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Famine of Faith
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| When will America turn to God? | |
| You know, since you were here last time, a congressman was shot practicing baseball. | |
| Right. | |
| The man that came to kill him came to kill up to 50 more people. | |
| When Amos said there's a famine in the land for the word of the Lord, all through God's word, whenever famine hits, Elijah, three and a half year famine, if you restore the altar, the rain comes. | |
| After the rain comes, you know, reaper overtakes the plowman. | |
| The Bible goes on to say, Amos 9 says he stands at the altar of judgment. | |
| Then it goes on to say that the reaper overtakes the plowman. | |
| I believe this with all my heart. | |
| Back to your question, Pastor, because I texted with the congressman's personal assistant that night, and he said, the media is saying he's okay. | |
| I sent it to you. | |
| The media is saying he's okay, but he's not. | |
| He's at death's door. | |
| Very sick. | |
| And I text to you and said, hey, this is from his assistant that I text. | |
| And he said, Pat, we got to get people praying. | |
| Here's what I believe with all my heart. | |
| Whenever there's a famine in the land for the word of the Lord, famine means to be bent over with extreme thirst. | |
| Famine always leads to revival. | |
| One of the things that we're doing here with we are going to be talking about the food and different things is famine creates hunger. | |
| Where there's a hunger, and when will America turn back to God? | |
| At the end of yourself is the beginning of God. | |
| And we are very, very close to an all-out outbreak. | |
| I had a prophetic dream. | |
| I have a sleep disorder called Revelation. | |
| I had a prophetic dream of people running down the streets encountering Jesus, getting to this outpouring of God. | |
| It's going to break out in cities. | |
| But when will they turn to God? | |
| When they're at the end of themselves. | |
| And that's very close. | |
| That's about to happen. | |
| I'm telling you now, that's why Karen and I wrote the new book, Rebuilding the Altar, because it's got to start in our home. | |
| It's got to start in our family first. | |
| John, do you think it's going to take a crisis? | |
| Because people are not in mass turning to God. | |
| I believe God is more willing than we are. | |
| He's talking about the remnant waking up. | |
| Yes. | |
| The majority is still sleeping, but it's like they're asleep walking. | |
| And it took a slap on the rear end to wake me up. | |
| I think for America, we're going to have to see America shaken in order to see the church wake up. | |
| But the problem is, I was praying one morning, and the Lord spoke to me. | |
| He said, there's been a demonic spirit released from hell that teaches the leaders of today that they can live like the world in order to win them. | |
| I believe it's got to happen in the pews because it's not happening in the pulpit. | |
| I believe that very soon the churches that are not preaching truth are going to empty out. | |
| I believe this with all my heart. | |
| And I also believe with all my heart that it's going to take outbreaks of God right in our homes. | |
| We write about rebuilding the altar in a home. | |
| You know, let me tell you a story. | |
| Pastor, one morning, my son was in high school. | |
| Nate's a youth pastor out in California now, leading probably the largest youth ministry in America. | |
| My son, my daughter, Abigail, Karen, and I, and Karen and I wrote this book together because God spoke to us. | |
| We went through hell. | |
| I'll never forget. | |
| It was one morning, and all of a sudden, my son is in high school. | |
| He's playing high school football, would become a, he was a star athlete. | |
| All of a sudden, he goes, Dad, somebody's on the back porch. | |
| All of a sudden, my little girl Abigail said, Daddy, somebody's on the back porch. | |
| Karen said, Pat, somebody's back there. | |
| And we have a privacy fence. | |
| I spun around and looked. | |
| I'm a redneck, so I'm ready to go. | |
| Amen. | |
| And I spun around and looked, and there's a man on my back porch like this in a hood. | |
| I ran outside, and he was gone. | |
| And I said, Lord, what was that? | |
| And he said, the enemy has stopped by. | |
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Rebuilding The Altar
00:03:04
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| That's when we rebuilt the altar in our home. | |
| That's when we turned worship on. | |
| That's when we began to prophesy. | |
| If you don't prophesy over your children, the enemy will go ahead and speak death over them. | |
| And we began to change the atmosphere of our house. | |
| We're known as altar call people. | |
| We see tens of thousands running to the altar. | |
| And so when God began to speak to us and he said, where is the altar gone? | |
| How have we learned to do church without him? | |
| We've got microwave Christianity. | |
| We've got, you know, stacked up services. | |
| We've got leaders burning out. | |
| God is saying this, and this is what the Lord showed us, that when the anointing, we've learned to live off the New Testament early part, Jesus. | |
| We love Jesus feeding the 5,000. | |
| Follow me. | |
| We love Jesus for healing the lame and the sick and flipping over tables, making a whip, cursing the tree. | |
| But we don't realize that Jesus changed. | |
| What do I mean by that? | |
| Well, that almost sounds like a heretic. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| He had given up glory for the anointing. | |
| He said, the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me. | |
| He's anointed to preach good news. | |
| But when Jesus died, remember, Mary comes to the garden, goes to reach out to touch him. | |
| He said, don't touch me. | |
| Remember, John laid on his chest and began to, you know, there, when they were having the Last Supper, but then in John 1, it says I was a dead man. | |
| Here's what I'm saying. | |
| We want the anointing, but we better get back to wanting the glory. | |
| The anointing is God's fingerprint on his life, on your life. | |
| The glory comes after the altar. | |
| Jesus became the altar. | |
| Hebrews 10, Hebrews 13. | |
| When we restore the presence of God, when the glory comes in, it's not about our anointing anymore. | |
| It's not about what I got to say anymore. | |
| It's about his presence. | |
| If you restore the glory of God back in your home and say, Father, have your way, cry out, chase after him. | |
| What I love about coming to Morningside is the minute you pull up on the grounds, you begin to feel the glory of the Lord. | |
| You know why? | |
| Because your life has become an altar to him, Pastor Jim. | |
| You laid everything down. | |
| You lost everything. | |
| It's at the altar, all through God's word. | |
| It's at the altar. | |
| The altar is the place where it interrupts your past and shows you what you can become. | |
| God's spirit being poured out saying, let me do something inside of you. | |
| The first altar call after the cross was when they got to a table. | |
| They didn't recognize they were walking with Jesus, but when he broke the bread, their eyes were open. | |
| All through God's word, it's about the secret encounters with him. | |
| That's what this place represents. | |
| Restoring his presence, calling people back to intimacy. | |
| I believe with all my heart, the churches that are not preaching truth are going to empty out very soon. | |
| The people that are just preaching grace without accountability and responsibility and repentance, that's a lying spirit in the church right now. | |
| And you have to understand that God is saying, I'm looking for those that will restore the breathing rooms. | |
| We write about it in the book, the breathing rooms. | |
| The Shunamite woman's boy, the breath of God. | |
| Then we've got John 20, Jesus breathed on disciples. | |
| Acts chapter 2, Jesus breathed. | |
| Ezekiel 36, 37, he breathed upon the dry bones. | |
| Let God breathe on you. | |
| That's an altar call. | |