Week 32:
We Have to Have Revival
I don't care what you think or anybody else thinks. We've got to have revival. We've got to have a move of God. And we haven't had it after all our financial efforts and all our genius of evangelism and all the other things. We get so far that we put our hands on the ark. There's going to be a conference shortly and I'm not in any way troubled that I wasn't invited. They're going to meet and go through a rigmarole again. Workshops, workshops, workshops. There's a workshop for this and there's a workshop for that. The hardest work in the whole world is prayer! And there are no workshops on prayer!
The ark is falling. We're going to steady it. We've got a new idea. Every magazine I pick up now, Christian magazine, is how to make your church grow. I'm looking for one that says how to take your church deeper! Somebody said to a preacher, "You've the biggest church in... How big is your church?" He answered, "Three miles wide and an inch deep". I think that's true of a lot of them. Three miles wide and an inch deep. And while its humorous, its tragic! Are we going to change the style? Are we going to keep steadying the ark? Are we going to say, "No, no, no. We are not going any further like this. We are not going with this cart you've got it on. We are going to do it God's way". And it looks silly to carry it on your shoulders. It looks silly to walk around when you could mechanize the thing, or organize the thing, or make it more attractive.
How can you make God's presence more attractive?! That's about the height of insanity! ISN'T GOD HIMSELF AND HIS HOLINESS ATTRACTIVE? Do you know what we need to do? We need to do what David did. We need to take all the implements. We need to take the cart and break it up and we need to get hold of the bullocks and chop them up and have one big Holy Ghost bonfire and say,
"Lord God, I am going to live on the stretch for You from now until I die. Whether I die tomorrow or ten years from now, I'm going to meet with You as I've never met with You before. I'm going on the stretch for You as I've never been on the stretch before."
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