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A New Beginning / Greg Laurie
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June 16, 2016 2:47 pm

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A New Beginning / Greg Laurie

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Harvest messages are brought to you by harvest partners to receive free email daily devotions or to become a harvest partners, please visit us online@harvest.org. Father, we come before you now recognizing that our nation in many ways is at a crossroads, and we have choices to make in the very near future and we are praying that America will turn back to you how our country needs you, how we need to return to the God who blessed us in so many ways and so we pray for America.

We pray for healing of our land. We pray for our church. We pray for this church that we will shine as a radiant light in our community and our state, but we pray our church will be vibrant and alive not resting on past laurels but pressing forward. We pray for the church in America, Lord, that you will help us all.

As followers of Jesus to reflect your glory to the lost and dying world.

And finally, Lord, we pray for ourselves that we will experience personal revival that we will be spiritually alive in every way, so we commit this time a Bible study to you.

Now we ask you to blessed as we open your word will we ask this all in Jesus name, amen. All right you can be seated.

Grab your Bibles turn to second Chronicles 714 in the title of my messages. Can we have revival in our time.

By the way, we have a very special announcement at the end of the service so you won't want to miss that. But revival could ever happen again. Could we have another Jesus movement are the best days of America behind three very honest with you after watching this political cycle that will rent right now I have less faith in political solutions that I have ever had at any time in my life.

I don't think the ultimate deed of America is going to be solved by the new occupant of the Oval Office, or new members of Congress or the Senate.

I think the real need for America is good to be met by a spiritual solution so we really need to pray America needs to pay attention because God may give us exactly what we want America. This is your wake-up call read about an interesting new alarm clock. I may even go by when I don't know you wake up in the morning to the smell of bacon. I'm not making this up. It's called the weekend in bacon alarm clock sounds fascinated to know how such a device works the way it works is you take a piece of frozen bacon, put it in the special club before you go to bed 10 minutes before you are to wake the bacon starts cooking so you wake up to that amazing smell. I love that for vegetarians. I don't know what to say. Maybe they have amazing broccoli or probably amazing.

Kayla, what is the thing with Kale. I don't why do so anyway so and by the way, I love bacon. I would love bacon raising are guided to just let it. I love the smell of bacon in the morning. My favorite meal of the day is breakfast followed only by lunch and dinner, but I do love that time so in the same way. I think it's time for America to wake up and smell the bacon and here's why. As we look at the prophetic scenario. By that I mean as we look at in times of beds. It is alarming to not find the reigning superpower on the face of the earth in the last days chain of events. You can certainly find the nation Israel. You can find the nation I ran I think you can make a pretty good case for Russia and perhaps even China.

But where is the reigning superpower, the United States of America were weak. Here's what we need to know every nation has a lifespan. Every nation has a beginning, a middle and an end less than the minds of ancient Babylon only lasted for 86 years. The powerful Persian Empire did a bit better.

208 years. The glory of Greece was eclipsed after 268 years mighty Rome ruled for almost 9 centuries. The powerful Persian Empire did better for 208 years arguments and that's like the British Empire adored for some 250 years under great power in the US a is around 12 300-6200 35 years old and counting. But as we need to know every days every nation's days are numbered in the Bible says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to the people. So if we turn from righteousness, that we turn from God were going to face the consequences. Listen to this knowledge brings responsibility. America is not like just any other country out there. I do believe in America. American exceptionalism were a special nation blessed by God. In many ways the only nation I think we can even compare ourselves to is the nation Israel, a nation that was founded on biblical principles and the sin that was founded in the belief in a God who plays this year so I think there's a responsibility the goes of the great privileges we have in this nation in particular that we abandon God. If we forget God. Even worse, if we rebel against God. There will be consequences to pay, but I have a suggestion of thought as to why we cannot find America in the end time scenario and here's what I think and maybe were not there because of a massive spiritual awakening of fifth-grade awakening. If you will, or maybe a 67 happens and it changes the course of our country is it will.

I don't understand why revival would change us change our position in the prophetic scenario will listen.

If millions of Americans were caught up to heaven, we wouldn't be the superpower we are today. I mean how many Americans are Christians are no polls are taken and usually half of all Americans either born-again followers of Jesus Christ. How many of you believe that by the way, okay good because I had a bridge. I wanted to sell you. I don't believe it either so there's over 300 million Americans actually super conservative and say let's say at one third of America really what were Christians. Let's say there were 100 million Americans who believed in Jesus and of the correct way, or maybe I'll revival or to happen and so our numbers swelled to 100 million. Now imagine this of 100 million people were caught up to meet the Lord in the air if they just disappeared you think that would affect our nation will of course it would imagine the effect of our country of 100 million people. People and industry governments on military, business, agriculture, education, medicine suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth. No Hollywood and the press would be largely untouched but I'm talking about the rest of the nation. It would certainly have a crippling effect on our entire nation and upon our infrastructure. But this much we know all nations.

As we know them are going to change, expand, or shift to some degree or another is the whole global situation rearranges for the events of the end time so we need to pray for another spiritual awakening the United States now has an introductory introductory video pointed out we've had for great awakenings in America.

The first great awakening the 1700s are led by such men as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield preceded the Revolutionary war and the birth of America lasted from about 1740 to 1742 with around 50,000 people added to the churches of New England know that may not sound like a lot, but I was only had a population of around 300,000 thought was significant. The first great awakening. The second great awakening from the 1790s to around 1840 was led by many, including Charles Finney. It was during the days of the wild West. The law was disregarded.

Sexual sin was rampant and they got these events called camp meeting she ever heard of those before one with a work that set up a tent above in the forest put sawdust on the floor. Preachers would calm and share the gospel and thousands and thousands of Americans came to faith.

During that time and that it would have huge crowds in the so that was a significant awakening in our history. The third great awakening was around 1857. The 1859 in a way that began is unique. There was a 48-year-old businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier begin a prayer meeting on Fulton St. in New York City and is permitting was very small is that video pointed out. But then it exploded.

Why did it explode the stock market crashed.

So suddenly thousands of people were showing up for this time of prayer within six months. 10,000 people in New York City gathered daily prayer. Can you imagine such a thing like that happening today. It's reported that 50,000 New Yorkers were converted from March to May and there would be 10,000 additions.

The church membership lesson weekly around that time. Around 1 million people came to believe in Jesus. Now that brings us to the fourth great awakening in the last one in American history and I'm of course talking about the Jesus movement though I was privileged to have a front row seat for it because I came to Christ in 1970 and found myself smack dab in the middle of a full-blown spiritual awakening.

By the way, we do not know it was a spiritual awakening when it was happening. I just thought it was normal Christianity because I had no point of reference in a way it was normal Christianity normal in a New Testament sense normal in the way that it's supposed to be, as opposed to a water down version that we often see in its place today, but I think it's a good thing to reflect back on what God has done in the past. Jonathan Edwards was a part of the first great awakening made this statement and I quote it is been found by experience at the tidings of remarkable effects of the power and grace of God in any place 10 greatly to awaken and engage the minds of persons in other places." Let me rephrase that story several Bible often spark other revivals. So as we look back historically, we have the question, is there anything we can learn. Let's consider the backdrop of the country when the Jesus movement happened. It happened in the late 60s early 70s now.

You know, for those of you that have been around for a while like me. You remember the 50s and in the early 60s. In the early 60s were a lot like the late 50s.

It was an idyllic time we had come through World War II and people were building homes and starting families, and there was an optimism and Eisenhower was our president and and technology was sort of exploding. One of the latest developments with something called color television after this point, and even black and white. I member the first time I saw color TV was at a friends house and we went over and looked in the window of the room and watched with great envy the wonderful world of color. The Disney program so there was sort of this excitement.

This is a time when the Elvis was the king of rock 'n' roll.

James Dean was acting in films, a Marilyn Monroe was in her prime.

So there was a poll actually taken by Newsweek magazine, Susie CBS News and they ask people what decade would you most likely travel to. If you could most people chose the decade of their childhood, but by and large a decade that one out with the 50s people wanted to live in the 50s cars were super cool I mean anything from 55 to 57 amazing cars so is a great time and I was sort of literally 60s to but then we had a brand-new president that really marks a change in our culture and really a change in the 60s.

John F. Kennedy was elected president.

We went from a 70-year-old grandfather to a youthful senator with a young family occupying the Oval Office but Kennedy was quickly put to the test by the leader of Russia at that time Nikita Khrushchev Khrushchev was determined to expand the Russian Empire and so one of those things was the was putting missile sites over in Cuba, which is not far from our shores, especially Florida. Kennedy became aware of this and they had this this conflict that's called the Cuban missile crisis, and there was a moment where America thought we were getting engage in a full-blown nuclear war. I remember in school when I was a kid we would have drills in our classroom work in case it was a nuclear explosion. We went under our desks if you remember that you would've help being under your desk. I know it's a nuclear blast. Put under my desk will be fine. Right here. Yeah so scary time but everything change in America when our president was assassinated on November 22, 1963 television was pervasive at that time in the whole country found out about impact everyone remembers where they were when Kennedy was assassinated. It's as though we watched it in real time. It was hard to believe that one man, Lee Harvey Oswald could kill the president of the United States and effectively. The leader of the free world.

A lot of people thought there was conspiracies and others involved and they did a great report on it by the number, the Warren commission and they determine there was one lone shooter but many experts believe that is the moment the 60s shifted, and was shortly after that that for Liverpool aliens landed on our shore were on the Ed Sullivan show there called the Beatles they were followed by a bunch of other bands known as the British invasion and then culture begin the change before our eyes, almost monthly.

Certainly yearly. Add to this effect that the Vietnam War is raging young American boys are coming back in body bags and it was a drive back then and we all wondered are we going to be next. And then the worst year of the 60s happened it was 1968, our president is already been assassinated and no Martin Luther King was assassinated as well. Robert Kennedy, the president's brother sort of steps into the job and decides to run for the presidency, and many are hoping that he's going to turn the country around. There's sort of an optimism in its gaining momentum, but of as he announced yet. Basically he was claiming victory in the California primary and he addresses supporters at the Ambassador Hotel and amending certain hand surgeon can shot Bobby Kennedy three times, only two months after Martin Luther King was killed. Now Kennedy is been assassinated only five years after his brother.

The Vietnam War is raging on Watergate is about to happen an entire generation of young people are disillusioned. There's huge protests there's riots in the streets. Kids were rebelling against society and turning to drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. The slogan at that time was turned on soon in dropout and you know the church was not effectively reaching this generation. John Lennon of the Beatles was famously quoted to say the Beatles are more popular than Jesus and for many, that was actually true in my case it was so time magazine came out with a cover issue with these words on it is God dead and some liberal theologians announce that indeed he was. So things are bleak. Things are dark. Things are desperate and God intervenes, God intervenes, and the Jesus movement explodes on the scene suddenly seemingly out of nowhere, but right in God's time schedule, thousands of young kids are coming to Christ, so time magazine runs a different cover in 1971 with the image of Christ on the front and the words that Jesus revolution is what happened. The church is that open themselves to revival experience revival. The church is that close their doors to it did not experience it.

But one man open the doors of his church, and you on the Leo's talking about Pastor Chuck Smith. He let it happen. Chuck was, you know he was not some hipster guy. He was just your basic middle-age, balding man who was pastoring a church you can see, I admire him a great deal taken after him and that he saw the 50 kids and he wanted nothing to do with the me.they also get a haircut take about have a bath right so what his wife had a burden for them. His wife Kate and I was praying for the kids to come to Christ and Chuck sort of opened his heart up a little bit and was wanted to meet an actual living breathing, chipping, and does so one day his daughter Jen came home with this hippie kid named John who was a Christian and he told Chuck a little bit about what was happening with the kids and then John introduced Chuck to another to begin a weapon to be a preacher and that guy's name was Lonnie Frisbee and Lonnie was really used by God, along with pastor chart to bring the Jesus movement to a place of complete explosion.

Lonnie was sort of like nitrile to Chuck's glycerin. The combination just blew up and Lonnie was this charismatic preacher that drew kids in, though you might see the kids came for Lonnie and they stayed for Chuck because Chuck stabilize things like teaching the word of God, but this whole thing was happening in MS right when I came to Christ effect. Lonnie was preaching to my high school campus Newport Harbor high and I came to Jesus and started going to Calvary Chapel walked in there and I was just overwhelmed. There were people everywhere. There were people up the aisles and they were worshiping God and God was at work and lives are being changed and we saw contemporary worship born before our very eyes, and you know it wasn't long after that that I came up to Riverside from Orange County and we started a Bible study up your attorney and the church are in right now harvest Christian Fellowship so listen for copy for the church globally was influenced by the Jesus movement.

There's a number of things that were prominent during this time that I remember Iva friend John Irwin who was featured in that introductory video who's making a documentary film about the Jesus movement to help him with it answers me and asked me a lot of questions and so it got me thinking a lot about those days and that sort of some unique traits that maybe we can learn from and I thought of basically five principles that I remember from that time about just a typical church service number one there was a sense of expectancy in the service.

No one was ever late for church because you wouldn't find a seat if you were and you came expecting God to work a sense of openness like what the Lord going to do today. Number two, the word of God was always taught the word of God was always taught that gave stability to its effect. I still have my Bible from those days you can see there's an old beat up leather cover. Here's a better shot of it will get a little bit closer it's all beat up and yet I didn't want to have a Bible which is black leather so I put in this hippie leather because I thought it looked cooler looks like something from biblical times.

Now and I marked it up and so much so that some of the pages are coming out of it with the camera guy left computer is again as you can see but anyway I have a picture of what I used to look like.

Back in those days.

This is what I look like when we first started our church so that you see that that's how was your pastor back in 1972. Okay I wish I had any of that here right now. So the word of God was taught number three people participated in the worship we effectively saw what we know is just worship now we have worship bands now that was not happening. In the late 60s. By the way, there were no electric guitar so the most part unchurched ages. There were no drum kids. It was a whole different thing was choirs and there's nothing wrong with that but I'm just saying it was different culturally and this is when all of this started to happen things that we take for granted now, but people engaged in worship.

They would lift their hands in worship. They would participate in worship number four people brought nonbelievers to church and invitations were extended and kids were coming to Christ not just kids, people of all ages every week there was that center God wants people to be safe and for the lastly there was a belief in an constant teaching of the eminent return of Jesus Christ.

We believe that Jesus was coming back again some of your thinking where you got that wrong didn't you how many years is it been dragged on quite a few but a we were wrong. What is 40 years 45 years to God.

The Bible says one year to God our days as a thousand years and a thousand years or as a day to what is of the millisecond.

By the way the Bible says God is not late as some men count lateness but is long-suffering toward is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Sure we were praying for Jesus to come back in 1970, but aren't you glad he didn't answer our prayer.

How many of you becoming become a Christian since 1970 razor get up what's quite a few of you so you think God is at work.

God wasn't working, God still wants to work but we've all gotten older Armenia woods. In fact, the kids of the Jesus movement now grandparents I went to grandparents day and my grandkids school recently that just makes you feel all to even go to grandparents day. You know, but there we are so civil grade that's a nice little history lesson, but you know so what so what listen. We should not live in the past but we can learn from it. We should not live in the past but we can learn from it. Now we can get this generation and realize we need another Jesus movement. Just as in the 60s and specifically 1968. We have riots in the streets. We have racial unrest.

We have a drug epidemic. There's a sense of hopelessness in the air. How desperate are we for another Jesus movement. How desperate are we for another spiritual awakening. The prophet Habakkuk understood this when he prayed this prayer in Habakkuk 32 of her all about you, Lord, I filled with thought by the amazing things you've done, but in this time of deep need revive your work as you did in years gone by. Show us your power to save us, and in your anger.

Remember mercy.

Have a good thing Lord of her all the stories about the old days. Do it again, revive your work again.

The psalmist says in Psalm 85, six, will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you how badly we want to see another Bible is reality.

Often we pray for prosperity in our nation and in our own lies with the fact is revival often explodes when there's calamity.

Remember the first great awakening to the third great awakening happened after the stock market crash I will test Chuck Smith if he ever thought there would be another Jesus movement in his answer was, well, people were desperate for revival back then and I'm not sure people are desperate enough right now that may be true, how desperate are we so let's try to understand what revivalism strip the mystery away from the word. What is revival simple definition it's to come alive again revival is the spark if you will that starts the engine, and you know it periodically. We need a new spark great evangelist Billy Sunday once."

They tell me revival is only temporary, but so is a bad that does you some good." So maybe temporary, but we need one right now revival is like waking up from your sleep. One person divided revival is nothing more or less than a new beginning of obedience to God say we pray that nonbelievers have revival. They don't need a revival they need salvation.

The church needs revival. This is a church were this is for believers only, who once were perhaps more alive than they are today and they need to be revived again. CH Spurgeon said and I quote to beautify is a blessing which can only be enjoyed by those who have some degree of life, those with no spiritual life or not, and cannot be in the strictest sense of the term subjects of revival are true revival is to be looked at to look for in the church of God." So it's for the church one person put it this way. Of all the sleeping people will wake up of all the lukewarm people will fire up of all the dishonest people will confess all the disgruntled people will cheer up all the estranged people will make up of all of the gossipers will shut the ball to soldiers will stand up of all the dry bones will shake up of all the church people will pray up, then we can have a revival that I agree with Sheila. Revival starts with us, then it affects the church then the church affects the nation. So let's go now to the passage I had you turn to a very familiar passage second Chronicles 7 and it tells us really God's prescription for revival no initially was given to the nation Israel applied to them, but I think the principle of the place to our country or to any nation.

Second Chronicles 714 to make it easier. Let's put it on the big screen here and we can all look at it together. Look at the screen. I want you to read this out loud with me okay second Chronicles 714 if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land and amazing verse. I love that. So we want God to heal our land. We want our nation to change how does it happen. God lays it out for us. It starts off with his people wanted because we want to point our finger at somebody else. We think the problems in our country.

It's too Washington DC all will say it is due to Hollywood or the source of the problems of the White House. God says the source of the problems are his house, his house the church. Notice he says if my people, which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, doesn't say a thing about secular culture. He doesn't see the thing about garden-variety sinners if you will. He talks to his own people that you that's me if my people, see I think one of the problems we have in our nation today is where a lot of folks running around who think they are Christians that really are not that the Bible says in second Corinthians 13 check up on yourself. Are you really Christians you pass the test or are you just pretending to be a Christian when you are not at all. And then there are those who are living a double life. You know they put on a good performance at church. That's all the right stuff, but they're living alike that's completely contradictory to what the Bible says about how a Christian ought to live. So what do we do if we want to see a revival number one if you're taking notes. If you want to see a revival. You need to humble yourself and pray. By the way, the word use their prayers. Interesting. Of the 12 Hebrew words employed in Scripture to express a single verb to pray the one used here means to judge self habitually judge self habitually was so quick to judge and criticize others habitually. When the Bible says we should be really judging ourselves if we spent less time criticizing others and more time examining ourselves. Maybe we would have revival. It starts with you. It starts with me notice Jesus is not saying we need to love ourselves. That's our culture tells us, Jesus says we need to deny ourselves and take up his cross and follow him and then here in second Chronicles we are to judge ourselves what is that mean it means that we realize we have a long ways to go. Let me ask you a question. How many of you are completely satisfied with where you are spiritually right now you don't think there's any more need for change or transformation in your life you're happy with where you're at. At this moment raising on Glenville and raising his no one should any Christian who really knows what it is to follow Jesus will always realize they have a long ways to go.

The apostle Paul said after years of walking with the Lord in Philippians 3 that I don't consider myself to arrive spiritually nor do I consider myself already perfect. I keep going on. Grasping ever more firmly that purpose for which God has grasped me. It's been said self-satisfaction is the death of progress. So the moment I think I've arrived, I've reached a plateau.

I'm here know you're really far off man, you gotta keep growing. Keep learning, so we want to keep moving forward spiritually know we cannot organize a revival, but we can agonize for one in prayer. Perhaps we can prepare the ground but better yet, maybe we had a free prayer.

The campground lease it again. Yet we can prepare the ground.

Let's prepare the ground. There's never been a prayerless revival in history so it does start with prayer of my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and point number two if the pray and seek his face not just pray. But seek his face where little brother Lord 10 revival email us for lunch or you can feel Lord Lord were seeking you Lord were calling out to you Lord were desperate for you, Lord. We need to send an awakening to America. It's effectively a prayer that will not take no for an answer simple Greg are to be presumptuous when you bring the wake know Jesus said ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be open in a different translation would say keep asking, keep seeking keep knocking press on because, listen when you're praying for revival, you're praying according to the will of God. We are praying for the salvation of a loved one, you're praying according to the will of God. So we need to press forward in our prayer and seek his face not backing down. Number three. There must be repentance from all known sin, so first we humble or judge ourselves, evaluate ourselves to we have a long ways to go.

Secondly, we pray with passion with earnestness with with a complete dependence upon God. And thirdly, there must be repentance from all sin against God says my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. Listen all the praying in the world is not going to help you if you're living in known sin.

The psalmist said if I cling to iniquity in my heart. The Lord will not hear me.

God says in Isaiah 50 not 559 it's not them I hear is heavy I can't hear is not that my hand is short. I cannot save but your sins have separated you from me. Listen, the pray incident live in known sin is like hanging up the phone to heaven, so it starts Thursday. Lord, is there any wickedness in me and let me ask you be honest right now before God. Is there something you're doing you know you should not be doing as a follower of Jesus.

If so, you need to turn from it because you will never experience personal revival until you do.

Those are not only the sins of omission doing bad things. They can be sins of omission to because you can sit there and think hey Greg, you know I'm I'm of the McLean love.

I don't lie. Don't steal I don't get drunk and faithful to my spouse. Hey amen.

God bless you for all that sure. But then you could be guilty of the sin of omission right sin of commission doing what you should not do sin of omission not doing what you should do. The Bible says to him that knows to do good and does not do it to him it is sin. So the Lord's prompting you go show the gospel you say no. The Lord is saying share freely of your finances and invest in the kingdom you flat out refused the Lord nudges you and shows you to pray more. I don't want to do that. Study the word more know that can be a sin as well. My people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways. Let me personalize this insert your name.

There take out my people and put in your name. I'll do it if Greg will humble himself and pray and seek my face and turn from his wicked ways what your name in there. God wants to do it for you. First, he wants to revive you first and foremost.

But know this, having said all of this, God wants to send revival is not good to know God wants to send revival, but he wants us to participate in the process right, you know, God answers prayer. How did you agree with that. Got answers for right but often the reason we pray, is because well we have a need. We have a crisis. Something's come up I need healing.

I need direction I need financial provision. Whatever it is you need to pray because you're in trouble. It's only got just give you everything you've ever wanted more. No problems no conflicts will allow conflict in your life so you see your own weakness and then see the greatness of God as you depend upon him. We can all remember situations in our life where things were looking rather bleak and we called in the name of the Lord, and he intervened right can you remember something like that I can many things in our nation, things are looking bleak. Gotta say, check this out. Call me what you all do pray right now. Follow my prescription for revival. Watch how I will intervene listen. It's his desire to bless that you know God wants to bless you even more than you want to be blessed so maybe for, says the Lord is a son in his shield.

He was those favor and honor and no good thing will he withhold from those that walk with him is a God says call my name, pray, turn from your sin all hear your prayer and I'll heal your land. When we see a closing word to someone that's joining us today is maybe a nonbeliever.

You think what you guys even talking about or talking about our nation were talking about you.

You don't need revival. If you're not a Christian, you need Jesus you need to see how much he loves you and how he will forgive you of every sin you've ever committed and change your life. This is what can happen. Forgive my life was changed many years ago. Your life can be changed right now. Maybe your life is falling apart. You need God to heal your life heal your marriage, you're in the throes of drug addiction or alcohol addiction or urine despair.

Whatever it is.

Jesus Christ says everything you're looking for and more. If you'll just ask him to come into your heart and life and ask him to forgive you of your sin, you can know that you go to heaven when you die and then you will begin to discover God's unique and special plan for your life. That's why many give you an opportunity to believe in Jesus and also an opportunity now to ask for personal revival. Let's all pray father referred your word and the Lord were praying for those that do not yet know you those that have joined us to don't have the hope of heaven they don't have Jesus in their life. We pray that the Holy Spirit will convict and convince them of their need for Jesus Lord bring them to yourself now Miller has about an eyes are closed or praying. How many of you would say today Greg, I need Jesus. I want my sin forgiven. I want to go to heaven when I die I want to know the meaning of my life. I want him in my heart right now.

Pray for me. I'm ready to say yes to Jesus Christ listen that your desire.

If you want Christ to come in your life if you want him to forgive you of your sin if you want to go to heaven when you die, would you raise your hand up right now. Wherever you are and I want to pray for you just raise your hand up or I can see it published. You publish anybody else raise your hand. Bless you some of your watching the video screen right now, I want you to raise your hand up as well, since for all of this here doesn't matter if I can seal the Lord sees you just raise your hands and yeah I need Jesus wherever you are. Raise your hand and let me pray. God bless each one of you that are raising.

Anybody else you want is forgiveness.

You want to be ready for the Lord's return. Raise your hand up and we pray.

God bless you what I heads are still about maybe some of you would say man I need personal revival I need to turn from my sin.

There's things I'm doing. I know I should not be doing as a follower of Jesus, and I'm ready to turn from that and recommit my life to Christ at that your desire would you raise your agenda unique personal revival need to turn from some sin. There needs to be that change in your life. Raise your hand. God bless wherever your hearing or seeing me raise her hand up if you would God bless all of you, ask that everyone of you who were just lifted your can want you to stand your feet and I will be doing a prayer to stand up everyone who lifted you can stand up and I will get a pray together even if you did not list your cam what you want to make this commitment or recommitment to Christ stand up to pray together. God bless you, that are standing. If you stand, you will be alone.

Others are standing wherever you are standup. There might be more you watching the video screen stand up right now were going to make this commitment or recommitment to Jesus. Let's get this resolved with another moment anybody else you want to get right with God. Standup will pray together publish anybody else. Bless all of you there standing. I want you to pray this prayer out loud after me again as I pray pray this out loud after me right we used in pray this prayer Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner but I know that you're the Savior died on the cross for my sin. I children from that sin. Now I choose to follow you from this moment forward. Thank you for loving me and calling me and accepting me in Jesus name I pray, amen.

God bless you that just prayed there for a couple of follow