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Wants and Signs
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| Do you believe in angels? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| That's scriptural. | |
| Let me tell you what. | |
| You're talking about prayer. | |
| You're talking about revival. | |
| So can I go ahead and answer the question you're going to ask me? | |
| The reality is in revival, the best way is to go back in history and just look at Charles Finney. | |
| What most people, everybody talks about, oh, Finney was great. | |
| Look at these books and all this stuff. | |
| But what most people miss is Father Nash. | |
| Daniel Nash went before Charles Finney. | |
| When he went to a city, Nash would go, he would rent a place. | |
| He would prefer to stay in the basement of a place, of a dwelling that had no windows, so that he could seek God before Finney ever arrived. | |
| As soon as Finney arrived, he went to the next place. | |
| So you cannot have revival without the commitment to prayer. | |
| And what you're saying, Pastor. | |
| I mean, that is the key. | |
| That is the key. | |
| You know, John Kilpatrick, Pastor John will tell you how long they prayed and had prayer meetings all night long. | |
| That's it. | |
| It's not that we're trying to convince God. | |
| That's very key. | |
| We're not trying to convince God, oh, please won't you do something? | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, it's not that. | |
| What we're trying to do is get ourselves in line, ready to leave. | |
| That's it. | |
| And when that happens, that's when we see God pouring out. | |
| But we cannot just sit back and expect it to magically drop in and, wow, okay, great. | |
| Yeah, I just want to come see some signs and wonders. | |
| The signs and wonders aren't for the believer. | |
| The signs and wonders are for the unbeliever. | |
| They're signs to make you wonder. | |
| So we have to have, I'm so glad what you're saying about prayer. | |
| But the other aspect of what you said, Pastor Joe, is what we're seeing. | |
| The reason I know this is the Third Great Awakening, pastors are coming together. | |
| Do you realize the streams of ministry back in 2019, Kenneth Copeland was praying, and he said something that really just rang deep in me. | |
| And he said, he was talking about word of faith. | |
| We're not word of faith camp. | |
| We're not a camp. | |
| He said, it's time for the streams of ministry to come together. | |
| Amen. | |
| And I was like, that's it. | |
| So that's what we're seeing. | |
| What you're seeing in a local way right here is pastors coming together that maybe we don't agree on every little doctrinal point. | |
| We agree Jesus is the Son of God and died on the cross for our sins. | |
| That's where we've got to get to the point that we can walk in agreement. | |
| Then we're going to see God move. | |
| Yeah, that's excellent. | |
| Your book, you talk about the Third Great Awakening. | |
| Is that now? | |
| Yes, we're stepped into it. | |
| We're stepped into it. | |
| So it's beginning? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Wow. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I want to be a part of it. | |
| You are. | |
| And, you know, you talk about everything you've been talking about this morning, whether it be signs and wonders or answers to prayer or pastors getting together. | |
| This is all part of the Great Awakening. | |
| People have a tendency, Jim, to think of revival as just signs and wonders. | |
| You know, my friend Lance, and I know he's preached it here. | |
| I saw him on your show. | |
| Talking about the difference. | |
| We don't want just a two-week meeting. | |
| None of us that are believers want just a two-week glory and then it goes back to normal. | |
| We don't. | |
| Revival is never to go back to normal. | |
| We want a reformation, which is changing the culture in our land. | |