The Truth About Revival | Mark Brazee | World Outreach Church

You know, when I was a kid, we were way

out in the country. Uh my dad was had a

farm, small farm. We lived way out in

the country, went to a little country

church. Uh I grew up as a kid, you know,

uh with a admiration for God. No doubt

about that. But my dad got a job in

town, went in the insurance business,

and and uh went into a bigger city. you

know, I think we had two stop lightss

and uh got in there and um over the

years uh got different friends,

different music, different connections,

different things and really just walked

away from the things of God. Totally

did. And so by the time I got into um

high school, I pretty much walked away

from the things of God. And by the time

I got into college, I was running away

from the things of God, seeing how far

away I could get. The funny thing is you

can go you can see how far away you can

get, but you're always going to run

right into him.

>> I didn't get that part figured out for a

while. But um

when I uh November 1972, it was my

second year of college and um it was it

was it wasn't very good. I was in

Anyway, uh wasn't a good a good uh lane

to be in. And uh so I went to a meeting

and and somebody talked me into it. I

said, "If you leave me alone, I'll go to

your meeting." So I kept my word. They

left me alone. I went to the meeting.

Went two nights in a row. Second night I

thought about time to quit running from

God. I think I better run to him. Walked

an aisle, prayed a prayer. And that was

November 1972

and been walking with God to some degree

ever since then. Just made a decision at

that time. Well, right after that,

I uh I located probably within maybe I

don't know three, four, five months,

something like that. I found a a

Christian bookstore. This was in uh East

Lancing, Michigan, where the school was,

Michigan State University. And I found a

little little Christian bookstore. And I

went in and and I didn't know there was

such a thing as a Christian bookstore. I

knew there was a Bible, but I didn't

know you're supposed to read it. And uh

so I went into this Christian bookstore

and I started looking at the books. And

of all the books, probably 99% of the

books in that place that I could have or

should have ought to have read,

something pulled me to a particular book

in there. I have no idea why, but I went

to a book called Great Revivals in

America.

Now, I didn't know what a revival was. I

had no idea, no concept what revival

was, but I went to that book. I think it

was, in fact, I've still got it. It's in

my library. I think I paid a$14 four

cents tax on that thing. And um bought

the book. And it was about great

revivals in America. I didn't know back

then that I was going to have the

privilege of living in the body of

Christ, being in the middle of what God

was doing uh a few years down the road

and be in the middle of probably one of

the greatest moves of God the earth has

ever seen. And that's what you and I are

alive for. I had no idea what a revival

was. But I want to talk a little bit

about that because in with all the

things we've got going on in the Middle

East and Africa uh Asia

around the world, all the uh wars,

rumors of wars and all that, we've got

one answer for all this, and the answer

is revival. Anytime anytime anytime we

see where the the uh the world is in the

mess and the church isn't far behind it,

we see when we're bumping up against

something that will make a change for

that and it's called revival. Now, you

know, somebody talked to us number of

years ago, there was a particular church

in another city, another state and a

friend of ours went into that particular

church and they called us on the phone.

They said, uh, they said, uh, our, uh,

our our church, uh, we're we we are we

are in the last day revival. I said,

great. That's good. I said, 'What's

going on? Said, we're growing. We're

we've we've doubled our crowd. I said,

well, you you've doubled your crowd, but

what's going on there? Well, what do you

mean what's going on? Well, you may have

doubled your crowd, but what what have

you got in there with the presence of

God? What do you have in there with

miracles? What do you have with signs

and wonders? What do you have going with

anything else in there? They said, "Huh?

I said, you know, we think revival is

just getting lots of people, but revival

goes way beyond that.

>> All right. And so now, have you found

the 85th Psalm, sixth verse there?

>> That's where the psalmist said, Lord,

will you not revive us

>> again? One time, one time just isn't

enough. Lord, will you will you not

revive us again that your people may

rejoice in you? See, back there, even

the psalmist cried out for a revival, a

move of God. you go back to the early

early part of the uh uh book of Exodus

uh and and uh God's people, they're

they're in bondage in in in Egypt, but

they're crying out. They got sick and

tired of being sick and tired. They

start crying out for a move of God. This

has been a history for about 6,000 years

now, where God's people, when the going

gets tough, they know enough to turn to

God.

>> And that's where we are right now. the

the the answer to where we are in the

world system right now is going to be um

revival. But see, we need to find out

what what is it going to be? I mean,

yeah, we're going to pray for revival.

How do we know if we get it? Well, we're

going to see more people come to church.

Well, that ought to be happening all the

time. What is going to what is the

revival actually going to be? Well,

revival um I've heard one

one uh one definition. I got a set of

set of cassettes.

Tell you how it tells you how old it

was. Uh I got a set of cassette uh

cassettes where somebody was teaching on

the subject of revival. He was a British

man talking about revival. I still have

it. In fact, in fact, it's in my phone

now. But um he talked about um revivals

that had broken out over the years. He

was old enough at the time he'd been

involved in a few of them. He knew Smith

Wigglesworth. He'd been around in

Wigglesworth's time. Saw the results of

that. uh that gift. But um revival was

defined as he put it this way. Revival

is simply defined as a restoration. It's

not just a restoration of a lot of

people. Revival is a restoration of the

presence of God. It's not how many

people you get. It's how much of God you

got. Revival is how much you get of the

pre in his presence is fullness of joy

at his right hand pleasures ever more.

He said, "Revival is a it's a uh it's

the restoration of the presence of God."

In fact, somebody else put it this way.

Uh revival is the inrush. I love this

one. Revival is the inrush of the spirit

into a body that threatens to become a

corpse.

I'll say that again. Revival is the

inrush of the spirit into a body that

threatens to become a corpse. Every time

the body of Christ gets to where we

we're just going down for the third

time, every time the church world looks

like we're in bad trouble, what what do

we get instead of getting we might

deserve judgment? We might have earned

judgment, but what we get instead of

judgment, we get revival. You can track

that all the way back through where

we've we've had some really rough times

in the history of the church world.

There were times when the early early

days of the church, actually here in

America, when there were some well-known

writers that said, "The church is about

gone. Give us 25 to 30 years and there

will be no church. Well, there will

there was no more of that guy, but the

church is alive and well. And so if you

go back through

revival is it's again the restoration of

the presence of God. Well, what the

restoration of the presence of God means

we've had it and for some reason it's

gone away. I've been around long enough

now, okay, won't say how long. I've been

around long enough now that I' I've been

able to have my feet somewhere in some

kind of a revival, some kind of a move

of God about four different times.

They're coming quicker than they used

to. I've been able to get my feet just

in the on the edge of things. We'll

maybe get to that later on. We'll see.

But u I mean, I was I got my life right

with God right in the be really kind of

in the beginning of the charismatic

move. I didn't do really well with the

the standard church group. I wasn't real

good with pews and song books and all

that. But I'll tell you what, when I

started finding all these people, they

they got together. They had uh acoustic

guitars. They had hymns they were

singing out of the Psalms. Um they wore

tie-dye t-shirts. um the the the the

hippie movement when they when they went

from the hippie movement to the Jesus

revolution, something changed.

>> What happened was God came and visited a

group of people because they were

hungry.

>> And when that began to take place, I

thought, "This is what I've been looking

for. This is what I've been wanting." I,

you know, I wasn't against the church

world. I just couldn't stay awake. Okay?

I was looking for something that was

different than what I'd been around.

grew up in church, went to church, you

know, finally, actually when I was in

high school, I told my parents

respectfully, I wasn't I wasn't

disrespectful about it, but I said, you

know, I said, you just have to

understand, I said, church is really

dead, dull, dry, and poor and boring.

And I said, I I really, if you don't

mind, I said, I really, most my friends

end up down at the pool hall that time

of day. If you don't mind, I'm going to

skip the I'm going to skip the church.

I'm going to the pool hall.

And I think my dad looked at me and

said, I don't blame you. Go ahead. And

uh

and if you're around when he was around,

you probably wouldn't doubt that at all.

I see some people doing this thing. So

uh he actually the thing was he was

wishing he could go with me. But anyway,

vicariously going with me. But anyway, I

uh you know, I just remembered I was

looking for something different. And

when I walked the aisle, made a

commitment to Jesus at a meeting in in

it was actually at the Civic Center in

Lancing, Michigan. Uh Leighton Ford, he

was a associate of Billy Graham preached

that night. And I remember going there

two nights in a row. Second night I

walked the aisle and I made a commitment

to Jesus. And from there, I got involved

instantly. The guy that got me to the

meeting was one of the navigators.

I didn't know what a navigator was, but

the guy just wouldn't leave me alone. He

just stayed with me right after that.

Thank God. I went there for a while and

then I discovered the Campus Crusade for

Christ. And I thought, this is a little

more what I was looking for. And I got

into that. And so what happened was I

got into the middle of the charismatic

move in basically 19 about 1972,

something like that. Changed the course

of my life. Um, didn't know to go to

church. Didn't know there was a church

to go to. Didn't read the Bible. didn't

know I was supposed to, but I found out

a bunch of people that were looking for

something different. I found some people

real hungry and I got around the campus

crusade for Christ and and uh you know,

of course, I was in that until uh moved

back to my hometown, got into a

charismatic church there. Uh got filled

with the Holy Ghost and about that time

is when brother Hagen started uh Rama

1974 the year it started and I was in

the charter class there. Uh I didn't

know who Brother Hagen was. I didn't

know what a Rama was. Uh all I knew is

whatever that thing was, I was supposed

to go to it. And I packed a couple

suitcases, got a flight to Tulsa from

Michigan, came down here and got in the

middle. And that was the beginning of

when we switched kind of from the

charismatic move to what we called the

Word of Faith teaching revival.

But by my in my life, that was the

second really the second revival I'd

been able to get my toes in the waters

of. But to go back through there

where we're headed right now. Okay. If

there's something we should be looking

for, if there's something we should be

planning on, if there's something we

should be headed for, we should be

looking while all these wars and rumors

of wars are going in the world today. I

don't know how long this thing's going

to last in the Middle East. I don't know

how far it's going to go. But I do know

the answer to all this is that's going

to make a difference is revival.

>> It's the one thing you and I can push

toward. We can pray for. You see, the

psalmist said, "Lord," he said, "will

you not revive us

>> again." Once wasn't enough. I've been in

like four of them. But there's some the

big ones coming.

>> There's something there's something out

there. And God's raising up a generation

of believers that if we know what we're

doing, we get we've got ourselves ready

to get involved in something that's

going to shake the world like nothing

ever has before. There's what's called

the rain. Ask ye the Lord rain in the

time of the latter rain. He'll send

bright clouds, lightning, showers of

rain, grass to every man in his field.

Zechariah 10:1. We know we're headed

Zechariah 10:1

into something. God calls it the rain.

There's something he's called the

harvest. The husbandman waits for the

precious fruit of the earth. And he has

long patience for it until he receives

the early and the latter rain. What's he

waiting for? Harvest. He's waiting for

precious fruit of the earth. You and I,

you know, if we've got this wrong, we've

got it really wrong. Otherwise, we're

living at the at the beginning of an

outpouring of the reign of God, which is

the outpouring of his presence, which is

revival. We're living at the edge of

that, which will produce a great

harvest, which will bring in Jesus, and

we're all we're getting caught away.

We'll leave out of here, go out and

celebrate for seven years, come back

with him, and then away we go from

there. But now

t taking a look back through in looking

at what is it we're looking for? We're

looking for uh uh revival. Well, it's

it's a restoration of the presence of

God. Well, I don't know about you, uh I

remember the first time I got in the

presence of God, I said, "God, I don't

know what this is, but I got to have

more of it."

>> I got in the presence of God. It was so

thick I could barely stand up. I didn't

know what that was, but I said, God,

whatever this is, I got if if you still

do this today, I'm a candidate. I'm

going I will spend the rest of my life

going after your presence. First time I

got around it. I Nobody told me, you

know, you need to you need to pursue the

presence of God. I didn't know anything

about it, but I know when I got into a

meeting and I got face to face with the

presence of God, I thought, this is it.

Whatever this is, I got to have it. I

got my feet over in the glory of God and

something changed the course of my life.

I've never that was in 1975. I've never

been the same since then. I got around

that and I thought if this is available

I'm a candidate.

>> I can't settle for something else. I

said I told God I said, you know, he

knows what I'm thinking so I might as

well tell him.

That's not always the best idea. But you

know, I mean, you know, I I said, God,

I'll tell you what. I I I I uh I was in

uh college

where I I I got my life on the process

of getting right with God. That was not

an instant thing. It just took some time

to grow. Okay, which I'm still doing

that. But I said I uh I said, you know,

I went from there and I went to uh moved

from college, went back to my uh

hometown. Uh told my parents, I said, I

I don't know what I'm going to do. Uh I

I had two a little over two years in

college about little almost two and a

half and I said if I if I stay in

college this isn't going to work. I just

know the friends I had, the company I

had, the communication I had, everything

I'm around here, if I stay around here

long, this thing is not going to be able

to work. I wasn't I wasn't in a church.

I didn't wasn't reading my Bible. I

didn't know anything except I knew my

friends weren't very good for me and I

probably wasn't real good for them at

the time. I knew I'd gotten my life

right with God, but I thought, I don't

know what this is all about. All I know

is I've got to get out of here. I've got

to find something different. I've got

God's got something for me to do. I

don't know what it is, but whatever it

is, I'm ready to do it. So, I'm going to

move back to my hometown, small town in

Michigan. I'm going to move back to my

hometown. Mom and dad said, "Yes, move

in. Move back in your old room. Come on

in."

And uh I had gotten a a uh uh a real

estate license right out of high school,

right after I graduated. And uh so I

said, I'm going to activate my license.

I'm going to go into the real estate

business. I don't know why I didn't know

anything about real estate. And uh it

proved out in the first six months I

didn't make anything. But anyway,

I uh you know, I I I went back in and I

I went into the real estate business. I

started working in the real estate

company. Um, and I I a move of God broke

out in the young people in my hometown

from a lot of different churches. Uh, I

led the the the youth revival. I only

because I was the oldest one. I didn't

know any more than anybody else. But,

uh, things began to turn that direction.

And I remember saying, we we had some

meet we had some times when the Holy

Ghost showed up. We had some meetings

where the spirit of God fell in there.

We had some times when people were

healed. We had some miracles that were

done. We had a lot of there was we were

in the middle of the charismatic move.

And I remember telling the Lord, I said,

"Lord, I don't understand all this." But

I said, "U, if this is what you're going

to do, I'm on board. But if this is not

for today, I'm staying in real estate.

I'll make money. I'll support the

church. I'll do whatever I need to do.

But if this is if this is not available,

I'll love you and I'll serve you. But

this is ava if this is available, I'm

in. And I'm in 100%. and I'll pursue

this. I'll go after this. I don't

understand it, but I'm going whatever

this is, I like it. Well, I didn't know

what it was. It was the presence of God.

I'd get in meetings and just run face to

face with the presence of God. Okay? It

was different at different times.

Sometimes it was loud and boisterous.

Sometimes it was quiet. We're on our

face before God. But I got so hungry for

the things of God. I said, "God, all I

know is if you don't do this today, I'll

love you, but I'm just going to work in

the real estate business, make money,

and be happy. That's it. But if you do

this, I'm on board. I'll go anywhere.

I'll do anything. I'll go to any

country. I'll go to any d I'll go

anywhere. I'll do anything. If this is

what you do, I'm on board. That's just

that's all I can tell you. I don't

understand it, but I'm I'm on board."

Well,

uh, I began to I began to study revival.

didn't know. I didn't know that

if if I'm if I'm correct. We'll know

eventually. I didn't know that I was I

was born again to be in the middle of

the greatest move of God America's ever

seen.

>> And so were you.

>> We're not We're not here. We're We're

not here by accident. We're not in the

day we're in. We're not in the time

we're in. We're in the We're in the

middle of something today. When you look

out there and see everything going on,

whether it's Asia, whether it's Central

America, whether it's Africa, whether

it's wherever it is, the world is in a

mess out there and the only answer is

the church and the only answer the

church has is the presence of God.

So I began to study about that and I I I

started looking and I saw where

um every time again uh revival is

defined somebody defined it as the

inrush of the spirit into a body that

threatens to become a corpse. Well, you

know, I got in the charismatic move just

as things were beginning to dry up a

little bit. We'd gotten to the end of

the healing revival and there was a a

blank spot in there and then we had the

charismatic move and then out of that

came the Word of Faith teaching revival.

But in the middle of all that um looking

back through there I could I I was

beginning to track where every time

every time I I didn't have all the

information. There's um I see uh uh

Maddens over there. You know, there was

there was a move of God in u I think it

was in southern France. What in the

1500s? The Hugenats. Is that what it

was? The Hugenats. That's we think

that's what my family came out of. I

think I don't know how we got to

America, but I'm you know, we did. And

uh and then there was another one in in

uh uh another one in in the Czech Rep

Czechoslovakia area. There's revival

going on in Europe, but I didn't know

anything about that. But I began to

study what God did in in uh America. I

had a book, Great Revivals in America.

It was not a full gospel book, so they

left a couple of them out.

But uh and going back through there, uh

every time every time America, you ever

stop we're we're an interesting group.

America's we are a group of pioneers.

Okay? And every time every time things

have gotten

dry in America, looking like things

weren't going to work out, every time

we've gotten to that point, God would

raise up a people to pray.

There's no such thing as a move of God

that's not produced by prayer.

>> Amen.

>> Something has to activate that.

Something has to get it moving. So God

would raise up some people to pray and

if they'd pray, we'd have an outpouring

and we would end up with a revival. in

reading about that going just going back

through for there was what they called

the great awakening

uh Peter I think it was Peter Cartright

it was in the second great awakening it

was up in New England and um he'd have

meetings out there in the out in the

fields and I was reading about that one

time and I think I got the right guy. He

said he had a meeting out there and he

said there was a bunch of young guys

that were climbing up in the trees. He

said he stopped and said get out of the

trees because when I start preaching the

power of God's going to fall. when it

does, when he falls, you'll fall. And I

don't need you getting injured falling

out of the trees. So, way back there in

the second great awakening, people were

falling under the power of God out there

in field meetings. Well, I kept reading

about these and then we get over to

actually into the right around 1800. Uh,

man, we're we're pushing our way. We're

into the Wild West out in in western

Kentucky. And um there was a uh there's

a a preacher out there. Uh James McGrady

was his name. Okay. And he James McGrady

was out there and and uh he was he was

pastoring a few small churches out in

this area. And it was kind of a lawless

area in America. If people were in

trouble, they'd go to Western Kentucky

because there was no law to come after

him there. And everybody knew that. So

McGrady's out there. He's pastoring

churches, but people are running

everywhere to get away from the law and

God. Well, he uh he decided to start

having people pray.

This was right around roughly late

1700s into the early 1800s. He started

getting people to pray and they'd pray.

They'd pray the first Monday of of every

month and then they prayed a little more

often. Well, they got to where more

people pray and more people were

praying. more people kept getting they

people started getting interested. Give

people something they like, they'll get

in the middle of it.

>> Yeah.

>> They began to start praying. And so

finally, McGrady said, "Uh, let's uh

we're going to have we're going to have

a uh we're going to have a prayer

meeting. We're we're going to have a

communion service." Okay, that sound

like a great idea. So, they started

getting word around to the area. This

was in the early early 1800s. they're

going to have a communion service out

there in a field out there. And they

they knew some people would come. They

didn't know who would show up. But when

they started having this communion

service, people kept coming and coming

and coming and coming there. And they

had they had horses and wagons. They had

Anyway, they ended up with last I I've

gotten a lot of different numbers. Last

one I got was they ended up they looked

out and they had a little over 13,000

people that showed up. They started out

with nothing but a bunch of rag tag

crazy

bad guys,

but they kept getting people praying.

And when they got praying, what

happened? God invaded. And it turned

into the great Western Kentucky revival.

And it began to sweep that whole section

of the nation. It went to cities, it

went to villages, it went to towns, it

went to states, it went all over that

region of America because somebody

prayed. And when they did, God invaded

it with a revival. Revival that swept

that whole part of our nation as as

early 1800s, you know, but we're we're a

we're a pioneer people. Give us 50

years, we'll find a way that we have to

have another one.

So by 1850, we're in a kind of a mess

again. All right. We're we're just about

to get into the Civil War. America's in

in we are headed into some problems.

Okay. And here's a guy Jeremiah Jeremiah

Lamir. He's a he's a guy up in New York

and uh the u the church world said they

needed him to do something and he said,

"Well, I think I'll just start a prayer

meeting." So, he talked to the uh the

Dutch Reform Church, New York City, and

they said, "Well, we have an upper room.

That's a good place to start. we got an

upper room and what we'll let we'll do

is we'll we'll um uh we'll let you use

that if you want. He said okay. So he

went around he he you know he printed

all these brochures and tacked them up

on polls around the c that that part of

the city. Said we're going to have a

noon hour prayer meeting such and such a

date. We wanted to invite everybody to

come. Well I think they they started it

out and I think they had four or five

people show up. Well I've been to prayer

meetings where you thought that was a

landslide. So they had four or five

people show up there and um before the

end of the meeting they had two or three

more showed up said well let's just keep

this going. So they had another one the

next week and another one the next week

and we won't go into all the details of

it but over a period of time all of a

sudden something happened. God invaded

that. Revival broke out. What's revival?

Restoration of the presence of God.

What's revival? Inrush of the spirit

into a body that threatens to become a

corpse. So all of a sudden what they

they they couldn't produce revival but

they could produ produce prayer. And so

they did that and and um

it swept across that whole section of

America. It went clear over into Ohio

into Pennsylvania was all through New

York. Uh one man covered that whole

section of America in his business. And

he said every city he went to he found

us a a a row of prayer meetings. the uh

the the business community had shut down

their businesses every day from 12 to

1:00 to let people go and pray. Imagine

that. They didn't want people competing

with each other. So, they shut had

everybody shut down their businesses.

And what they do is started out in New

York and they shut all the businesses

down and people went from went all over

just to take 12 to 1:00 to pray. And

that went all up and down the East

Coast. Um, you know, of course it was

still going when the civil war broke

out. It began to go into the tents of

where the wounded were uh from the civil

war and revival broke out in the tents

of the wounded. People were getting born

again. People were praying. Power of God

came in there. Well, next thing you

know, uh, it swept, it went across the

ocean. They said the power of God would

get so strong that they would get they'd

get word from uh freigherss, boats,

ships coming in into the into the harbor

in New York and they'd get word coming

in from those ships saying, "Send us a

preacher.

Send us a preacher." Something happened

here. We had a bunch of guys that were

laughing at these Christians that were

having prayer meetings and they'd come

down to make fun of them. Power of God

hit them. They're on their face before

God. Now we got prayer meetings going

all over our ship. We can't get anything

done. Send us a preacher to let us know

what to do about this. And the bottom

line is last I read, they figured this

went all over the east coast of America.

It went across the ocean. It went over

into Europe. And uh when all was said

and done, they said they figure well

over 1 million people were born again as

a result of the prayer revival.

>> Revival.

>> Revival. Think about that.

You couldn't get a thou you couldn't get

a million people saved with all the

preaching you could do. But a revival

broke out. When it did, it swept up and

down the east coast. It went over into

Europe. And they said last they could

tell it was roughly over a million

people that got born again as a result

of the prayer revival. So we've got a

we've got the the uh Kentucky, Western

Kentucky revival. Then we got the New

York revival. That brings us up to the

early 1900s. Well, we know what happens

then. We got Charles Pum who's got

people praying in Topeka, Kansas.

And they're they're hungry for they're

hungry for something. That's what starts

it all. You know, if we're not hungry,

we're not going to get anything.

>> But they got hungry. And they and they

began to pray. And when they did, they

uh

they were praying for they they found

they found over in Acts chapter 2,

Acts 2 · chapter mention

there's what they call the baptism of

the Holy Spirit.

wasn't real popular back then. People

that got baptized in the Holy Ghost, a

lot of them were locked up. They thought

they were crazy,

but they uh they had people getting uh

baptized in the Holy Ghost and they'd

have these prayer meetings. Uh Parm

started a school and they'd have people

in the school. They began to pray. They

began to pray for today what God did

back in the book of Acts. And they

prayed and they prayed and they prayed

and they prayed and they prayed. People

started getting filled. Well, from there

it went, I think, down to Houston. I'm

not real sure. And a guy named Brother

Seymour

picked up on this. He got it started

down, I think it was in Texas, but then

he headed out for California to Isuza

Street. Okay. So, he goes out there,

Brother Seymour gets a little place,

Isuza Street, California, and u he he

went into this place, little place, and

got got a bunch of people to pray. He'd

pray with a cardboard box over his head

because he didn't want people giving him

the credit for whatever was going to

happen. So he'd put a cardboard box over

his head and he'd pray three, four hours

a day. Nothing happens. He finally said,

"God, nothing's happening." He said, the

Lord spoke to him and said, "You're not

praying enough." He said, "Lord, I'm

praying a lot." He said, "Increase." He

went on, he was praying eight hours a

day,

not in tongues. He was praying in

English, but he kept praying and praying

and praying. Well, we all know what

happened there. All of a sudden, people

started getting baptized in the Holy

Ghost, and a move of God broke out.

Revival broke out. We'd had the Pentec,

you know, I mean, we we've had the uh

Western Kentucky revival. We we had the

the uh uh awakening up in New England.

We had the New York prayer revival. But

all of a sudden, something broke out in

uh Isuza. And when it did, I don't know

about you, Pastor Janet and I, we've

been, I don't know, we've been to 50some

countries. I don't know where you can go

anywhere you want and you're going to

find a bunch of people baptized in the

Holy Ghost, praying in other tongues.

Anywhere you go, you can find a full

gospel church. Anywhere you can go, you

can find a charismatic move. Anywhere

you can go, you can find a bunch of

folks that are praying in other tongues.

It all happened because somebody went

after it. One revival, one revival

exploded in our nation. As a result, we

ended up with Church of God, Pentecostal

Church of God. We ended up with

Assemblies of God. We ended up with

denominations all over America. All of

them came out of a bunch of people in

the Isuza Street Revival. I've read

after that, read about that. Something

something broke out there. It was

amazing. There's a book out on uh uh

where the where the children as adults

they were telling people what it was

like when they were a kid in the zoos of

revival. It was amazing. I've still got

it. Again, I got the book in my library.

But they said it wasn't just what you

know you think well people just you know

they just prayed until they started

speaking in tongues. Power of God fell

in there. The glory came in. We ended up

the glory of God would get so thick in

there. We as kids, we'd bring glass jars

to church with us and we'd crawl under

the front chairs with glass jars because

the glory would get so thick. We wanted

to get some in the jar and take it home

with us.

>> Now, I don't know about you, I'm ready

for the glory to come into our church so

thick that the kids are coming in with

glass jars, plastic, I don't care. And

uh the where the glory gets so thick,

they want to try to take some of that

home with them.

Well, the kids could see it. And then

when that would happen, they'd look and

there'd be people in the back of the

building coming in in in wheelchairs.

The kids would go back there. Said they

we didn't wait for the adults. While the

adults are praying to get filled, the

kids are going to the back part. They're

going back there and they're finding

folks in wheelchairs and they're

grabbing them by the hands. The kids are

pulling them out of wheelchairs and

walking around the back part of the

building. They said people had u you

know this was this was back there early

early. This was in 1907 1908. A lot of

people had you know teeth that were

missing. These kids would go up and find

people with teeth missing, put their

fingers into their mouths and teeth

would grow right under their fingers.

They had teeth growing. They had people

getting up and walking out of

wheelchairs. This is what the children

saw. Hallelujah.

>> How would you like to have that in our

children's church?

>> Why not?

>> If they could have that in 1907, why

shouldn't we have it today in 2026?

>> Why? What was the difference? It was

revival.

>> It was revival that broke out. And you

can find, like I said, you can find it.

My goodness. You can go now in in

there's a move of God in Brazil. Been

going for years. Amazing move of God.

There's a move of God in the Philippine

Islands. Amazing move of God in the

Philippines. great things happening.

Church is exploding over there. Things

are beginning to break out. We know some

things that are about to take place in

Japan. There's some things in um some of

the major cities in Europe, whether it

be Paris or Rome or or uh um some of the

other cities there. Things are beginning

to break out. Why? Because there's a

hunger and there's prayer and there's a

move of God. Something's breaking out. I

uh and we've gone long enough for today,

but I uh you know, I I was in the

middle, like I said, the charismatic

move. And then when that be that

switched over, I was in the charismatic

move, baptized in the Holy Ghost,

praying in other tongues, didn't know

anything. I just knew I was filled. I

began to realize you need to read the

Bible if you plan for this to last. And

um

Brother Hagen had started Rama. And I

didn't know who he was. I didn't know

what a Rama was. I just saw an article

about it and I thought I've got to go

there. Talked to my dad. He was the half

part owner of the company I was in. And

he said I said, "Dad, I I'll go another

year." He said, "No, go now." He said,

"You're miserable. Go down there." So I

called, got him on the phone and I said,

"I want to come to your school." And

they said, "If you can make it in the

next two weeks, you can come." Said, "Do

I need to fill out an application?" "No,

if you can get here, you can come." I

never did fill out an application, but I

was in the very first year in the

charter class. Came down here, ended up

working for brother Hagen uh on and off

for about five years time.

Got down here because I was hungry. And

there was a we'd been through I'd been

in the middle of the charismatic move.

But all of a sudden, this is the

presence of God coming in a different

way. This is a this is a this is a move

of uh u hunger for the word of God.

We called it a word of faith teaching

revival. Changed the course of my life.

We could go on and on. Went from there

to a joy move. I don't know if any of

you were in that or not. Joy move broke

out, broke out, broke out. We got in the

middle of it. We're in it for about five

years time. Went all over the world. We

just start preaching the word and people

would just start falling out under the

power of God. People laughing, people

dancing, people rejoicing. We didn't do

it. We're just trying to preach the

Bible. But there was a joy move that

broke out. But I'm going to find a place

to close this. I said all that to say

where we are right now. If if revival is

an inrush of the spirit into a body that

threatens to become a corpse, if there's

a time if there's ever been a time the

church needed a great reviving, it's

right now. We've got a mess going in

Africa. We got a mess going in central

really Middle East. We got a mess going

in Asia. We got a mess going in Europe.

We got me We got messes going

everywhere. And there's some good things

happening in the church.

There's some growth happening in the

church. There's some numerical growth in

the church. But I'm looking for

somewhere. I don't know about you, I got

this hunger in me. What

we I was in a I was working for brother

Hagen. We he did a meeting at one

particular point and uh my goodness, the

meeting was so strong. power of God was

so thick in that in that meeting

and uh didn't do any good to talk to

brother Hagen. He wouldn't bother

talking to you anyway.

But as we headed out of the service, it

was so strong and I was walking with him

back to toward his hotel room and I

said, "Uh, Brother Hagen," I said, "That

was that was uh that was amazing

service." That's all I'm, you know, no

use trying to, you know, inflate his ego

or anything else. He didn't listen. But

I said, "That was an amazing service."

I'll never forget he said he stopped and

he said you know he said yeah but after

you bet around the big stuff he said

this little stuff just doesn't satisfy

you anymore and I thought if this is the

little stuff

I'm going after the big stuff if this is

the little stuff I'm going after the big

stuff if this is what it is if he was

around something signs and wonders and

miracles and healings and demonstrations

of the Holy Ghost if he was around that

for years before we ever started meet

doing the meetings where I worked for

him. If that's what it was like back in

the earlier day and then he gets into

what I'm thinking was the greatest

meeting I've ever been around. He said,

"Well, it's it's okay." He said, "But

this little stuff just doesn't satisfy

you when you've been around bigger

stuff." I said, "God, if you got bigger

stuff, I'm a candidate.

But God, I believe there's a people.

And the spirit of God's raising up a

remnant. He's raising up a group of

people with a hunger in their heart and

ready to jump in and start. Something's

coming our way and we're coming into the

fullness of that day. Power of God will

fall like a river and we're going to

watch the outpouring of the giver. So be

prepared and ready to go because with

the spirit of God, you and I are going

to learn how to flow. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Well, let's give him thanks.

>> Hallelujah. We thank you for it, dear

father. Lord, I pray I pray I pray,

Father. Of course, we pray for Israel.

You said uh you said uh to really to

pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And we

do that because you asked us to. We pray

for the peace of God. We pray for again

for the koi over there doing what you've

called them to do. But we bring it even

back around here. Lord, there's

something about America. Something about

the call of God on America. We've not

yet seen what we're going to see. We've

not yet done what we're going to do.

We've seen miracles. We've seen healing

signs and wonders. We've been in the the

healing revival of the 40s and 50s.

We've been in the charismatic move of

the 60s. Been in the word of faith in

the 70s.

Charismatic move in the 60s. Father,

there's something something something.

There's a stirring. There's a a stirring

on the inside of us. Lord, I know it

just it just rolls in there. It just

rolls. I know it has been really,

especially the last couple weeks here.

There's something rolling, just rolling

on the inside that you're getting uh the

church ready for. You're getting not

just a few people. You're getting the

church ready for. You're raising up a a

remnant. You're raising up a a

generation. So I ask you, Lord, prepare

us for that which you've prepared for

us. What we don't know, tell us. What we

haven't seen, show unto us. What we

haven't heard, speak unto us. Prepare

us, dear Lord, for that which you have

for that which you've prepared for us.

Hallelujah. Not only in America, but

other places. Lord, I look back there

and see the madness. I thank you,

Father, for the work that they've done

over there in uh in that section of

Europe. I thank you, Father. Thank you

for as good as it has been, nothing

compared to what it's going to be. I

thank you, Father, for the other

locations that I can look out and see

some folks. Some some here naturally,

some by the Holy Ghost. There's some

people. You're raising up people for an

outpouring of the spirit of God. You're

just looking for a people to get hungry

and pray. And if we do, then uh you'll

do what you said you'd do. Great move of

the spirit of God. So, I thank you for

it in the wonderful name of Jesus. Lord,

there's a a stirring in my heart. Where

we are is great. It's good. It's

wonderful, but it's nothing compared to

where you're going to take us. There is

a there is a deep stirring, deep calls

to deep. There's something way down on

the inside, dear Lord. I don't know how

to describe it. I do my best and I can't

seem to even get to the edge of it, but

there's something way on the inside. If

I was to go around the crowd, I would

say probably twothirds of the people in

here would be able to say, "I get it.

That's working on the inside of me.

Something is on the inside of me.

Something greater is in me than what I'm

walking in." And I thank you, Lord. I

pray over this house in the name of

Jesus. Lord, prepare us for that which

you prepared for us. For the best, the

greatest is just ahead.

Hallelujah. And we thank you for it in

Jesus wonderful name. Father, I I Lord,

I I've just there's something way down

inside. I don't honestly don't know what

to do with it yet. Something on the

inside.

Uh that part I do know. I I do

understand that part. I I get I get that

part. I don't know what to do or how I I

don't know what to do with it, but

you'll have to show us. Holy Ghost, the

teacher you that that's what you do. So,

I look to you to do that. But I thank

you right now, dear Father. Hallelujah.

I thank you just for this house right

here, the nations, the places, the

cities, the locations.

Just a little bit of hunger and some

prayer and things can break out here and

break out there. So I thank you for it

in Jesus name. Father, hallelujah. Thank

you. Thank you. Thank you. The greater

one's living in us. He's given us

uncction. He's given us utterance. And

what you've said, you'll do. What you

spoke, you'll make it good. We thank you

for it in Jesus name, Father. Amen.

Amen. And amen. While heads are bowed

and eyes are closed, if you're here

today and you'd say, "Pastor Mark, I uh

I got a hunger like that on the inside

of me. I never would have told anybody.

I probably couldn't have explained it,

but there's something on the inside of

me. Whatever you're talking about, I

want to be in the middle of that. But

I'm really I'm just not I need to get my

life right with God to start with.

I'm like you were when you were back in

college. I I you know had a love for

God, but I just didn't have time to hang

around with him. If your life isn't

where it needs to be with God, I want to

pray for you. Would you just raise your

hand? If you'd say that, my life's not

where it needs to be with God. Pray for

me. I want to get some things right

today. I want I want to know I'm in the

right place with God. I want to know my

life's where it needs to be. I want to

know I'm in position for God to fill me

up

and launch me out. If that's you, just

write Yeah. Just wave a hand at me. I

want to pray for you. Anybody here say,

"Pray for me. I want to make I I want to

get my life right with God. I'm not

where I need to be, should be, ought to

be, and I want to get to that place."

Anybody here?

Okay, I see a hand.

Good. Thank you. Anybody else? Not going

to embarrass you. I want to pray for

you. Anybody else?

I'll look across the room one more time

here. Say, "Pastor Mark, pray for me.

Pray for me." Good. Thank you. Anybody

else? Pray for me. Pray for me. God's

got You know, I don't know about you, I

knew from the time I was I knew the time

I was in second grade, God had something

for me to do.

Church I was in, God didn't give you

something to do. We didn't know what a

call was. Didn't know what he what what

a commission was. We didn't know.

But it never went away. When I was away,

it didn't go away.

I used to preach to my friends, you need

to get right with God. I wasn't right

with God. But I'd preach to them, you

need to get right with God. God's got

something for you to do. Some of them

are today. Some are pastoring churches.

Some are doing things.

If you'd say, "Pastor, pray for me.

God's got something. If there's

something I'm supposed to be doing, I

don't know what it is. Pray for me. I

want to I want to get my life right so I

can be in the middle of whatever it is

he's doing. I want to be a part of that.

Anybody else?

Hallelujah.

Maybe you'd say, "Well, I I you know, I

I know I know I'm right with God, but

I've never been filled with the Holy

Spirit.

I did that when I was in

been I'd been out of college for about a

year. Went to a Pentecostal church on a

Thursday morning. Got filled with the

Holy Ghost. Changed the course of my

life. If you never been filled with the

Holy Spirit, you need that power in your

life. Just raise your hand up. I want to

pray for you.

Good. Thank you, sir. Anybody else?

Thank you. Anybody else say, "Pray for

me. I want to be filled with the spirit

of God. I want to I want to be filled

with the Holy Ghost." Anybody else? Just

Just wave your hand at me.

Good. Thank you. Anybody else? Pray for

me. I want that. I want that power in my

life. I want to be able to speak in a

heavenly language to Almighty God. Speak

mysteries to him. Anybody else?

Hallelujah. All right. If you just look

up here at me, in fact, let's all stand

to our feet. If you raised your hand,

even if you didn't raise your hand, but

you wish you would have. No, you should

have. I'm not going to embarrass you. I

want to pray for you. If that's you,

come join me down here in the front.

Not going to come make I'm not going to

make you say anything uh publicly. Not

going to embarrass you. Wouldn't do that

for anything.

Good.

>> You want to be filled with the Holy

Ghost?

>> Absolutely.

>> Absolutely. Good. You're in the right

place, brother.

>> I want a gentle drop. Okay.

>> You want a gentle drop? You're going to

You'll be fine. Okay. All right. Good.

Good. Hang out here. Anybody else? We

had a number of other hands. If you

raised your hand, come join me. We'll

wait for you.

>> Feeling lonely.

He doesn't want to stay here by himself.

>> There we go.

>> Good.

>> You ready for a miracle today?

>> Yes, sir.

>> Good. Anybody else? Just a couple more

hands. We'll wait.

>> Anybody else?

I remember being in those meetings. I'd

stand back there, my mother would

work on me until I went to a meeting and

I'd sit way in the back and hang on to

the pew until my knuckles all turned

white until I could get out of there

until I finally went to the one where um

I didn't have a chair to hang on to. My

feet started moving and I was in I was

one of the first ones in the meeting.

Prayed a simple prayer and here we are

50 years later.

Anybody else? Seems like there a couple

more. You want to either get your life

right with God or you want to be

baptized in the Holy Spirit. That's if

that's you. Just wave your hand and

we'll wait for you.

All right, gentlemen. We're going to

pray for you. All right, if you just bow

your heads, close your eyes. I want to

pray for you. Father, I thank you for

these two gentlemen that have come to

receive from you. Never be they'll never

be the same.

I thank you, Father. Thank you for

meeting their need. Thank you. When they

leave today, they're going to know

they're right with you. They're going to

know they're baptized in the Holy

Spirit. They're going to know they can

pray in other tongues anytime they so

desire. I thank you, Lord. They'll never

be the same after today in the wonderful

name of Jesus. I thank you, Father, for

meeting every need they've got in a

supernatural way. I thank you in Jesus

name, Father. Amen. Amen. Amen.

Hallelujah. All right. Now, I could lead

you in a prayer here. Take some extra

time. That'd be good. But I'm going to

ask you

to go with this couple for a few

minutes. They're not going to keep you.

Doesn't take long. Gonna go right

through those doors just for a few

minutes. They're they're just going to

make sure you got what you came for.

>> Okay.

>> So, if you don't mind doing that, I

would appreciate it if if you came with

somebody. I'm sure they'll wait for you.

>> I I see they came with you. You came.

Yeah. Good. Good. Good. You You came

with them?

>> I sure did.

>> They'll wait. I know they'll wait. We'll

We'll make sure they

>> passing by on the street. Come on.

>> Picked you back up. I'm glad they did.

It's good to see you. Good to meet you.

>> God bless you.

>> Bless you. Good to meet you. If you'll

just follow this couple right here,

they're going to share a couple of

verses with you. Make sure you get what

you came for. Well, let's go ahead and

give them a hand.

>> I want to do one more thing while you're

still standing. I just spotted David

Hawkins in the crowd. Come on down here.

You all know David Hawkins. He's part of

us, but this is his last service uh

until August. He'll be back for Far for

the Nations, but he is headed to

Thailand, helping with the crusade

there, but he is moving to Japan.

>> He's going to be living. Yes. Go ahead.

We're excited.

This is something uh he's been praying

about and staying in touch with us

about. And uh he went he went in

December and and then back again in

February. He told us after his trip in

December, he said, "I felt something in

my spirit that I've never felt it." And

and he's been going to countries for

years. Something in my spirit that I I'm

telling you, he says, "I don't know what

it is, but I've got to go back soon, and

I believe I'll know." So, he went back

in February. We met with him. And he

said, "I'm supposed to move there." And

we're like, "Yes." So, we need to just

pray over him. Japan, uh, in the natural

has been a very, very hard place for

missionaries. But they said that about

France. That's not true in France

anymore. It won't be true in Japan.

>> They call it a missionary graveyard.

>> Well, that's what they used to call

France when I grew up. Yeah, that's what

they So now they now Japan is the new

missionary graveyard. But you used to be

used to be. So he is part of us. You

guys know his face around. He's travels

a lot. He's overseas a lot. But this is

home. And so I just I looked at him and

I was like, we need to we need to pray

over you. So congregation, stretch your

hands out. We are gonna pray and he is

going to obey.

>> Father, we thank you. Thank you, Father.

You're just looking for for people to

go.

>> Yeah.

>> You said the harvest is plenteous and

labors are few. And I thank you, Lord.

You're just looking for labors. You get

the people. You'll send the money.

You'll send the help. You'll send the

work. So, I thank you right now. Thank

you as this nation uh opens up

supernaturally opens up. Not by might,

not by power, but by the spirit of God.

So we pray for David. We thank you,

Lord, for the right connections.

>> Thank you,

>> the right connections, the right

connections,

the favor with God and man. We we we uh

we lay hands on him

>> and we put ourselves in agreement with

him. Thank you, Lord, that these doors

will open

>> and uh contacts will be made and uh

great things will be done.

>> There's a move of God that'll break out

in Japan. Yes.

>> Great move.

>> Great move. It was said after World War

II, "Send me a thousand missionaries and

we'll change the nation." But they

didn't go. Well, they're going to go

now.

>> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. All it takes is

one with the fire of God and things will

explode. So, we thank you for it. We lay

hands on him. We pray over them. Oh, we

>> thank you, Lord.

We thank you for it in Jesus name,

Father. Hallelujah. Amen. Well, I'll

tell you, let's reach our hands out and

thank God with them for a supernatural

favor into that land, into that nation

with God and man in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen.

>> Hug his neck. Tell him you love him.

Cover him in prayer. Yeah. And if you

feel led, do what we used to do when I

was a kid growing up called Pentecostal

handshakes. Put some money in his hand.

Bless you guys. Robert.

Amen.

What a great service today. Yes, we can

rejoice. Amen. Well, quickly, a couple

of reminders. Um, if you were a

first-time guest, uh, don't forget to

text to, uh, welcome 918-2157066.

Want to get you that drink of your

choice. Also, want to make a couple of

quick announcements here. We have men's

prayer this Saturday, March 7th, at 9:00

a.m. in the youth building right across

the drive there. Donuts and coffee are

provided.

We'll be praying for our lives, our

church, our city, and our nation. Amen.

So, this will be a good time for the men

to come together and pray. Also, we have

Prime Timers Italian food.

March the 7th.

And I'm going to say this for ages 60

plusish.

>> Plus, is

or just say 60ish. How's that? So if

there might be some young folks that

might break in on that because it's

Italian food, right? And it's anyway, so

we're going to have potluck. So bring an

Italian dish, salad, bread, or dessert

to share. Sign up by March 4th uh at the

connect center or on the mobile app.

Also, we'll have pastoral care

assistance right here on the front to

pray with anybody needing prayer

concerning anything. We love you. We

want to pray with you. We want to agree

with you. And we want to see you get

your answers. Amen. So let's say our WOC

vision statement