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Christian faith and parable sermons for modern preachers
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This week we have Jim Cimbala with his
message, Heart Talk on Revival.
When I was growing up and maybe you
heard this expression too, churches would have a
one week revival.
What that actually meant was a series of
meetings.
Why would they call it revival?
Because historically churches have stopped things from time
to time to have protracted meetings they were
called to focus on something called revival.
We need revival.
And an interesting way of studying church history,
especially the history of let's say from 1700
on is an interesting way to study church
history is to study the impact and the
occurrences of revivals, not protracted meetings.
By having services you don't have revival.
Revival is when the Holy Spirit comes in
a new fresh way and manifests himself.
Remember he's a he, he's not an it.
He is co-equal with the Father and
the Son.
And what a revival is is a visitation
of the Holy Spirit in some new way.
We know he's present with us where two
or three are gathered.
Jesus said I'll be there through the Holy
Spirit's presence who is also called the Spirit
of Christ.
But when the Spirit comes and manifests himself
and shows himself in some spiritual way, although
it's invisible almost always, but it can be
felt and sensed and it affects people deeply,
that's called traditionally a revival.
Now in the Old Testament, in Habakkuk and
in other places, the psalmist would cry out
and the prophet would cry out, Oh God,
come and revive your people.
Revive your people.
Now a revival is not evangelism.
Revival assumes that someone was alive but they're
dying and you come and the Spirit revives
them.
So a lot of people think revival is
evangelism.
It's not.
It always results in evangelism, but in itself
it is not evangelism.
If my friend gets sick and he's in
the hospital, someone goes and says, you know,
they're trying to revive him.
That means he's real sick, they're trying to
revive his health, revive his breathing, his pulse
or whatever.
Revival is different than evangelism because evangelism is
you were dead in your trespasses and sins
and now Christ has made you alive.
So this revival assumes that Christians can get
lukewarm, can get carnal, that churches can get
lukewarm and can get carnal.
Usually in the Old Testament, Israel was God's
chosen people, so it would speak of national
revival.
Nowhere in the New Testament does it speak
of any nation being revived.
It speaks of God's people being revived and
God's people don't make up America.
God's people is not America.
America is not God's chosen nation.
God's chosen people are all those who have
put their faith in Jesus Christ.
But in different countries and in different churches,
things can die out.
Brooklyn is called the borough of churches, but
it has mostly empty church buildings because although
the Word was preached in many of them,
sometimes they went into false teaching or left
the Bible, but in many places where the
Bible was adhered to, converts were ceased to
be made, love ceased to exist between the
believers, all spiritual energy and excitement and fervency
died out and the church became dead, the
glory departed.
The only answer to that is a revival,
not through teaching, although teaching is needed, but
you need a visitation of the Holy Spirit.
That's one of the most interesting studies that
you can make, is the history of revivals.
For example, before we became a nation and
we were 13 colonies, speaking of America, swearing,
cursing, stealing, immorality became so prevalent in the
colonies, drunkenness, people not going to work, there
was a total dissolution of the fabric of
the society that was going on.
This is prior to 1776 and the Revolutionary
War and all that.
People in New England especially and other places
began to cry out to God that God
would send a revival to their churches because
the churches were making no converts, nobody was
coming to church, meetings were dead and dry,
and they started to cry out, Lord, revive
your people, speaking of the church, because they
saw they were having, they were not salt,
or if they were salt, they had lost
their savor, their light was hid under a
bushel.
And the Bible, Jesus said, if salt loses
its savor, it's nothing, good for nothing, but
to be put on a dunghill.
They began to cry out, some interesting things
happened in meetings, where things were interrupted, the
spirit began to move in a deep way,
and the next thing you know, churches began
to pray, the gospel now started to be
preached with new power, the ministers who had
been just putting people to sleep, now they
were commanding their attention, converts started to be
made, and any historian will tell you that
the Great Awakening changed the history of America.
What was the Great Awakening?
It was a revival of God's Spirit among
His people, which then affected society.
People who don't believe in Jesus Christ can't
be revived, they need to be born again.
Jesus said to people who are not Christians,
you must be born again.
There was a second Great Awakening, there was
a revival in Wales in the early 1900s,
that transformed that part of the world.
But not only are there historic national, there
was revivals in China, there was revivals in
other parts of the world, in Africa, there's
an interesting study about revival, but revival not
only happens on a big scale, revival can
happen on a church scale, revival can happen
in a local church, where suddenly they get
tired of the same old, same old, and
they begin to cry out to God and
say, God, unless you come, it'll just be
music, it'll just be preaching, music doesn't change
anyone, preaching in itself doesn't change anyone, send
the fire, oh Lord, open up the heavens
and come down, and add your blessing to
the work, for unless the Lord build a
house, they that what?
Labor, labor in vain.
This is the reason why so much money
is being poured in now to world evangelism,
and there's so puny results, when you think
of the amount of money, and amount of
workers in certain parts of the world, and
other places, not always the case, some mission
fields are just hard and need a breakthrough,
but someone has to break through, to bring
down some blessing of God, and that blessing
of God can last for many generations, it
can continue on, it builds its own momentum,
where there's an outpouring of the spirit, and
sometimes the people who prayed it down have
died, but the blessing goes on for the
people who are still alive, I'm thinking of
a situation right now, and I know in
Lima, Peru, among the Alianza churches, which are
the missionary alliance churches, and if you took
all the other denominations in Lima, and in
Peru, and you stack them all up, all
the Baptists, all the Assemblies of God, all
the people there, and it would come this
high, in terms of evangelism, people one to
the Lord, and many churches just struggling, not
a spirit of freedom and liberty in the
services, and I had made, let's say, 10
visits there, and then I went one day,
I was in a hotel staying there, and
a man asked to see me, and he
was the highest official of the missionary alliance
churches there, in Peru, and he said, I've
always wanted to meet you, I've wanted to
meet you for a while, because your book,
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, has been put in
Spanish, and it's been ordered, all pastors, all
workers in missionary alliance, in all of South
America, have to read this book, so now
I'm meeting the person, your book has blessed
me, would you come and speak at our
mother church, or at some of other churches,
would you speak at a conference?
I said, let me pray about it, and
then I felt this is something God wants
me to do, so my translator and I,
my dear friend Pastor Impaglia, we walked in
the first time to the Allianza church, the
alliance church, and we just walked into the
mother church, and they were just starting to
sing, and it was like you were in
heaven, huge buildings packed, I heard about other
big churches in the city, and this is
where most churches have 30 people, 50 people,
40 people, these are 1,000, 2,000,
1,000, 1,500, so I was watching
it and discerning, like, wow, there's like a
flow of just God's spirit, his grace, his
blessing, so I started to ask around, and
I found out that the alliance churches are
not that strong in Chile, which is to
the south, I found that they're not that
strong in Ecuador, to the north, they're not
that strong in Argentina, to the east, so
I started to ask and say, so what's
the deal here, how did the gospel come,
what's going on here in these alliance churches,
and they said, oh, some missionaries came like
40 years ago, 50 years ago, and there
was hardly any fruit, and they got desperate,
and they said, God, please open the heavens
and come down, God, please visit the Christians,
the handfuls that we have, Lord, do something
that will glorify your name, do something so
the gospel can be spread with power, somehow
they touched God, and now the people living
and getting converted are still enjoying, they all
said that, and they were talking about American
missionaries, and these were Peruvian pastors who are
now doing all the leadership, but they just
were happy to tell me, somebody broke through,
and we're enjoying the blessing of God, now
we don't want to grieve it, we want
the Holy Spirit to grow in strength among
us, and so on and so forth, so
that's revival in a fellowship of churches, in
local churches, you can have personal revival, you
can have a visitation of God in your
life, you can be backsliding, getting drifting away
from the Lord, getting insensitive to sin, your
love is waxing cold toward other people, it's
just all mechanical, the only thing that will
bring you back is not teaching, you need
an invasion of the Spirit of God in
your life, who then quickens everything that was
once there, and the love is back, and
the hunger for God's word is back, and
you know, wow, God, how many are with
me so far, put your hands together, that's
what revival is, that's why prayer has always
preceded revival, that's why we're going to pray
tonight, that's why this prayer meeting is so
important, because whatever God is going to do,
it's almost always preceded by prayer, you can
say, well he's going to do what he
wants to do, but no, it's not exactly
that, ask and you shall receive, seek and
you'll find, knock and it shall be opened
unto you, what happens in revival, like how
do you know how revival works, how do
you know when the Holy Spirit is really
moving, instead of just having church, or doing
mission work, when I came to the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, and there was this handful of people,
Carol and I walked right by, and peeked
into the Muslim Center, that used to be
the first building we met in on Atlantic,
between 3rd and 4th Avenues, and I was
aware that I had known pastors, who for
40 years had said, God did great things
in the past, he did this in the
great awakening, he did this at the day
of Pentecost, he did this, and then other
people would say, and God one day before
Christ comes, he's going to send a great
revival, the only unfortunate thing about that was,
I knew of people who had said that
for 40 years, and never saw any fruit
come from their ministry, few converts, no prayer
meetings, no love among the people, no hunger
for God's word, young and naive and making
a lot of mistakes, but sincere for the
most part, I got desperate, I said God
if you don't do something, and I did
pray this prayer, I'm not repeating it for
melodramatic reasons, I did pray, I got so
desperate because nothing was happening, my sermons were
pathetic, there were a lot of adversaries, spiritual
blockage, it was so hard, and I did
pray, God if you're not going to break
through, and have Carol and I see something
happen, if you're not going to bear fruit
through our lives, if you're just going to
send me to hold a fort here, and
be faithful, I want to be faithful, but
I see something more than being faithful, I
see fruit in the Bible, I see certain
men from Cyprus and Cyrene went, and the
hand of the Lord was with them, and
multitudes turned to the Lord, why did that
happen?
Because the hand of the Lord was with
them, so let the hand of the Lord
be with me, please God whatever you have
to change in me, but if you don't
then take my life, I have one child,
she's a little girl, I know you'll take
care of Carol and her, but I cannot
take the idea, of me just living and
having church, and gathering 20-30 people, 40
people pay the bills, and just run around
the building and shout glory, I can't do
that God, there's something better that you have,
we began to passionately cry out, especially in
the first prayer meeting, on a Tuesday night,
where we started to emphasize it as a
prayer meeting, there were maybe 10, 11, 12
of us, in the front of the church
holding hands, in the front of that little
auditorium, and we would just pray, and say
God please come and do something, to glorify
your name, how will your name be glorified,
if nobody gets converted, how will your name
be glorified, if the people don't love each
other, how will your name be glorified, if
there's no visitation of your Holy Spirit, in
first Corinthians 14, Paul is teaching about, indiscriminate
tongue speaking, in a church, that people who,
were gifted to speak in tongues, and then
usually in a meeting, it's to be interpreted,
by somebody into the language of the people,
so that the church can be blessed, because
the rule in a service like this, is
nothing can be done, unless it blesses all
the people, nobody can have a seizure, or
a fit, and draw attention to themselves, and
stop the meeting, and then none of us
understand what's happening, and there's no blessing for
us, no matter what you've seen or heard,
that is totally unbiblical, everything must be done
Paul says, under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit he writes, everything must be done to
edification, so in the Corinthian church, they had
a lot of gifts, and some of the
people who were speaking in tongues, he doesn't
say it's false, but they were getting carried
away, and they forgot that always, God has
you in control, anytime you see someone who's
totally out of control, they are not in
the spirit, for the spirit of the prophets,
is subject to the prophets, God never makes
you totally out of control, you're being used
by him in some way, but you're under
control, people were speaking in tongues, and the
stranger and the unlearned person, the person may
be wanting to know more, but not knowing
much, or the unbeliever would come in, and
Paul is telling them, now look, if you
all speak in tongues, just indiscriminately, you're yelling
out in different languages, that no one understands,
he says in 1 Corinthians 14, you can
look at it, he says the people who
come in are going to say, you're crazy,
you're crazy, anybody who excuses that Bible, well
that's the Holy Ghost, you got to read
the Bible a little careful, chaos is never
God's plan for a service, or a life,
so God is not the author of confusion,
things have to be done decently in order,
but in God's order, in God's order, and
sometimes that's strange, but it always ends up
edifying the people, anytime someone's out of control,
it's never of the Holy Spirit, anytime you
see someone thrashing about, not there, but churches
have planted that in people's mind, that if
you go crazy, that means it's the Holy
Spirit, it's not, the Bible teaches us that,
it's not my opinion, it's not a white
church thing, or a black church, or a
Puerto Rican church, it's the Bible, the problem
is, Paul says, what's better is to speak
in the language of the people, to be
anointed, and speak in the language of the
people, because when you speak, with the Holy
Spirit helping you, in English, let's say, then
the church is really built up, so he
says, here's the goal, and I want to
generalize this, and say, this is what happens
when the Holy Spirit moves, when the Holy
Spirit is working, in a service, through a
choir, through a minister, through a person, this
is the sign, so if the whole church
comes together, and everyone speaks in tongues, and
some who do not understand, or some unbelievers
come in, will they not say that you
are out of your mind, but if an
unbeliever, or someone who does not understand, comes
in while everyone is prophesying, let's summarize that
and put, the Spirit is really moving, he
will be convinced by all, that he is
a sinner, convicted, and he will be judged
by all, and the secrets of his heart,
will be laid bare, so he will fall
down, and worship God, exclaiming, God is really
among you, I'll read that again, let me
summarize a little differently, if an unbeliever, or
someone who is pursuing God, comes in, doesn't
understand everything, while everyone is prophesying, in other
words, anointed speech, the Spirit is really moving,
and God is using words, and his word,
and exhortation, or sermons, or whatever, he will
be convicted by all, convinced, that he is
a sinner, he'll be judged by all, he'll
know that the people see through him, notice
why that happens, because the secrets of his
heart, will be laid bare, so what will
happen, he will fall down, and worship God,
exclaiming, God is really, among you, notice what
happens, and what we really need, in our
lives, in our churches, and in the body
of Christ, in America, or the Philippines, or
Taiwan, or Hong Kong, or China, we need
to pray, that the Holy Spirit will come,
in such power, that people's hearts, will be
revealed, whenever revival happens, in your life, or
in a church's life, God helps us, to
live out of our heart, it's searched, he
opens it, and you stop living, out of
the veneer, the complexes, the phoniness, whenever the
Holy Spirit comes, he makes you real, that's
for all of us, you don't talk religious,
you don't act one way, in front of
one person, that is totally gone, when revival
comes, when the Holy Spirit comes, you start
living constantly, out of your heart, now that
makes you vulnerable, you can be hurt, that's
the way it is, you live, Paul says,
when people come in, and the Spirit is
moving, the secrets of their heart, are laid
bare, so when revival comes, all the secret
stuff, that's in our heart, God brings it
to service, and he gets rid of it,
he helps us to deal with it, one
of the signs of no revival, is when
people are living double lives, this is the
great fear, now in America, that ministers have
churches, even large ones, but the people, the
congregants who come, are living double lives, they
act one way in church, and then at
home, they're a totally different person, trust me
as a pastor, that is the biggest heartache
in the world, I feel like a total
failure, when I meet people, in our church,
and I counsel, I hear things, and I
realize, that there's a double life going on,
lifting hands, swaying to the music, shouting glory,
and then acting six days a week, like
God doesn't exist, when revival comes, he searches
your heart, and you get real, how many
want to be real, lift your hand if
you want to be real, the secrets of
their heart, would be made known, notice, why
is that important, because they will be convicted,
of their sin, one thing, when revival comes,
when the Holy Spirit is operating, in new
powerful ways, he opens up your heart, and
you stop living here, and you start living
from here, you start always meaning what you
say, and saying what you mean, otherwise, we
all fall into some kind of phoniness, because
we're all phonies, unless God is helping us,
to be real, come on that's true, do
I get an amen, only the Holy Spirit
makes you real, when the heart is opened,
we get convicted of sin, Paul says, now
when the spirit is moving, the stranger, the
unlearned, will be convicted of their sin, they'll
be convinced they're a sinner, brothers and sisters,
when we pray tonight, we got to pray,
first of all, that God will convict us
of sin, because whenever you're convicted of sin,
you know God is working with you, when
you don't feel bad, about anything you're saying,
or doing, you're in a terrible place, when
you justify everything you do, and everything you
say, you're in a bad place, one of
the things of walking with Jesus, is you
become tender to sin, one of the signs
of revival, is you're careful, every word that
you say, when the spirit isn't moving, we're
talking all kinds of things, insulting people, hurting
people, doing all kinds of stuff, don't blame
me, don't talk to me, don't correct me,
but when the Holy Spirit is working, you
become like a lamb, you know the Lord
convicted me of something, the other day I
was in a restaurant, and I was sitting
at a counter by myself, Carol was working
on music, and I sat down with my
New York Times, at a counter, just going
to have a dinner, all by myself, and
suddenly some windows, about 30 feet away, I
hear a baby crying, but the baby just
wasn't crying, the baby was just, like one
of those, so I just looked over, and
I saw, I had my glasses, for distance
on, and couldn't make out, I saw a
woman, trying to quiet this one year old,
and then there was another little boy, about
four years old, he was eating his food,
but this one child, but have you ever
been somewhere, like especially on an airplane, where
the child not only cries, they have like
the gift of crying, they have a ministry
of crying, this child would not stop crying,
and two or three times, it so rattled
me, because the child had this kind of
scream, that would just cut through, and it
threw me off, and I'm thinking, oh my
goodness, I looked at the waiter, and the
waiter looked at me like, hey what can
I tell you, I only work here, and
I only eat here, and I got to
eat with this going on, so I'm trying
to eat my food, but it was hard,
it really bothered me, and God knows, I
thought, should I walk over and just say,
ma'am, could you please take care of
that child, because, it wasn't going on for
five minutes, I'm talking 20 minutes, then she
held the child, or something, the child stopped
a little bit, I finished my meal, I
went to pay my bill, and I walked
a little closer, so I could see, it
wasn't the mother, it wasn't the mother of
the children, it was the grandmother, and where
I was, it could very well be, that
there is no mother on the scene, but
some grandmother, with grey hair, was fighting to
take care of a ten month old, and
a four year old, and I was being
bothered, while I ate my steak, steak no
less, and I had to stop and say,
God, forgive me, because I was judging that
situation, and I was so selfish, and into
myself, don't look at me like I'm unsanctified,
how many of you, have ever been convicted
by God, about an attitude, come on, lift
up your hands, confession is good, one of
the things about revival, is not only we
get convicted of sin, and this is what
you have to pray for, that in the
services, when people walk in, they get convicted
of sin, unless you're convicted of sin, you
will never call on the Savior, only people
who feel they're drowning, and are lost, reach
out for a Savior, if people feel they're
fine, they're not going to believe, on the
Lord Jesus Christ, so when revival comes, evangelism
is made possible, because there's an atmosphere, where
people are convicted of their sins, and then
falling on their face, they will say, surely
God is among you, notice what happens, when
the spirit moves, you get into your heart,
and out of your complexes, and your little
charade, that we all play, you live out
of your heart, number two, you become sensitive
to sin, you don't make justification for it,
you're convicted of it, Lord forgive me, read
the Psalms, and see if David ever got
convicted about his sins, see if Peter ever
was convicted about his sin, number three, you're
humbled, falling on their face, only the Holy
Spirit can humble us, pride goeth before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall, but
the humble God will lift up, but who's
gonna humble me when I'm the one who's
proud, how can the pride humble the proud
person, but when the spirit comes, and he
shows you who God is, and how awesome
he is, when he shows you all the
sins that you've been forgiven, who could judge
somebody else, when the Holy Spirit's working, he
shows you all that God has done for
you, come on, up in the balcony, how
many sins has God forgiven in your life,
how about downstairs, how about 10,000, maybe
50,000, how about a million, come on,
how many have had mercy shown you, lift
up both your hands, right, but unless the
Holy Spirit shows us, unless there's a spirit
of revival, unless God is moving, we judge
each other instead of saying, thank you Jesus,
instead of restoring somebody, we judge people, we
think that's spirituality, so that's why we need
a visitation of the Holy Spirit, and notice
the testimony of a great church, and it's
the testimony of a good person, notice what
the unlearned and the stranger said, the unbeliever
and the seeker walked out of the church,
Paul said, if the spirit is moving, if
there's revival, they'll say, I don't understand everything,
but God is in this place, I have
prayed as God is my witness, I say
this for his glory, not for any praise,
I have prayed that a thousand times in
my life, God, give Carol and I a
church that we can lead, where when the
people leave, they don't know my name, or
the choir, or the name of the church,
but let them leave from Pennsylvania, and when
they leave, they'll go, God is in that
place.
How many want that?
Come on, can we put our hands together,
God is in that place.
Come on, let's really clap, Not, weren't the
announcements done cleverly, wasn't the music good, isn't
the band good, come on Caleb, we've been
churches like that, where they're trying to impress
by talent, and the worship singers, and the
clothes, and the pastor showing off, no, what
we want to see here is, oh Holy
Spirit come, so when the people leave, they
go, oh goodness, mercy, God is in that
place, oh God, you are awesome.
Can we do it one more time, let's
just say God.
Every time I get an email where they
say, I visited your church, God was there,
I met God, I just go, thank you
Jesus.
I don't want them to say, your sermon
was so clever, I want them to say,
God was in that place.
I don't want them to say, carols, chords,
and the way she leads, I want to
say, when the choir sang, I knew God
was in that place.
Let's just lift our hands, come on, praise
God.
Praise Him out loud, come on.
Don't be embarrassed to praise Him out loud,
we praise you God.
God, we need a revival, we want you
to come and visit us Lord, in our
lives, in our church Lord, in all the
churches around New York City, in Pennsylvania, where
my friends are from Lord, in Colorado Lord,
where my friends are from Lord.
Oh God, in Haiti where the missionaries are
from, God send a revival, Holy Spirit come
and manifest yourself.
Come and manifest yourself, show us how great
you are Holy Spirit.
Forgive us our sins, forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
If you're here tonight and you say, Pastor,
I feel God has given me a burden
to pray for revival, whether it's in your
life, in this church, in a church that
you go to.
Without revival, everything becomes dead.
If you're here today and say, Pastor, I
want to spend some time praying with you
for revival.
Personal revival, if you need personal revival, now's
the time.
Don't run now, don't go.
God says when my people call, I will
answer.
When they humble themselves and say, we can't
go on without a visitation of your Spirit.
We want a visitation of your Spirit.
Maybe you're here and you're involved in some
ministry, but it's not producing fruit.
Just don't accept that.
Say, God, there's more you can do.
But send the Holy Spirit.
Everybody just wants to come up and pray
for personal, family revival, marriage revival, local church
revival.
Come on, get out of your seat and
come up here.
These are the missionaries from Haiti, right?
Yes.
Need a revival in Haiti.
The church has to be revived in Haiti
or nothing's going to happen in Haiti.
I don't care if they pour 7 trillion
dollars, nothing will happen.
It's not by might nor by power, but
it's by my Spirit, saith the Lord.
It's not by might nor by power, but
by my Spirit, saith the Lord.
Did you hear what the Word says?
It's not by might nor by power, but
by my Spirit, saith the Lord.
Show us how to pray, Holy Spirit.
Show us how to pray.
God, send the Holy Spirit and revive our
church.
Revive my life.
Revive my son.
Revive my ministry.
Revive whatever it is.
God, Holy Spirit, come.
Revive your work.
Revive a spirit of prayer.
Revive a hunger for righteousness.
Use your servants, Lord.
Let there be a revival in Colorado, Lord,
that will just go throughout the state.
Let the fire catch, Lord, and spread.
Revive your work, Lord, in Colorado.
Use my sisters, Lord.
See the hunger they have, Lord.
Help them to have faith, Lord, for more
of the Holy Spirit.
Help them to let go and believe you,
Lord.
Don't let them hold back and limit you,
Lord.
Bless my brother and my sister, Lord.
Revive their work in Haiti, Lord.
Revive the church in Haiti.
Revive the Christians in Haiti.
Get rid of the false teaching and let
the Holy Spirit come, Lord.
Wherever there's something false, Lord, get it out.
Hold it back, Lord, so that the true
word can go forth, Lord.
Come, Holy Spirit.
Let there be a visitation.
Let them be desperate for you, Lord.
Let her be desperate for you.
Let them be desperate, God, that you will
come and manifest yourself.
Conviction of sin.
Humility of spirit.
People broken hearted, Lord.
Tender hearts.
We call on you, Holy Spirit.
Come.
Revive.
Revive us.
Revive us, Holy Spirit.
Come.
Fill us.
Revive us.
Wind of God, blow on us.
God is awesome.
Come on.
Can we give them one more hand cup
of praise?
Lord, let prayer for revival and sensitivity to
your Holy Spirit continue starting this moment on.
Make us sensitive when we lay in bed
at night.
Take away sin.
Make us sensitive to temptation.
Help us to walk humbly.
Help us to live out of our hearts,
not out of our facades.
Help us to speak sincerely, words of truth
and love.
Come, Holy Spirit, we need you.
Thank you for this meeting.
Thank you for helping us to pray.
Get us home safely, no accidents, no anything
except rejoicing in the Lord always.
For this we pray in Jesus' name.
And everyone said, Amen.
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit
and Classic Sermon series.
This week you heard Jim Cimbala with his
message Heart Talk on Revival.
Tune in next week to hear Zach Coonan
talk about only when life will soon be
past on From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.