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I've just had a new book published, and

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it's the culmination of my four decades of

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study on the subject of revival, and I

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wrote it as an aid for pastors and

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church leaders to prepare your church for revival,

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as well as anyone who has a serious

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interest in learning more about revival.

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The title of the book is Lectures on

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Revival for a Laodicean Church, and I wanted

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to read us an excerpt today, friends, so

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we can perhaps get our own hearts stirred

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for revival in our day.

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I know we desperately need it.

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This excerpt is from chapter eight, which is

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entitled, The Man God Uses.

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God's eyes are continually searching the earth for

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those rare individuals of whom the world was

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not worthy.

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Men like Moses and John the Baptist, Luther

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and Calvin, Whitefield and Wesley, Finney and Moody,

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men who live in a different atmosphere than

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other mortals, men who have annihilated self with

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the cross, and whose lives are broken alabaster

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boxes from which fragrances arise to the heavens

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from the broken pieces of selflessness, self-sacrifice,

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and self-crucifixion.

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God is always on the lookout for such

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men.

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When one studies the history of revival and

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reads biographies on men that God has used

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in seasons of revival, it is truly remarkable

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that God seems pleased to use men, not

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for their learning and education, not for their

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talents and winning personality, but because they were

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simple men who were single-eyed and were

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entirely surrendered to God.

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God took an uneducated, rough man who could

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not even properly spell the word bad, and

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used him to shake Great Britain in revival

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for God, D.L. Moody.

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God took a broken alcoholic lawyer and used

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him to transform the moral and spiritual life

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of entire cities in powerful revivals, Sam Jones.

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God took a youth of divorced parents who

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was raised in a tavern with a physical

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deformity of a noticeable squint in his eye

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and used him to shake two continents for

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God in powerful revival and spiritual awakening, George

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Whitefield.

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God took a broken-down pastor in his

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fifties and placed him in the midst of

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a four-year-long revival from 1949 to

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1952 on the Isle of Lewis in the

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Scottish Hebrides, to where it was said the

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entire island was saturated with the presence of

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God, Duncan Campbell.

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God took an asthmatic, sickly old man of

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53 who, against all orders of his doctors

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and against the pleas of his wife and

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family, took a one-way trip into the

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heart of Africa to preach the gospel of

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the Son of God to the Edens and

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sparked fires of revival in missionary enterprise, C

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.T. Studd.

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God took the president of the Atheist Club

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on a college campus to Canvas America in

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an evangelistic preaching ministry that would transform entire

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towns in revival after revival, Rolf Barnard.

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God took a man out of China, sent

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him to America to be educated, and then

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placed him against his will in an insane

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asylum for 193 days, during which he read

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through his Bible over 40 times and then

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sent him back to China to shake China

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for God in ground-shaking, miracle-working revival,

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John Sung.

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God took an obstinate lawyer with no theological

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training and thrust him into an itinerant ministry

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in western New York during the Second Great

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Awakening and used him in powerful revivals that

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had his hearers fall out of their chairs,

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crying out to God for mercy quicker than

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if he had a sword in two hands,

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he could not have cut them down fast

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enough, Charles Finney.

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God took a man and used him for

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his glory.

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This could be your story, friend.

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I once asked a minister on the Isle

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of Lewis who knew Duncan Campbell personally to

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describe to me one sentence, Duncan Campbell.

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He said, Duncan Campbell was an ordinary man

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who had had an extraordinary experience of God.

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I believe the same can be said of

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Moses, David, Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph.

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God took a murderer and a fugitive who

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became a lowly sheepherder.

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On the backside of the desert to work

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miracles and deliver a nation, Moses.

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God took a shepherd boy and made him

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a king, David.

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God took an ordinary man in whom he

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built faith and made him the father of

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a nation, Abraham.

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God took a man so crooked he could

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hide behind a corkscrew and used him time

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and time again to bring him glory, Jacob.

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God took a youth whose brothers turned against

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him and was sold into slavery to lead

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an entire nation, Joseph.

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The man God uses is a man willing

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to go out on a limb for him

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and risk his reputation and his skin to

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do something great for God in eternity.

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What cost counts and what counts cost.

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The man God uses is a man willing

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to take risks for God and to risk

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his very life if necessary for Christ and

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the gospel.

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God is looking for the Peters who are

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willing to step out of the boat on

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faith and walk on the water with him.

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The man God uses is a man who,

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once he gets a taste of the supernatural,

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no longer desires the safety of the boat.

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The man God uses is a man of

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prayer, a man empty of self and ambition,

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a man full of the Holy Ghost, a

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man entirely surrendered to the lordship of Jesus

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Christ.

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The man God uses is a man willing

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to face fierce persecution for Christ and the

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souls of men.

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Mordecai Ham was such a man, used to

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God mighty in revivals all over 20th century

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America.

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He faced hot persecution in every city he

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preached in, and in every city preached in,

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he saw powerful revivals that transformed the moral

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life of the community.

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Mordecai Ham set up a tent in the

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red light district of a town and preached

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every day for four weeks straight until the

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brothels had to close their doors and go

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out of business because all the girls had

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been saved.

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Mordecai Ham was once pistol whipped.

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One time he was captured by a gang

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of men, dragged out of town to be

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tarred, feathered, and hung from a tree, and

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he was only rescued when the mayor of

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that Texas city called in the Calvary to

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save him.

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Mordecai Ham one time was run over by

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a car, hired by the liquor trade, and

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he spent the next six months trying not

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to die for he was in a hospital

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in a coma.

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Upon leaving his hotel one other time on

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the way to a meeting, he was attacked

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in the hotel lobby from behind by a

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man with a quirk.

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But besides all this, Mordecai Ham was preaching

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one night when a teenage church member, in

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good standing, came to hear him and became

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mad at the preacher for pointing him out

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as a big sinner.

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That young man was brought to Christ that

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night and saved, Billy Graham.

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The man God uses is a man who

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wants to be used to God more than

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he wants to use his life for his

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own pleasure, comforts, and gain.

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Well, friends, that's my little excerpt from my

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book on revival entitled Lectures on Revival for

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a Laodicean Church.

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It's a book that will teach you how

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to have a better understanding of revival, teach

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you how to pray better, and prepare your

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own heart for personal revival and corporate revival

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and national revival.

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It can be purchased at barnesandnoble.com or

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Get your copy today and start getting fired

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up for revival.