amen amen yeah yeah yeah good evening good afternoon something am I on all right good everybody say hi all right good it's good to be with you guys I just wanted to hear your voice man I I think we can sense that just brooding presence of the Lord here with us tonight it's beautiful I love the presence of the Lord and I'm just so grateful for for all that he's doing um I really am when I hear about what's happened and you know you know two weeks thousands a lot we just had a group of our interns come back just right now during the service who went over the weekend to uh Asbury and could barely get into the room do you know 20 000 people over the last couple of weeks and I can just feel the hunger of our nation I can just feel the hunger of our nation because we've been in a famine we've been in a drought and we're in desperate need for the reign of the Holy Spirit that's not manipulated that's not contrived that's not human gimmicks but that's a work of God and I'm so grateful when I see God start something like he's done and then many of the other universities and and churches that are impacted because of what the Lord's done even tomorrow many of you know that last week we announced that Lee Cummings pastor of a radiant in Kalamazoo is going to be in our uh be with us at act school tomorrow and Tuesday well during this last week they had their prayer meeting on Wednesday morning at 8 A. M and it never stopped it went for like 60 something hours to where the place was packed and there was an Awakening specifically among gen Z as we're seeing our children get touched by the presence of God and me and Brian both felt led to release him saying at least something special is going on we want to release you we want you to come but we also know that if something like this was happening in Denver we would want to give our strength to it and he took us up on it and he's going to come back at another time so he's not going to be with us because he's stewarding what God's doing in Kalamazoo Michigan what I'm saying is the dam is beginning to break there's a precursor there's a precursor move of God that's starting to stir and he's beginning to knock the dust off of us and knock the over familiarity and the going through the motions and he's beginning to say guys I want to move I want to do something in this nation I want to give your sons and daughters visitation and mark them in the presence of God and so when we start seeing what God's doing at Asbury what God's doing at Lee University in Cleveland Tennessee and Kalamazoo Michigan in many places they couldn't even continue I was talking to a friend and Nashville again the same thing it's just went on to like three or four and I just think it's the Lord just saying hey guys I'm at the door you're in a season where you're in a season where I'm wanting to get close to you and all I'm asking is that you wouldn't just go through the motions of your normal life but that you could reorient and just open your heart and say Lord we want you we want you in our church we want you and our families we want you in our homes we want a move of God that God can do more in a matter of weeks than what the work of Flesh can do in years and decades you got to understand that and so when you start touching these things can you throw up Zechariah 10 verse 1. this has been the verse for the last week that's just been burning in my spirit I've been crying out for Revival for 25 years and asking God to send a move of God to our nation and the nation so you when when you when this is your purpose here on Earth you've pretty much gone after every Revival verse there is and you can use it for fresh motivation I've never been struck by Zechariah 10 1 like I am in this season the Lord I was actually going to to teach today even before the Lord stirred this up in me about the power of asking and about getting us to begin to ask based on last week with Raymond's message of the joy of Jesus and I had a phrase for a while running in me this week of saying you know enjoyable prayer is answered prayer enjoyable prayer is answered prayer you get happy when you see your prayers get answered and you get trained in unbelief when all you do is ask things not expecting anything Ian bound says that unanswered prayer is the training ground for unbelief and when you get used to not seeing your prayers get answered you actually get inoculated from actual faith that apprehends the promises of God Zacharias says ask the Lord for rain in the time of the latter rain the Lord will make flashing clouds he will give them showers of rain grass in the field for everyone the thing that's hitting me is that there's an invitation to ask in the season when he's close and when rain's available and when you see rain available in storm clouds Brewing that's the season to begin to ask God to visit us with Ray we have to avoid two big things as we look at Asbury and what we're even hearing about right now two things we've got to avoid is cynicism we got to get out of the scenic room of yeah I've heard that before God's moving it's just social media it's a bunch of hype it's nothing really going on and the second thing we've really got to be careful for is sharing our it's getting lost in our opinions we don't know anything guys and I'm provoked as I'm looking at what God's doing in Asbury and I'm like God God always starts with the cloud the size of a man's hand and many times he'll go are you going to just sit there and critique and draw all your opinions about a cloud or are you going to ask for that cloud to come and visit you and your city and break out in a place like this and I want to look at Asbury I want to look at Lee I want to look at I want to look at what God's doing and say God come and do it here Lord may we respond and may we not wait for a better opportune season an easier season in our life I believe these are the seasons where God wants to disrupt you from just the status quo of running around and getting law I understand life happens but there are seasons when the Lord says I want to flip the script Brian was talking to us a couple of weeks ago out of James 5.
James 5. look at this and I just want to speak this again to you because this is something that I want you to understand men and women pray and reign are y'all with me tonight y'all need to wake up you need to wake up men and women pray and rain men and women pray and reign God hears your prayers and God does things because you ask him to and he does less when you don't there's actually a voluntary response of lifting up your voice to ask God to do things that he does more when you ask him look at this he's gonna James are gonna go confess your trespasses one to another pray for one another that you may be healed there it is this is what Brian was talking about the effective everybody say effective now say fervent he says the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much so James is going to say that statement and then he's going to go none of y'all believe me and he's going to pull out this Prophet out of the Old Testament to give us a snapshot of the possibilities available to you and me in 2023 and what Elisha accomplished in his generation is available to us today and he's going to use probably the mightiest prophet in the Old Testament who turned a whole nation back to God through the power of His prayers and it says Elijah was a man with the nature like ours Elijah was prone to discouragement Elijah was prone to fear Elijah was prone to getting lost and I'm the only one doing anything and everybody else isn't he had an isolation thing about him and James is going Elijah was jacked up as you were Elijah deals with as many weaknesses as you do and he said he prayed earnestly that it would not rain so before we ever met do you know Elijah's prayer life shut the heavens over the nation of Israel and literally denial and and pronounce that Yahweh is God Baal is not God he pretty much shut down the economy he shut down the whole economic engine through his prayer life and before we ever met him in First Kings 17 James gives us Insight that his prayer life shut the heavens and then he showed up and said to King Ahab it's not going to rain again until the sound of my word prayers that shut the heavens and then he has three and a half years during the drought where God supernaturally provides for him But A change is just going to break it down and it says he prayed earnestly it would not rain and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years oh look at verse 18. and he prayed again I want to tell some of you you prayed in your 20s and you're living on the memories of how fiery you were a decade ago you're living on the memory of of how dedicated you were five years ago and you got a breakthrough in God but then backlash came pressure came famine came and you begin to shrink back maybe cares of this life came you got married you got the kids you got busy and you got away from the fire of what you had five years ago I can hear the Holy Spirit saying it to me in this season and I know he's saying it to you it's one thing to pray in one season but I'm inviting you to pray again and the heaven gave rain and the Earth produced its fruit seven times Elijah went to Mount Carmel put his head between his knees and he told his servant go down to the river for there is the sound of abundance of rain so you got to hear something in here before it's birthed out here you've got to get your eyes and your ears open saying God fill me let me hear the sound of abundance of rain and let me hear it in here and prayers take that which is inside and birth it to the outside but if you can't hear it in here you're never going to see it out here and he told his servant go down to the river and tell me I already hear it servant came back seven times and he says there's nothing what do you tell him go again and that seventh time he's the servant came up and he says I see a cloud the size of a man's hand coming up and I feel like there's the cloud the size of a man's hand that's starting to stir in our nation it's little but I want little I'll take it because what it possesses within it is the capabilities to literally become a thunderstorm that would sweep across our nation it's a precursor work of God it's to revive the people of prayer to believe in their prayers again the first work of God is getting people to believe in prayer again and what we're seeing happen at Asbury as well as everywhere else is this profound revelation God hears my prayers and that will become the impetus to birth things in your life guys resist cynicism resist jadedness resist what your life has looked like and you basing your faith on what the last few years have looked like I believe he wants to come to your houses I believe he wants to come to your marriages I believe he wants to touch your children I believe what Brian was saying about this reality of Bill Johnson traveling first class I'm feeling a Faith and Healing beginning to rise up within me like I honestly can't remember an expectation to see the healing power of God Deliverance begin to break the power of addiction break the power of long cycles and long histories and decades where we get sick in the journey and we get tired in the journey and the holy spirit's saying I'm coming friend ask again ask again I want to do it I want to do it God is Not intimidated by Denver God is Not intimidated by Denver God is Not intimidated by Denver some of y'all might say well that's in the Bible Belt down there in Kentucky or that's over there I want you to know the devil is a liar and God loves to flex and the places where the statistics are the greatest against what God can do God loves to manifest the supremacy and the glory of his son in the hardest places in the darkest places Jesus is greater he's higher and he's going to deliver us of every intellectual Spirit every sinning Spirit every Antichrist Spirit every anti-god spirit and he's going to awaken a hungry humble Remnant through which he can birth his purpose is through all it takes is a Remnant friend what if the small Cloud for Denver is held in the womb of the praying Church in this room what if contained within the womb of just this room I know there's many other places all over this city that's caring but what if we begin to see it what if we could become a womb a humble womb a broken womb saying I believe God can do more in a week I believe God can do more in a week than the hundreds of the years that the devil's been working to erect and to build realities in this city God comes in like a sweeping deluge when the enemy comes in like a flood the Lord will lift up a standard against him can you put Hosea 10 verse 12 up here I feel like we're in a preparation season and it's a very personal preparation and it's corporate and Collective oh God is Not intimidated by Denver and he's seen a lot harder cases than he's seeing right now I'm so stirred Hosea goes it's time to break some Cycles some of y'all have been in Cycles and he says I want to break some Cycles with I want you to sow for yourselves righteousness and you're going to reap in Mercy he goes you've been in some bad sowing and reaping Cycles some of you keep experiencing the same places of death in places of your life some of you experiencing death in places in your soul things you've ran to that keep bringing the same Brokenness and cycles of death into your life into your marriage into your family and he says I want you to begin to break the cycle by beginning to sow righteousness and I want you to break up your fellow ground see Hosea is going to liken all of our hearts to the ground outside to the hard ground of Denver in February and he goes it's fallow it's hard it's weedy it's Stony and I want you to partner with me because the first work of God is preparation he doesn't sin just glory on uncultivated soil he does a preparatory work of repentance he does a preparatory work of Prayer he disrupts our sleep like Brian was saying he starts messing with the stuff that goes on through our norm and he messes our normalcy up and he bugs us and he goes why are you talking to me about this what are you saying and he's beginning to say because I'm coming and I need you to partner with me well Lord You're Sovereign you're going to do it he goes yeah and in my sovereignty I want your free will activate it I Don't Dance as I say with uh what is it I don't dance with mannequins everybody wants God to do everything but God's looking for a partner to make real decisions in their life because God loves to dance with you break up your fallow ground break it up break it up break it up how do I break it up I believe he's given us gifts I'm calling it tears to tenderize tongues to till up the soil and travail that's going to tear up the soil it is time everybody say it's time I I don't I I know I love a yell on Sunday night but I'm really looking to see what happens tomorrow morning I'm really saying is this going to matter are we going to check this off saying boy that was a good message what's for dinner I'm sick of what's for dinner after messages I'm sick for well what are you doing tomorrow if this does not disrupt us in the morning it was a pep rally it was a pep rally it was uh I feel good about my week I feel encouraged I don't want you encouraged I want you trembling I want you asking new questions I want you asking how can I shift some things in my schedule to make more room to position myself before God I want you beginning to say how can we rearrange some things honey to find ourselves in the family in the prayer room on Tuesday night how can I maybe skip a meal and spend it in the Bible I don't want you encouraged I want you disrupted I don't want you happy because there's something I want true happiness I want comfort that comes from what only God can give me and not what Friday's paycheck is going to give me I want the comfort that comes from above that delivers me from every everything that this world has to give but I get a annoying growing groan on the inside of me to be clothed with Heaven that nothing of this world can touch it is time to seek the Lord nobody knows how to seek the Lord we just show up and we're all like distracted two-year-olds saying we want to be with you we want to know you God we we don't read the Bible send the rain to us show me any area in my life that's doubtful and I'll give it to you a lot of us don't even need to ask you know what it is because he's talking to you about it and you ain't got to do a long prayer for it it's there and whatever that is is what he's asking for that's breaking up your fallow ground it's breaking up the stuff the where the seed is just thrown on hard ground and never shifts anything he goes break it up kill it up tears oh God release the gift of tears that we would begin to cry hot tears for God to give us what we cannot give ourselves care less about emotionalism but there is a death there's a depth of the work of God on the inside of you tongues that till up the soil of our hearts there's a travail of the spirit where he begins to come on you it's time to seek the Lord till I love it we till Tilly tills it's time to seek the Lord till he comes and Reigns righteousness on you I am so grateful to God for what he's doing and Asbury grateful what he's doing in our nation right now I believe this is a precursor work of preparation it's a preparation moment it's a preparation moment where we say God here we are I don't really know what's going on on sense a lot but here we are Lord God I I want to I want to go to a deeper place with you I believe this is a precursor to Revival but I also want to make it very clear to you I don't my under my Revival is is when God revives anything dead and makes it alive again in one sense that is happening right now and one since he's Reviving the people of God to believe the promises of God and to say God you could do that here he goes yes that's Revival but guys I want you to know that word may be one of the holiest words we can use I have a high value and understanding and vision for Revival and I believe this could be this the cloud the size of a man's hand but Revival Revival Revival is when God takes over regions with his manifest presence and he makes it known to the crack house as much as to the church house that Jesus Christ is Lord and that Jesus Christ is ruling of the father's right hand and the father anoints these Seasons By The outpouring of the Holy Spirit and he releases Apostolic preaching what's Apostolic preaching Corey it's preaching that cuts Revival is Holy and I want us to I believe this is a season that we realign ourselves what is it that we want to see if you have the book of Acts to show you one thing when a couple of anointed men or women get on fire for real and when there's a people of God that birth the release of the presence of God it puts the mayor on notice it puts City officials on notice it puts every leader of every marijuana distributor in the region on notice because their bottom lines are being affected all the bars are starting to get put on notice because of great dips in its consumption pedophile rings are coming underneath conviction and exposure and are being turned into the cops drug Rings human trafficking rings are coming underneath the Manifest presence of God preaching that encouraged in one season is now producing the same people it says in Acts 2 37 if you want to throw it up here they were cut to the hearts when's the last time you got caught I'm talking about cut I'm not talking about excited I love excited I'm talking about Disturbed I'm talking about honey I don't even know if I'm saved because they go what do we do what do we do he goes to repent believe on Jesus when seasons of Revival is when the father pours out the Holy Spirit of conviction oh the sweet Spirit of conviction we've just said it's condemnation you resist anything that makes you feel bad the devil is a liar it's actually the work of God is to expose false cisterns and false places that you run to to convict you of saying God I've been running to the wrong things I need you God says I want to give you real joy and real happiness John 16 8 says the Holy Spirit Will convict he'll convict that's what seasons of Revival looks like is this repentance we're seeing the precursor fruits of it I love it that and I've said this before to you but that after spending 40 days with Jesus in a resurrected body teaching that was still not enough to start Christianity which means this it's not going to be information that's going to change the world it's going to be the fire of the Holy Ghost it's going to be the fire of the Holy Ghost resting on you when you're having that one-on-one coffee and you start telling what God's doing in your life and then the atmosphere shifts in the coffee shop and your friend starts weeping and all you're doing is sharing how God's wrecking your life Holy Spirit attest to Brokenness I really think we're way too proud for God to move we're way too proud we're pretty self-sufficient we're pretty strong we're pretty independent we don't ask for anything we pride ourselves in not asking for anything we built a whole system that isn't about asking for anything and yet the rule and the key of the kingdom is ask that requires such a humility and a neediness that is honestly way too low for us modern Christians we aren't beggarly enough we aren't flexible enough or something I fear more than fanaticism and that's hardness and jadedness and cynicism oh and I feel in these kinds of Seasons I've just been wrecked as you walk through all the the book of Acts look at how God takes over cities look at acts 8 the whole city was filled with joy look at that Philip goes down to the city power Miracles unclean spirits coming out many who are possessed paralyzed getting healed look at this great joy in the city great joy in the city great joy in the city it put everyone on notice the power guys I want you to know Revival is power encounters the real power of God paralyzed unclean spirits demonized getting set free look at acts 9 acts 17 6 look at this but when they did not find him they dragged Jason and some brethren crying out those who have turned the world upside down have come here too think about that just going Johnny gets on fire and just starts moving from one city to the next taking ten turns into ten thousand the Wildfire breaks out he goes we're going to thessalonica shows up in the thessalonica they go oh no the guys who are turning the world upside down have come to our city see we're way too nice and we're way too domesticated and we're not much of a threat to anything and we're so drowning in the political spirit and in the man pleasing Spirit and the fear of man it puts cities on shaking when men and women get set on fire and when the church gets sets on fire it puts principalities and Powers and wicked men in high places on notice right now we're cute but the days are coming where we're not going to be cute Jesus Promised it look at acts 19.
just a couple more minutes guys two years Paul he takes guys that were half saved they only knew the baptism of John not half saved no saved he took 12 jacked up in his home group gets them saved prays for them they start speaking in tongues power breaks out he goes you know what I'm going to hang out here for two years two years look at verse 11 let's run unusual miracles handkerchiefs and aprons were brought from his body which means he's working all day he's working building tents and people would come grab the thing he just wiped the sweat off and would take it back home to sick Grandma lay it on her and she'd get healed it's the anointing resting on a man resting on a woman I want to see some of our young people in this room saying I want to be anointed by God I want the anointing of the Holy Ghost upon my life keep going this gets Wild we got some guys trying to use the name Jesus in seasons of Revival he makes a clear distinction between the between the people of God and The Fakes and the imposters go to go to the next one look at verse 18. well fear fell on everybody many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all look at verse 20 the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed could you imagine Revival hitting Las Vegas and all the casino owners are getting saved and they bring all the slot machines to the city square and they start having public burnings Ephesus contained one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World the temple to Queen Diana and because the gospel hit this city with such power it was bankrupting the idol industry well you're like well that was back in the old days book of Acts no guys we've got history stories for days about when God came down when God came down me and Brian were talking at the beginning of the 1900s from 1904 to 1907. there was a thousand Pastors in Korea repenting and the power of God hits North Korea power of God in India God began to lay hold of a young man a coal miner by the name of Evan Roberts in Wales and he began to get a cry on the inside of him Ben me oh God bend me o God may my will be completely bent to yours May everything inside of me not resist anything inside of you God gave him a vision of the map of Wales on fire and the Lord says I'm going to give you a hundred thousand souls in one year he began to for several months the Lord Jesus would meet with him from 1am to 5 A.
M that's what I'm talking about I'm like God I don't care no more I give you my sleep what if Jesus wants to meet with you from one to five every morning and the woman that lived underneath Evan Roberts thought he was insane he probably was a little crazy but he literally was pacing and she could just hear him pacing from one to five a. m just lost and ecstatic praise and worship saying it's coming Revival's coming to Wells Revival's coming to Wales he was seeing it the sound of abundance of rain was here and he spoke it and they had Bible studies they had prayer meetings they he called many and I was listening to a documentary he was excited because 10 came we're blowing up Mega this and mega that give me three of you give me two of you who say God will fully give ourselves to you that will put away any doubtful thing in our life we'll obey obey anything you put your finger on Holy Spirit we're not running the show with cute Holy Spirit on the side hundred thousand he says that he didn't know what he was going to speak he would show up usually singing came revivals have to do with the liberation of women as well there's a move among women in histories of Revival that breaks off the oppression off the women and they begin to become preachers and the singers singing becomes a Hallmark yes yes that Revival would go from Wells over to Los Angeles California now you're going to get me crying and what's God going to do he's going to have the preparation of the ground by intercessors men like Frank bartlemen and Pastors in the city that were plowing saying revivals coming to Los Angeles the outpouring of the spirit and the speaking in tongues happened in Topeka Kansas on 1901 at midnight Charles Parham as they began to preach about the baptism of the spirit speaking in tongues he ended up coming to Houston Texas and he's preaching about the baptism of the spirit and there was a Baptist black Pastor blind in one eye who because of the Jim Crow laws was not allowed in the meeting with the white people he had to sit outside but he so believed in this reality he put his ear up to the door and he listened to Charles Parham teach on this and though he hadn't experienced it he goes this is the word of God I'm giving myself to it shortly after he moves to Los Angeles and on April 9 1906 on Bonnie brace Street the fire of the Holy Spirit would fall they would move it on April 14th to Azusa Street Mission and over the next three years they would have three meetings a day seven days a week for three years Non-Stop and every meeting ran into the next so that for three years your whole life shut down and you're in this room from 7 A.
