Fan The Flame - Larry Sparks

amen you may be seated well i have some exciting news and excitement and and announcements and all kinds of fun stuff and we're going to have an incredible incredible uh period of like five days together you go i only knew about three well we got three this week and then we're throwing in sunday night at six o'clock for healing and prophetic and uh healing prophetic and deliverance so that's going to be a very unique service and uh and and then monday morning ten o'clock and at seven keenan bridges is flying in uh to celebrate my favorite day of the year which is 111 deuteronomy 1 11. and uh and so i'm excited because all heaven breaks loose on 111 not that it doesn't happen on 1-7 but it really happens on 111 and uh since keenan heard my teaching on 111 and scriptural giving he in turn has been using it and it has literally broken open the windows of heaven of finances over his church which is like really awesome i i got i'm gonna share two testimonies tonight of financial blessings one a lot of you know who tortilla is she used to come down here quite a bit she now has a food truck and she's known for her cooking and different things like that and so she did a facebook live she says please watch and so i was watching and she really in the food truck she really really wanted a donut maker so she looks up donut maker thousand dollars for the machine and plus this plus plus plus fifteen hundred dollars just to make little bitty donuts not even big ones but little bitty donuts and and so the manufacturer had like a zoom meeting the other day and in the zoo meeting they said about the donut machine and a hot dog machine so if you want what we're going to do is we're going to give away a hot dog machine so she says okay so they're make a comment they could see who was actually on watching because it was you know it was a zoom and and so they called out a name and she goes oh it's not mine but i don't really need a hot dog machine and so um so then they said uh we're gonna we we're gonna give away a donut maker and and so she is like oh yes i'm gonna get me a donut maker i'm you know and and she was talking in her teach in her facebook live the other night she was talking about how she had um scripturally given even when she didn't have money to give and she gave what from what little she had she gave and was believing god and and she has this amazing food truck and it's called the pink flamingo i think it's kind of named after me because i'm a floridian and it's hot hot hot pink and she's going to all the fairs and all the i mean it's just amazing what god has done it's 100 paid for which is like miraculous in itself amen and so she says if i could just get a donut maker oh that would be like so awesome and so they said we're gonna give away a donut maker and she's like thank you jesus it's mine it's mine it's mine and this one goes to george brown that's my doughnut maker and the guy goes i don't understand this but i really feel we would use the word lead i really really feel that i'm supposed to give another one away and so she's they're looking at all the name and they're going torsha somebody named torsha which is tortilla okay and they're going torsha torsha and she's going i'm here if you heard her screaming the other night you know she's screaming at her computer because she doesn't know how to log in you know to say i'm here and so all of a sudden she's going typing well we'll have to give it to somebody else she's going i'm here i'm here so then they in the zoom they allowed her to talk and she got the donut machine which is like so awesome then they called her afterwards and they said we don't do this i don't know why we're i'm doing this but we're gonna give you all the parts and all the batter and everything that you need then they called her back and says we're gonna give you free lessons that's over a two thousand dollar package which i think is like really awesome and so god you know he didn't necessarily bless her with money but bless her with two thousand dollars worth of product which would be about twenty five hundred dollars to work for it and so god is looking for people that he can bless and i believe that this year is a sign and a wonder and a blessing and you know and my daughter i have a daughter who um works for a very large stock company so i invested some money in there earlier in the year last year and she goes mom i don't understand but your socks just went up a thousand dollars this week how do you do that i pray and ask god which ones to do and um you know and it's gone up 6 000 in less than a year and i only invested like 10 000. so it's almost double in a year that doesn't happen and that's the first time i've ever besides when i was a kid vested in the stock market but i figure she can keep an eye on it for me and she goes how come your stocks are doing better than mine that was her text this morning hers are doing good because she bought a couple that i told her to hallelujah okay see i have a i have an inside source not the kind that you would think or that would get her in trouble okay and but it's just so awesome and i don't even know what i'm doing but she does so i just say hey this is i want you to transfer someone over here she does and all of a sudden goes up and she goes i'm the one that's supposed to know this stuff how do you know this stuff she does know why but anyway and um and so but i just thought that was really neat then we had a lady uh from out of state and she sent like a year-end donation in and she sent it in uh she wrote it out on monday fedexed it in on tuesday and and it was like glory hallelujah it was just it was a great check any check is great by the way cash is great too and credit card but it was a substantial amount and i'm like we're really praying for supernatural finances to come in especially before the end of the year so we want to end the year really strong and and we did which is awesome and so it got here tuesday morning i called her i've known her for years i called her and i said i just want to tell you thank you she goes there's another surprise i put that in the fedex and the fall within 12 hours it was multiplied and so she sent another check in about four times what she sent in two days before this is how fast god is multiplying our seeds okay and so understand that no matter what's going on in the world because we don't know what's going on in the world only god does but the thing is is that we know that he's the one who calms the water in the middle of the storm he calms our heart and i believe it's number 24 book that we'll be going to press probably in another week or two and it's called annihilate fear isn't that good hallelujah so i'm very excited about that and it should go to press probably by monday and we'll have in a couple weeks and and then i have another one that's about 95 done and it's just uh just don't quit so you know too many people quit you know right before right before you know what and i'm still not quitting you know i've had opportunities to quit i've had health issues you know 20 years ago and god healed me and i'm healed glory to god and uh i was i've recorded a couple of television programs today and uh and i also did a uh teaching an hour-long teaching of everything i know about healing almost 50 years of revelation you don't do it in an hour but i talked pretty fast and every once well i had to kind of like slow down and and do it and but i covered like basically all the highlights and everything it worked out really really good uh anna is starting a healing school online on a werner and uh and i'm doing a two-hour um seminar with her i've already i recorded the first hour second hour will be live and it was amazing and people um that know me well know my age and if you know me halfway well you know my age anyway because i tell everybody how old i am because i'm excited that i've lived to be 67 years and a half okay so i'll be 68 in israel hallelujah tel aviv and uh and so which is exciting so but what happens is is that you know you really need to slow down at your i'm never going to get diagnosed with old and this is a time when you need to pull back not advance god's telling me to advance okay and then and then but some people and not necessarily that bad because they're more concerned about me to slow down and you know and do not do so much and and whatever and you know god proved to me that he could supply all the needs of this ministry whether i traveled or not which is fine you know so i'm not pressed to travel and and i don't have to travel in order to supply the needs because god he's supernaturally doing it which is great so we've made the decision for me not to travel as much okay and so i was thinking about some of the different things about you know i mean you know you get a you know a donation in your inbox every on the third wednesday called social security um my social security you know goes into my bank account but i don't have to acknowledge the fact that i'm old and i don't have to acknowledge the fact that i'm supposed to retire refire not retire okay hallelujah and uh and so i thought you know what i'm just getting started on the the rest of my life i'm like anybody because there's people all over the world go she's too old by the way prophetically which i believe in the prophetic and i believe in god and but prophetically this is a time when some of the generals have been chosen not to be invited because of their age and they want some of these young whipper snappers i don't even know what that means but the younger people that have hardly been saved five years to come in and this is a season where they've regretted doing that because some of them have fallen back into sin and so forth and they don't know enough in the word so they stumble and so i've been told this by a few younger pastors saying i'm not having anybody into my church to speak unless they're 35 or older i said i fit in that category and then the then prophetically um kent christmas he says this is a time when the the generals are going to go back on the forefront and so i'm like glory to god anybody over 60 years old come and join me on the front row and uh but you can join me on the front row it doesn't matter how old you are or how young you are but the thing is it's so cool it's like i got this revelation literally about two months ago and i'm like i am so not done i'm not done i have a whole lot more books to write more cds to do and all this kind of stuff and i am not slowing down i'm not quitting change yes so we got to be willing to change and do some things differently which i did so anyway so i'm like i cut those words off in the name of jesus covet has been very very good to me it has gone many people have been healed of covet as i prayed which is awesome and the teaching in here is chapter 12 on how to get rid of covid any sickness disease or virus is in here i pray it over people people get healed right tori i prayed over him he got healed i'm coben that's our first encounter when he got covered and i called him and prayed for him but i've had hundreds of people healed of covet by praying chapter 12 and then adding the word covet okay and then another thing you show me is that a death over people's destiny and a death over people's destiny destiny is also known as a spirit of procrastination i'll get around to it i'll get around to you know no no let me tell you what there isn't really a real round to it they're pieces of wood and they really don't do anything but what happens is this is a time and a season where we ourselves need to get on the to it and do it to it okay the things that we wanted to do last year it's time that we do it and so when i made that decision literally like 21 22 pounds has fallen off of me and i'm so excited about that and and i'm not dieting i'm eating my own cooked food and i'm a good cook i'm a healthier cook than what you get at restaurants on the road which is awesome i feel younger and i was telling zach today i feel like about 20 years younger than i did last year which is awesome and i'm like you know i'm like ready to jump over buildings no that's superwoman but i'm not her but the point is we've got to take the words that were spoken over us and our mindset because at 67 you're supposed to retire and spend time with your grandkids i spend time with my grandkids you know um this summer and i mean we had i had all my grandkids together at my house that was exciting i have seven and uh but the thing is is what god wants to do is he wants to get rid of all of the well you really can't do that you know you're getting a little old you're a woman you're this you're that you know whatever the enemy is doing everything that he can do to discourage you and to keep you be keep you from doing it because the devil is afraid of your destiny okay why is god and the devil fighting so hard over you think about that one okay so praise god i want to give you a scripture it's nothing too hard and i am excited about that this is my theme for this year pretty much and that is john 20 21 20 21 easy to remember then jesus said to them again peace be to you peace shalom peace nothing missing nothing lacking peace nothing broken whole whole jesus says peace be to you as in my father he has sent me which he has sent me so send i you and so in twice a year april and september we're doing ordination classes if you want more information you can get some more out there but you know what as he has sent me i'm sending you because see what god wants to do this is a time in a season where i believe that the churches are going to explode i don't believe we're going to be able to hold everybody that's god's going to bring here everybody's kind of still kind of hesitant about coming out and things like that but i want to encourage everybody to come out because we're all safe hallelujah and uh it will i'll hug if you want a hug and if you don't want to hug i'm fine with that too so but the point is what i want to encourage you is really pursue god what does he want you to do my opinion according to mark he wants you to lay hands on the sick see him recover not just maybe but see him recover he wants you to speak in tongues he wants you to cast out devil i don't want to do that we'll leave that to somebody else why you missed out on the fun you know seeing somebody said free like that this is like going to be really awesome amen and so i just want to really encourage you um this is our first uh we're going to receive an offering this is our first offering here this year in our building and i'm so incredibly excited to be able to do this i am seeing god multiply finances because of giving into good ground okay when you give an offering number one make sure god's spoken to you number two how much did he speak and then as we receive the offering we ask you to when you put the offering envelope in say go and grow speak confess believe there's power of your words over your offering for god to multiply it so then you can give again you don't give to get you give in obedience and god will follow through with his word and bless you back so father i thank you i thank you that we get to give our first fruits offering the first fruit offering in the ministry officially here at four corners conference center so father right now i ask you to speak to each one what you would have them to give and father i thank you that as they give you're going to bless it and multiply it so quickly that we're going to have testimonies this weekend of supernatural financial blessings whether we need a donut machine or whether we just need tens of thousands of dollars to come in father whatever you choose i thank you father that it is happening and now is the time so father i ask you to bless this offering in jesus name amen now in front of you the chair in front of you you have an offering envelope if you're on the front row then janice will give you one on this side and michelle will give you one on this side and you can make your checks out to miracles happen which i think is so awesome and miracles happen and then also if you're into text to give we can we're going to put that information up here in just a second and then there it is you can text that amount you you type in like say if you want to give 111 11 cents 111.11 jhm miracles and your text number is 4577 and if you need any help doing that we have lots of people that know how to do that and that can help you do that and print legibly we all speak in tongues it's hard to read tongues okay you don't have to look the envelope because they're not organic i highly recommend you don't lick them okay and once again you get with cash check credit card on the offering envelope and god bless you as you give so i'm going to just share one more story and then then we get to hear from larry and um a few months ago i'm going gonna say october uh we have a fire pit in the backyard and it was you know fire was done and you know that kind of stuff and and uh you know like the following day all of a sudden it just came back to life out of the ambers that were there you know it just all of a sudden was on fire again now there might be a little smoldering here and there but the fire came back and melody goes how about if we name it fan the fl fan the flame i'm like sounds good to me okay you know so we went out and and it came back just like that just needed a little encouragement so this weekend we're giving you a little encouragement and we're gonna fan the flame that is within you it may have died out in 2020 a little bit but you know what it's still kindling in there and we're going to fan that flame and we're going to go out of here definitely by you know 9 30 monday night on the 11th so full of fire and anointing and revelation and blessings it's going to be absolutely amazing amazing stand if you would and welcome larry sparks up here oh thank you jones oh this is right thanks all right before i get started the lord gave me a few prophetic type of words one of them is actually joan you can sit down but it's for you it's for this center and anybody else here who is a pastor or leader you have a church or a building in particular if that's you would you raise your hand you're a pastor a leader you've got to build would you stand would you stand and this is also for john i felt like the lord said number one this wow this is a birthing center the lord says i'm raising up birthing centers right now so many people have known you joan as a leader and a minister of healing and that's 100 true and that's not shifting that's not changing but i see a real mantle of intercession and travail coming to this place we're out of this building things and the lord said specifically moves not one move moves plural of god moves of god father right now we thank you for the moves of god and the lord says even now joan as you oh come on just pray into the holy spirit right now joan as you ordain people and lay hands on them i believe you're not just ordaining and commissioning ministers you are releasing moves of god into the earth father thank you for that in jesus name that this is a place that you have marked to release moves of god to the four corners of the earth and lord for every other church leader pastor in here and for those who are watching i want to encourage you right now what he's doing what the lord is doing is he's establishing a global upper room i feel like the lord is saying for too long we have taken prayer and travail and intercession and the holy spirit and we put him back in a back room somewhere as if we're ashamed of him but the lord says listen pentecost was front and center pentecost was not hidden pentecost was not in the back room so actually expect your churches your gathering places your meeting centers to look like birthing rooms father we thank you for what you're doing even now oh rama just pray a moment tonight's going to be a bit unusual because listen you don't come on let's stand for a minute i feel the presence of the lord you don't need a word from listen i need a word i want to actually say something over you i don't ha i don't have the capacity to lay hands on you tonight and impart what the lord wants to release god wants to move in this place and he wants to impart something it's the spirit of god right now come on just pray just lift your voice we come before you lord god this is the darkest nights this is the darkest hour lord we see that in the nation but god like that song says in the darkest night you light it up you are the god of revival and the lord says even now i want you to look at the news and instead of letting that discourage you let the news prophesy to you why it's so bad no no when you see how dark it is remember says the lord remember remember what i've done in the past if you don't know history start learning history in the da sikata in the darkest moments of society when morality was flushed down the toilet god broke in father what we're seeing right now will not stop the move of god it will not stop the move of god may it only intensify it god may it only intensify our travail and our prayer and god i don't come here tonight to pray for a certain outcome father god i come here to pray one prophetic word and then i'm gonna get into my message but folks listen i don't have a prophetic word per se for 2021 i don't have a prophetic word about what's going on in the nation right now i have one prophetic word and i can tell you this no prophet or best-selling author gave this prophetic word in the last days god declares not the latest greatest prophetic sensationalistic book or something and listen i publish prophetic books i'm all about that but listen joel 2 and acts 2 doesn't say in the last days a prophet in the last days a prognosticator in the last days the media it says in the last days god declares i'll pour out my spirit on all flesh so father tonight that's what we're pressing in for that all flesh would experience the outpouring of the holy spirit and god i declare it now and i'm sure i'm going to say it again we won't settle i just feel authority and we will not settle god this can't be all there is this can't be all there is [Music] this can't be all there is lord and we know every time we read the word of god we introduce things that we can either write off and say that was for them then or that's for me now and i got good news it's for you now holy spirit would you sweep across this room tonight do what emotionalism can't do god do what my excitement can't do holy spirit would you mark us tonight for revival in jesus name amen amen i'm ready to run around the room in this place tonight i feel the fire of god thank you guys for coming out this is a bunch of kindling here you are combustible people all right you may be seated the only two things the lord gave me for 2021 they're not prophetic words they're not even for the year i think they're for the era that we're stepping into and how many i mean reputable prophets the prophets that i know lorna voster a few others have prophesied we're not in a new season this is a whole new era and the two words the lord gave me was number one a prophetic reset and i'm not going into that tonight it's a whole other topic but we need a prophetic reset because of this i believe when prophets prophesy we are not fortune tellers we are not predictors can god use us to predict absolutely i believe when prophets prophesy there's meant to be thunder in their voices there's meant to be the weightiness of god on those words why a prophet is saying what they have first heard in a realm called the counsel of the lord why because that prophet recognizes before i'm a prophet i'm actually two things i'm giving you a whole other message right now i'm ready to dive in before a prophet is a prophet there are two other things first they're a friend of god we never graduate i don't care how many pulpits and platforms i get to stand on and it's wonderful and i take this is such a great honor but i never graduate you never graduate from being a friend of god if this ever becomes professionalism and business count me out i'll go work somewhere else i don't want it to be that so you're a friend of god but guess what god does with his friends he entrusts friends with secrets how do you think god feels when his friends feel like they're getting information from him and they just start go blabbing it out somewhere when god who is holy speaks to us guess what he speaks holy words to us we should carry them as their holy words we're friends of god but we're also intercessors before a prophet is a prophet they're an intercessor what does that mean when they get a word a dream a vision whatever before they share it on social media do you know what they ought to do spend a good amount of time processing it with the lord anyway whole other message but those are the two things he gave me a prophetic reset is number one and number two was just one word revival yes come on somebody was excited about that where we are right now as a nation it is dark but guess what god has always thrived on those moments i've been reading this book i wish i could tell you it was available somewhere it's not unless you want to pay like 900 on amazon it's one of those kind of things it's called a cure of all ills it was recommended to me by bill and benny johnson and this lady goes through four cycles of revival in american and global history and the good news about when you study the past when you study revival history and i'm a little bit of a nerd and i'm proud to own that when i study what god has done in each of these major revivals the welsh revival the great awakening the prayer revival of jeremiah lamphear study society at the moment that those revivals broke out it was always bleak dark bad society was going down the gutter and the church was in a state of decline everything and all hope seem lost but god and before i get into this message i have two scriptures i was like lord i don't understand this stuff and i should i guess because i publish prophetic stuff and we do books like the divinity code by adam thompson and adrian beale but do you ever see numbers that just kind of keep randomly repeating and listen i can't even teach or preach on this only because i haven't done the research i do know one guy in texas who does troy brewer and he does a great job on that i i really trust and i find his teaching very solid but i will say this one line of numbers that i have not been able to escape is 11 11. does anybody else feel like you're just bombarded with 11 11 so my god and for a while i really didn't get a lot of clarity and then i decided to do everything i knew to do to try to research it i read every chapter 11 in the bible i looked at every 11 11 passage i'm like god what is this mystery well tonight i felt like he reminded me of two scriptures and he said i want you to prophesy these over america and my friend jody hughes don't know if any of you are familiar with ben and jody hughes she has been carrying this word right now and i just want to release it john 11 11. jesus says this our friend lazarus sleeps but i go that i might wake him up and jody carries that word with such authority saying my friend america sleeps but i go jesus steps in that i that the lord would awaken america father we declare that right now over the airwaves over the atmosphere lord you are the great awakener god lord it seems like everything and everyone else has failed us but the reality is this you are an anchor you are the cornerstone you are the trustworthy one we ask you lord to come awaken this nation and even tonight i read revelation 11 11. and this is what it said i felt like the holy spirit while you're sitting there just said read revelation 11 11 i said okay verse 11 says now after the three and a half days the breath of life from god entered them the two witnesses and they stood on their feet and great fear fell on those who saw them basically it's the resurrection of the two witnesses in the book of revelation there's something siata something about resurrection i i i just feel that right now and jesus i promise i think i'll get to a message tonight but i feel like the lord wants me to prophesy resurrection over some people and i want to minister for a moment but you've got to be number one bold and number two i know listen at the end we'll have a time of ministry where i believe everybody will get ministered to but i want to extend this opportunity right now how many of you in any area of your life it's not a matter of you just needing help or healing you need resurrection would you just stand for a minute yeah yeah you know you need a resurrection yeah all right let's pray i don't know if you do for those of you who are standing around these folks you can you can remain seated and we want to be very sensitive to the kova stuff just just stretch your hand toward them you don't need to touch them father right now we thank you that jesus said listen lazarus he's dead he's been dead four days he's really dead but i go to awaken him god back in february you spoke to my heart and you said i really want to re-emphasize resurrection yeah let's pray in the spirit a moment because here's my prayer for you guys who need resurrection in any area of your life i pray that as it happens it's a first fruits and it's a sign of what god wants to do in the nations shikita father for relationships that need resurrection they're not just needing counseling they don't just need help a marriage that needs resurrection father right now i declare i decree in the name of jesus that marriage and relationship would be restored and revived you're the god of revival god for sickness that basically every report is saying it should end in death i declare resurrection even now and listen larry doesn't have the authority to release these things i believe right now we are coming into agreement with the decrees of the lord listen everything i've been doing up to this point has been an interruption and the lord says you must be interruptible if you want revival you must be interruptible come on just pray just receive what the lord is doing father we declare that john 11 11 revelation 11 11 5 i declare just like in revelation 11 11 whether it's relational health financial business whether there's areas of your life that are in ruin here's what i declare here's what i decree yes that you would experience resurrection in that situation would be fixed for this reason just like in revelation 11 11 that fear would fall upon people oh come on lift your voice that fear lord we need the fear of god again in the church and god right now i declare we need miracles not just so i can get my miracle and go out the door and go get a happy meal and and be and say thank you god and tip my hat every miracle has the potential to release the fear of god wow show every miracle has the potential and i believe the desire of god is that when resurrection happens in those areas of your life please take this home with you say god i'm not even contending for this just so i get something although he's a good father and wants to meet your needs you know that that when something is raised from the dead how many of you know that when resurrection miracles happen the fear of god falls on people father we thank you even now just a moment more i just feel god on this any area lord tonight that we prayed for resurrection may your people go home and stand on that john 11 11 revelation 11 11 you're the god of resurrection and that it would be a first fruit of what you are doing in and for our nation in the nations of the earth in jesus name amen amen you may be seated well we're having a good time already a.w tozer said this revival will come to us and within us when we really want it when we pay the price this message just gets me excited because i believe it's inappropriate and irresponsible for us to teach preach and pray as if revival is out there somewhere coming one day someday i break that right now in the name of jesus no all the machinery god told me this interesting language he said all the machinery all the resources that you need to have revival landscape changing revival is already here it's already here are we willing to pay the price are we willing to say a considered constant costly yes because on the other side of a yes i'm not just talking about a yes and a song or yes and a prayer yes with our lives yes with our schedules pastors leaders yes with the wine skin and the operating system of your church or ministry when we're willing to say yes to him i believe everything that we need listen i believe every believer and every church can have revival immediately that almost sounds crazy to some people because we have this ridiculous theology i'm going to do what i can to confront it and i'm going to kick some stuff tonight why because i want to go out of those doors with you tonight burning so funny when i got invited this conference i had no idea what it was about i had no idea what the theme was melody and joan can attest that but before i knew anything i said listen i know what the lord wants to say he said 2021 it's time for revival and lo and behold fan the flame to me that's confirmation and i've got good news i know this is a little bit of a belated christmas gift but revival is actually happening right now in the united states like that's not well this little church gathering they've met a couple times and we're calling it revival i've been on the beaches in southern california where my friend jesse green and her husband listen these are normal people they are not out there trying to be celebrities or anything they're people who in the midst of covid they had moved from new york city they had really pretty good jobs there as pastors in a pretty prestigious church in new york city they moved from new york city to california knew nobody but they moved because they had a vision of thousands multitudes being baptized in the pacific ocean and being marked by the presence of god they moved over to california to make a long story short of all times during the summer of covid this year is when god just exploded and they decided you know what we're going to say yes to god and we're going to step up we're going to show up somebody needs to hear that sometimes we are waiting for god god's waiting for us to show up somewhere they showed up on the beaches in southern california and even the l.a times multiple times probably not in the most positive light but the los angeles times multiple times wrote up about these wonderful revival gatherings that they've had and they have not stopped i just got back a couple of weeks ago from a tent meeting that they did in orange county they used mario marillo's tent and there were hundreds maybe thousands there being baptized in freezing cold water giving their lives genuinely to the lord they're not getting up there and preaching a patty cake gospel they're not preaching cool hipster jesus oh my they're not preaching that nonsense they're preaching a jesus who demands everything you study revival in the great revivals and the revival is jonathan edwards charles finney john wesley they have a saying now among the kids the young people i'm 30 how old am i 37 i guess i'm not one of the kids or young people anymore but it was funny i was talking to my friend jessie and she's like yeah i'm reading right now through charles finney and he's savage and i'm like savage is that bad and she's like oh no that's good so the reality is this the revivalists of old saw the results they did because they actually preached a gospel that is worth signs and wonders following if we're preaching a message that's not the gospel and we're wondering why is there an absence of the miraculous could it be that we're not actually preaching what the great revivalist of old preached father help us dawsonville georgia i don't know if any of you have been to uh there you go pastor todd smith at christ fellowship church there the north georgia revival i think they've been going now for maybe two years or so and people have been going and getting water baptized and mightily powerfully touched by god and i can attest to this because i was with todd smith with anna with keenan bridges we were all in israel together with sid roth and this was the most unusual thing they signed me up for i was helping them water baptize 400 people who were on this particular tour in the jordan river baptizing 400 people is a chore folks particularly when the fire of god falls and it's legit there was one guy who got touched so powerfully by the fire i'm not exaggerating i might be under exaggerating he did some sort of dolphin jump out of the jordan river and he actually almost crossed over to the side of jordan and immediately everybody went get him out of there i mean the guy couldn't contain himself he was legitimately touched by god but we had to pull him back over otherwise you know he could get shot i had never experienced something like this where anna and anna could tell you some stories where anna was at the end we had this like production line for baptism and me and pastor keenan were dunking them and all that and people get so overwhelmed by god what we'd have to do it sounds funny but it's just true they were so overwhelmed we had to float them down the river they were absolutely incapacitated and we gave them to anna and she finished them off oh god let anna just come and finish us off as well in the sky what a wonderful conference i feel like i'm with family and friends i've got torrey anna joan pastor keenan bridges but that's legitimate revival is happening right now in georgia revival's happening in california can i tell you another place where revival revival's been happening like 20 years a little place called the ramp in hamilton alabama and if you have never looked up that ministry you look up the ramp and a lady named karen wheaton she'll never call herself that she is an apostle i've never been to a place like that where the fire of god is always present and it's all these young people for 20 years young people coming and getting mark i remember going there i've gone there multiple times eight in the morning where they have the ramp students waking up not because they have to although i'm sure they're on some sort of schedule waking up and praying fervently with fire and intensity for our nation and i remember going there years ago and seeing these young people pray and i thought our nation i know we've got our issues now more than ever but if there are these kinds of young people praying our nation in the spirit i believe is in good hands revival's happening folks one last place i saw it and you may have never heard of this place because i'm only discovering it it's a church called fresh start church in peoria phoenix arizona area this is how i describe these people they go from zero to 90 in about a minute and you know what you can try to manufacture that in the flesh these people ain't in the flesh these folks have cultivated an atmosphere for five years of intense prayer intercession spiritual warfare that when you actually step into the meeting which what is so unique about this kind of revival and i want to encourage you because sometimes we think in order to have revival we need to go into these like special extended services we think of the old toronto or brownsville which was wonderful where we have service after service the cool thing about this place they never did that they would literally just come together week after week they would meet and god would be powerfully present just like he was last week why they learned the secret revival's not about the place and it's not even about a meeting it's about the people the people showed up expectant hungry and ready for god i think that people recognize they were portable containers of revival and when you get all those kind of people together you get something that's always combustible and the fire never sleeps and the fire never goes out so i wanted to encourage you revival is not out there somewhere revival is actually happening now in the united states i encourage you to look look up write down some of these places because it's legitimate it's happening revival is at hand because the kingdom of god is at hand revival is so near because when jesus says and john the baptist will repent for the kingdom of god is near you it's literally saying the kingdom of god is within grasping distance it's not out there somewhere i just got to declare that just again over this atmosphere over the airways the kingdom of god the move of god some of the charismatic language we use it's not out there somewhere it's within your grasp that's encouraging do you know why because that means we never have an excuse for our fire to go out if it's that near that close that available all right here i'm going to start kicking some stuff down here all right five ways that we need to stop praying for a move of god and instead positioning ourselves to be a move of god did you hear what i said it's easy i mean and again i'm all for prayer in fact by the time we're done i actually wow i believe the lord wants to pour out a spirit of prayer i believe now more than ever a spirit of intercession and travail is going to fall upon the church i believe that why that's just been what has historically come alongside revival we want revival without prayer and intercession travail that type of thing then we're not going to get revival we're asking for god we're asking god to give us something on our own terms i don't want it on my own terms i want the way god wants it all right so five ways number one we need to stop the one day someday language and some of the stuff i've already alluded to but i'm going to just explain a little bit more aw so number one is we need to stop any language that says well one day someday it's coming i love what a.w tozer wrote in this book brand new book obviously a.w tozer is not writing new books but it was compiled from his writings it's called the fire of god's presence and this is what he wrote he gives us this illustration he writes many people have the kind of faith that martha had she said yes i know lord he lazarus will arise in the last day and the lord said that's not the kind of faith that works i want you to believe he'll rise right now it sounds spiritual to talk about one day someday doesn't it when we all get to heaven and the sweet by and by or one day when it happens and god rends the heavens and all that that's kind of martha type of faith well i believe i mean isn't that what happened she was almost too highly spiritualizing the situation jesus comes and he announces i am the resurrection and i am the life well i know that lord one day he will rise again in the resurrection no now now now is the time now is the time for revival number two this is an interesting one we need to stop thinking and you can write this in whatever way i'm just gonna explain it stop thinking revival is up to god's sovereignty and i have a high value for the sovereignty of god i do not believe for a moment that we can control god we cannot manipulate god i don't want a god that i bark orders at because that's not a holy god that's actually a god i create in my own image he is sovereign which means he can do what he wants so i have a high value and a high regard for the sovereignty of god however the sovereign god has set up things to operate a certain way so here's the deal i lo i love what charles finney says because revival is not up to god's sovereignty the deal is this he has already sovereignly poured out his spirit he is looking for people to steward what he has done sovereignty let me say that again he sovereignly poured out his spirit you and i could not go to heaven and pour out the holy spirit amen we could not do that we could not provoke pentecost we could not do that god was and is sovereign over that but here's the good news we are not asking the holy spirit to come again now hold on a minute because i pray holy spirit come i pray and sing words like that but i'm not expecting for a moment that the holy spirit is somehow coming out of the sky or am i expecting a holy spirit 2.0 as if the first one was insufficient no the reality is this one man will split the sky one day and that's king jesus and he will return to the earth and i don't know why i feel like i need to say this sometimes but i know sometimes there's a lot of attack and assault against the doctrine of the second coming of jesus and i know we have different ideas and theology i will declare jesus is coming back but you know what he's coming back he told me this he said i'm coming back for a return on my investment and one of the things he said i'm going to come back and evaluate what did you do with the holy spirit can you imagine how goofy it'll sound to jesus where he returns he's like i gave you the holy spirit i gave you the greatest treasure in all the universe i gave you this treasure and what did you do with him well lord i prayed that he would come but he came it's not a matter of necessarily saying holy spirit i get that i believe in it i support people who pray that way but the reality is this it's not a matter of trying to get the holy spirit out of the sky saying holy spirit i yield to you holy spirit you already hear god through our lives would you show the earth and would you show the church what it looks like for a people to be well possessed by the holy spirit i know we you we were talking about deliverance before doing a deliverance service i i get that but i it's like somehow the devil has owned the language of possession what does it look like for a man for a woman for a person to be so apprehended by god they are possessed with the holy spirit [Music] that's what made people like wigglesworth john g lake katherine kuhlman you studied their stories they were broken people wigglesworth was an illiterate plumber katherine coleman obviously had some relationship issues but these people changed history these are people that we look at and say i want whoa i want the more they tapped into were they super special superheroes no ha they were men and women they were ordinary people who said god i know you live inside of me because i'm born again but what could it look like if you rest upon me wow what could it look like for you to literally rest upon me i am not satisfied just knowing i'm born again and going to heaven i am grateful forever grateful for that but as long as i live and breathe here in the earth pastor kim owens from that fresh start church i told you about she had this quote and i loved it she said from the moment i from right now until the day i literally get to heaven i will not stop preaching that there is more of god to experience could it be that that's when the fire goes out could it be that that's when we start backsliding oh my could it be that a generation of young people are backsliding not a hundred percent not entirely i'm not blaming it on this could it be though that young people are backsliding because somewhere a religious spirit told them you know what you have to settle here i feel the fire of god on that lord even now for the prodigal sons and daughters who seem like they've gone so far god even now come on if that if you've got a prodigal in your life this is for you just hold up your hand lord i just declare and i don't even know how this works in the spirit over them god they're not in this room but god we are holding them up in prayer and we declare over them oh casa there's more i pray that somebody even if it has to be an angel and i don't even know how that works because someone would show up even if it's you holy spirit sovereignly show up and tell them there's more i break the lie of religion over their mind that says you have to stop you have to settle no god we don't acknowledge unbiblical nonsense but lord there's so much in this bible that tells me there's more kaya namase there's more so we declare that i felt like we needed to do that in the spirit over the prodigals just in intercession saying there's more and that somehow they'd hear it call ya na i just pray god with whatever seed of the word of god whatever seed of the spirit of god they have in them that they would hear in the spirit there's more that well god that'd mess him up now god that it would mess them up and say that that god as a result of that taste man we're just in something right now as a result of just tasting your presence ha they would lose the taste for all sin all immorality the things that they thought satisfied them god even now for those sons and daughters who are engaging in immorality god somehow lord that they taste and see you're good must say oh charles finney said this revival is no accident he said it is no unsought breeze from heaven it is no more a miracle than growing a crop of wheat sometimes we think revival is mysterious and you never know when god's going to come and you never know what god's going to do and we're going to pray and we're going to do this big event we're going to keep praying but you never know when god's going to come i don't know if i buy that tory i've been to your church in new york i feel like when people come to that place just like i've said at the ramp and kim owens place god's there when it comes to places like this you step into the atmosphere and god is here thank you lord it's not a mystery but i think in just the few moments we have together i want to i don't ever want to turn god into a formula but i i feel like tonight i want to empower you like i've been saying to go out of the doors and say you know what i know how i can keep the fire burning in my life all i can think of and it's so silly and probably unspiritual is billy joel singing in my book we didn't start the fire somebody needs to make a charismatic pentecostal version of that because it's true you know what you did not send the fire to the earth god did you didn't send the fire of pentecost you didn't send or deposit the fire of god in your heart god did that but we have a responsibility god sends the fire on the altar but his priests keep it burning we see that in the book of leviticus andrew murray says that god's giving and i believe god's giving or sending of revival is inseparably linked to our asking i'm like just where are the people or say god i want you no matter what it costs whatever it looks like god that's what we want that was number two number three is a fun one we need to stop believing for on earth as it is in hell did you know revival was short-circuited i could go into whole teaching on this but revival basically was short-circuited in the 1970s because of dangerous eschatology or end times theology listen i believe i've already told it made very clear jesus is coming back if you believe in the rapture that's great there's so many ways i'm like just take us jesus whatever you want to do even so come jesus but here's the problem that happened the night was anybody around for the 1960s and 70s for the jesus people movement the charismatic renewal charismatic renewal is when the holy spirit swept through the whole church no denomination was safe from god no denomination was safe from healing miracles the gifts of the spirit praying in tongues and i believe in many ways the charismatic renewal actually gave birth to the jesus people movement where you had all these unsaved hippies i mean these were heathen people i don't know if any of you were those i just read about the folks but these people were obviously into the whole counter counter-cultural revolution free love drug culture rock and roll all that kind of stuff but god would radically save them i mean radically their lives would turn around and so many of those people are still burning very brightly for jesus but simultaneously i think the devil snuck in with this imbalanced end times theology saying oh wow you're saved you're burning for jesus then you know what you need to do you need to bunker and hunker down you need to disengage from society and let jesus come and take you because he's gonna come back at any moment well you know what he could come back at any moment but he is looking for those who are well-doing he didn't oh boy he didn't say wait until i come he said occupy till i come until he takes us out of this planet through death or his second coming we have a responsibility on this planet to see as much of heaven invade the earth as possible how much of heaven can influence the earth i have no idea because the bible didn't put a ceiling on it so you shouldn't either we sometimes use this language which is helpful but sometimes not the kingdom of god is both now and not yet i'm gonna trust the not yet mysteries to god and i'm gonna contend for as much now as absolutely possible as allowable that's legal i don't want to believe for on earth as it is in hell i don't want to believe for apocalyptic doom and everything falling apart you know what isaiah 60 makes it very clear and that's kind of where i base my end times theology there is going to be darkness we're seeing that and deep darkness upon the people but here's the good news that the glory of god that's upon you should always be superior to the darkness in the earth the fire of god burning in the church should always be stronger than the fires that are burning around us in the world i'm happy number four we need to stop praying for pentecost to come it already did and it was more than enough for the job i'm just going to read what i wrote down i said i've got news pentecost already happened nothing is left to come down or out of the sky except the son of god and when he returns that's it jesus will surely evaluate how we stewarded the person and the power of pentecost the holy spirit and like i said before i don't want to give him some goofy answer when he comes back what did you do with my holy spirit well i had a prayer meeting praying that he'd come again we need to have prayer meetings now more than ever i hope i can emphasize that as much but we don't necessarily pray for the holy spirit to come we pray with the help of the holy spirit who's already inside of us i think so oh boy i'm going to step on some toes right now but this is that's okay i'm a step on my own is sometimes in our spiritual sounding prayer meetings we spend so much time asking for asking god to give us things we already have and asking him to take us places that we already have we already have access to i just want us to i mean we need prayer now more than ever but as the late sea peter wagner said i don't want to come to a prayer meeting and just feel good i want to come to a prayer meeting where we see measurable results i i i love what joan is talking about i love this ministry because there's so many miserables when people get healed when trauma's broken off i mean tori you got healed of covet i love ministry that has measurable results that's what prayer should be it's not coming together and just having a powwow and we feel spiritual that's good we want to feel god but you understand what i'm saying i don't want to come and turn prayer into praying for everything jesus has already given me access to and number five is this i think i think the last part of my message will be encouraging um but but these are things we need to navigate because these are the things that hinder us and hold us back from revival i mean some of the language i'm using obviously is a little bit embellished but has anybody been exposed to some of these types of things like and i just feel like you know what let's go out of this place burning ones where we go and bring the fire of god we're not waiting around for something we recognize that we carry and we steward the fire of god and number five is this we need to stop being irresponsible with the moment we've been given because you know here's the deal if and we've seen i've seen conferences and events and i probably even put them on where it's like the coming revival or it's coming one day some day and i talked about that before here's the deal if we're always preaching the holy spirit move of god revival as something as a reality that's coming one day someday plea please listen to me if it's always coming one day someday then guess what we don't have any responsibility because i have responsibility for right now but if it's always coming one day someday i'm not responsible for that i'm not really responsible for what happens in the millennium i'm not really responsible for all that kind of stuff i'm not you know if it's always because that's the reality with these types of things it sounds really spiritual but it's always coming one day someday which means i don't need to be responsible for stewarding and carrying the holy spirit inside of me now i don't necessarily need to be pressing in for more now i'm going to trust it to the sovereignty of god god has done everything he's going to do concerning the holy spirit he sent him we need to steward him all right so i'm going to finish off with this three keys to stepping into the flow of revival number one some of this might sound a little bit repetitive but this is the solution i know i talked about some problems but the lord told me when it comes to preaching larry if you're gonna preach problems i always want you to give solutions as well because if you hear a message where all it is is problems you feel beat up by the time you're done have anybody have you ever been in sermons like yeah yeah i want to give you some solutions number one three keys to stepping into the flow of revival revival is not sovereign and surprising it's a synergy of sovereignty and stewardship some of these things i've already said but i want to give it to you in the most clear proactive way here's the deal as i said god already has sent the holy spirit let's go back to the original model pentecost let's go back to the model god sovereignly promised pentecost we see in luke 24 49 jesus saying behold i send the promise of my father upon you but you so jesus is making it very clear i send the promise of the father but he tells them to do something but you tarry in the city of jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high he was going to send the spirit but the people needed to do something going on acts 1 4-5 and being assembled together with them jesus commanded them not to depart from jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me for john truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the holy spirit not many days from now again god promised the spirit god would pour out the spirit but he needed his people to be positioned to experience the holy spirit i believe the same model is true today he's looking for a people who would just posture and position themselves as opposed to you don't see the disciples praying in a way obviously we don't get too much information into how they prayed i can't believe they were begging jesus said in the spirit send your spirit send your promise i think they met together and they probably held up the promise to jesus because he gave them something he said i will pour out my spirit i will send you the promise from the father so it's not a matter of begging if jesus said he was going to do it he's good for his promise amen so what did they do acts 1 12-14 then they returned to jerusalem from the mount called olivet which is near jerusalem sabbath stay journey and when they had entered they went up into the upper room where they were staying peter james john and andrew philip and thomas bartholomew and matthew james the son of alphaeus and simon the zealot and judas the son of james and verse 14 is most important here these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and mary the mother of jesus and with his brothers his prayer i believe that's where we are right now looking to this original outline this original blueprint you know sometimes in our 21st century christianity we want to improve on things we feel like there's some new edgy great solution no we just need to go back to the book we need to go back to the scripture and see what did they do how did they position themselves to experience the holy spirit and that's the reality right now is that he sovereignly has poured out the holy spirit i just want you to get this and move on to number two god was the one who poured out the holy spirit but i believe it is through prayer and i don't know if we've emphasized prayer enough i'm grateful though in the last 60 to 90 days where i've seen prayer unlike perhaps i've seen it before um i will say people that i know like dutch sheets i'm very grateful for people like that for prayer um but i i do believe what we are doing is we want to pray and we want to come into agreement with what god already said he's doing we're not begging him for something we're saying god you said you'd pour out your spirit on all flesh so god we are going to posture ourselves in a place of prayer and in just a moment i'm going to describe what that kind of prayer looks like because number two is this so we steward revival i believe by recognizing he sovereignly sent the holy spirit and there's something he's asking us to do and we see from the example in the book of acts he asked them to wait and he asked them to pray okay so what does this look like number two everyone is called to intercession for intercession is the front line ministry of revival my goodness if you want to be on the front lines of revival recognize you're an intercessor oh but larry that's for those kind of people who pray once a week or that's for this group listen the ministry of intercessor is not the sixth of the five-fold ministry isn't that true because if it was if there were a six-fold ministry and one was intercessor you could get away with that we're all called to be intercessors i know some maybe carry the burden of the lord more that that's that's fine but i believe in the days ahead the church is gonna sound a whole more like like a prayer meeting yeah we're going to teach we're going to heal we're going to do all those things but i believe i just sense that things that we put in a back room once a week things that we've left to those intense prayer warriors i actually believe we're going to see front and center in many of our churches wow my goodness front lines of pentecost were those who prayed acts 1 14 they were they continued with one accord in prayer and every great revival throughout history when you study the revivals guess what on the front lines of those revivals were prayer warriors frank bartleman the great intercessor of azusa street daniel nash for charles finney's revival meetings you have the 100 year moravian prayer gathering which i believe was responsible in the spirit the the cool thing is when you follow cycles of prayer and measure them next to the release of revival interesting is i believe a lot of these prayer people prayer movements actually birth the revivals that we saw that ultimately changed the landscape of the united states in the world it came prayer came first even the charismatic renewal was defined by a renewed interest in the baptism of the spirit with praying in tongues what did we see shortly after the charismatic renewal jesus people revival prayer is the womb that revival comes out of modern day prayer leaders like lou engel leonard ravenhill jim symbala corey russell mike bickel the fact that there are so many of these people that god's raised up tells me that we must be on the brink and when i say that i'm not trying to go against my own teaching let's see on the brink it's coming one day i have to believe that those prayer leaders are signs that okay on the front lines of revival are the intercessors are the prayer leaders who are not begging for god to come down but they're actually birthing something that god wants to release into the earth that's what prayer is doing that's what travail is doing it's not begging it's birthing cold west and sun folks i have my notes here half of this stuff the lord just just deposits in the atmosphere because you know what those who beg god all the time and they think that's intercession they get worn out that's why i'm grateful for books like the happy intercessor if you are an intercessor that book will change your life by benny johnson happy intercessor but intercessors are not called to beg they are called to birth i just needed to say that i feel the fire of god on that thank you lord can't take credit for that one but here's number three so obviously we talked about we've got a steward revival we steward it through prayer and intercession i believe intercessors which all of us are we're on the front lines of revival i believe tonight we are all on the front lines of revival if there were 10 people here tonight i'd be happy do you know why that's 10 people where we could really go after god together but guess what there's more than 10 and in just a couple minutes we're going to go after god together i'm not saying we can manipulate god or manufacture something i never want that in fact i back away from it but i'm convinced god's going to wow sure i feel it even now he's going to just grip some people tonight you might well you might birth some things tonight he'll grip you with his heart he'll grip you with things he wants to release into the earth folks can we just grow up a minute i know there's a lot of needs that we have in our life and at the beginning of the service that's why i felt like the lord wanted to minister to some of those needs particularly the resurrection stuff he cares about your needs but if we want to take the next step of maturity as followers and disciples of jesus we really need to be more concerned god what are you doing in the earth if i want to write listen if i want to publish books that sell a lot of copies i need to publish a book on how to get your your breakthrough and all your prayers answered while sitting on the sofa eating donuts watching soap operas that would be a bestseller but i refuse to publish anything like that listen i don't care if it hurts your flesh i don't care if it cuts you a little i want us to be grown up mature believers who can actually go out and bring god into proximity with the world can you well do you understand the fact that god does not travel anymore in a box he travels in you he doesn't go around in a tent he was he was not happy with a tent or a tabernacle or a temple those just satisfied for that era we are in a new era we are in a new covenant which means god travels mobley through you i understand house of god i understand all that we are the house of god so that means you are a walking talking burning carrier of revival wherever you go but here's the deal number three god told me this very clearly and this is a word that i could just preach independently he said this revival belongs to the unoffendable and the interruptible the unoffendable and the interruptible i'm i'm going to just give you two little stories and then we're done we're going right along here number one we cannot be offended by the sound and the demonstration of travail and intercession because how many of you know it sounds like something how many of you know listen oh boy that there is a counterfeit version of decently and in order i'm going somewhere so many people even of the pentecostal charismatic persuasion will use first corinthians 14 40 to actually shut down the move of the spirit first corinthians 14 40 says this everything should be done decently in order well if you actually read that in context do you know what decently in an order was for those meetings back then you had multiple people prophesying you had one with a tongue one with a song that's not happening in a lot of these places today in other words there was room for the holy spirit to do what he wanted obviously we don't want to miss but here's the deal sometimes what we consider decently in an order in our gatherings or in our lives it looks more like a graveyard because a graveyard is decently in an order but it's all dead but i'll tell you a place that i've been in that looks really messy but i can tell you there's life is a birthing room somebody needs to stand up right now if you feel like you're called to birth god's purposes into the earth i feel like the lord even is just releasing something i wasn't even ready to end the message i'm sure i'll try father we thank you right now whoa we will not settle god we will not settle for something that looks all nice and put together we want your order god we want your order lord give us eyes and ears lord to hear and see what's going on in heaven that's decently in an order father we thank you oh yeah just lift your voice father whatever it looks like god god in the 90s were in toronto you had bodies just all over the that the lord said that's decently in an order the lord says yes cain ridge i remember cain ridge in the in the 1800s in kentucky where you had people who were slain and strewn across the countryside because of the thunder of the gospel the lord says that's decently in an order what is not in order is when my spirit is denied access what is not in order is when my spirit quote yo is considered an interruption and i'm not the ho the lord's saying i'm not just talking about church services and gatherings i'm talking about your lives oh father may we be interruptable oh god we want to always be lining up with your version of decently and in order wow i just feel the holy spirit i don't know what to do i just want to take a moment in his presence we want your order of god must say just pray right now in the holy ghost shut up i don't get many visions but i remember the lord gave me a vision i was just sitting in my car wasn't doing anything spiritual sitting in the driveway and i was taken into the court of heaven and and a gavel hit the bench and i felt like the lord said order in my church and i said god what does that look like and he basically told me people have taken first corinthians 14 40 out of context they have used that to quench my spirit and the bible very clearly says paul says the thessalonians quench not the spirit don't put out the spirit's fire god we don't want strange fire we do not want strange we don't want things god that don't don't line up with your word but we will take the wildfire we will take the holy spirit who moves as he will even now well even now if you just want to even come up to the altar tonight you are welcome to come up and pray we're oh yeah almost done but just come on up if you want i'm not gonna shoo i just am feeling gripped by the lord i might come down to the altar i might fall down to the altar i feel like god is going to ignite you tonight he's going to show you how easy it is you can just kneel you can lay you can do whatever but i am not laying hands on you tonight unless the lord gives me a word why oh i don't have the capacity to impart what god wants i feel like the lord is saying no no no tell them to let me lay hands on them whoa shots god make us interruptable make us unoffendable isaiah 66 8 as soon as zion travailed as soon as zion travailed she brought forth her children i i'm yeah acts 2 6 when the holy spirit was poured out says this when the multitudes were gathered this is when they heard the cool preacher no when they heard the really relevant hit message when they heard the ban when they heard that they had a great children's program no it says when they heard the sound ho when they heard the sound the multitudes came together when they heard the sound of what the mighty rushing wind and the outpouring of the spirit father even right now for those who are watching by live stream i ask right now that you had touched people father i asked lord that you would apprehend people tonight god and lord we're here tonight not necessarily trying to get something from you we're here offering ourselves to you in fact the lord is saying right now listen there aren't three keys and there aren't seven steps and there's no gimmicks it's romans 12 1 offer up your life as a living sacrifice and the lord says even now offer up your sin often offer up your struggle offer up your addiction offer up your anxiety offer up your fear because i know all of those things and i still love you do you honestly believe something's hidden from the sight of the lord he knows it all he loves you he's just waiting even tonight for you to offer it all up he's like listen i'm not looking for the perfect i'm looking for the undone whoa isaiah in isaiah chapter six he said i saw the lord and in that throne room encounter it left him undone and that is what qualified him to become a marked one to be touched by the fire of god and to become a sent one father that we'd be unoffendable ah unoffendable god that when we hear the sound god this is interesting but i feel like tonight even for some of you guys the lord is marking you for prayer he's marking you for prayer and it's almost like you i'm praying over you guys don't be offended if god like if you're so wow overwhelmed and overcome by god in fact i see that happening i see some of you just in your home i'm just going to minister because i feel we're in the flow of the holy ghost right now some of you in your homes are going to be apprehended by god and the lord says this i want you to be sensitive to the divine invitations i give you because i am the lord who still says come away with me whoa i'm still the lord who opens doors in heaven wow because john in revelation 4 said i saw a door yeah such a weighty presence of god here i saw a door standing open in heaven and the invitation was come up here is that some goofy mystical thing you have access to come up here you have access to come up there where he is because of the blood of jesus even with my sin and my issues and all those things yeah do you know why because when you go up there the stuff that's trying to hold you down it's incompatible whoa it's incompatible with the realms that god wants to bring you to i'm prophesying right now there are some of you not all of you but some of you you feel like i can't go into the presence of god because of the stuff i'm dealing with and i feel unworthy and i feel guilty and i feel dirty with the lord saying listen bring that stuff into my presence because my presence is stronger than that stuff and in my presence the lord says i'll give you a strategy in that presence i will remind you of the mercy that i speak over you only through the blood of jesus but i'll also remind you of grace sounds like a whole whole lot like hebrews 4. before his throne there's mercy and grace mercy reminds you of what the blood of jesus has given you but grace reminds you yeah that stuff that you're struggling with you can offer it up freely to god he is not going to come with condemnation in fact he wants to give you power to walk in victory over it father even tonight even tonight is your friends i felt like the lord said call them my friends how as your friends have come to seek god none of us graduate from being your friends but as they come to seek you tonight i pray that they'd actually sends your smile over them that any lies that the devil has tried to perpetuate in their minds about them being unfit and unworthy i break that right now in jesus name that's not god condemnation leaves you feeling hopeless and powerless conviction tells you it's possible and there's power isn't that good thank you lord conviction tells you it's possible to walk in victory over the stuff that the lord is highlighting and by the way it's possible because he's given you power to do it [Music] you know jesus was not bothered by interruptions i just thought the paralyzed man being lowered through the roof if anyone shouldn't have been interrupted it was jesus but jesus responded to that the woman with the issue of blood she pressed through the crowd she obviously interrupted things caught jesus by surprise the blind man who cried out bartimaeus son of david have mercy i feel like the lord's saying where are those yes we've got to be open to the interruptions of the spirit we get that when god moves and we got to accommodate that but where are those people even tonight who will interrupt god whoa where is the one who's not waiting for me to touch them says the lord where's the one like the woman with the issue of blood we'd so often read that scripture just in the context of healing and that's good but he's saying where is the one like that woman who said i'm tired of waiting to touch god i i'm tired of waiting for god to come and touch me i will go and touch him oh shayana i feel like there's somebody here tonight where that just resonates with you and again guess what the kingdom of god is within your grasp oh father we thank you and i think we're almost done here but father let's just pray a moment more i don't feel like the lord is done joan gave me you know 9 30 but she said flow it's 9 28 so let's take just a few minutes yeah father we thank you lord we won't settle just say that i won't settle i won't settle father i thank you right now come on let that get in your spirit i've seen too much i've tasted too much god i won't settle oh my i just keep thinking of hannah do you remember hannah in the bible who gave birth to samuel well-meaning people will try to tell come on i feel the fire of god right now well-meaning religious i don't even call it people it's a spirit will come and try to tell you just like hannah's husband hannah's husband basically said you should be content am i not more to you than multiple sons there's a spirit in the church that's basically saying shut up sit down and be okay with what you've got where's the voya where's the voice where's the voice where's the voice where's the voice who says no that's it that's the sound that's it that's it that's it father we won't settle here god hear from tumble god we will not settle yeah yeah father god we lift up that voice it sounds like something god it sounds like something god we've seen too much i don't know if you were ever at the brownsville revival or if you were a toronto god but there's more there's more lords there's more gods every church i don't want just one church in california or one in ontario canada father god one in arizona let every church burn with fire [Music] because every believer burns with fire god that's it i feel like the lord says you got it it doesn't always sound like this but this is a oh this is a sign i believe that something's being birthed father right now rama in the midst of creation groaning oh god in the midst of creation groaning right now lord we see the news feeds gone we scroll through social media and the lord says right now don't be discouraged but be aware it's signs that the earth is groaning god so what do we do we groan the earth is groaning and the lord says i have a solution i have a solution where are my midwives where are the ones who will groan with me not begging me but the ones gripped gripped grip to see my kingdom advance grip to see a whole generation leave behind sexual perversion and immorality and run after god because they've tasted a holy fire where father abortion clinics in the abortion industry will not be able to continue not just because of allah but because god you've moved so powerfully in the land we recognize god even those that don't know jesus recognize immorality recognize death oh father god oh god run the heavens run the heavens lord you've already poured out your spirit i feel like the lord is saying guess what that's still a good prayer ren the heavens but guess how i do it i do it through you i rend the heavens through those who carry my spirit jesus just a moment more that's it here we are here we are god [Music] romans 12 1 living sacrifice is god that's it lord all of our warts all of our problems all of our issues lord saying i can handle it i can handle that i can handle you every issue every setback every problem i can handle it and the lord says even in the middle of it i want to pour out my fire on you wow yo lord i am not interested in just having a great service i pray god what we've been gripped with tonight we carry it with us the lord says you know what i really honestly do believe that god wants his people in what we call all seven mountains i believe that but you know what here's the secret he wants people that show up in those places who carry presents just a moment more and we'll finish but i feel like the lord is saying listen that's the thing we've we've been hoping for solutions to come from a lot of other places but i do feel like the lord is saying that message right now of the seven mountains is absolutely necessary but we unfortunately have been expecting other people to do the job of discipling nations for us it's time for you and i'm just praying this over you this might be the benediction we're all done but father i thank you god just take a moment and we think the dark places that we're called the dark places that we operate in right now whether it's a school or a job or even with family members god where they're antagonistic and hostile toward the lord or we feel like we've been called legitimately to dark places and it seems so intimidating now just as a parenthetical don't go where god hasn't called you you'll get swallowed alive but if god's called you he's marked you and he's commissioned you you go and i feel like he's saying this it may seem hostile it may seem dark it may seem bleak it may seem like everybody in that place is against you but imagine this what would happen if the priests carried the ark of the covenant into a hostile atmosphere what happens when the priest what if the priests carry the ark into your workplace what if the priests carry the ark of the covenant into your school into that classroom with that hostile atheistic professor what if the priests carried the ark into hollywood he doesn't travel around in a box anymore he travels through us i believe he's bringing us and he's sending us to places where until this moment darkness has been unchallenged and uncontested why because we just didn't show up but a revivalist doesn't wake up one day and say you know what i'm gonna go change the world a revivalist whether it's somebody like moses isaiah even the church in acts 2 guess where they're born in the fire of god so father thank you for what you've done tonight thank you for the liberty and the freedom here thank you for the peace of god now that's just filling this place isn't it interesting beautiful he comes with great intensity but then he comes with peace i had two prophetic words for specific people that i wrote down a one is for tori and i know him these are not like people that the lord is revealing to me these are just people that i felt like the lord highlighted um and and sarah are you sarah and so i just know sarah from social media would you guys come up here for a minute if you're comfortable doing that with kovid stuff yes yes yeah i just want to pray for you both um i'm only getting to know sarah now but i've followed her on social media and uh sometimes you can just discern purity purity in somebody's ministry i've known you here's what i felt like the lord said both of you it's kind of a word for i actually feel like god right now and i i want to ask you right now to pray would you extend your hands toward these folks because they're actually representing a generation i feel like what god is doing right now and it's for you guys but you guys are like an object lesson god is actually well he's mantling revivalist he's actually wow he's mantling awakeners there's a lot of people who are self-proclaimed and i'm gonna go a little bit hardcore in the bible in the book of revelation remember when jesus actually criticizes that prophet called jezebel she basically she's one who called herself a prophet a self-proclaimed prophet there's a lot of self-proclaimed revivalists out there right now but there's people that god has mantled tori yeah god's mantled you as an awakener i just feel i just feel like god wanted to make a statement he's man told you you didn't wake up one day and choose it you can't yeah father i thank you for that i thank you for the work that he has in new york let's just pray right now i feel like tori you're just standing representing new york city has been sowing tirelessly there with a glorious church where i went i was undone by god father we thank you for the ecclesia in new york city we declare father give him strength you know why because it's a house of prayer i know it's a church i know they gather i know they felt it's a house of prayer and the lord says to you tori never graduate from being a house of prayer wow never graduate from being the womb there's a lot of churches there have been a lot of successful churches in new york sadly a lot of them had to shut down sadly a lot of them have experienced now exposure and people falling but the lord says i can save a city with a remnant i could save that city with one jeremiah lamphere in the 1800s who you know what two people five people showed up to those early prayer meetings but you know what he kept going father released grace to tori and his team to keep going until jesus literally tells you otherwise keep going father we thank you for sarah i thank you lord i feel like the lord's saying right now sir you represent a whole generation who is purely seizing media and social media to minister to people i don't know her from adam except i've obviously followed you people follow each other online she's connected with people that i know um so that helps but i just send such a purity in how she stewards those things right now we're living in an age particularly with people our age where there's a lot of opportunistic tendencies there's a lot of opportunity where you could be a push-button prophet hello i thank you lord for sarah and i thank you lord wow father god just one moment more lord we pray that we pray for those god that you're raising up that have impacted our lives i think of sarah i think of jesse green in california i think of lana voster i think of anna i think of those who have purely stewarded media because right now media is a tough place i don't even like to go on it but you know what i do go on and i get encouraged because of people like sarah and anna and lana god give her strength to keep going and i this is the word that the lord gave me just i felt like the lord said there's going to be a new level of weightiness that comes on the words that you share in the videos that you do and sarah don't stop there's just something for both of these guys about don't stop don't stop when you feel like you're not getting in the the engagement that you want don't stop when you when you feel like the natural results aren't coming listen i remember when i started doing this kind of stuff i had 10 people watching one was often my mother praise god she was very encouraging but don't stop keep it going bless you guys oh yeah my my joy and uh as forrest gump would say that's all i have to say about that thank you guys thank you joan this is an honor to be here you are with some of my favorite people this weekend and remember the fire is not just for the service you carry the fire of god wherever you go so i say let's go and have revival amen let's be the revival right hallelujah hallelujah well i want to encourage you the doors will be open in the morning at 9 00 and you're welcome to shop you

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Published: Fri Jan 08 2021