Revival: Embracing the Holy Spirit's Transformative Power

"as the responsibility at this point in this meeting is on me I tell you I can't do a thing not a single thing for that plan to be fulfilled other than to totally submit to you and I do you can do anything you want through me I'll shout lie on the floor laugh weep be silent speak I don't care just you do your thing your way because it's the only way you can get the glory and I have a passion for you to be glorified and that's not I can't even take credit for that that's the work of the Holy Spirit the yearning of my heart is that you three in the Trinity will be able to say when my part is finished here my will in Tauranga at the Faith Bible College was done on Earth as it was intended in heaven and you've said you fulfill our desires as we Delight ourselves in you so I thank you you're going to do your thing so you can get your glory so that this nation can be absolutely changed not challenged changed changed changed I'm believing for a mighty upheaval in the Holy Spirit so that this nation's Destiny can be fulfilled thank you that you are the one who instigated all this therefore you will fulfill what you have started in Jesus name amen" [00:01:37]

"to understand the vision and purposes for Revival and Spiritual Awakening by studying this is the first preparation by studying the revivals in the word of God and from reading the historical accounts of subsequent revivals by studying the revivals in the word and reading the historical counts of subsequent revivals I've been studying the word of God since I was converted I was converted at the age of five I was reading pretty soon after that and I've been studying Revival from the word reading the word but studying from revival for 46 years the second thing is to because that's where it comes from it's all founded in the word of God second is to commit ourselves to God to be used of him to bring it about at any cost you can be full of all the knowledge of the history of revivals in the word and out of the word and just be a reporter or encyclopedia it's another thing to commit ourselves to be used of God to bring about what we study at any cost that's the second thing the third is to realize our total dependence on the Holy Spirit to conceive the burden for Revival in US it is totally it's a totally Supernatural thing that can't be received any other way you will never have a burden for Revival unless it is conceived in You by the Holy Spirit the only way Mary could conceive and then carry the burden of having Jesus God's son in her womb for nine months was for her to submit to the holy spirit in faith and she declared that be it unto me according to your word and God is waiting for us to say be it unto me according to your word I want this conception for this burden so we may be saying today as Mary did well how can this be thing be how can I become an effective intercessor for Revival on a stain sustained basis I hope you're asking that question the answer isn't complicated it's the same as what happened to Mary the answer was the Holy Spirit will come upon you terribly simple little children can understand it and they get the message much quicker than adults you can teach intercession for Revival to children or he'll catch it like this because they're uncomplicated that means they are humble they're not proud he will impregnate your spirit with a burden for Revival and right now in this room you have either been impregnated by it or you haven't and only God knows the answer to that every time we go again to God In Prayer for Revival which is every time asking for the Holy Spirit to come upon us to either impregnate and then and then cause the baby that grows from the conception every time you you pray more the baby grows bigger the burden becomes greater until you're full blown with it and you live with this full-blown burden and if I didn't understand that there is one thing greater in importance and priority than carrying a full-blown burden for Revival I would say you're consumed by it but you're not because we're not being meant to be consumed by anything less than a longing to be like Jesus that's what we're destined for to know him to be like him we're destined to be conformed to his image and that's got to be the consuming passion as the first and foremost because that's what we're destined for and then secondly out of that comes this all-encompassing burden that affects all our choices in relation to what God wants to do Revival is not the end it is the means getting us ready for the end that's why last night's message is totally essential to understand today's message because we were looking at purpose he will increase that burden in us until it causes a paradigm shift in our thinking in our way we intercede listen spiritual leaders in the way we plan our services in the way we preach in the way we prioritize our Ministries I said to my darling son in love not in law this morning will JV what was what happened what was your take on last night he gave exactly the answer that I wanted from him he said my mind was going like crazy on how this could affect was going to affect my life and my Ministry and all that comes through me as a as a leader that was the right response which means he'd already received that it is the word of the Lord and I'm going to do something about it and his mind was going on like I call like a tin of worms you know that and and it it affects all our thinking and the way we lead and speak because as we learned last night Revival is the greatest thing and the greatest need for the church to meet the greatest need for the world which is a spiritual awakening so that Jesus can come back sooner" [00:05:34]

"our praying for Revival must be with the understanding of our desperate need for it and there is no substitute Revival is the greatest means of meeting our needs in the body of Christ because the spiritual the spirit of the world has so invaded the church it is almost unrecognizable from the world in lifestyle values and conversation isn't that appalling it's true this motivates us to cry out to God like young Jeremiah in Jeremiah 14 verse 7 O Lord though our iniquities testify against it do it for your name's sake for our backslidings are many we have sinned against you this is not in my notes but it's in my heart and I'm being prompted by the spirit to say it it's I carried in my heart all the time when you really study the word of God you will see that so many times it was youth that God used to spearhead some of the greatest moves of God's spirit never ever underestimate a child or youth as I have studied the history of revivals I have found that at least twice at minimum twice Mighty outpourings of the Holy Ghost started with children not not youths children one was in um in Ireland in a classroom in a school a public school in a classroom where one little boy came and and it was came under conviction of sin and he was so troubled in his soul that and it was in such distress that the kind teacher saw got another Elder boy in the classroom uh who was responsible and she assigned him to take the little boy home because he was in such distress and on the way home the older boy was a Christian and led the younger boy to Christ the young boy they both turned around went back into the classroom and the the little the little boy new conduit just said when he got inside the room he looked at the teacher and he said oh I am so happy I have Jesus in my heart and the Holy Ghost moved in Mighty power that affected the whole District the whole District was turned upside down the boys in the classroom automatically under the Holy Spirit bypass anything of the teacher sovereignly walked outside the classroom and went around the the courtyard apart from one another with their faces to the wall in the courtyard wailing and weeping and groaning under conviction of sin no man had said anything the kid had testified the girl's classroom upstairs heard this came under the same conviction and there were wailings and weepings up there all the teachers came under conviction of sin and there was such a a horrendous upheaval and move of the holy spirit that somebody contacted there weren't telephones so somebody must have gone and got the word out to the parents and the friends who were responsible for the children some would be Guardians While others were working and then as soon as the parents and the friends who were responsible for the children hit the place in the in the school room they came under the same convicting power of the Holy Spirit and the place was a mess Revival's messy When you pray for rain expect mud that's not all that's not all the the they were they're all screaming out because they're all getting converted and they're all under conviction and they needed help help me in this weeping and wailings and going on and then they realized they needed ministers and so somebody got out and and went to and about six ministers around the place came in and they were counseling the people till 2 A.M in the morning a child a child no wonder the word of God says a little child should lead them and then so that's a that's just a pro that's just a school and then uh on another occasion um a Sunday school teacher who had been doing his homework and praying like mad for his class of children small class of children was about to leave at the call of God and go to somewhere else and he was praying a tremendously impassioned prayer of blessing over these children that he had taught every week and as the school teacher was praying the spirit of God fell upon the children and again there isn't time because there's so much to give you this afternoon there are there we could be here literally literally easily all afternoon and then tonight just on this half of the message I don't know how to discharge what God has put in my heart in the time frame I'm given I've just handed it over to Holy Spirit he knows but the and and the what happened in that Sunday School classroom again happened started the whole Revival in a district in a city are you a Sunday school teacher Are you a Day School teacher if you've got a passion and burden for Revival he can start it right with you if you'll pay the price and if you will not limit the Holy One of Israel in children as parents you should be praying use my children in Revival I haven't the slightest doubt that my six grandchildren are all going to be mightily used by God in Revival how do I know I'm praying for it believing and they're going to have to resist incredible pressure from the Holy Ghost in answer to my prayers not to John says that's cool because he's got four of them" [00:12:15]

"think of the before I say the sentence think of the hardest hardened sinner you know the one you've been praying for the most the most or the most unlikely person you could think of ever to be converted you think of somebody in the government circles you two guys these two darling men do you know do you know why they're do you know why they're in government these two darling guys that I love today ex-ym leaders I've been praying them into it for decades and decades and decades I've been praying God put God fearing men and women of your choosing into the government in New Zealand put them there put them there so I nearly did double the amount of cartwheels when I heard that these two guys had responded to the call of God good for you good on you mate in Isaiah 59 verse 19 God tells us that that when the enemy comes in comma like a flood the Lord will raise up a standard against him the enemy has come in with such an unprecedented inconceivable horrendous flood of Filth that it's going to take the standard of a Titanic tidal wave of gigantic Holy Spirit proportion I guess that's a tsunami to knock him down and drown him out we need to be desperate in prayer for the millions of so-called born-again Christians who've never won a soul to Christ we were born to reproduce normally mostly in the natural God has his exceptions with those he wants to use who he can only use by being single but the majority are born to reproduce and we're born again to reproduce there are millions more who sell them if ever witnessed to non-christians Millions more who've never done the thing about obedient being obedient to the Great Commission in Matthew 28 I remember sitting in the back seat of a car what nation was I in Canada I think and I was being driven to speak at a conference lady was in the front seat in the here and then there was a lady on the driver's side and the lady in the front seat started to share how God had called her to be a missionary where was it in this in the south sea Islands or something and she kept saying why me just imagine God calling me to leave Canada and go to the south sea Islands and she was sort of overcome by The Wonder of this sort of amazing phenomena that was everything was coming from her this is an amazing phenomena that I should be called my response in the back seat is what in the world are you freaking out about when God tells us all that we are to go go means a change of location in the English language as I understand it and she's freaking out because all he's done is given her where we should all be expecting to go we should all have a story of divine guidance to stay our response is to keep praying Psalm 85 verse 6 will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you and Lamentations 5 to 21 turn us Back To You O Lord and we will be restored that's why being conformed to his image is the greatest thing turn back to you the more you're with him the more you'll be like him the more you you love him the more you're praising the more you worship Him the more you study the word about him the more you have a passion for him the more you study his ways as a leader and as a man and as a friend and as a person the more you get like him I've had why When leaders say to me affectionately not critically Joy you are so radical but it was said with affection and a tingev but we do receive Grace to cope with you and my responses would to God I was a thousand times more like Jesus and so much more radical if Jesus was in the flesh here that's radical with a capital r full-blown quadrophonic sound Amplified radically real that's my definition of Jesus that's what I want to be God has shaped um yes history around the church think about it God has shaped history around the church never the governments the church and he expects the church to shape the history of the Nations never the governments therefore all Revival praying should stop with a burdened heart for the body of Christ in every nation and continue until our prayers become desperate before God in my book on intercession oh it's not here where please thank you in my book on intercession thrilling and fulfilling here chapter 8 is a devoted com entirely to the one of the most important messages I have ever given in my life second to this series I'm giving last night and today and it's how to pray effectively for every nation of the world you can be a history maker in your bedroom and never go outside the door and shape the nations of the world under God by his Holy Spirit and by his grace that's what I've been doing that's been the most powerful part of my Ministry is is hidden away praying chapter 8 in that book and there's not a single one of you in here who has any excuse than to do exactly the same thing how do I know because as a very young woman young wife young mother I remember going to walking down out from my little home to my little post box and and as I walked back it's as Vivid today as as it was decades ago it's as Vivid I can remember it just as though it was a moment ago as I walked back to the front door of that little house I heard the Holy Spirit say to me you are called you are called automatically as every other Christian is to intercede for the nations of the world every nation of the world because as a Christian I have put you in the world and the world consists of the nations of the world therefore you as a Christian are responsible to pray for every nation no man told me that the holy spirit said that to me and people who I respect greatly and love dearly say that I have an unusual call upon my life and and the ministry of intercession has been impacted to me as a special gift baloney it's hogwash it isn't true I prove it by my cohort which is you are a Christian not I am calling you apart as a special intercessor it wasn't that it was you're a Christian are you a Christian do you belong to this world are you are you part of the net of the world yes therefore we as Christians as part of the world have an automatic responsibility that's what he said to me you're just a Christian and you're part and therefore you've got a responsibility it was a totally New Concept to me I'd never heard it before I said you're right of course what they do got inside the door as soon as I could possibly do so at the right moment dropped on my knees and said which nation and he said Afghanistan I found that exciting wasn't sure where it was and to get a map and find out who cares gone you you see as far as I'm concerned in the relation to the ministry of intercession and to the nations of the world God only sees two characters two two um categories thank you who was that who helped me I always knew I knew to knew Jill my darling little daughter there uh two categories the obedient and the disobedient which category you in I love the way I love the way God has trained me it's so odd it's so opposite from all the ways of men you know you don't hear that stuff in Bible colleges or seminaries I wish to God you did I'm praying that it will come I remember as a young wife and mother in my late 20s being on the phone and and a bible school from this nation a student in his second year at a Bible College a Bible College like this uh desperately needing Counsel on the phone and I said you know what you need to do is to wait on God and he said well what What on earth does that mean it was totally foreign to him I said you mean in my naivety I said you mean you don't have a course in your college your Bible College on waiting on God it's one of the absolute Basics Essentials for the Christian Life to operate he said no I've never heard of it so that immediately gave me a burden for the Bible colleges of the world right there I became accountable because I learned they they weren't basing their thank you darling thank you what would I do without my family and on the on the word they're not right it's not based on the ways of God imagine having a Bible College without without a course on the way to Young God later on later on in my life let this one blow you out of your tree God had by now sent me around the world teaching the character and the ways of God in the nations of the earth mostly to spiritual leaders and word got out in the 70s that in in Southern California that this little lady from New Zealand was always talking about knowing god and and um apparently in the testimony that they were given a lot of lives were radically changed so I was approached by the head of a seminary now here's all the the ones that are all getting their degrees I don't have any degrees only because God saw that it was better for me to just keep being himself in me without them that's all if you've got them well God bless you and as long as you just keep being like Jesus he'll use them so that it's probably harder for you than for me that's why it's easier for God to work with children and uh and so I had this invitation from this Seminary of Higher Learning where they were from the Seminary they were all going to be uh they'll all have their doctorates they're all there to get their doctorates in whatever and they brought the little lady in who didn't have any letters after a name at all to teach on knowing god because they didn't have it in their curriculum a Theological Seminary Theo the knowledge of God and not in the in the curriculum unreal no more comment I went this is your thing and I don't know where I am in the notes so you're going to have to help me foreign oh yes Isaiah 64 7 and there is no one who calls on your name who stirs himself to take hold of you now that's desperate praying when I first read that verse decades ago in my life I said oh so you're challenging me and you're saying there's no you're looking down on the earth and you're saying there's nobody who calls on your new on your name who stirs themselves up to take hold of you will you go I'm going to make history right now I said that to God so you'll never be able to have that verse as as you you can't say there's nobody so I stirred myself up and laid hold on God and started to cry out in desperation for the nation he put upon my heart Israel is one of the classic examples in scripture of a desperate intercessor he obviously took that challenge in Isaiah 64 7 and responded to it in identical identificational repentance which is what the ministry that God has raised John up around the Earth International reconciliation Coalition it's all about identificational repentance a most marvelous um marvelous thing that God has done an essential movement that had to take place before ever revival can can come is international reconciliation and it is one of the greatest Thrills and fulfillments of my life to have a child who is bringing Unity wherever there is disunity Ezra 9 verses 5-6 at the evening sacrifice now this guy's desperate I arose from My fasting as if that wasn't enough and having torn my garment and my robe I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God and I said oh my God I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to you my God for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads and how guilt has grown up to the heavens I know what it's like often in intercession for a nation to have my head down like this Jim is my marvelous marvelous prayer partner the best partner I've ever ever had we pray together all the time most nights like I mean nearly every night in our home is a serious prayer meeting and uh he's here to to verify as I name out the pride the unbelief the divisions the the jealousies and the body of Christ and my head goes down lower and lower and I put my hand over I'm embarrassed about our sins and the body of Christ I'm embarrassed to be an American citizen and to have to name the sins before you God I understand that it's part of desperate praying you can't even lift your face because you are identifying you're seeing it as as God sees it fractionally is there ever was there ever time if ever there was a time in the history of this nation of New Zealand when we need to cry out as David did in Psalm 119 verse 126 it is now that verse will be on this on the screen and this is it it is time for you to act O Lord for we have regarded your law your word as void every major problem we are facing in this nation of New Zealand comes from our blatant rejection of the standard of God's holy word the Bible you may say Amen I was deeply grieved to learn recently from one of my darling grandchildren um JB and Jill's daughter Jenny and her beautiful fiancee Raphael from who's come from Switzerland and who is in Youth of the mission they'll be married on March the 5th in Kona Hawaii and as Raphael was in my home he had and telling me how he had been sent as a leader from uh Kona Hawaii where they he and Jenny uh stationed on staff there they had been assigned Raphael had been assigned to lead a team right here in Auckland and he was telling me how um he most of their witnessing on the Outreach team was to the prostitutes up in karang happy Road in Auckland and I was utterly fascinated at the method that God had shown them Raphael's 22 to 22. but I'm what I'm going to I should tell you this I was deeply grieved to learn recently that prostitution has been legalized in this country as well as same-sex marriages have also been legalized horrendous horrific things to take place things that we would never have dreamed of in our wildest dreams when we lived here 34 years ago would take place and Raphael told me that they used to go out in the night when the prostitutes would be walking the streets often in the early hours of the morning and they would take them hot coffee and something to drink and hot tea and they would Minister to their physical needs because it would the girls didn't have much on and sometimes it would be cold out there and they the teens would go and and just Minister the love of God and speak to them give them a hot drink and Raphael said I couldn't get over the response of one girl to me when ref said and you know not only does God love you and accept you but we do too unconditionally and God hasn't given up on you and he has a wonderful plan for your life and and we're going to pray for you give us your name because we're going to continue to pray for you and this prostitute said oh my I sure need prayer she said I haven't got my grandma died recently and I don't have anyone now to stand in the gap for me what does that tell you she has a background only a girl with the background of Christianity knows the word standing in the gap for me and she was so grateful that someone from Switzerland who had been sent by gato away and then by sent by God to walk in New Zealand speaking with an accent would would come and say Jesus loves you and he is hot coffee and something to eat and I'm going to pray for you ongoingly we need desperate intercessors like young Jeremiah who said in Lamentations 2 verse 11 my eyes are spent with see a young man get it Raphael 22 Jeremiah young young prophet one of the greatest intercessors in the Bible is Jeremiah a young man weeping for prostitutes listen to it my eyes are spent with weeping my soul is in torment my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people that was an impassioned prayer from a young man who was a seasoned desperate intercessor have you noticed the desperate people are never self-conscious have you ever heard a drowning person say it would be nice if I could have some help now I mustn't get radical that help would be you know it would be nice just now it's help I'm drowning if we ask God to give us his heart for prostitutes and prayed desperate I'm talking about the prostitutes in this nation because it's legalized and pray desperate prayers for their salvation for their healing and their total Deliverance in time God would answer our prayers if the if everyone in this room did it I've been doing this from the moment Raphael told me some weeks ago or months a couple of months ago that this was happening I've been praying for the prostitutes in New Zealand for God to deliver them save them heal them and I thought if I could just get the those bods down in Tauranga to join me do you know what would happen prostitution would go out of business the girls would find Christ and they wouldn't want all the rest of the junk think about it that's that's exactly God's strategy how do I know he gave it to me when you take the challenge if I in America can have a burden for the prostitutes in New Zealand can you have a burden for the prostitutes in your country what are you going to do about this challenge regularly you're going to take it on June Dooney is anybody else going to join us put your hand up you're going to pray for the prostitution do you want those of you with your hands down thank you for the relatively few who responded quarter of you what the heck goes wrong with the was wrong with the rest of you don't you care about that desperation do you say therefore when you hear it it has been legalized from the government the highest Authority in the land that it has been legalized do you say oh isn't it awful or do you say God that's a challenge you have an answer show me your answer a crisis gives us unique opportunity for radical action do you know that in the Chinese language the word crisis and opportunity are exactly the same word I love that they're really clued up there crisis opportunity same word when the enemy gains a victory in society and he has gained an enormous victory in society and is two incredible strongholds in here through prostitution being legalized and same-sex marriages the Christians should seek God for a strategy to prove that greater is he who is in us than he that is in the world James chapter 4 verse 7. God I pray my obviously preaching didn't get all these people to commit themselves to the prostitutes but my praying can do more than my preaching so I pray that there will not be one person at the sound of my voice who you will let go and you will you will be like The Hound of heaven and you will burden them and Bug them in the spirit until they receive the burden to pray for the prostitutes of this land until there are no prostitutes and there is therefore they can put what language they laws lay like out but there's nobody in business do it I pray asking you to do it because I believe talking to you about men is obviously more powerful than talking to you about men talking to men about you I mean so I just trust you I trust you to burden everyone's en route in this room until they they can become committed and until these laws become obsolete in Jesus name and I ask that the same thing you'll show us a strategy in the body of Christ in New Zealand to outwit the strategy of the enemy on this legalized same-sex marriage ruining the families you have a plan you are greater we seek your face for it until we find it in Jesus name yes of course yes I'm believing for that I'm standing up thank you God that you will begin to take hold of some of these young women yes be trapped in this life Lord and you won't move amen" [00:17:13]

"the fifth point in today's message the fifth prize for Revival is to pray for it with diligence and determination while ever this breath in our body and until God answers you can see it up on the screen Isaiah 62 verses 6 through 7 I have set Watchmen on your walls o Jerusalem they shall never hold their peace day or night you who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent I'm going to illustrate from the life of Marie Monson who was a single New York Norwegian woman sent by God to be a missionary in China and I am quoting from a book called The Awakening which recounts the Revival in China from 1927 to 1937. an amazing little woman of God you see there is no age group that cannot be vitally involved in in Revival and who cannot be used of God to stop Revival be it a child or an elderly person a a single woman an older man doesn't matter there as you study the history of revivals you see God takes always the unusual in our thinking to stop praying remember it it was Seth Joshua who prayed for a lad from the coal mines or a boy out in the fields did you know God reminded me this morning in my room and I have read at um intense interest for myself Billy Graham's life story it was just a farm boy relatively uneducated do you know why because he was he had to get up at three o'clock every morning every morning every day of the week and go out and milk the cup the cows before going to school and by through and by after lunchtime in in the classroom that that dear boy's head was just nodding like this and he was just fighting sleep every afternoon five days a week and couldn't absorb God used a fanboy to be the greatest evangelist internationally of our time God loves to do it never despise youth or the elderly it's those two little one woman in the Hebrides Island was 90 and bowed down and the other one was in her 80s and was blind and they prayed with a with a uh one of the deacons in a church in other words every single one of us regardless of age or status or anything or condition and health can be a catalyst under God's hand for Revival if you will have the vision if you will capture the burden if you will if you will say I am available holy spirit's telling me to stop I'm just waiting on it he's just given me an awesome understanding in relation to you in this in this building he said to me it were better for these people not to have come to this conference and heard what I'm saying through you and not be obedient it would be better that they didn't come than to hear and not obey because the accountability on you is tremendous with this kind of clarity and strength of truth that is coming to you you will be accountable and God will hold you accountable at the Judgment seat of what you have done with this message if you say if you come to critique the message and the messenger if you are passive sitting there passive and say no I'm not going to commit myself to pray for for prostitutes like some of you did he's warning you in his love for you the price of Disobedience will be ten thousand times higher than the price to obey I did not I did not have that in my heart to say the Holy Spirit gave it to me to say and you could see I didn't know what to say he's giving you an opportunity to take seriously this weekend the first thing I said when I came and sat down here do you remember I hope you will take us this weekend as seriously as God and I have the price of disobedience is always a thousand times harder than the price to obey because we've always got Grace to obey and we come under God's judgment when we don't obey Marie Monson writes in her amazing little book out of the Awakening listen to it we heard of the Revival in Korea now remember she's a single woman from Norway in core in China as a missionary we heard of the Revival in Korea which began in 1907 it was a mighty movement and had been born through a Prayer Revival among missionaries oh to be able to go there and bring back some of the glowing coals to our own mission field in China but the journey was long and very expensive and she didn't have any money as I prayed for the money she said and looked for an answer a definite word from the Holy Spirit was given to me instead this is what he said what you want through that Journey may be given you here right here in China in answer to prayer the words were a tremendous challenge I gave my solemn promise then I will pray until I receive having pledged myself to be an intercessor for Revival in China I set out to cross the floor of my room to my place of Prayer in order to pray this prayer for Revival for the first time I had not taken more than two or three steps before I was halted then what then happened can only be described as follows quote it was as though a giant boa constrictor had wound its coils around my body and were squeezing the life out of me I was terrified finally while gasping for breath I added the one word Jesus Jesus Jesus each time I spoke out that precious name it grew easier to breathe and in the end the serpent left me I stood there dazed the first conscious thought was oh then prayer for Revival means as much as that I'm just quoting her words it's not the best English but it's her words oh so that's what that means and therefore my promise should be kept as much as that if the enemy thinks it's worth killing me for me to to be an intercessor for Revival until it comes then I'd better that's how serious that's how seriously he the enemy is taking it I'd better take it that seriously that experience helped me to endure through the almost 20 years which were to pass before the first Small Beginnings of Revival were visible truly God works unhurriedly the holy spirit's speaking to me again sovereignly he's saying you've been praying desperate diligent determined faithful prayers for Revival for 46 years and you haven't seen it for this nation yet but he's saying what I'm going to bring will make anything that has preceded revivals look like something a hole in the wall in other words Joy it will be worth waiting for 46 years will seem as nothing because of the tidal wave of my spirit that will come if my people will heed this word thank you for that encouragement you can interrupt this message anytime you like because it's your message thank you for that encouragement that's marvelous thank you a god-given um later in her report Marie Monson shared that quote the burden for prayer was Heavy upon me there had been times for instance when traveling with fellow missionaries when the burden was so great that I had to withdraw from the general conversation in order to concentrate inwardly in silent prayer that's a burden for Revival a god-given burden for Revival is a fire within your spirit ignited by the holy spirit that burns incessantly and is refueled every time you pray for it listen to Ezekiel 4 27 the the scripture is the is there I will Kindle a fire in you and the Blazing flame shall not be quenched Ezekiel 4 27 we're consumed with christ-likeness and then out of that and a passion for his word which hears the word and out of it comes the vision and burden for this thing called Revival until we see it fulfilled I remember standing up preaching on Revival in um Nebraska no was it south of Nebraska or North Nebraska it doesn't matter no I've got the wrong state no what what's the little tiny State there's not many people on a lot of farm people that we went to Dakota yeah yes thank you I sure needed your job thank you it was in North or South Dakota and one of the most unimpressive parts of the States from anybody's opinion but gods and I was I was speaking and I remember the the burden and the lung the desperate longing for Revival is so great and it's been so long since I've prayed and I remember the Holy Spirit challenging me right in the middle of the message like he's speaking to me in this one like this and he said to me are you willing to keep up the the discipline and the fervor and the the desperation and go to heaven and never see it and I broke down I said to the people God's spirit's just spoken to me and I said I've got to weigh this I can't say yes quickly it's what I live for and I wept and wept and wept and wept in the Pulpit as I faced what it would mean never to see it never to be part of it something you live for with a passion and I came through with God's grace to say yes you can take me to heaven and I'll watch it from there if more Glory can come to your name this is one thing that we cannot organize as my beloved friend Levin Leonard Ravenhill many many years ago told me joy it cannot be organized it has to be agonized Revival praying inevitably means going deeper in intercession because we're praying for the deepest thing to happen when Elijah prayed a one-sentence prayer on Mount Carmel fire fell from heaven this was a sign and a Wonder ah but listen when it took but it took Elijah's desperate determined diligent prevailing persistent intercession before God sent the rain which is a sign of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit the prophet Isaiah understood the difference between praying for a display of God's power and a display of God's awesome presence in Revival there's a vast difference you can see the power and not be changed but you can't be in that outpoured presence and not be changed Isaiah 64 1-3 oh that you would ring the heavens says desperate young young prophet Isaiah oh that you would have read the heavens that you would come down now I want you I want you to see there's something very significant in these familiar prayers that you may not have seen before because some of you have already switched me off and said I know that prayer I've been praying that prayer for years you could be in the Lydia movements and be in that but have you noticed this I shared this with Benny him in a restaurant in Newport Beach and it blew his mind he said that is absolutely wonderful joy and it it has transformed my thinking and he has gone out he went the next day out to a great big conference and preached him what what I'd given him in in the in the restaurant and it has become a theme of his life and he is being used of God to reach more multitudes in this generation for Christ than anyone I know are on the planet 10 million people in India in three days he will be speaking to 20 million people uh in three on on three different Crusades he's having within weeks of each other and Benny said I have never seen that Joy he's a dear humble precious man of God close friend of mine and this is what I was pointing out to him oh that you would Rin the heavens and come down that you would that the mountains might shake at your presence not the fire of your power but at your presence as fire burns Brushwood as far causes water to boil to make your name known to your adversaries that the nations may tremble at your presence his presence doesn't need to have anything spectacular he's here in his presence right now and we haven't seen a sign or a Wonder yet but his presence is here he's shown up and you and I know it when you did awesome things for which we did not look that's the best definition in the Bible I know when you did awesome things for which we did not look you came down the mountain shook not at your power at your presence three times the prophet Cries Out show up and show off that's my version of this it's your presence we need it doesn't matter whether there's any signs or any wonders I've been more times than I can remember or count at Benny Hinn meetings where the power of God you talk about I've seen power manifest in the most incredible ways I've seen great big strong muscle men moving under the power of God as though like corkscrews being just screwed in the air like corkscrews and then twisting around on the ground not demonic spirits under the power of God and and hardly being able to have to big heavy men having to lift them and move them into their seats again under the power of God but that's nothing it's nothing compared when when Benny Hinn leads by the owl in worship worship worship to Jesus uninterrupted worship and the presence of God comes and that's when the Miracles come as he says the Miracles are born on the wings of the worship to God big and his his consuming desire is your presence your presence and we've watched The Marked increase in depth and breadth in his ministry when it's the presence because he said on a program interviewing me once I've done 29 programs with him and one of them he said to me you know Joyce that there's nothing like the power of God this is before I gave him the birth okay and and and I said oh yes there is Benny on the program I said oh yes there is what is it I said his presence oh tell me more you see that's the humble Hungry Heart he doesn't care if he's being taught by a woman on television with 160 Nations watching no wonder God does what he does with him God wherever Benny is right now in the middle of an enormous Crusade we ask for that your Mighty presence to come right down in just in an awesome way just an awesome way as never before in unprecedented waves of your presence right now in Jesus name believing and and cover that darling man Lord cover him to let him be under the shadow of your wings Lord safest place I know thank you Jesus your protection energize him give him more revelation of yourself and use him more mightily to reach more Millions for your glory amen it means asking God for a revolution of righteousness to invade the church and overflow out to the unconverted Isaiah 45 8 rain down you Heavens from above and let the skies pour down righteousness let the Earth open up let them bring forth salvation and let righteousness spring up together I the Lord have created it that's one of the most powerful verses that we can pray for Revival have you got it Isaiah 45 8 if you've got it marked down so you can pray it again and I love the part the last part I the Lord have created it its present tense it's not past I'll do it again if you will obey I love using the powerful prayer in Psalm 45 verses 3 to 4 gird your sword upon your thy Almighty one with your glory and your majesty and in your majesty ride prosperously because of Truth humility and righteousness and your right hand shall teach you awesome things I've got those words truth humility and righteousness underlined in my Bible I've thought and I've written nothing better nothing more powerful truth humility and righteousness as we pray all the prayers for a Revival from the prophets in the bible we sense their intensity and that helps our intensity one of my most used Revival prayers in this category comes from habakkuk 3 verse 7. in short it's short simple and intense Lord I have heard of your Fame I stand in awe of your Deeds O Lord renew them in our day in our time make them known in Wrath remember Mercy very short prayer now this is how I interpret that prayer for worldwide Revival this is my version this is how I've prayed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times now the Bible describes how the prophet habakkuk's prayer was answered in verse 3 and 15 and would and with this we will close and have a break but this is how God answered the prayer you may turn it up it's very fascinating habakkuk 3 in your Bibles and you can go through it with me as as what I want to point out is the different ways God's attributes uh are displayed okay habakkuk three through verse 15. you know we could be all day just looking at the first two words what are the first two words tell them to me the Lord or God came if there was nothing else that would do me how to do me God came habitat three after the prophet's prayer then he's then in kindness the Holy Spirit describes how he came the Holy One from Mount peran now verse 3 all right what is that attribute holiness this is what I want you to see this is on the board is it oh okay dear so it's did we not have it on the chart okay Holiness I want us to see his glory covered the heavens and the Earth was full of his praises so that's his glory his glory covered the heavens Holiness Glory his brightness was like the light that's brilliance this is what we can expect in Revival he has Rays flashing from his hands and there his power was hidden spectacular power before him went pestilence and fever followed At His Feet verse 5 judgment he stood and measured the Earth all his matches um Isaiah 24 that we were having it from the worship leader it's just a parallel he stood and measured the Earth he looked and startled oh I can't go over that do you know how big God is he looked he looked didn't open his mouth didn't raise a finger didn't sneeze he looked and startled the Nations that's my God and the Everlasting mountains was scattered the Perpetual Hills bowed the Sun and the Moon Stood Still in their habitation all he done was look now I've called that Sovereign power over the universe see that at the light of your arrows they went as The Shining of your glittering spear that is Earth shaking awesome power are you getting it good you marched through the land in indignation you trampled the nations in Anger that's Wrath it's worse than judgment you went forth for the Salvation for you of your people for salvation with your anointed verse 13 that's Deliverance his ways are Everlasting that's our Eternal God now that's that's what God did when a prophet prayed a prayer for Revival the effect on the prophet habakkuk was as follows listen to it when I heard my body trembled my lips quivered at the voice rottenness entered my bones and I trembled in myself that I may rest in the day of trouble when he comes up to his people he will invade them with his troops verse 16. Revival is very very awesome it is the unless the unleashing of the holy spirit is no light matter okay isn't here's how here's how it happened in Wellington New Zealand in 1922 taken directly out of the book um about Smith wigglesworth's life 1922 Wellington New Zealand when Smith's Wigglesworth was ministering in Wellington New Zealand he called for a special prayer meeting with a group of 11 leaders spiritual leaders after each of them had prayed Wigglesworth Rose to seek the Lord and the presence of God began to fill the room soon the glory of God became terrible the light became too bright the heat too intense the other men couldn't take it any longer every one of them left the room only Smith wiggleswood could continue in the Shekinah Glory of God another Minister heard what had happened and determined at the next Gathering no matter how strong the presence of God became he would stay until the end once again the holy presence of God filled the room and the glory of God became unbearable everyone left except this one leader and Wigglesworth but the but the one other leader would not be overcome and driven out by the Manifest presence of the Lord Wigglesworth just kept seeking God but it was too much Wigglesworth was caught up in the spirit radiant with Holy Fire and even the determined Minister couldn't stand the intensity soon enough he was gone too that's what a demonstration of the glory of God is I'd rather be burned to a crisp in Revival I mean it with my whole being and be in his manifest presence even if he if if I just take it took me to Heaven because my mortal frame couldn't take it then then be outside his manifest Presence by choice what about you" [00:33:24]