22:46,710 --> 01:22:49,170
neighbors, for the unlovely people around me, for

2330
01:22:49,170 --> 01:22:49,670
my church.

2331
01:22:49,730 --> 01:22:51,210
I hadn't given up on my church.

2332
01:22:52,650 --> 01:22:54,330
The enemy gets us to give up on

2333
01:22:54,330 --> 01:22:55,770
our immediate surroundings sometimes.

2334
01:22:57,330 --> 01:22:59,770
Maybe tonight you'd say, Brother Greg, I've heard

2335
01:22:59,770 --> 01:23:00,750
that no from God.

2336
01:23:01,090 --> 01:23:02,930
Brother Greg, God took my Isaac.

2337
01:23:04,990 --> 01:23:06,170
And your heart is hurting.

2338
01:23:06,610 --> 01:23:07,390
You don't know why.

2339
01:23:08,770 --> 01:23:11,390
But tonight, God is, you sense Him calling

2340
01:23:11,390 --> 01:23:13,330
you back to an intimacy, back to a

2341
01:23:13,330 --> 01:23:14,730
surrender, back to a cleansing.

2342
01:23:15,790 --> 01:23:17,230
And this is pretty black and white, whether

2343
01:23:17,230 --> 01:23:18,050
doing it or not.

2344
01:23:18,850 --> 01:23:20,930
Unless we think we're better than Jonathan Edwards.

2345
01:23:22,110 --> 01:23:24,730
Is that deep cleansing, that ever deepening cleansing,

2346
01:23:24,890 --> 01:23:26,450
as the Scripture calls it, is that happening?

2347
01:23:26,770 --> 01:23:27,510
Is that real?

2348
01:23:28,210 --> 01:23:30,530
Tonight, would you, maybe it is where it

2349
01:23:30,530 --> 01:23:32,270
needs to be, but maybe tonight you'd say,

2350
01:23:32,290 --> 01:23:33,690
I sense God's calling me deeper.

2351
01:23:34,730 --> 01:23:36,210
That's where the passion comes from.

2352
01:23:36,290 --> 01:23:37,370
That's where the greater faith comes from.

2353
01:23:37,890 --> 01:23:39,210
It's all His grace.

2354
01:23:39,710 --> 01:23:40,990
That's where the power comes from.

2355
01:23:41,110 --> 01:23:43,310
Maybe tonight you'd say, Man, we need that

2356
01:23:43,310 --> 01:23:44,630
breakthrough in my church.

2357
01:23:45,350 --> 01:23:47,270
We need that breakthrough in my family, my

2358
01:23:47,270 --> 01:23:48,170
kids, my grandkids.

2359
01:23:48,250 --> 01:23:49,670
We're seeing grandparents get a hold of this

2360
01:23:49,670 --> 01:23:51,470
and God's touching their grown kids.

2361
01:23:52,510 --> 01:23:53,830
Maybe tonight you've got a daring.

2362
01:23:55,790 --> 01:23:58,350
And tonight you say, Dear God, I'm not

2363
01:23:58,350 --> 01:24:00,670
content just to keep going along, rocking along

2364
01:24:00,670 --> 01:24:00,870
here.

2365
01:24:00,950 --> 01:24:03,710
Oh God, take me to a level that

2366
01:24:03,710 --> 01:24:05,230
there can be a breakthrough in your time.

2367
01:24:06,010 --> 01:24:07,410
Maybe the daring's your church.

2368
01:24:07,490 --> 01:24:08,290
Maybe it's your marriage.

2369
01:24:08,430 --> 01:24:09,910
Maybe it's an area of your own heart.

2370
01:24:10,030 --> 01:24:10,510
Maybe it's fear.

2371
01:24:10,610 --> 01:24:11,210
Maybe it's anger.

2372
01:24:11,590 --> 01:24:12,750
Maybe it's unclean thoughts.

2373
01:24:12,990 --> 01:24:15,450
But there's a breakthrough that's needed.

2374
01:24:15,590 --> 01:24:16,950
There's something that's held you back.

2375
01:24:17,210 --> 01:24:18,730
There's a foothold in your life.

2376
01:24:19,570 --> 01:24:23,050
And tonight you say, Oh God, make me

2377
01:24:23,050 --> 01:24:24,330
a Miss Polly, a Mr. Polly.

2378
01:24:26,860 --> 01:24:29,840
God, protect me from any way thinking I'm

2379
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:30,920
further along than I really am.

2380
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:34,840
Because with our Lord, it's all about heart.

2381
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,300
It's all about the passion inside.

2382
01:24:36,300 --> 01:24:38,880
Not emotion, but deep spiritual passion.

2383
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:40,740
This is not a guilt trip.

2384
01:24:40,860 --> 01:24:42,420
This is what He wants to give us.

2385
01:24:43,620 --> 01:24:45,900
Father, tonight, just water what's been said.

2386
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:48,040
And Lord, if there are prayers that need

2387
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:49,700
to be prayed for some darings, for some

2388
01:24:49,700 --> 01:24:53,420
churches, for some hearts, for some marriages, Father,

2389
01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:54,680
just help us cry out to You now

2390
01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:57,720
knowing You'll heal, knowing You'll give us a

2391
01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:58,280
new fire.

2392
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:00,900
Lord, we can't work up what we've talked

2393
01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:01,520
about tonight.

2394
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:03,140
But Lord, if we'll yield, You'll give it

2395
01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:03,440
to us.

2396
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:05,140
Oh Father, help us hunger and settle for

2397
01:25:05,140 --> 01:25:05,820
nothing less.

2398
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:08,840
I'm just going to ask, dear friends, for

2399
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,740
these moments that if you need to pray

2400
01:25:11,740 --> 01:25:15,220
with your wife about someone, your church, a

2401
01:25:15,220 --> 01:25:17,480
loved one, or if you need to slip

2402
01:25:17,480 --> 01:25:19,320
to this altar, just talk to God about

2403
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:20,780
a heart more on fire.

2404
01:25:20,860 --> 01:25:21,960
Whatever it might be.

2405
01:25:22,020 --> 01:25:24,260
If you need to testify, we're just going

2406
01:25:24,260 --> 01:25:26,140
to quietly wait.

2407
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:28,880
There's something God's calling you to.

2408
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:30,080
Talk to Him about it.

2409
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:30,780
Just do it.

2410
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:31,480
Don't be afraid.

2411
01:25:31,940 --> 01:25:32,440
There's hope.

2412
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:33,120
There's a breakthrough.

2413
01:25:33,740 --> 01:25:34,860
Just talk to God.

2414
01:25:35,020 --> 01:25:36,180
We're going to have a few moments just

2415
01:25:36,180 --> 01:25:38,780
to quietly wait before God before I move

2416
01:25:38,780 --> 01:25:39,480
again into Scripture.