Revival: A Call to Humility and Prayer

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When Jeremiah Lamphere got a burden for his City, Jeremiah Lamphere was not a preacher he was a businessman living in New York City and Jeremiah Lamphere began to be burdened by the moral and the spiritual decay that was going on in the life of the nation exhibited in that great city. [00:03:36]

Jeremiah Lamphere didn't know what to do he called a prayer meeting and in October of 1857 Jeremiah Lamphere and a handful of business associates went into the sanctuary of the old Dutch Chapel on Fulton Street New York City and they began to pray. [00:04:10]

Within six months of that first meeting every day in New York City over 10,000 people were gathered they gathered in the restaurants they gathered in the church buildings and in the shops and they began to fall on their face and cry out to God for revival. [00:04:59]

Within another six months over a million people that's one third of the entire population of the eastern seaboard of our country at that time over a million people were converted to Christ and added to the churches and they called it the great prayer awakening. [00:05:27]

We need revival in the in America we need revival as a matter of fact I want you I want to tell you that our only hope listen if we don't have revival we're going to run headlong into the judgment of Almighty God we've got to have revival. [00:05:51]

We need revival not only in the pews of America in our churches our churches are dead and cold and I'm talking about Pentecostal churches you know they used to call Methodist shouting Methodists and Baptists shouting Baptist I want to ask you a question when's the last time anybody shouted in your Pentecostal church. [00:06:18]

We need some old-fashioned Holy Ghost men of God who are not to raise up their voice like a trumpet and lay the axe to the root of the tree and say repent thus saith the Lord listen we need revival in this nation our nation that has become characterized by materialism. [00:07:38]

We need revival zoos the street an old black preacher with one eye William Seymour he was so shy that friend barliman in his book about Azusa Street said that said that William Seymour was sitting behind an Apple crate on a chair and he would stick when he wasn't preaching he would stick his head in that Apple crate and he would just pray. [00:18:52]

God do it again the charismatic renewal and the Jesus Movement where over a million teenagers were swept into the kingdom of God and my prayer today is God do it again do it again God do it in this place God touched the preachers in this place. [00:19:36]

God says if you will I will that's the good news if you will I will God says if you will humble yourself and pray I want to tell you the most prideful people I've ever met in my life beginning with myself for preachers so full of stinking pride so desirous to be known. [00:25:12]

God says if the people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my look at me listen and seek my face which is always an idiom in the Hebrew language for the presence of God we can't have revival through marketing we sure can't have it through manipulation. [00:26:24]

God says humble yourself and pray and seek my face look at me and turn from his tie he's not talking about the world he's talking about the church turn from your wicked ways wickedness wickedness adultery in the church in the pulpits greed materialism using the people of God to build your own empire. [00:29:19]

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