Dr. Randy Clark & Sean Smith Interview - Struggle and Breakthrough in Living for God

[Music] [Applause] [Music] well i'm excited to be able to be doing an interview today with sean smith and he's a been a frequent person speaking at our big conferences voice of the apostles voice of the prophets and um man of god we've interviewed him in different other contexts and so today we just want to get to know uh a little more about what he's thinking about these times in which we're living and what he sees personally what's his faith for the future just some personal things and for you to get to know him better so i want to um uh begin sean by just asking you what is it you if people didn't know you and assuming a lot of our audience may not know who you are particularly new people that's uh coming what would you want them to know about you that you think is significant and as you think about how your life may be being used in some way for in the kingdom of god as we all believe ours is what is it you think that god is uniquely molded not i want to say i chose my word very carefully there because i started saying what do you think god has done to you and i don't want to use that language because that's not my theology my theology is as you've lived your life and as things have been done to you both good and bad and you've been you've experienced the mark of man and the mark of god so i was asking how do you feel that god has molded all that's happened to you into the person you are today what is it that you would want people to know about you and what is it that you think that is the primary purposes that god has for your life at at this time and then anything else you just want to share this is uh really not highly structured i wanted to let you speak and have your own voice after that initial question first of all i just want to thank you dr any i just got such great respect for allowing us to be with you and be here on this particular episode and you know and answer that question i think of this scripture you know paul says god deliberately chose the foolish things of the world to shame those things that are wise the ignoble to shame those things that are noble and you know i think in terms of the emerging generation but i think it's true of man that so often i think there's a vying for a platform you know you hear the talk now amongst the emerging generation i want to be an influencer which i believe god's placed that and all of us to be an influencer but some of them maybe the description of that is that i want to be a style uh influencer i want to be on instagram i want to have a lot of followers i want to be and when i was young there was no doubt in my mind that i wanted to make a mark but because of the fact that one i was born out of wedlock i didn't see my dad till i was five my dad mom never married and then my dad is murdered by law enforcement when he was not when i was nine years of age proved in court it was racially motivated and these were bad policemen this is not a a blanket statement towards all the men and women in blue and being raised in that and then a grandmother who's my predominant caregiver who's an alcoholic i feel like there was a lot of ways in which the enemy tried to bury my life and statistics say that people that have the kind of that story 70 percent of them are incarcerated so when you were and also i was raised in abject poverty uh so but when i look at it that point when i gave my life to jesus christ he shows up in my university room like i cried out to god the night farming to commit suicide and i'm i'm very serious about that and i don't know there may be some people watching that uh you're at the point where that voice in your head of saying give it up unplug kill yourself is is so loud and it's usually right on the other side of that that god's greatest discoveries of your life take place so really to sum all that up that moment i cried out to god the lord spoke to me he said first of all be a father to the fatherless which i didn't know that was in scripture but that significant because i believe the greatest attack of the enemy against this generation and again not just 30 and under but anyone on the face of the earth is an orphan spirit i believe at the end of the day we will discover that an orphan spirit is spawned more immorality more drug abuse more violence more prejudice more you name it and no wonder god would close out the old testament canon by saying that he would send the spirit of elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to children children the fathers because unless you strike the earth with a curse i feel that the orphan spirit carries within it its own curse because when that spirit sets on you you're so driven in the wrong directions and what you lose in vertical awe you end up uh filling with horizontal addictions when you don't have that father connection that's that's good when you lose that vertical or you fill it with horizontal addictions and so mine was immorality party and everything else but and on top of that i think without having a father there was this this huge loss of who am i my identity so in the insecurity in the lack of identity uh i i i shewed uh public speaking i didn't want to get in front of anyone so god saves me and then immediately he gives me this sense that i wanted to win college students to the lord which began to grow to one time i had this open vision as i'm sitting on one of our meetings where it's like when i described this open vision it's like i could see the speaker i was a college student at the time but it was like a screen superimposed myself in the speaker and i saw coliseums full of people and uh they were coming and they were getting saved i love billy graham or reinhard bonkey and then i dreamt the same dream at night that i saw the open vision today so i was in this thing for three straight days and and people say could you have pulled yourself out of it the dream not so much right but during the day when it was an open vision i i could have but i didn't want to right and there was movement to it not not just that the it was like a motion picture but it had a progression so the the progression finished dr randy with the camera panned around and when it panned around i saw there was a hundred speakers on the platform that were going to take the mic to speak to the crowd and by this time it wasn't just people getting saved i could hear people saying hey i'm healed hey cancer's gone hey i can walk you know i'm i'm delivered this thing is is no longer impacting my life and then when the camera turned 100 speakers about 20 from the end is me and i immediately go oh no god i got a d plus in high school speech uh i was advised by the high school counselor you should do something with your hands it was a nice way of saying you don't make good marks on anything that should be speaking and yet all this had passed in front of me and i and i realized in that moment that the qualification is going to sound crazy that maybe the greatest qualification is feeling unqualified enough that you lean on the lord and i think in that my life story really is i've never felt qualified bc before christ in any of the things that i'm doing now i i've written several books i did not make a good mark in english let alone writing papers not oral speaking i joke and tell people i invented ebonics that's like how we talk in the street in oakland uh but god just gave me this desire to allow him to shine in and through me and i think in that foolishness and and i i feel like it's important that we study to show ourselves approved i feel like it's important that we do our part to partner with god paul had a great balance of word and spirit obviously being in a synagogue he was very trained in that area but he said it wasn't with wise persuasive words but a demonstration of the holy ghost in power and so you fast forward that i'm involved in ministry now i'm training in ministry and very quickly i began to witness to these college students that could run intellectual circles around me and so all of a sudden i'm kind of hit again with this kind of a bit of insecurity they're asking me these questions they're going deep my apologetics level wasn't as developed then maybe as it is now and then all of a sudden in the midst of that god would give me a word of knowledge and i didn't even really know what was going on it's like i knew and i didn't know why i knew right i didn't it wasn't like i heard a voice in love with what larry randolph years ago i i was traveling with him a little bit he was teaching me he said sean ninety percent of what i get and i've heard it i i was catching for him in meetings he would prophesy and that people would receive word and fall out in the power because it was so accurate i'm in your house i see you have a picture on the wall you over to the right there's a red vase and the people are like and your name is and they would just it was like branimish william branham and he said sean ninety percent of what i get is impression and it began to dawn on me wow you know what i need to give more credence to impressions in in the prophetic and so i didn't realize it but i'd have that and i would say something to them and their mouth would drop and it would how you know and it interrupted their argument and so again i think if i felt like my you know a guy that works out his biceps if i felt like my bicep of intellectualism was that strong i may have tried to battle those guys but i wouldn't have won an intellectual to the lord with intellectualism where you could take that in any area of who we're trying to reach or talk to who you're trying to witness to right now it's that that place in the spirit where you're dependent on god so it's probably kind of a long answer dr randy but i would say the answer is god takes the foolish things to change those things he takes the things that are ignoble to shame the noble foolish to shame the wise and and i feel like so if you feel like you don't qualify in any of these areas the the paradox of the kingdom if you really qualify if you just let god be your wisdom and be your strength so that i would say that's the answer to the question for me well thank you i i enjoy every time i get to hear your story because it you are a trophy of grace wow and uh uh god often would choose the foolish weakness like gideon's army got too many unless you think you did it in your own power i'm gonna repair you down to so small like 250 or 25 000 one odds something like that to where you know this had to be done by god's power not yourself i feel the same excuse me i feel the same way when i was working and came back from toronto after several weeks to the pastors i'd been working with for eight years in st louis one of them said i don't believe this is what's going on toronto's god i said why he said because you're leading it and i know you he said i know the bible better than you do i pray better than you do i never heard you preach but i believe i could preach better than you can so why would god use you instead of me and i thought that verse you just quoted and i said because i was better choice he said what do you mean didn't you hear what i said that i know the bible better i pray pray better and i think i preach better though i've never heard you i said yeah i heard you say all that but have you not heard what the lord said paul said his god has chosen the weak things confound the strong the the foolish the wise i was just weaker and more foolish than you and you know he didn't argue anymore there really is something about i mean even my best friends call me when after trying to happen sorry is it you and i said yeah i'm as surprised as you are but i wanted to say it's just not about me and not just about you in this category i want people who know uh others so this really is quite common um he said you didn't didn't want to speak in front of people no i have two friends i think of bill johnson he's well-known bethel church reading california he would take an f rather than have to get up and speak in class so you're saying the same thing he he never wanted to get upset he was so in a uh fearful of standing front people and speaking in public and and now he's all over the world preaching the thousands and scores of thousands and hundreds of thousands really the other one was a one of the most one of the best pastor teachers in the city in which i live in mechanicsburg and camp hill area the greater harrisburg area um and uh dave hess and he too was so uh introverted that he would rather take an f than have to get up and speak in front of the class and now he had and then he had one of the larger churches in the area and he is one of the best pastor teachers you know i've ever heard wow but both of them they just so feared getting in front of people and uh i i just want you to know that there's probably half of you out there because it has been i've heard it said that the greatest fear of people the greatest fear is having to speak in public now i don't i don't know if that's true i actually never had that from the time i was a little kid i was the extrovert i mom would take me to town to the square and i talked to everybody i met so i've never had to fear what makes me more fearful is to speak to a small group because i i just i more want to clam up so we're made differently but i just believe that god wants all of us to bear uh our own witness you you may not have a good defense you may not feel like hey i can defend the faith you may not feel like i can i can uh be an apologist which what's what it means i'm apologetic in a sense i defend the faith i'm not apologizing for the faith but i'm able to defend the faith i'm like an evangelist or a theologian but that's not what we're called to do some people are called to be that but all of us are called to be a witness now what's the difference the witnesses there's things you've god's done in your life you can witness to that there's no right or wrong to that you can't be wrong in your own witness you know your story you know what god has done and so you have the chance to share with others the different things god has done in your life and if you say well i don't know if he's ever done anything in my life you're probably kind of like where you're at john with the word of knowledge gift was working in your life but you didn't know it yet precisely but god was working your life giving you the word of knowledge but no one had taught you how to recognize it though you were functioning i believe that happens to lots of believers they're functioning and gives the spirit and some of them are functioning against spirit they deny and not only they don't know how they they just don't believe and yet it's happening to them they just don't know how to recognize it and then for those of you who are listening to sean and say man i'd like to see god work in my life like that he you know it was he cried out it was that crying in that place of desperateness and i know that a lot of people uh the greatest impact of breaking in of god into their life often came after the crying out on the precipice of facing uh a great crisis or having come through a horrible situation and and having come through that and looking ahead you wonder how can i go farther it's taking all of my it's taking it all to get to here i can't go on any farther it's those moments of crying out that often we see the that was the time of visitation you know sean my good friend dr tom jones he wrote his doctoral dissertation on divine encounters and he interviewed over a hundred and some odd people who are in her network mainly leaders asking them did they have a divine encounter in their life what was the fruit of it what was it like before and after and what is it like and one of the ones that stands out the most to me and i don't know if you've ever heard this or not but he interviewed this guy who's now a pastor but he was getting ready to commit suicide wow he had a i think he had a revolver in the glove compartment of his pickup truck or his car i don't remember which it was but he had gone in to to a store and i'd forget the details now if he'd got something to drink that was stronger than a diet coke or not but he came out fully intent on driving off to a place and then taking and killing himself that's how desperate he was in that place of where's god there is no god in my life right now just just desperate broken and he gets in his car and the lord appears to him in the car apprehends him and it's literally this vision or i'll he didn't use the word vision i don't think but encounter i'm interpreting there that was the vision of the lord man who may be literally because he has come to other people and they've seen him in his resurrected body and i know that that's very rare though so i interpreted his vision but anyway he was so undone by the love the grace the power of this experience that it took him from the depths of the despair to the height of glory in the sense of just feeling so loved and all radically changed his life wow i believe that what you experienced that it's possible for so many people to have their own experience uh maybe you've never been to the point that you're so desperate with just what's happened to you in life and are so broken is you've not been brought to that place to cry out there's nowhere else to go but i also want to tell you you don't have to have such a tragedy in your life or get to such a broken place to experience god you may be thinking i just would like to have them more abundant i i'd just like to feel the love of god i like i'd like to move in the supernatural i'd like to be a partner with jesus and i'd like to be a co-laborer of jesus for me that's one of the most exciting things in life so i don't want to encourage you to cry out to god maybe to rescue you or maybe to redirect you or maybe to say god could i be a co-laborer with you and would you let me participate in this realm of the supernatural to rescue others to bring them a word of hope to bring them a word that changes their life i just feel that we are in a great time of brokenness in our society right now and there's a need for people to have hope people are looking for people of hope uh people of faith people who believe that there's a power beyond our ability that there's a knowledge and a wisdom beyond our own because i think when i look at the realms of man when i look when i look to the human realms men and women and see the problems that we're facing and to me what looks like a dearth of real solid answers to these problems i believe that only god has the wisdom to answer the great needs of our culture right now and i i believe as i talked to i'll skin as i told you yesterday yeah interview what a man of god the two books he wrote are just amazing like discernment because his uh degree had a phd from london university and oxford and was on the social sciences which is understanding looking at scene what is happening and his understanding and perception so deep i think that god has given him answers and i believe that he's given other people answers so we can have hope so tell us something else about how you perceive or you know what is it you would want to do or what it what do you think's on your heart as a number one message just at this time in which we live and it may you may not agree and and that's why i don't i don't feel like people need to agree with me because we all can be at different places so my reality and your reality in perception of reality right now can be different and both be valid uh because of our own personal experience um but what is it that you sense that is what you'd like to give your life to some of the things you see right now that uh you know i'd like to bring an answer to that or i'd like to at least be a help in that area um is there anything like that that's kind of what i'm burning for right now yeah i feel like dr rennie in this season that we're in may maybe one of the biggest deprivations is hope death uh deprivation i i feel like you know paul listed giftings not just spiritual giftings but also heart motive giftings and one of them is an exhorter and i think because i kind of ran low on the encouragement verbal affirmation growing up i think god conditioned me in that to desire to want to encourage people encourage the body and the more i talk to people i think in the midst of this season that we're kind of coming out of and we've been in global pandemic civil unrest economic uncertainties uh we've seen cultural wars i mean you go on and on and on i mean they're probably many people in their lifetime that have never seen what we saw compacted in an ongoing 13 14 month period and so i think one of the biggest things that my desire is is to to bring hope i think it was m scott pet in a road less traveled uh he made this statement he said 90 of what motivates us for the future is based on the hope we feel in the present like if i don't feel hope right now i'm not motivated to progress my life towards a bigger purpose so what the enemy does is he comes and he robs hope and when people lack hope i feel like the strength of the devil obviously is deception part of his deceptive process is simply this many temptations the strength of the temptation doesn't lie in the temptation itself it lies in the state that the temptation finds you even david you know i believe is second samuel 11 uh when other kings went out to war he was weary he was tired he stayed back so all of a sudden he looks over and he sees bashiba bathing we know the rest of the story uh he had probably seen you know to the eye physically attractive women throughout but it was something in that moment that the temptation came and found him in a certain state and weariness and hopelessness kind of go hand in hand and so i feel like the message right now particularly for the loss because there's evangelistic thing that i have is that there is a hope that does not disappoint uh his name is jesus and he's real and i and i feel like we're we're spiritually we we've come to a place in society where there's an intersection between spiritual hunger uh spiritual or maybe i'll put it like this spiritual ignorance and spiritual intrigue and so what that has done is it spawned the the uptick in wiccan membership in people doing everything from crystals to burning stage to trying to do it's kind of just the repackaging of of old mysticism whether you want to call it new age today whether you want to call it spirituality discovering what some people call it neo-paganism neo-paganism yes going back to the old age kind of views neo-paganism and go ahead i'm sorry yeah no no no that i love that neo-paganism and i think what it is is it's it's twofold one i'll just quickly speak to this uh i'm part of the church so i could i could lay it at our doorstep i think part of it is is what i call the the dunamis default dunamis acts 1 8 you should receive if the holy spirit comes upon you you shall receive power the word their power dynamite explosive miracle working power is dunamis and i think in some of our churches we thought that if we more naturalize our message it will have a greater appeal it's more palatable like whatever we can do just to bring people in but the thing is is that we're ignoring their deepest need and deepest hunger right now is to have encounter like dr jones said and so i felt like the message for the lost uh is let's bring them a supernatural message the gospel of the kingdom is the difference maker you know in uh was it matthew 24 it lists the things in fact verse 7 it describes both that nation will rise against the nation original ethnos versus ethanol it's jesus prophesied in times and there are going to be racial clashes and then in the same verse he says they'll be pessimists so the two things that came out in this last season whether it was kovid or whether it was like racial unrest particularly here in the united states jesus described it but he goes on to say and he says this gospel of the kingdom will be preached into every nation all the world as a witness and so we know where this thing is going if we know where it's going let's jump on board and move towards it but now i feel like the hope for the church is this isaiah 53 we many people particularly we you dr randy praying for the sick we love that part he took up our infirmities he bore sickness and by jesus stripes were made whole isaac 53 4. it begins by saying to whose report uh to whom oh it begins by saying whose report will you believe isaiah 53 so obviously we're going to believe the report of the lord it goes on to say that to whom is the arm of the lord been revealed which i believe there's a connection that if you believe the arm of the lord is of course the power of god the the demonstration of god the move of god yeah i believe if we will believe the report of the lord this is where hope comes in it's not believing the report they're giving you on the news whether it's your favorite anchor person your favorite podcaster your favorite expert you have to choose even maybe a physician or a doctor right now so important to believe the report of the lord and if you believe the report the connection is those are the ones that the arm of the lord would be revealed but then there's this quick phrase and i i'll share this and give it right back to you it says like a tender shoot out of dry ground why i was thinking about that and i thought dry ground is neither has neither the proper nutrients nor the optimal circumstance for a tender shoot imagine being not in an arid dry place like wherever you're from but imagine being in the middle east or you know in isaiah and you see this moistureless rock clawed hard ground but you saw this little tender blade grow out the kids today would pull out their camera do a tick tock dance and put it on a tick tock because it would be that like stupendous well what is describing the tender shoot is jesus and i believe it's a principle of all revival that we think in order to have revival we have to have the most godly president we have to have control of the media we have to have seen in a progression in the air of morality amongst people we judge all these things but as i've studied revival the exact opposite it's like you know in the same way that g god himself was a cloud by day in a fire by night he manifested himself in the exact contrast of the surrounding environment it's like you look at let's say dry ground tender shoot out a dragon you look at the ground and you go it's too dry it's too hard we look at america and we think it's been a while since there's been a massive outpouring it's too dry hearts of americans are hard but that's where they tend to shoot tend to shoot out of dry ground it's like revivals are most likely when they're least likely revivals don't come when there's this moral uh upswing that's usually an indication that revival's already begun right but it's right in the backdrop of isaiah 60 when darkness covers the earth deep darkness of people the glory of the lord so what i submit to you is that we're actually closer to revival now than we were before maybe some would say the modern emergence of all these things that threaten the existence of christianity you can bury it you could cover it but you you have to understand it's a seed so if you bury it you're actually just giving it the proper place for it to grow and what's required of us and we want to get to the other side of second chronicles 7 14 where he would hear our prayers uh he would answer heal our land and the way we do it is we've got to do the first half you know humble ourselves pray seek his face and so i feel like the message right now is this combination of hope for the lost and hope for the church and i feel like our destinies are somewhat intertwined because there is going to be a great awakening there's going to be a massive harvest where jesus returns jesus is not going to come back for a church it has less power than when she began it would be a poor reflection on him so i believe that we need to position ourselves i think sociologists call this anticipatory socialization a little girl uh she wants to play with her barbie she wants to play with whatever until she sees mom put on makeup and do her hair and everything and all of a sudden this little girl turns her barbie in this from something she plays with to now she's mommy she puts on mommy's hat she poops on mommy's heels and she walks in front of the mirror uh sociologists have called this and behavioral development call it anticipatory socialization in other words the little girl sees what she's supposed to become she's already trying to make movements well the prophetic component of that is as believers if we see that the bible says that there is something that god's going to do we want to begin to clothe ourselves and whatever that is humility faith supernatural hope to begin to move towards that which we see is coming and so i think that that is kind of the message i feel like like i carry it's that combination of the revival and prophetic evangelism which are the two books two of the three books i've written well sean i want to say yes and amen i agree with what you just said all of it and um because i do have um a background in uh revival and uh one of the degrees i got was in healing and revival so from another institution but i would just like to say for those that's watching and we the media will give statistics and one thing that i believe mark cirona read or was in his message or somewhere i just heard recently was that a third of the people who were in church prior to covet aren't going to return first of all i really question that because i have other people that tell me that they're seeing already a greater interest people coming yes back uh but the second thing is that when they hear that oh the uh we used to have so many years ago like almost 80 of people going to church and then you know we're down to like it was 47 or now it's down a little bit less than 40 even in the 30s that's all the percent that's going to church in north america and it said almost like look you're losing it's meant to put fear and discouragement on us to as you're hearing those statistics i just would like to remind you as agreeing with sean it's often at the darkest hour that we see the greatest revivals when we had our first great awakening in the 1730s under edwards only three percent of americans went to church three percent in europe today three to six percent is all that is going to church this nation was founded uh by at least some of the founders uh with the hope of becoming the the new israel the the the kingdom of god at advancing it was very much committed to uh relationship with god now was everybody like that no but were there really some of the key leaders and that believed this the puritans in particular the answer is yes and uh there are constitutions based upon this understanding of like covenant relationship and so i want to say that by the second great awakening in uh the united states and now it was united sports colonies um there wasn't any christians at harvard there wasn't hardly any and maybe just two at yale uh brown university had very very few and timothy dwight the grandson i think of jonathan andrews of man of god he began to pray about that and the second great awakening many people believe actually began in these uh universities as uh jay edmund or a great billy graham said he knew more about revival than anybody is a great uh teacher about revival he talked about before the awakenings it was you could be accosted a woman getting out at night could be accosted the language was horrible people literally would go into in the anti-christian feeling of the culture of that time young people would go down the streets of major cities going into the first baptist or first methods first presbyterian church at which there were pulpit bibles chained to them big bibles rip them off bring them out to the streets throw them in the streets and do bonfires burning the bible this was happening the anti-christian spirit that they were coming against and and god again he raises up people who have hope and i believe more than hope people of faith hope is the foundation upon which faith is built and uh i in in revival comes i believe that we are still a strong christian uh we have a strong christian population it may not be you know 80 percent but i'm not so sure how what percent of the 80 were really christians start with but we are having a strong uh i believe group of people who are going to be faithful going to cry out to god for revival and we're a long ways from going to hell in a hand basket we are i believe a nation that has one of the richest heritage of real moves of god that turns back the darkness that turns back the anti-christian spirit and in a moment god can do more in a day than we could do in a lifetime i i've just seen that the how things are changed matter of fact dr guinness was telling me yesterday his i believe is his great great grandfather or great great it was in 1859 there was a famous revival uh charles had in spurgeon in england the great baptist preacher prophesied it in the middle of a sermon he began to prophesy it's a great prophecy about uh things are going to change and it's going to be soon there's going to be a new relationship with the holy spirit it's going to be more than we've ever seen you know and it really was this great prophetic word about a soon experience a revival of the spirit wow it's going to change two years later they had this great revival in northern ireland and also in england and and spurgeon actually living in the in to see it but oz guinness's great great great grandfather's the preacher one of the main preachers if not the main preacher of that revival in 1859 and it said here's the here's the point i'm getting to there was it changed the culture of ireland more than anything since nothing has ever happened in ireland that's had the impact of changing the culture of ireland then that revival of 1859 and they said the only thing that would compare was of the days of saint patrick yes so we want to we want to end i want to let uh ask uh sean if he would to pray for you i believe that prayer is also a basis of hope but we want to say we're not believing for defeat we're believing i have a a victorious expectation of the end of time when jesus and the knowledge of his glory will cover the earth like the waters do the sea and what will be a great harvest and you mentioned matthew 24 and the gospel of this kingdom will be preached to all nations and then will be the sign of the coming son of man that as you mentioned earlier nation against nation was ethnic group against ethnic group that did not mean political nations because that didn't exist at that time nationalism hadn't we had we had kingdoms and empires but we didn't have what we talked about today like the nationalism we have today of just so many nations but the word for that we translate nation was ethnic groups every ethnic group in the world is going to experience someone sharing with them and demonstrating to them the gospel of the kingdom that includes healing and deliverance and supernatural power there's going to be a great harvest that's so big that nobody can count them it's not i i believe that there always is a group a remnant that's being faithful in those downsides those times when the water seems to gone out and and the church is in a time of of not seeing a harvest but it doesn't end there and those are the dips every time the jesus said the kingdom would just keep on increasing like uh leaven and doe i believe that today you know in north america parts of europe it does look discouraging but i know because i have friends all over the world that there are hundreds of thousands of people accepting jesus every day and the church is the fastest growing entity and the part of the church is actually growing the fastest whether it's in the protestant or the catholic because it's in both is that belief and commitment to this gospel that has power to heal for prophecy to deliver to transform it is that holy spirit that backs up the word of who jesus really is and that's being taught and that's being proclaimed by pastors and priests by apostles and bishops it it's it's god's this uh i'm i'm so convinced the revival we're going to see it's going to be affecting the whole church all of it so i thank god for the priest and pastors and everyone that names the name of jesus that they are brother and sister and together we're going to see a great revival amen so would you pray yes absolutely lord jesus i just pray for those who are watching right now god first of all i pray i always believe there's a revival of hope before there is that kind of manifestation of the the spiritual revival and awakening and so i just pray god right now for the body of christ i pray for those who are watching even maybe some that don't know the lord i pray supernatural infusion of hope lord we know the hope deferred makes the heart seek sick but it is a desire fulfilled as a tree of life we pray for that tree of revival to be planted i just pray for those right now that maybe because of a circumstance or disappointment of the past the lord that they wouldn't get stuck in the disappointment as someone once said that disappointments are often his appointments and lord i also pray god that you would stir in us a desire to go after your presence unlike any other time previously that we would recognize that we are change agents in the earth that we are called to carry the the the presence of god that old movie uh raiders of the lost ark indiana jones is looking for the ark uh it would have historical significance but he really should be looking for you because lord those that are watching you that know the lord you are carriers of his presence and i pray god for a fresh impartation of the heart of the father to win the lost uh to operate in signs and wonders i pray the holy spirit would accompany our witness by manifesting and attesting to signs one is in miracles and i pray god that you would break off of anyone right now any intimidation any fear because so much of what the enemy's trying to release right now it's the dragon releasing the flood that he would drown what what the mother was about to birth and i believe the church is about to birth revival we will not get caught up in the flood tides of the enemy's uh disappointment discouragement or or any of his deceptions but we would receive the reign of god and i'm so grateful god that you said that you will pour water on them that are thirsty we thirst for the more of you and i pray even those watching miracles of healings would take place right now miracles of deliverance take place right now sons and daughters would come home right now i was that prodigal grandson to my grandmother that prayed me into the kingdom and so lord we claim that and we thank you god that you are sovereign meaning that you not only run the show you are the show and lord we bless those that are watching right now in jesus name i i know we're supposed to be done but i just felt like a prophetic unction to say that i believe that there's some grandparents and grandmothers in particular when you mentioned your grandmother praying for you and and out of response to her prayers your prodigal wandering brought you back i just felt like there's some grandparents watch that and there was like this sudden hope that came when they heard you say that and i felt like the lord said i was to to challenge you to believe that that hope that you just felt that thought i i should pray for my grandkids or and i want to encourage you parents for the children and grandparents for the grandchildren let there be a prayer based in hope that moves into faith that you actually see that you can celebrate the bringing back to god of the wandering prodigal in your family i believe god wants to do it and that word that he mentioned there was quickened to some of you and you know who you are so yield yourself to the unction and leading of the spirit and begin to pray for the prodigals to come home hey thanks for watching the video if you like the content that you receive from this channel don't forget to hit the subscribe button also give us a thumbs up and share our content with all your friends and family it really helps us out we also invite you to consider partnering with us we're a non-profit ministry with a mission to awaken the world to the power of the gospel if you'd like to help us continue creating content consider giving at the link on the screen or text the word donation to 21 000. if you want even more of our spirit-filled 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Channel: Global Awakening

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Keywords: greater things, sean smith, randy clark, global awakening, ministry, jesus, pastor, speaking, prophecy, prophetic, prophets, prophesy, 2021

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Length: 45min 48sec (2748 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 07 2021