Chapter 1
The King of love, my Shepherd is. This website is dedicated to the King of kings and Lord of lords -- my Savior, and all that He stands for. All to Jesus. Amen.
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This New Year
Calling for Revival and Reformation
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!!! May The Fire Fall !!!
Advance the Gospel !!
Revival: Plant It In Your Mind!! Purpose It In Your Heart!!!
Are you sanctified, separated, and serving?
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“Community change only happens through the transforming power of the Gospel. Only Christians with compassion and a willingness to pay the price can make a lasting impact in their neighborhood. If we “pass by” without offering the hope of salvation, who will stop for the lost?” [Paul Chappell]
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Faith is the Victory.
[See 1 John 5:4]
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From Victory Unto Victory.
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“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” [Winston Churchill]
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The modernist is the first at the banquet, the last to the fight. [adapted, Homer]
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May Heaven Come Down And Glory Fill Our Soul!!!\
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“And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.” (Psalm 50:15) God’s call to every man and woman, preacher, church, and nation !!!!!
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Performing a Work of Grace.
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“Our Lord Jesus Christ did not come into this world to do the work of a social reformer, a political administrator, a judge, or simply a ruler in the affairs of men and women. Jesus came as the Light of the World, to perform a work of grace in the hearts of individuals that will impart a new dispensation of righteousness. This heartfelt transformation will make God real in our lives.”
[Oswald Chambers]
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Do You Have a Heart of Gratitude?
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“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.” [Colossians 1:12]
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“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.” (Psalm 100:4) Oh how important it is to give thanks. From Creator to Provider to Friend, great things He has done. Without a grateful heart, don’t even think to go through the door of the house of God.
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Thank God for all His goodness in all things. “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.” [Psalm 34:3]
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Now thank we all our God. All to Him we owe.
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Ever Faithful, Ever Sure.
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Let us with a gladsome mind
Praise the Lord for He is kind:
For His mercies aye endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.
[from an old hymn]
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The Great Hope, the Great Promise.
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Giving Thanks to Him Who Made Us.
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“My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken Thou me according to Thy Word.” [Psalm 119:25]
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“My old flesh is nothing but dust, but I will live eternally because of the promise of the great Almighty God who gave His Word that He would let me live, dust or no dust. I love it !! I Park here, and I camp right around this little place, and I say, “O God, the dust, dirt, death -- all of it -- let it come and run its course; but, O God, I am cleaving to you because I have the hope and the promise that I am alive forevermore in the Lord Jesus Christ.” [Shelton Smith]
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“I’m saying to you, your body is mere dust. Your life is here, and like a fog in the morning, it burns off and is gone. It is something supernatural, the very work of God that breathes the simple things of life through these old, lifeless bodies -- a hope, a dream, and a vision that give us perspective beyond our frailties. It is God who breathes life into us and gives us hope for a grand tomorrow.”
[Shelton Smith]
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The Song of Harvest Home.
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Come, ye thankful people, come.
Raise the song of harvest home.
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide
For our wants to be supplied.
Come to God’s own temple, come.
Raise the song of harvest home.
[from an old hymnal]
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Is your heart lifted up, as Satan’s was, or is it lifted upward to Creator God in Heaven in reverence and with thanksgiving?
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Do You Have the Desire?
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Do you really want to see and experience revival or salvation? Do you want God to bless you and the Holy Spirit to lead you? If so, then Christian friend, see and realize your need for revival and have a desire for revival. Lost friend, see your need for salvation and don’t stop there, but have a desire to be saved. [Joe Shadowens]
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Oh, To Be Sanctified by Fire.
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Oh, that in me the sacred fire
Might now begin to glow;
Burn up the dross of base desire
And make the mountains flow.
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Refining fire, go through my heart.
Illuminate my soul.
Scatter Thy life through every part
And sanctify the whole.
[Charles Wesley]
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“A Noble Mind Disdains Not to Repent.”
[Homer]
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Revival will take place in our lives, families, churches, schools, government and the world when we pray honestly and with a complete dedication.
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There will always be that ragtag element of hungering saints who will prostrate themselves, who are willing to pay the price and make the sacrifice to see God bring Revival to their church, their town…wherever sinners reside, which is in all places.
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Revival; We Need it in Our Day !!
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I used to say, “I can see a revival cloud the size of a man’s hand.” I used to say, “There is a coming revival,” but, bless God, I have learned that the promises of God are in the present tense. We can have it now if we will do what God tells us. [Billy Sunday]
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Historical Pattern.
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A study of history shows that the great civilizations of the world have averaged about 200 years. The people of the world have followed this timetable.”
From slavery to spiritual faith.
From spiritual faith to courage.
To courage to liberty.
From liberty to abundance.
From abundance to apathy.
From apathy to dependence.
From dependence back to slavery.
(From Citizen USA, July 2006)
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The Road to Apostasy.
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In a most basic way, this country has a monkey on its back and is in a severe state of excuse and denial. Our prosperity has brought pride, our pride has brought self-aggrandizement, and self-aggrandizement has brought loss of purpose, shamelessness, and chaos. We’re a sin-drugged people. And our enemies are not the ones that scream from street corners, they are the quiet ones: apathy, anarchy, and absurdity -- and the worst of all, apostasy.
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Remember the Day.
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We often speak of the Biblical imperatives of judging, warning, and correcting (with rebuking), but perhaps we forget the most important imperative of all: reminding. “My people have forgotten Me,” God says. He then says, “Remember the day that I brought you up out of Egypt, how I brought you through the wilderness, across the raging Jordan, and into the Promised Land, the land flowing with milk and honey; and led you to conquer the land.“ (See Proverbs 2:17; Isaiah 65:11)
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What Will Save America?
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“The only thing that will save America today will be an old-fashioned, Holy Ghost, Heaven sent, Bible preaching, God honoring, Christ-exalting, Devil-disturbing, sin-hating, soul-winning revival to turn people to God and make men gun barrel straight. This made America great and it will keep America great.” [Ray Barber]
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The Bible Picture of America Today.
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Romans 1:21-32, after the Apostle Paul establishes the groundwork that Christians are expected to act like Christians - to live righteously after the Christian faith - he brings a long indictment against ungodly men (and women) who will not accept the truth (of the Gospel) that God has given to all men. (1:18)
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These men are doing the same thing then that men and women are doing to day: times don’t change, yet the severity today seems to have advanced to a stage of the “seared conscience” (see 1 Timothy 4:2), where man will not stand accountable for his misdeeds while blaming others and disallowing correction, instruction, or rebuke.
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These are Paul’s accusations against that generation. I see America now very clearly in this litany of ungodliness. It looks like the daily news in my own city.
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They did not glorify God.
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They were not thankful.
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They became vain (conceited, proud) in their imagination, professing themselves to be wise.
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They became foolish and they did evil in their heart.
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They worshipped animals, meaning they worshipped the creature more than the Creator.
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They had perverse sexual appetites.
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They had removed God from their “halls of learning.”
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They turned on one another, became hateful and deceitful, became evolutional in their drive to survive.
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They were unforgiving, unmerciful.
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They were miserably wicked: slandering, gossiping, backbiting …
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They took pleasure watching others do the same wickedness. [DR]
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Repentance is the Need of the Hour in America.
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Our land could begin its repentance by wiping that smug look off of our face: we‘re just not the wonderful people that we think we are and we don‘t deserve everything we claim we do. [DR]
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By what Abel did (_____) with his flock, he declared boldly, “God is right.” He also said, “I am guilty.” It is very difficult for people to say, “I am guilty.” Even on a daily basis, people do not like to say “I’m sorry; I am guilty; I have done wrong. Forgive me.” Do you know why? It is because we are full of ourselves. [Clarence Sexton] You can’t come to God full of yourselves, you have to come empty. [DR]
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If only the so-called “evangelical right” would return to serving Christ and
His Gospel of salvation and quit fraternizing with the enemies of freedom
and of our Christian purpose .. they are not (cannot be) my voice !!! Nor are they even remotely the Lord's !! [DR]
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“We are witnessing the consequences of churches turning away from the Bible as their infallible rule and guide. The Scriptures no longer prevail and there is no standard of morality that is final and by which man is going to be judged. We’re paying a terrible price because of it.” [Carl McIntire]
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“The biggest problem in the world could have been stopped when it was small.” [Mary Antin]
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When the Heart Says “I Come” … There is Repentance.
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When one repents it is an instant turning of the heart, not a period of doing penitence. When the Bible says “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out,” (John 6:37) it does not mean walking down an aisle or going to church or sending hamburgers to rest homes. It means the heart coming to Jesus, which is an instantaneous matter. When the heart says, “I come,” the Lord Jesus says, “I receive,” The acceptance is in the same instant as the coming. (author unknown)
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The Hurt of Our Nation.
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As we seek the will of God, to do it diligently, I would like to call upon each of you to look around you today and see the demonic hurt that has come upon our nation and people. It seems to confound many of us that our churches refuse to be accountable as they have allowed sinful conduct to escalate unabated, and unchallenged. They have refused to anchor their messages in the Word of God, to marshal their congregations to rise up in defense of righteousness, nor have they done anything of any significance to bring real peace to the raging hearts of sin-sick Americans. This work of the church was once taken for granted in our country. [DR]
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I am convinced that we live in a nation of bad manners, get rich quick mentalities, and ungratefulness. [DR]
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“There’s not much wrong with America that a proper fear of God would not solve.” [Dr. Shelton Smith]
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What’s Wrong With America?
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The Dirty Dozen,
(1) We have built ourselves on a foundation of entitlement.
(2) The indicator of success is image.
(3) Money doesn’t grow on trees, it exudes from the bottomless pit.
(4) Accountability is what remains after we sift through the syndromes, excuses, justifications, genetics, and alibis.
(5) Addictions are to be glamorized.
(6) We talk very big, do very small.
(7) Our national pass-time has become the humiliation of others.
(8) We have no shame and shift all blame.
(9) Our guiding truth is the Sin Commandments.
(10) We think much more highly of ourselves than is merited, ignoring that none of us merit a thing.
(11) The personal agenda supersedes all rational else.
(12) The only standard -- and it is heavily enforced - is no standard.
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No Matter What the Revisionists Say…
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“There was a time in America when this nation followed Christian principles. We no longer have that, but we can get it back. It will take a Holy Ghost revival to get it.” [Dr. Shelton Smith]
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And we shall….. Behold His Glory !!! “Behold“ is “idou” in Greek, meaning “note well,” “look closely,” “examine carefully.”
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Righteous People Will Save Our Nation.
(Not Necessarily Religious People)
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“Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the Rock whence ye are hewn and to the hole of the pit, whence ye are digged.” (Isaiah 51:1)
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“For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all nations.” (Isaiah 61:11)
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“For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.” [Matthew 5:20]
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“For the kingdom of God is not meat or drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. [Romans 14:17] My life in Christ: (1) righteousness. (2) peace. (3) joy in the Holy Ghost. [DR]
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Righteous people are themselves righteous only through the mirror of Scripture. They routinely turn to God in repentance, in sackcloth and ashes. They are not only soul-winners, they are soul-lovers. This is an inseparable tandem. America cannot be saved if we do not have soul-winners. We hold in our own hands the destiny of our nation. [DR]
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I’ve sat in the company of “robed” men and as they crudely act and speak, I think to myself, “I’m not perfect, Lord, I’m merely a sinner saved by grace, the chiefest of all sinners as even Paul was, yet I need to love this man and pity him. But Lord, ever make me a better man than what I see here today. Lord, above all, take away the pride, first mine, and then his. Amen. All to Jesus. [DR]
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“If a historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history..” [Pierre Bayle, French philosopher, 1647-1706]
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Keeping the Law By the Grace of God.
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Keeping the laws by the grace of God for the glory of God makes us all the same kind of people. [Carl McIntire]
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It is a marvelous thing for us to know that the kind of character and the kind of people this law (of God) builds for us is exactly the kind of people they had in the first century when the churches were started and people began to glorify God. [Carl McIntire]
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Lodging for the Wayfarer.
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“Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the daughter of my people. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men: that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not Me, saith the Lord.” [Jeremiah 9:1-3]
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The Great And Overlooked Mission Field.
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“There are so many offers of a way without Jesus, divine things without Christ. Whether they be naturism, far-eastern religions, Islamic or Jewish cults, they all turn out to be mirages, a reflection that appears to be water on the desert, and makes distant things seem nearer.” [The Midnight Call.]
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Most people subscribing to "Christianity" today are definitively liberal in their theology and don't even know it. They would categorically deny it if someone were to accuse them of it. They are just too nice, too caring, too kind, and too compassionate not to be in full favor with God. Some even wear a Superman suit and have those words written in bold international lettering inside the yellow triangle on the chest.
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I’m never surprised anymore when I see nice people being revealed as cruel and calculated. Time and time again, the neighbors, the churches, the fellow employees speak with glowing reports about how they viewed the person before the discovery. I see it in the news almost every day, in families, in the churches, and other “respectable“ places. Many are pastors or church leaders, and those in positions that are supposed to help people.
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Each one of us when we wake up in the morning should go to our Creator and the first words out of our mouth ought to be a desperate plea, “Lord, remove the hypocrisy, take away the pride, cut away the covetousness, destroy self, reduce me to nothing -- and then give me power to do your holy work today..” Read They’re Killing Our Children (Caruso and Maier).
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B. R. Lakin preached that he had been up and down the country and is convinced that there really aren’t very many people that are saved. Personally, I view “Christians” as great a mission field as any other of the great religious systems of the world.
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There are an awful lot of Christians who by their words and actions do not satisfy the evidence of Biblical salvation. We may not be able to look upon their hearts but we sure can be puzzled by their priorities and lack of interest in the things of Christ. We can also be surprised by their haughtiness and lack of any real reflection of the Christian graces, virtue and discipleship. (They might say something like they deflect credit to Christ, when they ought to just give it all to Him in the first place.)
Waiting for the Harvest and the Time of Reaping.
Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,
Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eves;
Waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
[Old hymn, by Shaw and Minor]
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Oh Jesus is a Rock in a weary land.
Lord, move me to do Thy will.
Wherever He leads, I’ll go.
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“Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.” [Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman, 1889-1964.]
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So Send I You.
“The command has been to go, but we have stayed…He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth…but ninety-nine percent of Christians have kept puttering around the homeland.” [Robert Savage]
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“All the demons in Hell couldn’t destroy America if the people of God would send themselves on personal soul-winning. We have enough salt to savor this nation.” [Dr. Jack Hyles]
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We will not be intimidated by the world !! Lord, give us the power, passion, and prayer. [adapted, author unknown]
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“God did not take an opinion poll to ask how to save men. He ordained preaching to win the souls of men.” [Ray Barber]
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We Are Not of the World.
Scripture. "I [Jesus] have given them Thy Word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest takest them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth." [John 17:14-17]
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God put us here to build a church (His Body), to maintain a testimony, to magnify His name, to do what he’s given for us to do -- above all to preach the Gospel and win sinners to Christ. [DR]
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But …..
“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” [Winston Churchill]
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We are pilgrims just passing through, but He never said for us to pass through quietly.
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His People, The Sheep of His Pasture.
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; which in times past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” [1 Peter 2:9-10]
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A Call to Revival.
I have a calling, I have a raw knowledge, I have the courage and the testimony, I have the availability, I have the energy and focus -- Lord, I pray You will bring Revival in me; in this community; in the churches of our land; in our families and schools; in our nation, government, and people. In Jesus’ matchless name I pray. Amen. [DR]
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Committed to Prayer.
“If thou art not a praying person, then thou art not a Christian.” [John Bunyan]
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"And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it. If ye love Me, keep My commandments."
[John 14:13-15]
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“The secret to prayer is praying in secret. A sinning man will quit praying and a praying man will quit sinning.“
[Leonard Ravenhill]
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If you’re not praying for souls to be won to Christ, and that He would give you soul-winning opportunities, then you aren’t reaching the heart of God. [DR]
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Will You Make a Commitment to Revival?
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“Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”
[Winston Churchill]
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Lord, Help us behold what is right, and may we with a pure heart and a willing mind give ourselves to serve and follow Thee. [DR]
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Old fashioned, raw-boned, commitment !!! The lack of commitment kills revival, withholds prosperity, and takes away happiness. Commitment means that you are emotionally compelled to accomplish what God wants done. It is similar to a vow, perhaps it is the full expression of the vow. We say we are committed to our marriage -- but, fact is, we made a vow to be committed to our marriage. Commitment is a strong virtue and many other virtues hang on it -- a man without commitment may also be short on integrity. And vice versa. [adapted, author unknown]
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Will You Be a Committed Christian?
Will you grow in the knowledge of the Lord?
Will you become stable in doctrine and decisive on matters of spiritual
importance to God?
Will you seek His face and receive His direction?
Will you live for and honor Him?
Will you act like a Christian should act?
Will you grow in the likeness of Christ?
Will you have a burden for the souls of the lost?
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It Takes Perseverance to Serve the Lord --
Having the attitude of “I’m not giving up, I’m not turning back, I’m not lying down, I’m not going to sound retreat, I’m not going to surrender. I‘m not going to quit.” In fact, the word “quit” ought to be cut out of the Christian’s dictionary.
[Dr. John N. Hamblin]
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“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
[Thomas H. Huxley]
The Effectual Prayer of Nehemiah:
Commitment to the Work of God.
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“The effectual prayer of a righteous man availed much.” [James 5:16]
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Nehemiah was the governor of Jerusalem (445-433 B. C.) who helped rebuild the city walls after the Babylonian exile. He was the cupbearer to the King of Persia from whom he was given permission to return to Jerusalem in order to assist the returning exiles in the rebuilding effort. (See Nehemiah 2:3-6.) In addition to rallying the people in the rebuilding project, he led a spiritual renewal with assistance from Ezra (the priest). (See Nehemiah 8:1-13; 12:36.)
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When Nehemiah heard [while in Babylon] his brother’s eye-witness account of the devastation of Jerusalem and the condition of the people living there and in surrounding areas, he “sat down and wept, and mourned…and fasted, and prayed before the God of Heaven.” [Nehemiah 1:4]
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Verses Nehemiah 1:5-11 describe the prayer lasting for as much as four months and the lessons to be learned when coming to God with a heavily burdened heart.
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God is Sovereign, God is Creator God. “O Lord God of Heaven, the great and terrible God.” [Nehemiah 1:5]
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God keeps His Word, He preserves His people. “God, that keepeth covenant, and mercy for them that love Him.” [Nehemiah 1:5]
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God forgives sin. We “confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against Thee.” [Nehemiah 1:6. See also Psalm 37:4]
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God listens to the prayers of them that are fixed on Him. “O Lord, I beseech Thee, let now Thine ear be attentive to the prayer of Thy servant.” [Nehemiah 1:11]
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God gives His people the desire of their hearts. “Prosper, I pray thee, Thy servant this day.” [Nehemiah 1:11]
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God used Nehemiah greatly in the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem.
[Based on a piece from Days of Praise.]
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Revival (and Salvation) Comes From Prayer.
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We Ought Pray And:
Be all in one accord.
Having no pride of life, no sin.
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Prayer Will Result In:
Receiving guidance.
Receiving overcoming power.
Receiving inspiration.
Momentous soul winning.
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[Joe Shadowens]
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Rend the Heavens.
(On Revival)
“Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at they presence.” [Isaiah 64:1]
The need of revival of our churches and lives has never been more poignantly manifest than now. There seems to be a cold, comfortable complacency that has permeated our personal lives and the vitality of many churches. Is it the mountain of iniquity that we are daily confronted with yjat has sapped our spiritual strength? Is it our own apathy it the many activities that have clouded our spiritual eyesight and corrupted our thinking? Is it the moral tenor of our nation, from the highest office to the lowest gutter, that has caused us to stray? Perhaps it is all the above.
The answer to the need of revival is that God would rend the heavens and come down. Oh that there was a renewal of the awareness of His presence in our lives and the church services we attend. Old-time religion needs an infusion of God’s might and power. We need the mountains to melt -- the mountains of gossip, critical spirits, selfishness, pride, covetousness, and every other covered sin of omission or commission that we are caressing and condoning. The cry of the Chronicles must ring like a clarion call to revival and repentance once again.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves (get broken), and pray (beseech Him), and seek My face (burdened for God), and turn from their wicked ways,” (behavioral change) then God will hear, forgive, and heal our land.”
Oh, God, please rend the heavens and send revival.
[Baptist Bread]
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Let’s Pray For A Revival, An Awakening,
Let’s Fight For The Souls of Men.
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Lord, Revival begins with me. Lead Thou me. Amen.
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For:
Revival in our churches.
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Repentance among our national leaders.
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A return to the Bible.
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A resetting of values to the divine standard.
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A priority upon the local church.
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A repudiation of the foolishness of liberalism.
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A renunciation of atheism, humanism, hedonism, evolution, ecumenism, homosexuality, alcohol, pornography and perversions, etc.
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An awakening that shakes our nation from coast to coast.
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A return to bold preaching of God’s truth from the pulpit.
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A reshaping of church programs to get soul-winning on the front burner daily.
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The salvation of souls, millions of them.
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The rediscovery of Bible-based family.
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[taken from the Sword of the Lord.]
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Don’t water down the Gospel, just water it. [DR]
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We Need People to Plead for America.
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We need righteous people, born-again people, faithful people, people with backbone, willing to leave self at the garbage dump, to stand up and plead for America, like Abraham did for Sodom: God, we have 10 righteous people in America, now 20, now 40, now 80, now 160, now 320, now 640, now 1280, now 2560 .…. and it’s multiplying gloriously -- will you spare America? Lord, we, like you, are tired of the slackers, the pretentious, the presumptuous, the deceitful, and the vindictive.