Revival in Uncertain Times | Pastor Paul McGee

Hey, man, well look at your neighbor if you have one and

say, boy, you look good. No lying, no lying, Amen.

Good to be in the House of the Lord today.

See each of you, Amen, here with the different things coming up

in this month. Exciting, Amen.

If you'll stand for me this morning, we're going to one of

those Old Testament minor prophets again, folks.

Habakkuk. Every time I hear that name, it

reminds me of the way that my grandma Grapple McGinn used to

say tobacco. There's Backer.

I don't know why, it just does. Habakkuk wasn't a smoker to my

knowledge, but nonetheless, that's what makes me think about

every time I hear that he meant Habakkuk chapter #3 and I'm just

going to read one verse verse #2 and I'll allow you to be seated

then and I'll be mindful of your time today.

Habakkuk, the prophet says, O Lord, I have heard thy speech

and was afraid. O Lord, revive thy work in the

midst of the years, in the midst of the years, make known in

wrath. Remember, Mercy, and we'll give

a little bit more context to that here in just a moment.

I want to talk to you today about revival in uncertain

times, Revival in uncertain times, and ask the Lord to help

us in the next few moments. Father, we love you today that

we're thankful, Lord, for your spirit that we have felt, Lord,

in this place. I pray, O Lord, you will

continue, Lord, through your word.

Word is already anointed. I pray, O God, help us now, God,

to glean from it, learn from it God, and apply it to our

individual lives in the lovely name of Jesus Christ.

I pray we'll thank you for it in Jesus name, Amen.

You may be seated today in Jesus name.

Revival in uncertain times. There is a old novel that

Charles Dickens wrote many years ago called The Tale of Two

Cities. It has a famous line in which he

starts that novel and says it was the best of times, it was

the worst of times. Dickens was trying to convey and

grab the reader's attention for the the time frame in which he

was writing about. He was writing about the French

Revolution, and he was wanting those who read to know that

there were some contrast during that time.

There was some duality of events and things that were going on.

It was a time of extreme opposites.

It was a time of progress, but also a time of suffering, time

of hope and the time of despair. And yet Dickens wasn't just

writing about an era in his book.

He was also really mirroring what was going on in his own age

and in his own life. Victorian England time.

It was also a period that that that was the best and the worst

of times. And since that moment until even

now, we have used that phrase to describe different times of the

history of the United States and perhaps the history of our own

lives. Times, it would seem, when good

and evil share space, or sacrifice and selfishness share

space, redemption and destruction.

Habakkuk is writing during the time of one side of that

equation. He knew what it was to be living

in the worst of times. He gave us his contribution of

three chapters here in the Bible and he begins to describe to us

about his times. It was a time of turmoil.

It was a time of instability that he was living in.

He was living during the time that was marked by political

upheaval and there were threats of nations coming and taking

over the place where he lived. It was a time of spiritual

decline. People were loosening their

morals and it was a time that was constantly pointing to

harder times of, of famine and destruction and loss.

As a matter of fact, as Habakkuk is, is writing, he begins to

talk to us. He says, I, I seem to observe

all of the violence in my present world and I'm observing

things that are not going, that's going on that that in my

estimation shouldn't be going on.

And I, I know God's ability and I know God's power, yet it seems

like God is setting idly by and he's doing nothing about my

time. He's, he's doing nothing about

the violence. He's doing nothing about the

loosening of the morals of the time that I am living in.

And so he pleads with God. Then in chapter #3 he says, God,

I want to talk to you about these years, the years.

I, I want to talk to you about these specific years that I am

living in. I'm not looking to the future at

this moment, God. I'm looking to the here and now.

I'm looking to the day that I'm living in, the hour that I'm

living in because God, these are some trying years.

There's some trying events right now taking place in my world.

All the ingredients that I see are just the recipe for the

worst of times. And he's wrestling with what he

saw. He he cannot somehow balance or

reconcile what he saw and what he knew about God.

But as I reflect on Habakkuk, I think about my times and I think

about the world that I'm living in.

And I, I'm please, please, please.

I'm not going red or blue right here in this moment.

OK, a democratic or Republic here.

But as we approach yet another another election here in

November and America waits maybe perhaps for change or maybe

there's others that's waiting for hope of improvement.

We're all looking at this. But we also live in a political

upheaval of times, political discourse all across America

becoming more contentious than ever before.

People used to throw dirt, now they throw acreages, you know,

and it's just, we're just living in a different time.

It's reflected in our media. It's reflected in the speeches.

It's reflected in social media. Amen.

Voters feel that the stakes are higher right now than ever

before. And I am, I am by no means a

professional. And I can't really give you a

professional opinion of that. I could give you an opinion, but

maybe not a professional opinion.

But so there's views about what's coming up from both sides

that this could be a very critical moment.

Amen for defining our country's history.

But I'm talking to you about my times.

I'm living right now during the time of of inflation.

I'm living during the time that the cost of living is just going

up and up. Every time I go to the grocery

store, my jaw drops down to the counter as I paid for that

little bit of goods for that much money.

And so there's government spending that's happening.

The times that we are living in are still dealing with all of

these things like abortion rights and gun control and LGBTQ

plus and whatever else there is on that rights, racial justice,

religious freedom, whether or not there's any integrity in the

way that we elect people to office anymore.

There's the war that keeps going on in Ukraine.

There's the war that's happening around about Israel, there's

tensions with China, then there's Russia over there

glaring as well. There's immigration.

All of these things. These are my times.

I'm living in the time of the woke culture and then the the

anti woke culture backlash that happens along with that.

Then I have all these information outlets.

We have more ways to get information today than any other

time in the existence of America.

Yet those things then are giving us misinformation.

These are the times that I'm living in.

And so we're in a place right now who can be trusted, who can

I listen to? Who who can I give ear to?

Who's telling the truth, Who's not telling the truth?

It's the time that I'm living in.

In nineteen, 9970% of Americans were members of a church, a

synagogue, or a mosque. But by 2020, that number had

dropped to 47%, according to a Gallup poll.

I'm talking to you about my times.

The number of people that's without any religious

affiliation is on the prize. They they commonly call them the

religious nuns. It climbed from 16% in 2007 to

about 29% in 2021. I also understand that 43% of

practicing Christians in America, they believe in

absolute moral truth. But the rest then of them quote

UN quote, Christians believe that you should just live and

let live. But that's the approach then to

morality. I'm talking to you about my

world. I'm talking to you about our

times. According to the US Census

Bureau, Amen. The marriage rate in America is

at an all time low, Amen. It's not like it used to be.

There's been a redefinition of marriage that seems to have

eroded it, which I'm just telling you about my times

because in Scripture God used that as a model of between

Christ and his church, Amen. And so there's an eroding them

just even of a marriage in America.

The Gallup poll of 2021 found that nearly 7.1% of US adults

identify as LGBTQ plus and whatever else there is.

And that number had increased just in the past decade.

That's my times, that's where I'm living.

But there are more Americans. A Pew Research said there's more

Americans that derive satisfaction from their careers

than they do their faith, that they place more satisfaction on

their success and their material wealth and their comfort above

their spiritual considerations. We live in an era where students

are being educated by Babylon, so to speak, just like the three

Hebrew boys were, and yet they have no biblical compass.

What are you talking about? My daughter's in college right

now. I told her when she entered

college, I said, Hun, I said, I'm just going to let you know

right up front that there's going to come some things down

the Pike that's going to challenge your beliefs.

There's going to be some things that come down the Pike they're

going to talk about. That's going to be very

persuasive. And it has happened, and we have

had discussions on our couch at home about some such of those

things, Amen. That's come down the pipe.

Amen. But what about those that have

no biblical compass? What about those that believe

it's just live and let live? What about those that have no,

if you will, moorings that their boat could be tethered to?

Amen. And so there, as a result,

according to 2022, it revealed that there are fewer young

people who trust the church or a moral authority than there was

in any other time. There's a rise of progressive

Christianity that basically says all of the traditions that our

forefathers have lived by, and might I say not just traditions,

but biblical traditions that they have lived by are now just

deluded to the place that they almost no longer exist.

I'm telling you today, that's my times, that's my age.

And when I step back and look at it, I could almost raise my

voice in harmony with Habakkuk and say, God, I'm living in some

of the worst of times. But although Habakka lived in

such a time, Amen as those and our times may reflect even

equally his, I want you to notice Habakkuk did not cry out

to God and say God remove the turmoil.

He did not cry out to God and say God fix this mess.

He did not cry out to God and say God take care of the

political upheaval. Because Habakkuk understood

this, that, that, that basically we're getting what we deserve.

Stay with me. We're getting what we deserve.

I understand, God, that this is judgment upon us in many ways,

like a nation that is declining. I understand that we actually

have almost invited this into our reigns.

And so if that is the case, Lord, I'm not asking you to

change what you're doing. I'm just asking in the middle of

all of this mess, can you still bring a revival to those that

desire? Revival.

You don't have to take away Amen, The fallout.

You don't have to take away the immorality.

You don't have to take away all the other variables.

I'm just asking, can you give us revival in the middle of all of

this? Hallelujah, someone say man, he

cries out and says, oh Lord, revive the work in the midst of

the years or these years are are there pending threats?

Is Babylon trying to come against you?

Habakkuk yes, but can we have revival?

God understand, There's some walking away, Lord, but can we

have revival? Understand, Lord, there's some

hardships that are to follow. But God, I'm asking for, if you

will, the best of times in the middle of the worst of times.

Amen. Someone say my years, my years

back said there's violence, there's wickedness, there's

uncertainty. But in these dismal years, I'm

pleading for a revival. Please note the context in which

he's asking this. The back is not asking for

revival the day after Pentecost. You hearing me?

It's not like the 120 is gathered in the other room and

suddenly there came a sound from heaven and there's the great

noise that's been noised abroad and the gathering of all nations

and people are influenced, healed and impacted.

And the day after that it's like a back that's coming on the sing

and saying God give us revival. I mean, almost anybody would not

would not even second think about asking for revival during

those type of time, Honey, when, when, when the locomotive is

going down. I mean when, when things are

happening, when things are going in a positive, no ones even goes

second guess ask him for revival during those type of times.

But that's not when he asked for it.

He asked for it during one of the most bleakest moments in his

history. That's what we we, we would all.

And note that whenever Habakkuk says what he says, he's not

really asking for revival. Watch this now as much as he is

declaring Oh Lord revive, it wasn't oh Lord will you revive

please revive it was Oh Lord revive.

Let him alone it be no big deal if it was on the edge of the

Azusa St. revival that took place in California for someone

say hey, let let's get with it. Let's have revival because that

already broke out. Be no big deal if it was during

the time of Topeka, KS in the early 1900s where there was a

man who founded a Bible college, a Bethel Bible College and in

the founding of this he had some students Hey man and he was

wrestling with the idea about whether or not this spirit

filled experience, what it all entailed and what accompanied

it. He told his college students he

says, I want you to study and see if you can figure out what

what what all comes along or what is evidenced by this

infilling of the spirit. And as they studied the

Scriptures, his students, they came back and replied to him,

says what we have seen in the Scripture, that what accompanies

the infilling of the Spirit is speaking in other tongues.

According to Acts chapter #2 Hey man.

And when they they heard this, the next day, January the 1st 19

O1, there was a woman, a girl by the name of Agnes that came to

Parham. Parham had not experienced this,

but he's searching for it. And she says, I want you to pray

for me that I might receive the Holy Spirit.

And when he prayed for her, the history says that she began to

speak in tongues. And days following others

experienced the same thing, even for him himself.

Habakkuk wasn't living in that day and saying, give us revival

right there. No, he was living in a dismal, a

horrific, a horrible time of debauchery.

Yet he still lifts up his voice and says, I'm going to declare

revival in this hour. I'm going to declare revival

during this season. Someone say, man, hey man, been

easy to ask for revival or declared a revival in those

moments. But that wasn't the prophet

setting. And dare I say that's not our

setting. That's not where I'm living,

that's not my surroundings. That's not the situation around

me. But I wonder if there's a church

at 1121 Cedar St. in Mount Carmel that during the times

that you live, during the moments that are you living,

maybe the ingredients are not there, so to speak.

Maybe everything is not. I'm not pointing toward it, but

can you raise your voice in this hour and say revive thy work, O

Lord, in these years someone say, Amen.

We're no less equipped now than what the prophet was then.

Amen Back at thought. He believed God could revive his

works, said differently that God could repeat his works.

What history did Habakkuk have to go on?

He had the history of God bringing Israel out of the

Egyptian bondage. He had history of water coming

from a rock. He had history of manna and

quail fallen from heaven. He had history of a tree being

thrown into bitter water and being made sweet.

He had history someone say man. He had history of the sun, which

was more likely, as we know, the earth standing still.

He had history of all these things.

You know what Habakkuk is saying?

He says God, can you repeat some salvation?

Can you repeat some deliverance? Can you repeat some miracles in

my pay? I know the indicators are not

there for it, but will you repeat it?

Someone say Amen, Amen, my day, your day.

Let's consider the day we're living in.

The Bible describes it in Scripture.

It says that the days before the second coming of the Lord, he's

already came. People scoffed, people mocked,

said it would not happen, did not happen.

It happened. He's going to come back.

People will scoff, people will mock, say it will not happen.

But it says the time prior to it's happening that this will be

the flavor, if you will, of that day.

Men will be lovers of themselves.

Matter of fact, just bring up Second Timothy 3 and verse #1

for me, Brother Reese, and we'll just read through.

Know this also, that in the last days perilous time shall come,

for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous.

Posters. Proud blasphemers, disobedient

to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection.

Truce Breakers, false accusers, incontinent fears, despisers of

those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of

pleasure more than lovers of God.

That's the time Isaiah even said there'd come a day that they

would call good evil, and they would call evil good.

I'm talking to you a little bit about my hour, Matthew said,

because iniquity shall abound, he said the love of many shall

wax cold. They will, as Timothy said, be

unthankful and unholy. Jesus said that there arise

false prophets and false Christs and that there will be

earthquakes in diverse places, that there will be wars and

rumors of wars. And they said you need to pay

attention whenever Jerusalem compassed about with armies, you

need to lift up your head for your redemption draw of nigh.

He said there will be declarations of peace and

declarations of safety, but then sudden destruction.

I'm telling you about our times. And I'm not going to throw a wet

blanket on anything this morning.

But I tell you this November will not cure all the ills that

our world has. Whenever Election Day comes, you

got to do your part and you better go vote.

But we can't ignore the fact that some of the things that are

going to happen are just happening because we are where

we are in prophetic history. Hey, man, we've had some

allowances, we've had some permission.

Some of these things ain't going anywhere.

I'm sorry. Inflation might go down.

Your groceries might get a little cheaper, but some of

these things are not going anywhere.

Some of them might even get a little bit worse.

But what I'm imploring you to do is saying, God, will you please?

I'm making a new declaration for revival.

Repeat what you did before in my day.

Because there were some men and women that went before us that

lived in some gruesome days too, that lived in some uncertain

times too. But they made it a day

declaration in the middle of all this.

I'm going to hold on to that unchanging hand in the middle.

Oh yes, repeat a pattern during these times.

Here's the mindset of the church.

We think the changes have to happen in the world and afford

the change to happen in the church.

If we're going to be able to go forward in the church, then this

has to get better around us in order for that to happen.

We're like, we're like the one that says I can't do this

because XYZ duh, duh, duh. I don't have enough resources.

I don't have enough of this. That's really just excuses.

What I'm saying is the outside may not change but someones got

to have a declaration on their lips.

Oh God. I'm not saying this being

ignorant about the times I'm living in her.

Back to quatin. I'm not saying this because of

ignorance. I'm saying this because of

faith. I'm saying this because I know

who you are and what you're capable of doing.

So I declare it today. I declare it now.

I declare it for my generation. I declare someone say yes, we

taken by, if you will, the sea that we're in.

You know, they say it's always best to keep the water out of

the boat. Water in the boat, you get the

water of your surroundings in the boat, you're going to be

sinking. It's always best to keep the

water out of the boat. I think the psalmist even ran

into a time of his own life and saw Psalms 11 and verse three.

He even came to a questioning struggle moment and said if the

foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Here he is. His knees are knocking a little

bit. He says I'm seeing it happen at

the foundations. If the very thing upon which

which society rest, if they're deteriorating, sister calls, if,

if, if they're a whole lot less than what my generations of

grandparents before me knew, what are we going to do?

It's a cry of desperation. It's almost like Brother McGee.

It's kind of like this. If you don't conform, you just

ain't going to make it. What?

What is the righteous, What is the righteous to do?

But I want you to look at verse #4 that says David said, or the

psalmist said, the Lord is in his holy temple and the Lorde

throne is in heaven. What are you saying?

David understood something. I know what's going on in my

earth. I know what's going on around

me. I can see it.

I'm not blind. He says I don't know what we're

going to do. But then he had a second

thought. That's what's going on down

here. But the Lord is still in his

temple and the Lord is still on His throne in heaven.

And although times may be certain on the earth, times are

not uncertain in the heavenlies. I want to declare if I yes, you

live in uncertain times, but you're not of uncertain times.

It hasn't begotten you. That's not your source.

Someone say glory. So here they are.

Difficult times are coming. Difficult times are here.

There's a great fall in the way. Think folks, you can start

running your your fingers from Genesis to Revelation and come

across all the episodes in Scripture where times are

difficult and hard and foreboding and blah blah blah,

blah. You can go to the book of Joe

and you can see a plague that decimated the land with locusts

and seemingly overtook them all and think, man, that's horrific.

And as a result, as a result of it taking the fields, the

livestock are dying. It turned into a full blown

family. Members of family are dying.

People are looking at their children with eyes beholding

them as maybe tomorrow's a meal because of the desperation of

their times. Yet there's a scripture that's

so popular in Joe chapter #2 that rings in my ears in such

times that says, in the last days, saith the Lord, I'll pour

out my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall

prophecy, your old man shall dream, dream, and your young men

shall see visions On your handmaidens and thy servants

I'll put What is that? That's revival in desperate

times. That's revival happening where

it by all means it should not be taking place.

But God hear me, your lines are proliferated of all the fake

news. Listen, there's no new sources.

It's hard to know what to listen to.

I mean, there's some things that some of us thought was, you

know, absolutely this is right. And come to find out it was

false. But while they're telling you

that this thing is imploding, it's probably going to.

There's still a segment that whenever I read missionary

reports and whenever I know what's going on in the prisons

that I've walked inside, and when I hear about churches being

built where there was no church at before, and I hear about the

miracles, and I see the wonders that in the middle of all this,

I'm understanding God is still bringing revival and repeating

what He has done before, even in these times.

Amen. Like what the psalmist said in

Psalms 138 and seven. He says, though I walk in the

midst of trouble about what revived, maybe it's a little

closer for you. Maybe it's just isn't so much

what's happening in the world, maybe it's what's happening in

your life. Sometimes we might be able to be

able to shake what's going on around us in the world, but when

it gets up close and personal about what's happening in your

life, it's like you're trying to climb a ladder in darkness and

your hand can't find the next room.

So I want to speak to people that's not just dealing with

your times, but you're dealing with your time within the time.

And you're desperate. You're pleading.

You're wondering if hope is gone.

You're wondering if there's light at the end of the tunnel.

You're wondering if there's any reprieve.

You're wondering if your family's going to stay together.

You're wondering if your children are are going to

continue in the path that you have taught and LED them your

wall. You're just bombarded with all

of these wanderings and you have a hard time even making a

declaration about revival because you've been brought up

and you've been conditioned to believe that revival has to take

this, this, and this in order for it to happen.

The surrounding, the environment, everything's got to

be just right. But I tell you, if a solitary

person has a determination, you might be an Elijah, a man in a

will wilderness, but if God stirs something in your spirit,

you can arise and still go do a work because God is in it.

You're not the arrow that flyeth by day, nor the terror would

come by Monday night. The Scripture says because as I

walk among the trouble here, David or the psalmist says I

will, he will revive me. Foundations losing their hold.

I feel the shaking, the movement of the foundations and in my

feet. What are the righteous going to

do? Isaiah.

Isaiah answered that and Isaiah 28 and verse 16.

He said therefore, thus saith the Lord God.

He said, behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, tried

stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation.

He that believeth shall not make haste.

Hold it. Wait a minute, folks.

We, we got something going on here.

It's almost like the New Testament story of the man that

built his house upon the sand and the man that built his house

on the rock. The storms came and the winds

blew upon. There was not a different or

particular happening to the one that was on the sand from the

one who was on the rock. Circumstances set.

Let me tell you something. I know where I'm living.

I know what I'm experiencing, but I also know what I'm upon.

Just because your blood bought and God's been made you new, it

doesn't mean that you won't experience the same wind and you

won't experience the same wave. But the different lies in where

your feet are planted. Are they on the sand?

Are they on a foundation that's shifting with the wind, on the

foundation that's been intimidated by the waves?

Or are you on the rock of Zion that is sure and steadfast and

unmovable? Go on and blow, wind, blow, go

on, Rise, water, rise. I can't keep that from

happening. But I can't stand firm upon what

I'm on and declare revival in. Years ago, we sang the So you

know, old songs, they come and go or songs come and go in

general. There's some, you know, when in

my generation we stopped singing some of mom and dad's songs,

whatever, it just happens from generation, generation.

New songs come, we'll revive them every once in a while.

But when I was a kid, bro, growing up, this is the song we

sing in church. We declare your glory in this

place. We change out glory for

everything under the sun. I mean, it's like going through

the alphabet. We declare your victory, we

declare your power, we declare your healing, right?

I mean it all. We declare a sunny day.

We didn't do that one, but right, Sometimes I always say I

declare straight back, you know, declare it, not ask for it,

Declare it. I think it's time to start

moving from the asking posture to the declaration posture

rather than the plea, plea, plea.

I declare revival, I declare. I declare hope.

I declare healing. I declare deliverance.

I. Oh, yeah.

Hey man, do you know whom you serve?

The very one that created the world, spun galaxies into

existence by his mere speech. I like to say often times

spittle became stars. Some would say, man declare it.

Sometimes you got to do that regardless what's going on

around you. You'll remember our Old

Testament story in the book of Ezra.

God's people had went through Babylon. 70 years of just

heartache, turmoil, everything. But they're going back home now.

Cyrus says he gives them the reprieve, the return back home

to rebuild Jerusalem, rebuild the temple, do all these things.

And so there's like a second deportation of people that go

back to Jerusalem. Honey, they're they're building,

they're constructed. No doubt it's a time of

celebration. But there's another facet to

that story. They're back home, but they're

still under the rule in the reign of the Persian Empire,

which means there's some dictates and laws that's coming

from the top that's still making life uncomfortable.

They're trying to live their life of building gods.

Ain't no progress all over again.

But they're dealing with some stuff in their surroundings.

And you know what? Those people cried out in their

hour as they were contending with those things.

They said something very similar to Habakkuk.

They said, Lord, give us a little reviving in our bondage.

I know we've been given the goal to rebuild and rebuild the altar

and get our temple back in order, but we're still under the

dictates of the Providence that we're living in.

Give us a little bit of reviving in our bondage.

Can somebody understand today that in these last days we're

going to have to live in the paradox of the best of times, in

the worst of times, in wonderful times, in degradating times?

It's just that's part of the recipe of the end times.

You understand with me. He's sent to a close.

Chapter 2. Chapter 2.

Habakkuk is again, he's describing the the violence,

he's describing the idolatry, he's describing the years very

last verse of chapter 2. This is what he says.

He's described all of the bad stuff.

He's described all of the horrid stuff in great detail.

I mean, he spent several verses doing it.

I mean a guy start breaking him back and you don't get depressed

about it. And it's only three chapters.

Good thing he didn't have 150 like the song, the last verse of

chapter #2 he says he uses that, that that conjunction, that

contrast, just as even the psalmist did in some of his, he

says, but he described all this horrific stuff and he says, but

the Lord is in his holy temple. It's all about where you keep

your perspective. It's all about where you keep

your focus. Habakkuk to revive the work in

the midst of the years he could declare because he knew the Lord

was still in his temple in by our heads today.

It doesn't matter. And I know sometimes we're like

like a boat upon water that has no ore or rudder or any means of

guiding our own ship. And it feels like that we're at

the mercy of this vast body of ocean called the world that

we're in. And as it drifts South or north,

it's just like we got to drift along with it.

It's just like there's no chance.

There's no opportunity. Maybe even your own life.

It may feel like that. It may feel like that you're

more times at the mercy of what is happening to you than

anything else. And listen, there's stuff that

happens to us all. It's not like someone becomes a

Christian or something like that and then everything just ceases

to happen to them. No, it still happens.

There are some days it almost feels like it's happening worse.

But I got to check my feet and I got to, I got to course correct

my focus. They sing the song earlier about

oceans. Peter was capable of walking on

the waters as long as his focus was stayed up on.

The Lord Jesus was out there on the water.

Peter having this gumption, he says bid me come.

Side note, just be careful what you ask the Lord to bid you do.

He'd probably go do it. He said Come Peter.

I can't imagine that first leg over the edge of the boat

slapping on that water knowing that has no body.

Well, at least not for a while. He starts walking up on that

water. His eyes are fixed upon the

Lord. The Bible speaks that it's a

tumultuous time. There's winds that are blowing.

Whenever he shifted his focus from the Lord to what the

environment was around him begin to sink, the Bible says.

And in that moment he cried out to God, said, Lord, save me

because Christ was still standing on the waters.

Please remember that when you're sinking, He's not still on the

waters. Lord helps him.

Scripture says that he and Peter walked back to the boat whenever

they got into the boat waters. Storm seized.

Sir, remember what you can't walk on or in by yourself.

You can walk on and end with the Lord, and you can declare

revival even in some of the most intimidating times of your world

and even of your life. These altars are open today for

anybody that might presently be finding themselves overwhelmed

by life or the circumstances of life that you see that you're

living in. Like Brother McGee, the

foundations are being destroyed. There's a shaking, there's a

it's just like just a new day to arrive to point something else

out that is just awry out of kilter.

And it's it's intimidating. Even Habakkuk said, he said,

Lord, I heard your speech and I was afraid.

How would I heard about how you just sit in silence, silently,

it seems like over there with all this stuff going on.

So that scares me that that made me afraid.

And then he turns the corner. Oh, Lord, revive, revive.

Somebody perhaps needs a revival today.

A revival in your heart, a revival in your life, A revival

where you live, a hope amid the hopelessness, a chance among all

the options that point in a negative direction.

You just might need a revival in these uncertain times.

I wish I could tell you everything's going to be well

after November, but it's not. Some things might be made

better, but what you need to find is placing your feet upon

something that's sure, a sure foundation, something that's

resolute, something that's unchanging.

Something that has been tested by time and history has proven.

You need to put your faith in the Lord.

You need to put your confidence in the Lord.

You need to go from my asking posture to a declaration

posture. God, I declare.

I declare Lord revival today. I declare hope.

I declare hope, God. I've been doing very hopeless

lately. I've been overcome by fear and

anxiety Lord lately. But God, I declare hope today.

I declare hope today. When I walked in trouble.

The Lord will repive me. Oh, reach out to him this

morning. He's there for you.

He's there for you. Cast all your care upon the Lord

and he will care for you. That's what they said.

That's more than just good words making poetry.

That's truth. In a world in which no one now

seems to believe as much in absolute truth.

That's the truth. They say there is no absolute

truth, which is an absolute statement.

So I don't really understand that all, but nonetheless, I do

believe in whom I have believed. I know the Bible says in whom I

have believed. Hallelujah, God wants you.

He's eager to help you. He's eager to be the wind, if

you will, beneath your wings. He's eager a man.

Just just clear the path, your feet.

It's not going to say that that stuff ain't still going to be

happening. But he said to aid.

He's there to help. He'll give revival in uncertain

times in uncertain times, Brother Mason in uncertain

times.