”Crying For Our Culture” | Pastor John Tilley Jr | Habakkuk 1

Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. So take your Bible tonight and go

with me to the book of Habach.

The book of Habach in the Old Testament,

a minor prophet. We just got our feet

wet.

Last Wednesday night. And this

Wednesday, we're going to look at just

two more verses. And we're just going to

I'm not going to get in a big rush.

We're not going to we're not going to

get in a big hurry. will go as as the

pace that the Lord wants us to go. But I

am I am thoroughly enjoying my study of

Habac. In fact, this afternoon was just

in my office praying and and tears in my

eyes as I uh just pray that God would

give us the burden that he gave Habach.

And that's really what we're going to

talk about tonight. Here's the title of

my thought if you want to take notes

this evening. The title tonight is

crying over our culture. crying over our

culture.

Habach chapter 1. Let me remind you of

the big theme of the book of Habach.

Here's where we're going. Here's the

journey that we're taking. Habach begins

in fear. Very literally, Habach himself

is afraid. So, the book begins in fear,

but it ends in faith. We'll see that

over the next several weeks as we take

this journey through the book of Habach.

He's beginning in fear, but he's ending

in faith. I referenced this quote by

Scott Paulie last week. Habach, he says,

begins with a sob, but he ends in a

song. And a great way to picture the

journey of Habach through the book.

Another pastor, Pastor Dean Miller, said

it this way. Habach begins perplexed,

but he ends in praise. And you get the

idea. He begins with worry and he ends

in worship. So, I'm just saying the same

thing. I'm saying it different ways,

though. But that's the journey of Habach

as he goes through. He begins in chapter

1 where we're at, and it's a difficulty.

It's a challenge. He's afraid. He's

nervous. He has a burden. He's grieving.

But then at the end of the book, he's

singing this song of praise to God. He's

worshiping God. And what's interesting

is that nothing has changed about his

situation. from from chapter 1 to

chapter three, things have not gotten

any better. In fact, they're going to

get worse. Things are going to get worse

in his life. Things are going to get

worse in in his country. Things are

going to get worse in the coming

judgment of God. God's going to reveal

some things to Habach that doesn't sit

very well with him. He's not going to

like it very much. And so, how does

Habach go from from grieving to

worshiping, from from perplexity to

praising? How does he move through the

book and change his heart when his

situation doesn't change? It gets worse,

but his heart gets better. How is that

possible? How does his attitude changed

so much when his atmosphere doesn't

change at all? How can his heart be

changed when his hard times continue?

How can a man go from despair to delight

when there is seemingly no hope in

sight? The answer to the tension

is found in one word. And here's the

word we talked about last week. We're

going to talk about it again this week.

And it'll be a subthe as we travel all

the way through the book. It's our

prayer. The word that allows the heart

of a human who's going through

difficulty to go from worry to worship

is the word revival.

The word revival. We're going to talk

tonight about Habach's prayer for

revival as he cries over his culture.

Let me give you the outline I gave you

last week uh of all of chapter 1. This

is uh we got the big theme of the book.

Now, let's zoom in just a little bit.

Zoom in on chapter one and then we'll

zoom in even more to verse two through

four tonight. But here's the outline. I

did change one word. So, if you wrote it

down last week, I've got one edit for

you this week. Okay? uh outline of

chapter one, we see Habach's despair.

Verse two through four. We said I said

dismay, I think, last week, but I like

the word despair better this week. Maybe

I'll go back next week. I don't know.

We'll see. But this week, it's Habach's

despair. And then we see in verse 5

through 11, God's decision. And then in

verse 12 through 17, Habach's

disapproval. So here's what's happening

in chapter 1. Habach comes to God and

says, "Oh God, look at what's happening.

Look at the mess we're in. Look at all

the crazy. Look at all the chaos. Look

at all the sin. What are you going to

do? That's verse 2 through 4. We'll get

there in a moment. Verse 5 through 11,

God says, "Oh, I've got it under

control. I'm going to send a nation in

and they're going to destroy the land of

Judah and they're going to take you

captive and and I'm coming in and I'm

going to judge my people for their sin."

That's God's decision. And then the end

of the chapter, verse 12 through 17,

Habach said, "No, no, no, no. Don't do

that, God. No, no, no. We can't die. No,

you can't judge us. No, I I don't want

that. I thought that there was another

way. And so that's what's happening.

That's the big picture of chapter one.

That's where the book begins.

So with that outline of all of chapter

1, let's zoom in to verse 2 through 4

tonight. And I want you to notice a few

things. Let's just read. I'll begin in

verse one, and we'll read through verse

four.

the burden which Habach the prophet did

see. Oh Lord, how long shall I cry and

thou wilt not hear? Even cry unto thee

of violence and thou wilt not save. Why

dust thou show me iniquity and cause me

to behold grievance? For spoiling and

violence are before me, and there are

that raise up strife and contention.

Therefore the law is slacked, and

judgment doth never go forth. For the

wicked doth compass about the righteous,

therefore wrong judgment proceedth.

That's our text for tonight. Habach

asked God two questions in those verses.

And I'm sure they're questions that you

and I have asked at times in our life,

perhaps even now. In verse two, he

asked, "How long? How long, God? How

long?" And then in verse three, he asked

why. By the way, it is okay to ask God

why. Anyone who says it's wrong to ask

God why has not read of Jesus statement

on the cross when he was dying and he

said, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" Even

Jesus asked why. It's okay to ask why as

long as we're trusting God through the

process and understanding he doesn't

have to answer the question why. Habach

asked why. He asked how long in verse

two. He asked why in verse three. He

said, "How long shall I cry?" The how

long is personal and the why is

national. He said, "How long shall I

cry?" You see it? He said, "I'm the one

crying. How long do I have to cry out?"

But then he said, "Why do you show me

the iniquity?" And what iniquity does he

see? It's the iniquity of the nation

around him. So why is all the sin

happening? How long do I have to cry?

Why all the sin? That's the two

questions. How long do I have to cry?

Why all of the sin? And then he's going

to go into some detail. Habach looks at

his culture, his country. He's broken

over the spiritual apostasy that he

sees.

So broken that he begins to cry and his

tears bring him to his knees. Let me

show you two things from these three

verses tonight that I think will be a

help to us and a good reminder. Number

one, we see Habach's attitude.

In verse two, we see his attitude.

Habach looks around at his culture and

he is in despair over the spiritual

condition that he sees. He looks around

at the people. He looks around at the

sin. He looks around at the turmoil. He

looks around at the apostasy. And he's

broken. He is so broken over the

spiritual state of his culture. And so

he goes to the right place. He goes to

the place of prayer and he goes to the

right person. He goes to Jesus. By the

way, this is a great place for you and I

to start. You look around at your

culture. You look around at the things

going on around us. You look at at at

the chaos and the turmoil and the the

the mess that we're in and what where do

we go? What can we do? Well, we can go

to our knees. We can go to our heavenly

father. Prayer is always the right place

to begin. And when we are burdened, uh

we we ought to begin with prayer. In

fact, almost every time that a person in

scripture is burdened, you will find

them praying. Think about Nehemiah in

the wall. When he learns about the wall

being broken down, what do we find? And

for months, we see Nehemiah praying on

his face before God. When we be when we

catch a real burden, the evidence of

that will be how quickly we fall to our

knees, how ready we are to pray. It's a

great place for us to start. May we

return as a country, as a church, to a

desperate cry to God on behalf of our

culture, our communities, our country,

our county, our friends.

We spoke about this little word last

week, and so I'll mention it. It's not

really even a word at the beginning of

verse two.

It's not really even a word. It's a

word. It's a letter,

but there's no there's really not a

definition for it. It's just the letter

O.

And and we say it's not really a word

because it's more of a noise.

It's not so much a a syllable as it is

just a groaning of spirit. So when we

come to Habach's prayer, what is the

first thing out of his mouth? It's not

really even a word. It's just a groan.

Oh God,

where are you? How long? Why?

So he begins with this groaning from his

spirit because of the burden that God

has put on him for his culture. It'd

probably be a good idea for us to ask

God to give us that kind of burden for

our culture.

Let me show you two things about his

attitude. You can write these down.

Habach's attitude number one was an

attitude of despair.

Two times in verse two, we see that he

was crying.

Oh Lord, there's that groaning. Oh Lord,

how long shall I cry

and thou wilt not hear? Even cry

out unto thee of violence. Two times in

verse two, he's crying.

Two times he states that he is crying

before God. I think one of the reasons

that we do not see God moving in our

churches today

is because we have removed the tears

from our services.

I I don't mean

I I don't mean like an emotionalism. All

right? I'm not saying we got to get

worked up.

We you go into the average worship

service in today's culture and and

they'll have amazing music and and they

will understand music to the point that

they'll be able to play a song that will

make you cry and you'll be standing in

this atmosphere of emotionalism and

you'll feel the tear come down your

cheek, but there's nothing going on in

your heart. It's just a surface emotion.

Y'all with me? That's not the tears

we're talking about.

We're not talking about an artificial

worship that causes an emotional

reaction. No, but we're talking about a

burden that is so heavy on the inside

that it escapes through our tears.

This is the tears of Habach. And it's

something we've lost in our modern

church, our modern worship styles. We've

excluded this. We We have graceful tears

in worship today.

We don't do ugly crying in church

anymore.

And I think that's a mistake. I'm afraid

that we have become so artificial in our

worship that we have completely

abandoned weeping.

We ought to get back to weeping over the

lost, weeping over our culture, weeping

over our children, weeping over our

churches.

We've lost our tears. It's a sign that

we've lost our burden.

Habach was so overwhelmed because all he

could do was cry. And yet churches today

are not crying at all.

We can do the little emotional tear

because of a melody of a song. But to

weep over sin is a foreign concept

today.

When's the last time that we as a

individual, when's the last time that

you as an individual were broken

over sin? Perhaps yours, perhaps someone

else's, but you were so broken over sin

that you began to weep. I hope I don't

embarrass him this evening, but a few

weeks ago, two Sundays ago, we had a

testimony time at the beginning of our

service. And it was shared with us that

that morning, Brother Mike was weeping

on the couch before he came to church.

And when that was shared in that

testimony time and and we were praising

God and thanking God for for what God

had been doing, when that was shared

with us as a church that morning, I I

can't even explain to you how my heart

was joyful.

Why would someone be joyful to hear of

someone else weeping?

Because that's a sign of a spiritual

sensitivity that there's a burden in

there for souls.

I think in many ways we have we have uh

professionalized our churches to the

point that weeping is no longer

acceptable. And when you come to church

and you see somebody crying, you think,

"Oh, well, something must be wrong with

them."

Not Habach.

Habach said, "Oh Lord, how long am I

going to have to cry?" The indication is

he wasn't stopping. He wasn't planning

to stop until it was fixed. I'm going to

weep over the state of my culture. We've

so far removed ourselves from God as a

culture that even in a church there are

no tears for revival. There's no crying.

Now what I'm not saying is that every

time you pray you have to weep.

But I am saying that there ought to be a

burden on the inside of you that it is

not unusual

to hear the sound of saints weeping

before God in church. So first it was a

attitude of despair. That's a good

thing. We ought to despair for our cult,

excuse me, our culture. But secondly, it

was an attitude of desperation.

He didn't have anywhere else to go. Look

at the end of verse two. What's the last

phrase? He said, "And thou wilt not

save." Exclamation point. He's saying,

"God, if you don't save us, nobody's

saving us. If you're not going to come

through, nobody's going to I've got to

get a hold of heaven because you are the

only hope that we have." Habach's plea

is that God would save them because no

one else could. That's the attitude that

brings real revival. Lord, we are

helpless and hopeless without you. If

you don't show up, we're doomed. We are

desperate for God's presence to show up.

This ought to be our heart. This ought

to be our prayer for revival as we pray

here in just a few moments for our

community and we pray for our neighbors

and we pray for our families and we pray

for our church. We ought to pray from

desperation. Not a prayer that says,

"God, uh, would you help us so that we

can see revival?" No, no, no. God, if

you don't bring revival, revival will

not come. Revival is not something that

we muster up. It is God coming down. In

fact, look over. We're going to get here

in a couple weeks. Turn your page, one

page over to Habach chapter 3. What is

revival? Look at chapter 3 and verse

three. And you might want to underline

or circle or highlight the first two

words of chapter 3 and verse three. This

is revival in two words. God came.

That's revival. When God shows up,

it's not a song. It's not a preacher.

It's not an outline.

It's not a prayer request. Revival is

when God shows up.

Habach said, "I'm desperate for the Lord

to come down."

And as your pastor tonight, I am I am

burdened and I am desperate for a move

of God in my generation, in my day. So,

number one, we've wrote down Habach's

attitude. We've noticed that. Now, write

down number two, Habach's accusations.

His accusations. He's going to accuse

his own country, his own culture of some

things.

And I want us to expound on a few of

these briefly this evening and then I'll

give you an illustration and we'll make

application and pray.

In verse three and verse four, Habach is

going to get very specific in his prayer

and he's going to begin to lay out

specific sins that are plaguing his

culture. And this is a good practice

because there are some sins plaguing our

culture. In fact, I would say many of

the same sins that plagued his culture

we'll see are evident in our culture.

And Habach isn't going to shy away from

them. He's going to name them outright.

There's nine of them. Nine specific sins

that he's going to name in verse three

and verse four. I want you to notice

them. I put them into three categories.

In verse three, we see iniquity.

In verse four, we see ignorance, and

then the very end of verse four, we see

immorality.

So, there's iniquity, then there's

ignorance, and then there's immorality.

Notice verse number three. Notice the

iniquity that he says. First of all, he

uses that word iniquity. Why dust thou

show me iniquity?

Said, I'm looking around and all I see

is iniquity. You know what that means?

Sinful foolishness.

What a definition for our culture,

right?

We look around and all we see is sinful

foolishness. People just being sinful

and foolish and making mistakes and

making bad decisions and iniquity.

But then he goes on. He says, "Not only

is it iniquity and you cause me to

behold grievances."

That's trouble. Literally means trouble.

Could imply grief. Said there's people

grieving. There's people in trouble.

There's people who are hurting. I'm

looking around. All I see is sinful

foolishness and and people who are

hurting. And then he goes on, that's not

all. Number three, he says for spoiling.

Oppression is literally what that word

means. Oppression. He said, I see people

who are oppressing other people.

I see bullies,

national bullies who are taking money

and taking possessions and oppressing

your people. And then he says violence.

He said there's iniquity and grievances

and spoiling and violence. That is evil

disruptions,

war. By the way, you look around at our

culture today and what do you see? You

see sinful foolishness and and you see

people in trouble and grief and and you

see oppression and and you see wars and

rumors of wars and evil disruptions.

This is not new. And then he said,

"Strife and contention,

bitter quarreling and fighting." My

goodness, if we could if we could fight

over anything else in our culture,

churches are fighting, Christians are

fighting, religions are fighting, the

the left versus the right is fighting.

Democrats versus Republicans are

fighting. All we do in our culture is

fight. That's what Habach saw. said, "I

look around and Lord, all I see is

iniquity and grievance and spoiling and

violence, strife and contention."

That's the iniquity. And then section 2

verse4, he said, "I see ignorance." Now,

notice he's going to describe what that

looks like. He said, "The law is

slacked."

What does that mean? Well, I'm glad you

asked. Here, here's what one commentator

said. He said the word of God had become

paralyzed. That's what that word slacked

means. Thy law, thy word had become

paralyzed. Oh my.

Don't we experience that in our culture?

The word of God has no place. It's

become as if it's paralyzed. Nobody

wants to hear it. Nobody wants to listen

to it. Nobody wants to pay attention to

it. He said, "Your law is slacked. Your

the word of God is paralyzed." And then

he said, "And judgment doth never go

forth."

The way of God was ignored. The

judgments of God were being ignored.

Nobody wanted to hear what God's plan

was. Nobody was seeking God's will.

And then he said, "The wicked compass

the righteous." God's people are

surrounded by wicked people. There is

more wicked than there are righteous.

And it doesn't take us very long at all

looking at our culture to realize the

same conclusion.

that there are far more wicked than

there are righteous.

So we see the iniquity in verse three.

We see the ignorance in verse four. The

ignorance con concerning God's word. But

then what is the result of that? Well,

it's immorality. Look at the end of

verse four. Therefore, now remember when

you see the word therefore in your

Bible, you got to look and notice what

it's there for. It's connecting what has

come with what is coming. And so he

said, "Therefore, because of the

ignorance of God's word, wrong judgment

proceedth.

The way of the wicked

has been accepted as truth."

Wouldn't that be an accurate statement

of our culture today?

That the way of the wicked has been

accepted and received as truth.

You can live however you want to live.

By the way, the the result of the result

of biblical ignorance is always sinful

immorality. You cannot be biblically

ignorant and live uh like God wants you

to.

Any any culture that becomes ignorant on

the word of God will fall into

immorality.

And that was Habach's culture. That's

our culture. These are the same issues

in our culture today.

iniquity,

ignorance of God's word, immorality all

around us.

What can we do?

What are we to do when we look around as

he looked around and we see all of the

mess that we're in?

One preacher said this, "When you are

overwhelmed by what you see, go to the

God that you cannot see."

When we look around and we see all of

the evil and the corruption and the sin

and the the mess,

go to your knees,

begin to pray. We must cry out to God

over our culture. Let me share with you

a story that I've heard of a revival not

so long ago.

And I'll share this story with you and

then we'll pray.

It's one of my favorite revivals. It was

the It's one of the I think one of the

most fascinating revivals in all of

history to read about. It was the

revival that broke out on the aisle of

Lewis in Scotland

in 1949.

Duncan Campbell was the preacher who God

used in that revival. But the flames of

revival were already well ablaze before

Duncan Campbell ever arrived. In fact,

he writes a book about it. You can buy

his book on this revival written by him

and uh you can read about this revival

yourself. But he he says that he just

got to be he just got to be there. But

God was the one who was doing the work

long before he ever arrived. The story

goes like this. The revival had started

with two sisters.

They were elderly ladies. One was 84

years old. One was 82 years old. One of

them was completely blind. The other one

had arthritis so bad she could not leave

her home. But these two ladies were

women of God. They loved God and they

knew how to pray. And so they decided as

they looked around at their culture,

they looked around at the aisle of

Lewis. They saw that the bars were full.

And they saw that the parties were going

on. They saw young people abandoning the

church. They saw churches that were

empty. And as they heard about the state

of their culture, they became burdened.

And they said, "You know what? We're

going to make a commitment to God that

for as long as it takes or until we die,

we are going to pray multiple nights a

week from 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.

as as I think it was two or three nights

a week that they would do this 10:00 in

the evening to 3:00 in the morning.

We're going to devote ourselves to

praying for revival. And so that's what

they did for weeks and weeks and weeks.

They did this. They prayed from 10

o'clock in the evening to 3:00 in the

morning. Just two little elderly ladies

who could barely get out of their own

house. They prayed and they prayed.

After several weeks, they sent for their

pastor. They said, "You've got to come

see us." And so, uh, their pastor came

to see them. And when he arrives, the

two sisters inform him that for weeks

now, they have been praying this prayer

that from 10:00 to 3:00, they have been

praying that God would bring revival.

and and they say, "Pastor, we're

certain. We have peace about it. We're

certain revival is just ahead. God is

sending revival. We have faith. We've

been praying for weeks and and we

believe revival is coming." And so their

pastor responded in faith. He took them

at their word. And uh he put together

his own prayer meeting. He got together

a group, a small group of men who was

there at his church and they began to

pray in the barn outside while the women

would pray inside. And every night they

would gather in that barn and they would

begin to pray and the the ladies would

be praying inside and the men would be

praying outside in the barn. And this

went on for several weeks. One night in

the middle of the night, those men were

in that barn praying. And there was a

young man in the group. He was a deacon

at the church. He was a young man. And

while they're praying, those men in that

barn, this young man just stands up and

begins to read from Psalm 24 verse

number 3 and 4, which says this, "Who

shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?

Or who shall stand in his holy place? He

that hath clean hands and a pure heart."

Then he announced to the men in that

prayer meeting, "Men, how can we pray

for revival until we are first right

with God ourselves?"

He turned his back to the men who were

present in that meeting. He put his

hands up in the air and they heard him

pray out loud, "Oh Lord, are my hands

clean? Is my heart right?"

And at that moment, there was such a

deep sense of conviction that swept over

that barn that within just a moment,

every man that was in that barn was on

their face crying out to the Lord for

repentance. They did not know it at the

time. They were all praying in the barn.

What they did not know is all over the

aisle of Lewis at that very moment, God

began middle of the night, God begins

waking people up from their sleep, a

dead sleep, they begin waking up under

deep conviction and getting out of bed

and they begin calling on God. And all

over the aisle that night, revival

breaks out and the spirit of God moves

across that place.

Few days later, Duncan Campbell arrived.

He was supposed to be there for two

weeks. He had arrived late at night. He

was tired.

The pastor of the church met him at the

docks. It was about 9:00 at night. He

met him at the docks and he said, "Mr.

Campbell, I know you're tired and hungry

and and you probably want to get some

rest, but would you mind coming to the

church? There are some folks who are

there at the church right now and they

would love if you would just come by and

speak to them just a little bit tonight

before you go home." And Duncan Campbell

agreed. He said, "Absolutely. I'll come

by for just a moment. and I'll say a few

words. But when they arrive at the

church, there's 300 people waiting for

him. 9:00 at night, there's 300 people

waiting for him in this church. And so

Duncan Campbell gets up and he he

preaches this message. He preaches to

these 300 folks and he said it was a

good service, good liberty to preach,

but nothing unusual, nothing really

extraordinary.

And so he told them, he finishes his

sermon and he said, "All right, friends,

that's that's all I got. I'm tired. I'm

going to go get some rest. we'll meet

again tomorrow evening and and we'll see

what the Lord will do. And so he walks

down off the platform and begins walking

down the aisle towards the back door.

And that same young man who stood up in

the prayer meeting stands up again and

rushes over and and gets Mr. Campbell's

arm and says, "I'll walk you out." So

he's holding Duncan Campbell by the arm

and they take just a few steps and and

Duncan Campbell writes in his book he

said that all of a sudden the the boy

the young man just stopped dead in his

tracks and he said I thought something

was wrong with him. So I turned to look

and and he said this young man is just

has tears just streaming down his face

and he said he just stands there and

holds you onto his arm and then looks up

to heaven and says God you promised

don't let us down now.

He said at that very moment the back

doors of the church swung open and the

local blacksmith walked into the room

and said preacher you've got to come

outside and see this.

So Duncan Campbell walked outside onto

the porch of the church and down the

street. There was over 300 people just

crying out to God and falling on their

faces in conviction all on both sides of

the street going out of the chapel.

Apparently there had been a dance going

on just down the street from the church.

And in the middle of the dance in the

middle of the night, the the Holy Spirit

just came. Nobody said anything. Nobody

told them to leave. They just stopped.

They stopped dancing. the DJ stopped the

music and there's this odd sense of

something going on and so they just kind

of filtered out of the dance hall and

along the street and started making

their way towards the church and and now

they're all over the place just kneeling

convicted. And so Duncan Campbell looks

at him and says, "Well, come come on

back in. We'll we'll have another

service." So he goes back and he said he

could barely make it back in. They

packed over the people just kept coming.

There was over 800 people in that church

that night. and he he walks in and he

barely can make it back to the platform

and and he begins to preach and people

are on the altars and crying and revive

fullblown revival has broken out and he

writes about it all in his book and he

said about 4:00 in the morning he he

finally tells the folks look I I am so

exhausted I've been up for hours I've

got to go get some rest and so I'll be

back I'll see you tomorrow and he said

he he ushers himself out and and gets

around the people and goes outside and

as he's uh on the porch walking out off

the porch of the church, someone comes

and grabs him and says, "Mr. Campbell,

can you please come to the police

station? There's over 300 people who

have just come and turned themselves in

at the police station and they want you

to come talk to them. Can you please

come by tonight and talk to them and

share Jesus with them?" And so instead

of going to get rest, he said, "I went

to the police station and I began to

preach at the police station to all

those." And we see people getting saved

and full-blown revival. He was supposed

to be there for two weeks. The rei

revival lasted for two years.

At the end of it, the bars had closed.

All the jails were empty and all of the

churches are full.

How did that happen?

Two little sisters

who couldn't do anything else

said, "God, we want to see you do

something in our culture.

We want to see you change our town.

We want to watch you do a miracle right

here. And they got serious about

praying.

And God sent one of the greatest

revivals in recent history. 1950. Some

of you were alive when this happened.

And I come to you tonight and I say,

"Why not us?

It's the same God.

Why not your family? Why not Hillsville?

Habach prayed,

we can pray. And so tonight, what we're

going to do is we're going to get with

somebody. I want you to find somebody to

pray with tonight. And we're going to

take just a few moments, as long as the

Lord leads us to do so. And we're going

to ask God to send revival to

Hillsville. We're going to ask God to

send revival to Bethl Baptist Church.

We're going to pray for our lost family

members. We're going to pray for our

lost children. And we're going to ask

God to do what he did in the aisle of

Lewis in 1949.

God, would you do something similar or

even greater right here in Hillsville,

Virginia? I'm going to turn on a little

bit of music while the music plays

softly, find somebody to pray with, and

then I'll close us out here in just a

few minutes. But let's ask God for a

revival, church.