Jim Bakker Show - Prayer and Revival - Gene Bailey
Aired: 2021-11-19
Duration: 03:21


=== Wants and Signs (03:20) ===

[00:00:00]  Do you believe in angels?
[00:00:01]  Absolutely.
[00:00:03]  That's scriptural.
[00:00:04]  Let me tell you what.
[00:00:05]  You're talking about prayer.
[00:00:07]  You're talking about revival.
[00:00:08]  So can I go ahead and answer the question you're going to ask me?
[00:00:12]  The reality is in revival, the best way is to go back in history and just look at Charles Finney.
[00:00:19]  What most people, everybody talks about, oh, Finney was great.
[00:00:21]  Look at these books and all this stuff.
[00:00:22]  But what most people miss is Father Nash.
[00:00:26]  Daniel Nash went before Charles Finney.
[00:00:28]  When he went to a city, Nash would go, he would rent a place.
[00:00:32]  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.
[00:00:40]  As soon as Finney arrived, he went to the next place.
[00:00:43]  So you cannot have revival without the commitment to prayer.
[00:00:47]  And what you're saying, Pastor.
[00:00:49]  I mean, that is the key.
[00:00:51]  That is the key.
[00:00:53]  You know, John Kilpatrick, Pastor John will tell you how long they prayed and had prayer meetings all night long.
[00:00:59]  That's it.
[00:01:00]  It's not that we're trying to convince God.
[00:01:03]  That's very key.
[00:01:04]  We're not trying to convince God, oh, please won't you do something?
[00:01:06]  Yeah.
[00:01:06]  You know, it's not that.
[00:01:08]  What we're trying to do is get ourselves in line, ready to leave.
[00:01:10]  That's it.
[00:01:12]  And when that happens, that's when we see God pouring out.
[00:01:15]  But we cannot just sit back and expect it to magically drop in and, wow, okay, great.
[00:01:20]  Yeah, I just want to come see some signs and wonders.
[00:01:23]  The signs and wonders aren't for the believer.
[00:01:25]  The signs and wonders are for the unbeliever.
[00:01:28]  They're signs to make you wonder.
[00:01:31]  So we have to have, I'm so glad what you're saying about prayer.
[00:01:34]  But the other aspect of what you said, Pastor Joe, is what we're seeing.
[00:01:38]  The reason I know this is the Third Great Awakening, pastors are coming together.
[00:01:43]  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.
[00:01:53]  And he said, he was talking about word of faith.
[00:01:57]  We're not word of faith camp.
[00:01:59]  We're not a camp.
[00:02:01]  He said, it's time for the streams of ministry to come together.
[00:02:05]  Amen.
[00:02:06]  And I was like, that's it.
[00:02:08]  So that's what we're seeing.
[00:02:10]  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.
[00:02:18]  We agree Jesus is the Son of God and died on the cross for our sins.
[00:02:22]  That's where we've got to get to the point that we can walk in agreement.
[00:02:26]  Then we're going to see God move.
[00:02:28]  Yeah, that's excellent.
[00:02:29]  Your book, you talk about the Third Great Awakening.
[00:02:33]  Is that now?
[00:02:34]  Yes, we're stepped into it.
[00:02:36]  We're stepped into it.
[00:02:37]  So it's beginning?
[00:02:38]  Absolutely.
[00:02:39]  Wow.
[00:02:40]  Absolutely.
[00:02:41]  I want to be a part of it.
[00:02:42]  You are.
[00:02:46]  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.
[00:02:55]  This is all part of the Great Awakening.
[00:02:57]  People have a tendency, Jim, to think of revival as just signs and wonders.
[00:03:02]  You know, my friend Lance, and I know he's preached it here.
[00:03:05]  I saw him on your show.
[00:03:06]  Talking about the difference.
[00:03:08]  We don't want just a two-week meeting.
[00:03:10]  None of us that are believers want just a two-week glory and then it goes back to normal.
[00:03:15]  We don't.
[00:03:16]  Revival is never to go back to normal.
[00:03:18]  We want a reformation, which is changing the culture in our land.