Jim Bakker Show - It Starts At The Altar - Pat Schatzline on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-07-21
Duration: 06:39


=== Famine of Faith (03:49) ===

[00:00:00]  When will America turn to God?
[00:00:03]  You know, since you were here last time, a congressman was shot practicing baseball.
[00:00:11]  Right.
[00:00:12]  The man that came to kill him came to kill up to 50 more people.
[00:00:17]  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.
[00:00:28]  After the rain comes, you know, reaper overtakes the plowman.
[00:00:31]  The Bible goes on to say, Amos 9 says he stands at the altar of judgment.
[00:00:34]  Then it goes on to say that the reaper overtakes the plowman.
[00:00:37]  I believe this with all my heart.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:00:47]  I sent it to you.
[00:00:48]  The media is saying he's okay, but he's not.
[00:00:50]  He's at death's door.
[00:00:51]  Very sick.
[00:00:52]  And I text to you and said, hey, this is from his assistant that I text.
[00:00:56]  And he said, Pat, we got to get people praying.
[00:00:59]  Here's what I believe with all my heart.
[00:01:01]  Whenever there's a famine in the land for the word of the Lord, famine means to be bent over with extreme thirst.
[00:01:06]  Famine always leads to revival.
[00:01:08]  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.
[00:01:15]  Where there's a hunger, and when will America turn back to God?
[00:01:18]  At the end of yourself is the beginning of God.
[00:01:20]  And we are very, very close to an all-out outbreak.
[00:01:23]  I had a prophetic dream.
[00:01:24]  I have a sleep disorder called Revelation.
[00:01:26]  I had a prophetic dream of people running down the streets encountering Jesus, getting to this outpouring of God.
[00:01:34]  It's going to break out in cities.
[00:01:36]  But when will they turn to God?
[00:01:37]  When they're at the end of themselves.
[00:01:39]  And that's very close.
[00:01:40]  That's about to happen.
[00:01:41]  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.
[00:01:47]  It's got to start in our family first.
[00:01:50]  John, do you think it's going to take a crisis?
[00:01:55]  Because people are not in mass turning to God.
[00:01:58]  I believe God is more willing than we are.
[00:02:02]  He's talking about the remnant waking up.
[00:02:04]  Yes.
[00:02:05]  The majority is still sleeping, but it's like they're asleep walking.
[00:02:09]  And it took a slap on the rear end to wake me up.
[00:02:12]  I think for America, we're going to have to see America shaken in order to see the church wake up.
[00:02:19]  But the problem is, I was praying one morning, and the Lord spoke to me.
[00:02:22]  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.
[00:02:30]  I believe it's got to happen in the pews because it's not happening in the pulpit.
[00:02:33]  I believe that very soon the churches that are not preaching truth are going to empty out.
[00:02:36]  I believe this with all my heart.
[00:02:38]  And I also believe with all my heart that it's going to take outbreaks of God right in our homes.
[00:02:42]  We write about rebuilding the altar in a home.
[00:02:44]  You know, let me tell you a story.
[00:02:46]  Pastor, one morning, my son was in high school.
[00:02:49]  Nate's a youth pastor out in California now, leading probably the largest youth ministry in America.
[00:02:53]  My son, my daughter, Abigail, Karen, and I, and Karen and I wrote this book together because God spoke to us.
[00:02:59]  We went through hell.
[00:03:00]  I'll never forget.
[00:03:01]  It was one morning, and all of a sudden, my son is in high school.
[00:03:05]  He's playing high school football, would become a, he was a star athlete.
[00:03:09]  All of a sudden, he goes, Dad, somebody's on the back porch.
[00:03:13]  All of a sudden, my little girl Abigail said, Daddy, somebody's on the back porch.
[00:03:17]  Karen said, Pat, somebody's back there.
[00:03:18]  And we have a privacy fence.
[00:03:20]  I spun around and looked.
[00:03:21]  I'm a redneck, so I'm ready to go.
[00:03:23]  Amen.
[00:03:24]  And I spun around and looked, and there's a man on my back porch like this in a hood.
[00:03:29]  I ran outside, and he was gone.
[00:03:31]  And I said, Lord, what was that?
[00:03:33]  And he said, the enemy has stopped by.

=== Rebuilding The Altar (03:04) ===

[00:03:35]  That's when we rebuilt the altar in our home.
[00:03:37]  That's when we turned worship on.
[00:03:38]  That's when we began to prophesy.
[00:03:40]  If you don't prophesy over your children, the enemy will go ahead and speak death over them.
[00:03:44]  And we began to change the atmosphere of our house.
[00:03:48]  We're known as altar call people.
[00:03:50]  We see tens of thousands running to the altar.
[00:03:52]  And so when God began to speak to us and he said, where is the altar gone?
[00:03:56]  How have we learned to do church without him?
[00:03:58]  We've got microwave Christianity.
[00:04:00]  We've got, you know, stacked up services.
[00:04:02]  We've got leaders burning out.
[00:04:04]  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.
[00:04:11]  We love Jesus feeding the 5,000.
[00:04:13]  Follow me.
[00:04:14]  We love Jesus for healing the lame and the sick and flipping over tables, making a whip, cursing the tree.
[00:04:22]  But we don't realize that Jesus changed.
[00:04:26]  What do I mean by that?
[00:04:27]  Well, that almost sounds like a heretic.
[00:04:28]  No, no, no.
[00:04:29]  He had given up glory for the anointing.
[00:04:31]  He said, the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me.
[00:04:32]  He's anointed to preach good news.
[00:04:34]  But when Jesus died, remember, Mary comes to the garden, goes to reach out to touch him.
[00:04:38]  He said, don't touch me.
[00:04:40]  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.
[00:04:50]  Here's what I'm saying.
[00:04:51]  We want the anointing, but we better get back to wanting the glory.
[00:04:54]  The anointing is God's fingerprint on his life, on your life.
[00:04:57]  The glory comes after the altar.
[00:04:59]  Jesus became the altar.
[00:05:00]  Hebrews 10, Hebrews 13.
[00:05:02]  When we restore the presence of God, when the glory comes in, it's not about our anointing anymore.
[00:05:07]  It's not about what I got to say anymore.
[00:05:09]  It's about his presence.
[00:05:10]  If you restore the glory of God back in your home and say, Father, have your way, cry out, chase after him.
[00:05:17]  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.
[00:05:23]  You know why?
[00:05:23]  Because your life has become an altar to him, Pastor Jim.
[00:05:26]  You laid everything down.
[00:05:28]  You lost everything.
[00:05:30]  It's at the altar, all through God's word.
[00:05:32]  It's at the altar.
[00:05:33]  The altar is the place where it interrupts your past and shows you what you can become.
[00:05:40]  God's spirit being poured out saying, let me do something inside of you.
[00:05:44]  The first altar call after the cross was when they got to a table.
[00:05:49]  They didn't recognize they were walking with Jesus, but when he broke the bread, their eyes were open.
[00:05:53]  All through God's word, it's about the secret encounters with him.
[00:05:57]  That's what this place represents.
[00:05:59]  Restoring his presence, calling people back to intimacy.
[00:06:03]  I believe with all my heart, the churches that are not preaching truth are going to empty out very soon.
[00:06:08]  The people that are just preaching grace without accountability and responsibility and repentance, that's a lying spirit in the church right now.
[00:06:16]  And you have to understand that God is saying, I'm looking for those that will restore the breathing rooms.
[00:06:23]  We write about it in the book, the breathing rooms.
[00:06:24]  The Shunamite woman's boy, the breath of God.
[00:06:28]  Then we've got John 20, Jesus breathed on disciples.
[00:06:31]  Acts chapter 2, Jesus breathed.
[00:06:32]  Ezekiel 36, 37, he breathed upon the dry bones.
[00:06:37]  Let God breathe on you.
[00:06:38]  That's an altar call.