Greetings, one, in the name of the Lord
Jesus.
Very grateful to be here today among the
saints of God, to sing, to inspire our
hearts in song, to be challenged by the
Word of God.
Well, the Lord changed my message this morning,
and I want to be obedient to Him.
You know, we often pray, or always pray,
back in that little prayer room back there,
that we just ask God to take His
seat and rule and reign over this service.
We don't want to have any part of
it.
God forbid that we would do what we
think needs to be done, instead of what
God wants to be done.
So you bear with me, I prepared my
sermon while Brother Harold was giving his.
So I don't know how it'll all come
out, but I think you'll get the spirit
of what God is saying, whether I have
all the right words or not.
I think you'll get the spirit of what
God is saying.
I trust you will.
I don't know a lot about spiritual warfare,
but I know a little bit about it,
just a little.
And I can give you this testimony this
morning that I fought most of the night.
Last night, I fought.
And I believe now I know why I
fought.
I didn't know why I fought all night
long.
I tried to rest, I couldn't.
I knew I needed to rest, but I
couldn't rest.
I didn't know what was going on, which
is often that way when you're in a
spiritual battle.
You don't know why you're getting hit from
every side.
You don't know why the confusion is flooding
over you.
But God is faithful.
He always wins the war.
He always wins.
I had a very strong leading last week
after listening to a tape on revival.
On revival in the Hebrides, I acquired a
tape which was a tape of testimony by
a preacher who was there about a revival
that took place in 1952 in the Hebrides.
Some small islands off the coast of Scotland.
I listened to this testimony, and it so
burdened my heart that I just knew that
God wanted His people to hear it.
I just knew that God wanted us who
do have a hunger for revival to hear
it.
So I set a time for us to
listen to the tape, and I made an
announcement, and most of you probably heard it.
It came over the hotline that a tape
was going to be played at the prayer
meeting on Saturday evening.
And I just committed it to God.
I said, God, I don't want to make
a big deal out of this, but I'm
just going to trust You that You'll bring
the people here who need to pray, who
want to pray, who are ready to pray,
who need to pray.
I made the little announcement, and we came
here and sat down.
There were a good group of us last
evening, and started to play the tape.
And just about the same time I pushed
the button to start playing the tape, rocks
started coming through the windows over here on
the side of the church building.
We shut the tape off and went to
the windows.
I went outside and looked around and couldn't
see anything.
Came back in and put the tape on
again, and another rock went through a window
over here.
And we hid back here in the dark
and watched, and somebody kept coming out of
the cornfield right over there, and he'd come
out into the opening and pick up a
rock and throw it at the side of
the church house at another window.
We called out to him in the name
of Jesus, and he ran back into the
cornfield and he came back out about a
minute later with a big knife in his
hand about this long.
The knife part was about like this, and
he started shaking it at us.
Well, nevertheless, we never listened to the tape
last night.
There was some earnest prayer going on here,
but I do believe we lost.
Last night we lost what we were supposed
to have.
I know what that tape would have done.
I know how it would have stirred our
hearts and given us a vision for revival.
I have a burden on my heart that
we'd have real revival around here.
Real revival, I use that term because I
think that we kind of think we have
it around here.
Though I would not say that we don't
have a touch of reviving here in our
midst, and I thank God for it, but
I don't think we have real revival yet.
And I guess I just feel like the
devil slapped us in the face last night,
and I'm fighting back this morning.
I don't believe in fighting.
It's not right for God's people to raise
up their hands and fight.
And we did not fight with that boy
last night, but I do believe in fighting.
I believe that's where the plain people went
wrong, and I don't know when or where
they went wrong, but they went wrong.
And they slipped away from a spirit of
war and into a spirit of pacifism.
And that is not New Testament.
The fullness of Christ, the little psalm, is
what we need.
Paul prayed for the fullness of Christ among
the believers.
Brothers and sisters, we do not have the
fullness of Christ here.
The church at Ephesus was one of the
most spiritual churches that Paul founded.
But yet when he talked to the church
at Ephesus, he said to them, I pray
daily, I don't cease to pray to God
for you, that you might be filled with
all the fullness of God.
And we are not filled with all the
fullness of God here yet.
We are not.
Yes, he gave some corrections there in the
book of Ephesians.
He told them a few things that they
needed to do and a few things that
they didn't need to do.
But I think we need to recognize that
about one-third of that whole book was
filled with Paul's desire that they would be
filled with all the fullness of God.
And this morning I tell you, yes, there
are some corrections that are needed in our
lives.
Yes, we need to run away from materialism
like our brother said.
Yes, we need to be careful that we
don't get caught up in building our own
kingdoms here upon the earth.
But I'll tell you, brothers and sisters, I
don't know any way for us to stop
those things from happening in a real way,
in a lasting way, in a thorough way,
except that we be filled with all the
fullness of Christ until the things on earth
grow strangely dim in the light of His
glory and grace.
I know no other way for it to
happen.
Yes, I can stand up here this morning
and I can give correction out of the
Bible, and I do, and I believe in
that.
But my friends, that is not what's going
to change our hearts and lives.
We need to be filled with the fullness
of Christ.
All in all is Jesus, and Jesus is
everything.
That is still the New Testament picture.
Oh, how Paul prayed.
How he prayed that the church at Ephesus
would have that.
Turn to Isaiah 64 this morning.
And I'm just minding the Lord this morning.
It might sound like a broken record to
you, but I am as thoroughly convinced of
anything that I'm speaking on the right subject
this morning.
In Isaiah 64, we want to read verse
1 through 4, but I'd like you to
note one thing before we begin to read
the text.
I'd like you to notice the word mountain.
And without us searching out the Scriptures, I'll
invite you to do that on your own
if you question my interpretation.
But throughout the Old Testament, I think you'll
find, if you'll study it, that God uses
the word mountain as a type, an example
of authority.
Mountain.
A mountain is strength.
A mountain is big.
A mountain says strength, and it's strong, and
it's mighty.
And when you look at it, it towers
over you, and it has the appearance of
strength to it.
And God uses often the word mountain as
a type of kings and authorities that are
upon the earth.
And I'd like us to note that before
we read here.
Isaiah 64, verse 1.
Isaiah said through the Lord, Oh, that thou
wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come
down, that the mountains might flow down at
thy presence.
Picture that.
Oh, that you would come down, Lord.
Oh, that you would split the heavens and
come down, O God, that all the authorities,
all the human authorities, all the kings, all
the evil principalities, all the evil princes, all
the demons, all of the devils of hell
would flow down at thy presence, as when
the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the
waters to boil, to make known thy name
to thine adversaries.
Notice that word when we're speaking about earthly
authorities and principalities and powers.
Oh, God, oh, that you would rend the
heavens to make thy name known to thine
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy
presence.
When thou didst terrible things which we look
not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed
down at thy presence.
For since the beginning of the world, men
have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee.
What he hath prepared for him that waiteth
for him.
Isn't that a blessed promise this morning?
Yes, I believe this scripture was fulfilled in
Christ Jesus.
He did rend the heavens.
He did split the heavens.
He did come down.
And the mountains did flow down at his
presence.
And through his death and his burial and
his resurrection and his ascension, he did spoil
the principalities and the powers, and they no
longer have any power because of Christ Jesus.
These verses were fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
Yet, as we look through church history, we
see this happening over and over and over
again.
In seasons of revival, this happens again.
And it happens again.
And I chose this text to read just
before I give you just a general account
of the revival in the Hebrides, because I
believe this is exactly what happened in the
Hebrides.
God rent the heavens and came down on
those islands, and the authorities and the principalities
and the powers were fled away.
I'm reminded of a scripture there in Isaiah
where it says, when the enemy shall come
in like a flood, the Spirit of the
Lord shall lift up a standard against them.
And that's exactly what happened on the island
of the Hebrides.
In fact, there's even a little book that
was written.
I'm not sure who wrote it, but the
name of the little book, it's a testimony
written about the revival in the Hebrides, and
they named the book, When God Stepped Down
from Heaven.
And I'd like to say this.
Before I go into this account, I praise
God for what we have here.
It's sweet to my own soul.
I am not in any way casting reflection
on what is going on here.
The Lord is at work among us.
He's at work among His people.
But brothers and sisters, at this point, we
are having a little reviving, and it's basically
going on right here in this building.
And that's not revival like the revival of
the days in the past.
It didn't stay inside of a building.
It went outside the building.
It went way outside the building.
I praise God that souls get saved here.
I praise the Lord that when we sing,
we worship the Lord.
And there's a sweet anointing of God's presence
upon us, and I don't discount that, and
I thank God for it, for the seasons
of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
But brothers and sisters, we stand in danger
of getting satisfied.
We stand in great danger of getting satisfied.
We stand this morning in great danger of
thinking that this is all we need, and
we need nothing else.
We stand in great danger this morning of
losing the burden for real revival because of
the sweetness of what we have here.
We stand in great danger.
And I don't think we realize it the
way we ought.
The conditions of the Hebrides, the islands of
the Hebrides, by the way, this revival took
place in 1952, not 1852, not 1752, not
1525, not 200 AD.
It didn't happen way back there so that
it's way out of our reach and grip.
It didn't happen way back there so we
could say, well, we live in the last
days and there's a falling away and there's
wickedness everywhere and the devil runs rampant on
the earth.
It didn't happen way back there in the
1700s.
It happened in 1952.
I was born in 1949, so I was
three years old when God visited this place.
What God did there, God can do again.
He can do it again.
So the conditions of the islands of the
Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, the churches
were dead.
There were dozens of churches on the islands
of the Hebrides and they were dead.
The preaching was dead.
The services were dead.
The singing was dry.
There was no interest about spiritual things.
The young people were leaving the church by
the dozens and dozens.
They didn't want to have anything to do
with what went on in the churches.
In fact, the only basic thing they used
the church house for was to have a
big dance and a beer party on Saturday
night.
And the preachers couldn't stop them.
You may think, oh, what a terrible thing.
Well, that goes on in this county every
Saturday night.
It may not happen in the house where
church is tomorrow morning, but it happens in
the house where church is.
Does it not?
The hearts of the people were empty.
The pews were empty.
The young people were falling and falling and
falling away.
They were filled with wickedness.
They filled up the bar halls.
They filled up the dance halls.
They were rebellious.
They despised authority.
They wanted to have nothing to do with
religion.
And everywhere you looked on the island of
the Hebrides, you saw dead orthodoxy.
Sure, the preachers, if you were to ask
them what their creed was, they had it
all right down the line.
They could quote their creed.
But there was no life.
They were in need of revival.
It was 1950, and they were in need
of revival.
And it was a desperate situation.
It was a calamity.
It was a moral calamity in the New
Hebrides.
And all of a sudden, two old women,
84 years old.
One of them was a cripple.
She couldn't walk.
And the other was blind, and she couldn't
see.
But these two old ladies knew God.
They knew God.
And they spent their days like the widows
of old, like that prophetess Anna of old,
in prayer and fasting day and night before
God.
They served their God there on the island
of the Hebrides.
And those two old ladies prayed.
And they prayed.
They prayed the heavens open.
And they prayed the heavens down on their
lives.
And they prayed visions down on their lives.
And one night, this old lady who was
blind and couldn't see with these eyes, but
saw so clearly with these eyes, God gave
her a vision.
And she saw in that vision one of
the church houses filled to overflowing with people.
And an unusual man standing behind the pulpit.
And preaching was going on.
And things were happening in the church.
And she called for a few of the
local elders.
And they came to her house there.
And she shared the vision with the elders.
And she gave them a reproof.
And I'd say, my friend, brothers, if we
ever get to the spiritual state that those
men were in, and some woman can rise
up in the power and the anointing of
the Holy Ghost, we need to get some
reproof.
And she reproofed those men.
And she said to them, my dear brothers,
you've tried everything you know to get the
young people back in the church.
You've tried new youth programs.
You've tried new activities.
You've tried new exciting things to draw their
interest.
But nothing changes the moral climate of this
island.
Have you tried God, she said?
Have you tried God?
She made a suggestion to those elders that
they start seeking God for a Holy Ghost
revival.
And those men, they agreed.
They bowed their heart to the rebuke of
this anointed sister.
And they started having prayer meetings.
Just a few elders from a few different
churches in the area.
And they met twice a week from 10
o'clock in the evening until 4 o
'clock in the morning.
Twice a week, they'd go to the church
house or a barn.
And they'd meet together and they'd begin to
cry out for God from 10 o'clock
in the evening until 4 o'clock in
the morning.
And then they'd go home and sleep a
couple of hours and get up and go
about the day's duties.
One month went by and two months went
by and three, they went by and four
and five and six and seven months they
did that.
Praying earnestly, knowing the condition that was around
them, they prayed earnestly that God would bring
a revival to their land.
And one evening in the midst of a
prayer meeting, a young deacon man stood up
in the midst of them all and said,
Ah!
What good does it do us to pray
for revival when our own hearts are not
right with God?
And he fell on his face there in
the middle of them.
And two men fell on this side of
him and two more fell on this side
of him.
And they started repenting and God revealed the
evil of their own hearts.
And a visitation from God fell upon those
men.
Then they got another note from this little
old praying blind grandma.
And they came and she told them, I
want you to send a letter to Duncan
Campbell and tell him that he's to come
for ten days of meetings on these islands.
And they said, Okay, we'll do it.
She said, God spoke to me.
Send for Duncan Campbell.
And the letter came to Duncan Campbell and
he said, I don't have time to go
over there to those islands.
I've already got meetings planned.
It's scheduled.
I can't come.
And he sent a letter back and they
brought it to the old sister.
And she said, Man, man says no, but
God says yes.
Send him another letter.
And another letter was sent.
And it just so happens the day that
the letter reached Duncan Campbell, who was the
man that God used in the revival, but
he didn't bring the revival.
Those praying elders brought the revival.
The day he got the letter, his meetings
were canceled and he got on a boat
and made his way out to the island
of the Hebrides.
Nobody knew what day was coming.
There was not very good communication and he
just got on a boat and headed for
the island of the Hebrides.
And when he landed there, the church house
was full of people.
He went there for ten days of meetings
and he stayed for three years.
Can you imagine that?
He went for ten days and he left
three years later.
That's revival.
God visited his people.
Revival was not accounted to any man in
the revival of the Hebrides.
God visited his people.
And day after day and night after night,
every day and every night, God was visiting
his people on the islands of the Hebrides
for three years.
Preaching was going on in the morning and
the afternoon and the evening, one o'clock
and two o'clock in the morning.
And many times after the service was over
and dismissed at two o'clock in the
morning, the preacher would walk down to the
house where he was staying and he would
see people out on the roadside on their
faces before God, praying that God would have
mercy upon their souls and save them.
One meeting after the meeting was dismissed, he
began to walk out of the church house
and opened up the church house doors and
there were six hundred people outside of the
church house, begging that he would not speak
to them.
And there they were out there outside the
church house, singing and they sang and sang
and sang the songs of Zion for an
hour.
And then he spoke to them and preached
for another hour and dismissed the meeting.
And as soon as the meeting was dismissed,
a runner came to him and said, Brother
Campbell, you're needed down at the police station.
And he went down to the police station
and there was gathered from another community.
They'd made their way to the police station
and there was gathered two hundred more people
down on their faces there at the police
station, crying out to God that he'd have
mercy upon them and heal their land and
save their souls.
It was a visitation of God, nothing less
than that.
And that's why I say, brothers and sisters,
I'm glad for what we have here, but
this is not revival like revival in the
days of the past.
We dare not be satisfied with what we
have or we shall not go on any
further.
Then where we are now, God wants us
to be hungry.
He wants to stir us out of our
satisfaction and create a dissatisfaction within our souls
that'll make us cry out to him for
mercy, that he might heal our land, this
land where we live.
He wants to put a dissatisfaction within us.
Many times the preacher preached, eight times, eight
times a day.
He went from one church to the next
and every church he went to, he found
it full of people.
Materialism fell in the background.
Nobody cared.
I mean nobody cared.
They were in the church houses singing.
Many times there were converts that came out
of the song service.
Somebody be sitting over there not right with
God and the power and the spirit of
God was upon the saints of God as
they were singing and worshiping God.
And conviction would fall upon a sinner sitting
out there right while the singing was going
on.
And another one over here on this side
and one back over there.
That's revival.
I'm telling you this morning that's what revival
is all about.
That's the kind of revival that I long
to see.
Fourteen boys, fourteen roughneck boys were in a
room discussing how much beer they were going
to buy for the next dance that they
were going to have on Saturday evening at
the church house.
And all of a sudden one of the
young men fell under conviction right while they
were discussing the subject of how much beer
they were going to buy.
And he said, Oh friends, I think this
is going to be the last beer party
we have.
And they said, What are you talking about?
And he said to them, Something is going
on inside of me that I cannot understand.
I cannot explain it.
And he fell on his knees right there
in the midst of his buddies.
All the peer pressure that could be put
on him was put on him.
But he didn't care.
My friend, when revival comes it chases peer
pressure right out the door.
And that boy fell on his knees in
front of his friends.
And one by one they fell on their
knees.
And they began to cry out to God
for mercy.
And eleven of those fourteen boys were ordained
into the ministry in the years that followed
the revival.
Eleven of fourteen of them.
Eleven of those fourteen beer drinking boys were
called into the ministry when revival came in
their lives.
The bar rooms were closed and they had
no business.
No business.
Nobody knocking on their door.
Nobody to buy the beer anymore.
That's revival.
The desires disappeared.
Evangelism was everywhere and everyone became an evangelist.
There were no soul winning classes to teach
people how to win souls.
Everybody became an evangelist when revival came to
the Hebrides.
Turn to Isaiah 44 and read a couple
of verses there.
I'm so convinced that I'm speaking the right
thing this morning.
In Isaiah 44 verse 3 the Bible says,
For I will pour water upon him that
is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground.
I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed
and My blessing upon thine offspring.
And they shall spring up as among the
grass, as willows by the water courses.
One shall say, I am the Lord.
And another shall call himself by the name
of Jacob.
And another shall subscribe with his hand unto
the Lord.
And surname himself by the name of Israel.
Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel
and His Redeemer, the Lord of hosts.
I am the first and I am the
last.
And beside Me there is no God.
Thus saith the Lord, I'll pour water on
him that is thirsty and floods upon the
dry ground.
But I won't pour water on him that
is not thirsty.
And I won't pour water on him that
just wants a little drink.
I pour water on him who is thirsty
and floods upon the dry ground.
That's a promise from God this afternoon.
It's a promise from God.
And God met this promise in the islands
of the Hebrides.
And one of the themes of the messages
on the islands of the Hebrides was this,
that God is a covenant-keeping God.
He cannot do anything else but keep His
covenant.
When man meets God's conditions for covenant, God
is a covenant-keeping God.
And He will move and His hand will
act strong and He shall bring salvation unto
our land.
He's a covenant-keeping God.
What are the conditions here?
They look pretty bleak at times, don't they?
Dead orthodoxy everywhere.
Dry sermons.
Dry services.
No life.
The hearts of the people are after everything
else but God.
It's tractors and cows and gardens and all
those things after the service.
And nobody has prayer.
Nobody gathers for prayer.
What's prayer?
They know not what it is.
The youth.
The youth are leaving the churches.
The youth are going their own ways.
Which youth will always do that if something
is not going on.
The youth will go their own way.
They want to see something going on.
And I tell you, my friends, when something
is going on in the church, the youth
will not go out the back door and
find something else to do.
When something is going on, when God is
at work among His people, when God is
moving in the midst of the congregation, the
youth will not go out the door and
find something else to do.
But the youth are going out the door
in this county and they're finding something else
to do.
And they're filling their lives with carnality and
fleshly living.
And they're consuming it all upon their lusts
and drinking and immorality and drugs and witchcraft
and wild carousings and fighting and beatings and
all those things.
That's a picture of the youth in this
county where we live.
Now I know they're not all that way.
And God bless every God-fearing youth in
this county that loves God and is walking
with Him.
Well, I'd say we're a prime candidate for
a revival like they had in the Hebrides.
In fact, I believe we're more of a
candidate than they.
For there, there was a workability among the
churches.
There were no big walls up around each
one of the church buildings like there is
in this county.
I tell you, God needs to do a
work in this county.
God can knock down the walls between the
church buildings and the church people.
God can do that when God comes down
from heaven like He did in the islands
of the Hebrides.
It didn't matter whether you were in a
church building or whether you were in a
barn somewhere or whether you were over at
the police station.
You met God and God convicted you if
you were wrong.
Oh, I tell you, and I know I
might sound real foolish now, but I just
choose to be foolish today.
I'm foolish enough to sit and dream about
seeing Amish boys laying in the gutters on
the side of the road crying out to
God for mercy.
I'm foolish enough to believe this morning and
dream about seeing old order Mennonite boys and
girls where their buggies are pulled over on
the side of the road and they're down
there on their knees seeking God that He
might have mercy upon their souls because they're
going to hell and they know it.
I'm just foolish enough this morning to dream
about seeing those kind of things happening.
I'm foolish enough this morning to dream of
a horny church building packed full of people
at one o'clock in the morning waiting
for somebody to come by there and preach
to them.
I'm just foolish enough this morning to dream
about that.
I don't know if I'll ever see my
dream, but I'm foolish enough to dream it
this morning.
1952 is not that long ago, my friends.
It is not that long ago.
When God's kingdom falls on this land, man
will quit building his kingdoms.
When God's kingdom falls upon this land, we
need to get hungry.
We just need to get hungry.
We need to get thirsty.
You know that word thirsty?
You don't know what it means.
I can get a drink of water anytime
I want.
Back to the fountain.
Go to my refrigerator and draw a glass
of cold water out of it.
Go to the faucet and turn it on
and get a drink.
We don't even know what thirsty is.
We think, if I have a little desire
for water, I'm thirsty.
That's not what the Bible means.
Thirst.
Remember Jesus' words as He hung there on
the cross?
And He cried out and said, I thirst!
I thirst!
We need to get thirsty.
We need to get so thirsty for what
God can do, and so dissatisfied with our
own experiences that we cry out to God
until He changes it.
That's what we need to do.
And I know, I know there are many
in this room that pray, and I must
say that's one of the motivations for this
sermon is that we might be motivated to
pray more.
I want to just put a little wood
on your fire this morning if your heart
is crying out for revival.
And I'm just stoking the fire.
That's all I'm doing.
But there are some others here this morning
who have hardly any concern about revival.
And they hardly have any concern about revival
in their own lives.
And they know not a sweet fellowship with
God.
There are some in this room that are
that way this morning.
And everything is in order, and everything is
just fine.
But you know where you're at.
You know the dryness that is there.
You know the coldness of your heart.
You know how you desperately need to come
here on Sunday to get pumped up for
Monday.
You know the experience of your heart in
life.
Oh, to be filled with all the fullness
of God.
All the fullness of God.
I believe in that.
Paul prayed it, and I'm going to believe
in it.
I don't care if it's everybody's right theology
or not.
Paul prayed it, and I'm going to believe
it.
That we might be filled with all the
fullness of God.
Do you know what happened in the Old
Testament tithes?
Do you know what happened there when Solomon
dedicated the temple?
There when Moses dedicated the tabernacle?
Both of those illustrations.
When Moses dedicated the tabernacle there, what happened?
When Solomon dedicated the temple there, what happened?
Two things.
Number one, the fire of God came out
of heaven and lit the sacrifice on fire.
That's what we need.
And number two, the glory of God so
filled the temple that every minister had to
get out.
That's what we need in our lives.
This temple needs to be so filled with
God that all our fleshly motives have to
get out and all our fleshly desires have
to get out because God is there in
His fullness.
I remember the testimony of one young man
who sought God for many, many days and
God drew very near to him because He
drew very near to God.
And his testimony was, in those days, in
the experience of his soul, he couldn't read
a newspaper.
It was dirty.
He couldn't stand to look on a newspaper
because the glory of God so filled his
soul that he couldn't stand to look at
a newspaper with all the filth and garbage
that is in it.
You see, we could stand up here and
preach for days about all the things you
should do and the things you shouldn't do
and what'll hurt you and what won't and
what's right music and what's wrong music and
I'm for all of that.
But I'll tell you what, when the glory
of God fills your soul like the glory
of God filled the temple in the Old
Testament day and you pop a tape in
your tape player that's got a bunch of
rocky music on it, a bunch of whirly
music, your spirit won't be able to bear
that music.
You'll push that thing away.
You won't want to have anything to do
with it.
You'll know it's unholy.
Nobody will need to show you.
I just bear my heart as a pastor,
as a preacher.
You know, it gets kind of heavy sometimes.
You just feel like you go from one
problem to the next and as soon as
you get this one done, here's another one
over here and as soon as you get
this one on my back burner a minute,
there's another one over here and I think,
God, I can't do it.
I can't make it.
I can't bear up under it.
You're going to have to do something supernatural
or the things of God will not get
done right.
And that'll never happen until God's people get
thirsty like those men got thirsty there in
the islands of the Hebrides.
They got thirsty.
They were desperate and let me share the
danger again.
There's one difference between us and them and
that is that each one of those preachers
went back to a dead service on Sunday
morning, a dry service.
Each one of those preachers looked around and
saw that the youth weren't there and the
next time they got together for prayer, they
were burdened again.
But you see, our youth are here and
we're here and the singing is sweet and
the preaching is a blessing and it does
stir our souls.
But there's a great big world out there
and they're lost and they're struggling and they're
stumbling and they're hurting and they don't have
any way.
They've lost their way and they're out there.
We need to look at them a while.
Till our souls get so burdened that we
get so right with our God, me included,
that God can visit us with a sweet
visitation in these last days.
For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace.
For Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until
the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and
the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
And the Gentiles shall see Thy righteousness and
all kings Thy glory.
And Thou shalt be called by a new
name which the mouth of the Lord shall
name.
I have set watchmen upon Thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day
or night.
Ye that make mention of the Lord keep
not silent.
Give Him no rest till He establish, till
He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Give Him no rest.
Give God no rest until He establish and
make Jerusalem a praise upon the earth.
Let's give Him no rest, brothers and sisters,
no rest.
When God stepped down out of heaven, He
changed the moral climate of a whole island
that is still different to this day.
Let's pray that God will step down out
of heaven one more time.
Shall we kneel for prayer?
Father, we thank You in Jesus' name this
morning.
Thank You for Your love.
Thank You, God, for Your leading.
O Father, I just pray let a holy
hush settle down over us here.
Let the spirit of wisdom be upon us,
the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might,
the spirit of the fear of the Lord.
Let it rest upon us, Lord Thy people.
We are not right, Lord.
We are not right.
We need more.
We need You to work, Father.
I just pray, God, You take this as
a seed, Lord, and plant it in the
heart till it grow into a tree, dear
God, till it grow into a tree.
God, we just commit our lives into Your
hands.
Lord, we ask You to do what needs
to be done to bring revival.
Lord, I ask You to do what You
need to do to me to bring a
revival, a real one.
God, we just commit each one of these
dear people into Your hands, Father.
And I pray, Lord, You do Your work.
Lord, the enemy doth come in like a
flood on every side.
Come in like a flood, Lord.
Lift up a standard against him.
We pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
You know, it seems to me as I
watch the way God works in a congregation,
and the way that God has worked in
our congregation, it seems like the devil throws
us a hook every time we start rising
up and going after revival again.
He throws a hook.
You know what a hook is?
It's a punch in the side of the
face.
And he throws something our way.
Some weird person comes in and causes a
disruption.
Some evil woman comes in to deceive and
cause division.
All kinds of hooks just on time.
But I believe with all my heart that
if we'll keep our sights set, there'll be
one last hook, and then God's going to
do what He wants to do.
There'll be one last hook, and He won't
snatch any more couples and split their homes
apart.
He won't do that anymore.
I'm reminded of an illustration that I just
read or heard, not read, heard, of the
Battle of the Bulge.
That was a battle that took place over
in Europe.
I don't know if it was World War
I or II.
Maybe a school teacher could help me.
World War II.
The Americans had a line.
They had a line like this.
And they were fighting the Germans, and the
Germans were over here.
And the Germans began to press in sore.
And it took the American line and made
a bulge in it just like this.
And that's why it was called the Battle
of the Bulge.
And the Germans were pressing hard upon the
Americans there.
And a message was sent from the German
general to the American general.
Surrender or we'll kill every last one of
you.
That's what was said.
And that American general, and I don't know
who he was, but he sent one little
word back to that German general.
Those words, surrender or we'll kill every last
one of you.
He sent one little word back.
Not!
That's all he said.
And the spirit of that word got a
hold of the spirit of those men.
And they rose up and won.
I say to Satan this morning, all the
battles and all the things he throws our
way, and he's trying to stop revival.
That's what he's trying to stop.
Because there's a church around here that believes
in it.
I say to him this morning, not!
I'm going
to have something to add to the testimony.