Reviving Our Hunger: A Call to Encounter God

"The woman at the well said come see a man who told me all things that ever I did is that's not the Christ and wasn't one brother said to another come see come and see I think the question really is how hungry are we I hungry are we oh I don't need to go anywhere to God's with me you know sometimes that is just code language for acampa Bollard and I'm too lukewarm and passive in my Christianity it's hardly the same as the psalmist who said my soul follows hard after God I'm a God Chaser I want to chase God down wherever he is and like the great Theologian of Revival Jonathan Edwards says rather than asking God to bless you where you are go and look and see where the Redeemer is at work and go there." [00:15:52]

"It was amazing, but at the same time ordinary. Ordinary People, nothing Sensational nothing spectacular, we cued about an R the next night three a constant flow in and out of the chapel, worship songs to piano and guitar, sometimes Out Of Tune, simple gospel messages brief enough and then an appealed to consecration, surrender on the Spirit-filled life a Holiness message for an Unholy r, on the one hand there seems nothing remarkable about the content of these meetings, and yet on the other hand everything is remarkable, nothing Sensational but when all is considered it has to be concluded that it is exceptional, a constant stream of people for over a week a week and a half it became now coming for nothing only a hunger for God and to commit their lives to Jesus, nothing of performance to draw them new celebrity preacher or artist to weigh them." [00:18:03]

"What struck me was the simplicity of what was going on in Osprey, can I say there was a great clarity in the message there's a lot of nonsense being talked about no gospel being preached and it all been saying, like several of the revivals in Osprey, it was based on testimony gospel testimony of these young people whose lives have been changed and the gospel was preached I heard it preached I heard a pills for the gospel there was a Clarity in the message but the Simplicity was it was not built around personas, or charismatic personalities I'm not talking about theology there I'm just talking about big big wigs and big names it wasn't based around performer performers or performances, but it was all around Jesus." [00:19:19]

"There was no known leader to this move of God no there were leaders but they were all hidden, Alexander asked thing that it filtered through after a while that some famous very famous worship leaders were all attending Osprey and very kindly offered their services and volunteered free of charge to to lead worship and they were very politely declined, now please listen carefully to what I'm saying it's not that we don't value Talent, on gift from God we we very much do, but what this move of God reminded us of is God doesn't need it, it's not that it's not special, but God doesn't need it to do his work." [00:20:20]

"If anything is essential to Revival, it is humility, we read tonight from Isaiah 57 15 thus says the high and the lofty one who inhabits eternity whose name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him who has a contrite and humble Spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite one that means, well Revival is a reaching High isn't it you want a greater Christian experience and you want a greater knowledge of God so Revival is a reaching high as if we're trying to bring Heaven down but what is saying is if we want that reaching High there must be a buying low and reaching high can only be a t and by the buying little by I dwell with the contrite one the broken one the high and the lofty one dwells with the one that is broken, cleansed and felt." [00:21:08]

"Ordinary people who are doing things ordinarily, of course we have an extraordinary God, don't we, and he takes the foolish things, he takes the simple things, the things that are not to confine the things that are wise and mighty and you know I have a 25 year old friend James ageist about in their American fellow who was with me and sharing a hotel room as we were in Asbury his name's Jack and uh Jack put on a social media post after his first experience of osprey that what struck him around the ordinary nature of this move of God was as he walked away he said to himself why can't this happen in my hometown, and the fact is it can, and the Simplicity of it all ends to the accessibility of Ordinary People what were the early disciples only ordinary people very Ordinary People we wouldn't have picked them the ones that Jesus picked but that's how he turned the world the known world upside down with ordinary people who could who could speak to Ordinary People and it could turn ordinary people's lives around by their Witness this is for everyone, it's time the church hears again that this is for everyone, it's not a special class, to everyone, every man woman boy or girl." [00:24:39]

"What I mean by that is it's very accessibility and simplicity means that it's ideal for duplication and that's exactly what's happening across college campuses in the United States right now and some will say they're just copying well listen if there's anybody in leadership here this evening and knows what any preachers or clergy here tonight you know what it is if you preach an extra five minutes on a Sunday morning don't you what can happen Armageddon can happen, and you know what it is having a special weekend of meetings some some once a year or something or Parisa thought a week of meetings maybe Holy Week or something like that, these are young people who are willingly staying 24 7 to pray to worship to intercede there's no ban there's no attraction there's nothing only the presence of God you can't tell me that this is Orchestra, it's incredible, and the beauty is it's reproducible and it's happening now in colleges across USA and even other parts of the world I heard reports today about things going on in Brazil I'm hearing reports about this same sense The Same Spirit that this same thing taking place with no direct Association I believe God is doing this right across the world now." [00:26:08]

"Now you may not want to put the word Revival on I don't really care it's semantics to a large degree but I'll tell you this I believe with all my heart that what I saw in Osprey was a genuine move of God, and we have all these crazy Christians I'm sorry but I have to say it denying that this is a move of God, you would think the devil was attracting people to young people to Jesus Christ to give their life out and out and all in all for him I mean the devil must have lost the plot really, but you know something, every Revival has had an offense to him did you know that, every move of God has had an offense to it and usually it was a church in some area or sphere who opposed the moves of God and perhaps the offense to this particular move of God is its ordinariness, the charismatics really can't get their hand right on the conservative evangelicals are waiting and watching trying to find something to pick a whole with understand, it's just like God I imagine he's probably sniggering maybe thinking I've got them this time but really hasn't of course because we are ingenious in our ways of finding a fence at God." [00:28:53]

"One of the things I've learned is to let God come to me as he pleases, if he's God after all, is it not up to me to allow him to come to me as he pleases, not as I wish and I want and I think is acceptable, there's a Psalm that says, may we be ready or willing or Volunteers in the day of your power, and as this move of God comes to the Earth, and if it were to come here tonight, and I wonder, but, I would it find you, you know that there are people who stood and looked Jesus Christ in the eye and said you have bells above, and by the Elder Bobby Castro demons, and those who are men who knew their bibles inside out, and yet there were lepers and prostitutes and tax collectors who would fall at his feet and say my Lord my God, Son of David savior Messiah King, it's all to do your perception, and it's all to do your heart, and soul to do with faith." [00:32:20]

"Do you want him, you want his Holiness in your life and it's not a legalistic you know Protestant Catholic denominational thing of dues and don'ts that we're so used to in our land it's not that that's not it at all it's a change of heart where he actually takes your old heart that is prone to sin and he puts it to death and he gives you his new heart his holy spirit so that he can live by his life, that's the Holiness of the New Testament, if you want that we need Revival folks, we our only answer are times of repression from the presence of the Lord, we need not an osprey as such we just need whatever God wants to give us but it needs to come from him and it needs to come from heaven and it needs to be his Spirit outpoured upon us, and it starts with personal Revival in your heart like that young man that stood from feet and confessed his own secret sin, you need to confess maybe something that's wrong in your heart, will you come tonight to the Lord Jesus and do that." [00:35:38]

"God can do this he can do it today and he can do it here and listen Minister he can do it in your church, he can do it in your Parish, he come, will you believe it, thank you, father, I am a simple wetness of what I saw, and I pray that it is a true witness of what went on, I pray that you will wash away by the precious blood of Jesus Christ anything that is of the flesh or not of you, but I pray that if there's anything at all carried from that place to hear that it will long by the power of the Holy Spirit of the Living God upon people gathered here tonight and that they will kick back the power of Revival to wherever they go from this please, will you not revive us again, Lord we're at political impulse, our churches are beginning to dwindle and win there is apostasy, rank apostasy in the house of God, and our only hope is your lord, our only hope is you, and we repent, and we say that our righteousness are as an unclean thing, and we would seek to turn from our Wicked Ways, that you would hear from heaven, and forgive us and, and heal our land, forgive us our pride forgive us our arguments, oh God have mercy, Christ have mercy, God have mercy upon us, for our judgmentalism towards one another, forgive us, forgive me, even if tonight I've been judgmental against those who don't believe in Revival Lord forgive me, I bless them, in Jesus name, but Lord would you pour out from Heaven upon us, pour out the power of your spirit and Grace, in Jesus name I pray." [00:37:39]

"Let me encourage you keep hungering after God, and keep hungering after his work of Awakening in your life because it's all about Jesus, Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again, God bless you." [00:41:07]