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#218 Special Report: From Prayer Vigils to a Movement (9-26 prayer at Wheaton) · The OneCry Podcast

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And once you see the Lord like that, once you get a taste of what it means to
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labor in prayer, to present intercession,
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to encounter His very Spirit and presence, it just marks you.
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Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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Welcome to the One Cry podcast, and my name is Byron Paulus,
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and I'm so blessed to be the founder of the One Cry movement.
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And I'm so excited for how so many of you as pastors and leaders have been tuning
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in or watching the One Cry podcast.
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And I think that's so providential because of what God is doing right now by
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way of his spirit across our nation and world.
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The more we can learn, the more I can learn about revival and awakening and
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the ways of God, the nature of God, the character of God as he moves is so valuable
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because it adds fuel to the fire of what is happening right now.
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And I want to encourage you, if you haven't subscribed to the One Cry podcast, to do so.
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Just for no other reason, the encouragement will be for you and the preparation
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for what God may have for you in the future.
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As you become a voice, a greater voice, a more significant voice for revival.
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There's a pastor in Uganda, sat down and listened within a very short period
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of time to all 200 of the One Cry podcast.
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It rescued his marriage, and God then elevated him to today,
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influential over positionally 5,800 churches there in Uganda.
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And his heart is to proclaim the One Cry mission and message.
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I want to mention something else at the beginning of this podcast that typically we would not do.
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We try not to necessarily date these podcasts, but because of what God has done.
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In recent days, in just propelling the movement of revival forward,
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I want to be upfront and say, this particular podcast is falling right on the
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heels of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
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I think that's significant because when God begins to move, he often does it
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during turbulent times when we have nowhere else to turn but on our knees to seek his face.
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And as most of you know, where God's activity seems to be the most significant today is among Gen Z.
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And I just felt appropriate, perhaps even as a form of legacy to Charlie Kirk,
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that we would talk about what I believe would thrill him the most,
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and that is a movement of God among Gen Z in revival and awakening.
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What a legacy that would be if his death brought forth life in an even greater
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way today by way of revival that would rescue our nation.
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So at this kind of divine moment, honestly, in our nation and world and all
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that's happened in recent events, I want to introduce you to a new friend.
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And her name is Tabitha Ross, and she is from Waco, Texas.
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You are majoring, is this right, Tabitha? You're at Truett Seminary, Master of Div? Yes, sir.
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Hawaii originally is where you're from.
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Well, it is so good to have come to know you.
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We interviewed one other time, I think, on really the heels of something God
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did in your life and at Wheaton College. And I would love to hear and really
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have all of our viewers and listeners here.
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Where did you get a burden for revival? Because that's going to be necessary
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as we begin to join you in praying for what's going to be happening on September 26th. at Wheaton.
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So talk to us a little bit, Tepitha. Where did you get a burden-free Bible?
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How did God put that in your heart? Yeah.
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I think the simple answer is he had to give it to me very, very clearly because
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I was not trying to get it out of myself.
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The very word revival, I didn't really grow up hearing.
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I've known the Lord for a long time, but revival was never really something
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talked about, didn't have an understanding of it.
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I remember being in college and hearing people praying for revival and saying,
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that sounds like we're praying for a very hype worship night and then nothing coming out of it.
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No discipleship structures. I was like, that sounds lame. Why would I ask God for that?
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I'll pray for him to move, but revival is not really something I'm.
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Wanted to think about or pray about um but i
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would say i went to wheat in my freshman
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year we can college outside of chicago um covet
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hit our freshman year dropped out ended up being back in hawaii for a while
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um stayed abroad in jerusalem for a semester and then went back to wheat in
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the spring of 2022 and when we were there just started seeing some movement
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of the lord on wheaton's campus.
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We had some friends who had really gotten this burden to pray for revival,
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specifically out in the Chicagoland area in the West, going out to the world,
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just burning and praying, Lord, we need you here.
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We need your presence and asking for revival.
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And one of the chaplains, one of the student chaplains started praying and gathering people to pray.
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And suddenly there's just all of these prayer meetings that are springing up.
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I was talking to him last week, And there's something like 26 prayer meetings
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happening a week across campus, just over and over and over.
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And he started these all night prayer vigils. And I remember the first time
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someone invited me to one, I was like, absolutely not.
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I love prayer. I love the Lord. He's developing my heart to seek for Him.
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But there's no way. I had no imagination for that.
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There's no way I could sit and pray for nine hours straight.
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But I went, and as I was there, the Lord just started giving me this deep sense
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of, whoa, like what a beautiful thing it is to labor in prayer for a long amount
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of time, so far beyond my capacity for it.
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You flash forward to the fall of our senior year of college.
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It would have been, yeah, the fall of 2022.
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And myself and one of our other friends became the student chaplain of worship, JT Reeves.
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And kind of picked back up this idea of doing the all-night prayer vigils,
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but the Lord gave a very specific word of awake.
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And it was just this call of, hey, I think we need to wake up.
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Like the church has been asleep. She is sleeping.
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She is numbed out to some degree. And the Lord is saying, wake up.
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Like you need to get ready for I'm coming.
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And kind of the vision for those nights was, yes, stewarding our bodies as awake,
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as Jesus commands the disciples or calls the disciples to stay awake, stay awake in prayer,
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stewarding our bodies like that so that our spirits may come in alignment with
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what the Lord is trying to teach us.
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Flash forward through that fall and into the spring, February of 2023 is when
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the Osbury outpouring happens and kind of coming out of and through the Osbury outpouring,
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we saw a movement of the Lord's Spirit outweigh in where it was just very significantly
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His presences in this room and
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all you can do is worship and give him the Lord that he's worthy of and.
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I remember just that season of my life, like seeing clearly the Lord and His
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beauty and His holiness, probably for the first time in my life, that starkly.
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You kind of think about Isaiah chapter six and this vision of the Lord is holy,
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holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.
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He who was and who is and who has to come. The whole earth is full of His glory.
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And when you see that kind of holiness, you don't respond with,
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dad, we'll hike worship night. This is amazing. It was actually broken.
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Confession and repentance and a deep, deep revealing of we are not holy, we're not worthy.
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And so that semester, there's so much more I could speak of,
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of things that the Lord was doing corporately and individually.
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But what I can tell you is he shattered my imagination for who he was.
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And it was suddenly a stark, stark comment.
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I'm worthy of more than what you've counted me of. And once you see the Lord
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like that, once you get a taste of what it means to labor in prayer,
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to present intercession, to encounter his very spirit and presence, it just marks you.
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And you just can't believe it's essentially this, like, I've seen too much.
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I've seen people woken up.
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I've seen that there is more than
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honestly what was given us as an imagination for what the life can be.
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And so kind of following that, it was, oh, the Lord actually can move,
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not just in kind of general omnipresence, but in tangible manifest presence.
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And Lord, I want to spend the rest of my life asking, Father,
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come, please send your spirit.
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So the kind of the couple of years following 2023 have just been season after
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season of consecration of, I want my life to be stewarded for the sake of his
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glory and for the good of his church, waking up to believe that he's worthy
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of more than what we've counted him.
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And that he actually visits in response when his people want him,
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cry out or asking for him and thinking that, Lord, would you find in me someone
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who is willing to ask and to set her life to saying, Father, come, we won't do it.
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So let me just backtrack a little bit here.
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But you went to Asbury and you sensed the presence of God.
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Were you there? I actually didn't go to Asbury. I tried twice.
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We had a team of us or a team of students that went from Wheaton.
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Tried twice to go and both times the Lord asked me to stay at Wheaton.
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And the second time was just this deep sense of something needs to break at
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Wheaton before his presence can come.
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And then that night it did. And that's where we saw him move.
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So you were in the midst of the presence of God, whether it was at Asbury or
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there in Wheaton. And that marked you, that did something in your heart.
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And it's like you were in the fire. And I often say, and the smoke will be on your clothes forever.
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So it just sounds like it marked you being in his, what you called manifest
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presence that set you on a pathway to say, I want to see it again.
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I want to be a part of this again. And I want to see it in a broader sense,
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and particularly on your campus there at Wheaton. Talk to me a little bit.
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Talk to us about what you experienced as you begin to maybe,
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I don't like this term necessarily, cast vision for revival.
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But when you begin to share with others what was burning in your heart,
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what was the response like with those that you were sharing with?
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Since that season or during that season? During that season, especially?
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I think it really was the sense of like, you need to recognize how small our
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imaginations are for the power and the holiness of God.
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And he can and wants to do so far beyond what we expect.
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I think a big word or vision that came out of that was, we cannot make revival
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happen. I can't tell you when it's going to happen.
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I can't put limits on the Lord on how it will look.
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But I think this desire of Lord grant us a heart of expectancy over expectations
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of, Lord, let me submit all my expectations and my agendas for how this should look.
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But Father, would you purify a sense of expectancy that you would come,
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that you would give your presence, that you would meet your people.
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And I think oftentimes we want to bank so hard on the idea of don't put expectations
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or agendas on the Lord for how we can move.
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Or it doesn't need to look like this faithfulness doesn't
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need to look exactly like what it's looking like right
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now and i think yes there's truth
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to those responses and we saw favorable responses that spring and we saw um
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just a lot of fear and resistance as well but i think sometimes we're being
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so hard on that that we completely lose expectancy that our god is holy does
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move um does desire to draw people to repentance and to set his church on fire
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and awake um for the take this glory.
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And so I think as we're having conversations then and now, it's this continual,
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listen, the Lord is more worthy.
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The Lamb is more worthy than what we have counted.
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Father, give us a purified expectancy of your presence, even while we relinquish our expectations.
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So God really put it on your heart, as I recall, to focus heavily on repentance
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and the holiness of God, which is quite absent in many circles today.
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And I'm so grateful, Tabitha, that God put that on your heart.
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And I'm also grateful for what God has put on your heart and some of your friends
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to go back to your alma mater,
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to go back to Wheaton, and to really call them to seek the Lord in the kind
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of prayer that you've been talking about,
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and even all-night prayers.
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So tell me and tell us, this is exciting to me, what God's put on your heart
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when you're praying and believing God to move.
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And yeah, just tell us what's around the corner here.
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Yeah, I think a couple of months ago, the Lord really started stirring up this
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word of repentance again.
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It started with a couple of us friends who are in seminary right now and kind
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of this desire for repentance on behalf of the seminary leaders and students,
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those who are walking in leadership.
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Just to say, Lord, we want to actually want you to believe that the gospel is
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good news and to lead out calling upcoming generations to the Lord's presence.
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And I think about Jonathan Edwards kind of describes revival as the normal work
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of the Holy Spirit within the church, just divinely accelerated,
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condensed into this small amount of time.
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And it feels like the past couple weeks, we've been tasting that just a little
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bit of the Lord doing so far beyond what we have thought.
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So what started as gathering some of our friends and some different leaders
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from different seminaries across the country has kind of blossomed and snowballed and whatever,
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however you want to describe it, into just a huge night of prayer that we're
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going to be hosting at Wheaton College in September, the night of September 26th.
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And yeah, it was really this word of repentance.
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And I think it means something to redefine what repentance means and what it's centered on.
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I think oftentimes we hear the word confession or repentance,
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and we think the subject of that confession is our sin, which means we look
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inward for the sake of thinking, what is that?
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How do I confess that? It's often promoted or pushed forward by this sense of
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condemnation, or that's what we think needs to happen versus the subject of
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confession is Jesus Christ.
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You are confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, Jesus Christ as King.
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Jesus is worthy, placing him on that throne. And if you're doing that,
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you cannot help but confess everything else you've tried to enthrone in his place.
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And so reorienting this idea of confession and repentance to you see Jesus clearly.
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And what can we do but give him and only him
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the praise and honor and the glory and kind
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of the word and the prayer that has come from that is asking father would
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you grant a grace for zealous repentance in
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this generation that was a prayer that was prayed over me and it's kind of marked
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as we continue to intercede of lord what are you seeking to do um the zealous
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repentance that drives you and drives you and drives you because you've seen
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how holy and beautiful this is and what can you do in response um and the beautiful thing is that.
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He responds to repentance. He'll come and he'll knock.
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We've been looking at Revelation, kind of chapters one through three,
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as this is kind of this night and these weeks leading up to it have centered around this.
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If you see this beautiful and yet terrifying vision of Jesus,
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blows your imagination and shatters your conceptions for what it means to stand
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before the Lord of glory.
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And then Jesus comes to the church. He comes to the seven churches and kind of speaks out.
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These are the ways in which you have ceased to follow me faithfully.
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And I remember hearing a pastor describe it.
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He kind of like describes this movement of Jesus's words from you have lost
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your first love with me at the center to Jesus is on the outside of his own
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church knocking and saying, let me in, let me in.
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And you hear Jesus almost give this word of be zealous and repent.
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Behold, I stand and I knock. And just this desire of, okay, if Christ is knocking, will we respond?
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Will we repent? You think about him saying like, bear fruit keeping with repentance,
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live in a life that is submitted under the authority of Jesus Christ.
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Is this call to consecration of getting ready, of stewarding our lives,
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that he would actually come and meet us?
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And really asking, Lord, would you grant your presence? And I think he wants to.
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I believe he wants. I believe that he cares enough about us that he would say,
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repent, for this is what will bring life.
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And it's asking lord like what will
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we say in response you think about so many passages in
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the bible where i think about psalm 24 um where
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it's just saying like open up the gates like if he is knocking glory is knocking
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will we open up the gates and let him in and so kind of the lord has opened
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a door for us i think in invitation for us to open that door um on september
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26th So we'll be gathering students,
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faculty, staff, alumni of Wheaton College and so many other schools,
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seminaries in the Chicagoland and broader areas to honestly come and pray and
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ask for the Lord's presence to say, Lord, we want you here.
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Yes, Father, your eyes are looking, they're roaming to and fro throughout the
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whole earth, like looking for those whose hearts are fully set on you.
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Just this request of like, Lord, find that in us, find that in people who are
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saying we want you here, we need you here. And we are willing to be honest,
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brutally honest about all that we have not worshipped you in.
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And where you don't find that kind of heart in us, Father, forge that heart
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in us. Make that heart in us.
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Create in us that kind of heart and those kinds of clean hands that say we want you here.
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We'll be going all night because, again, it costs, like this has to cost something.
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And prayer costs everything that you have because Christ costs all that we have
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because Christ gave everything that he is. that we may be brought to him,
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So that's a quick vision of the 26th. That's fabulous. So September 26th, that's 926.
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It's going to begin at 926 p.m.
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Yes, sir. And it's also another important time, not just because of homecoming,
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which I think is just the providence of God. You didn't plan it that way.
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Yes, sir. But also, it will be the 30th anniversary to the day,
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basically, that God moved, blowing out of the Brownwood, Texas revival in 2000 and, oh no, 1995.
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So it's 30 years, is that right? Since God moved on that campus.
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And for me, I was there on that night. I was there sitting in the balcony and
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taking notes of the testimonies that were being shared out of brokenness and
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repentance, as you just stated.
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And I just remember this so vividly, Tabitha.
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It's just that I thought there wouldn't be much word-drivenness to those testimonies.
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And I remember 51 out of the 52 testimonies that I wrote down until 2 in the
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morning. They kept going and going.
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All of them referred, all but one referred to a specific passage of Scripture.
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And I just love that, that it's a word-driven movement of God because that lasts.
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That makes an impact. And you and I talked about this the other day.
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But when that fall, when that occurred, they had 30 students majoring in missions.
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And the following fall, I was told it escalated to 300 students who were majoring in missions.
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And so it's just like you, a picture of what God has done in your heart,
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that when you met with him and you sensed his presence and you were in the midst
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of his presence, You just became a missionary for revival and for others to
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experience what you experience.
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So I'm so grateful how God's put that on your heart. And I'm also grateful that your friend J.T.
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Reeves has joined us from Lexington, South Carolina, near the University of South Carolina.
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A young teaching pastor, but another Gen Zer who has a passion and a fire in
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their heart for revival.
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So JT, hey, welcome. Thank you for joining us and jumping in here.
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Thanks for having me. Been at war with technology for the last 30 minutes.
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Yeah, I love it when your generation has a problem with technology.
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It really makes guys like me feel really good.
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But I'm so grateful you're able to get it. And we just talked to Tabitha here
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and just heard her story and background and where she got a burden for revival
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and how God put that fire in her heart. And we'd love to hear the same from you, honestly.
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If you would just kind of quickly share with us, where did this fire come from
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that's burning in your heart?
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Well, I guess technology has its ways of allowing us to talk and allowing us to be silenced, right?
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So we'll hopefully catch him on another podcast. Yes, but on 926,
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how can the people pray? What can they do?
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How can they participate?
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So just do a clean break and then go back to Tabitha and then lean into the
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ending portion. I can edit.
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I can edit all of it. Okay, good. All right.
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So, Tabitha, talk to us about what practically our listeners and viewers can
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do in preparation themselves for 926.
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Is it open to anybody that wants to come? How can we spread the word?
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And how specifically do you want us to pray for that evening? Great question.
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First of all, I want this to be an open invite of just saying,
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if you are in the area or you feel a burden that the Lord is drawing you here,
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I would say, number one, ask for a conviction on whether you should be there on that night.
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I cannot promise you because we cannot command the Lord to give revival by the
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ways in which we would say.
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I would say, come and meet with him. Come and meet with him when he promises
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to gather where two or three of his people are gathered. He said, I will be there.
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So if you can come, come. Come and intercede. Come and meet with the Lord.
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To come and meet with his people.
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If you cannot be there, we ask that you would pray. We ask that you would intercede.
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Specifically asking, Lord, give us a willingness to repent on behalf of our
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generation, ourselves, faculty, staff, institutional, this nation, this world.
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Lord, give us a heart that longs for repentance and longs to actually seek you
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with integrity, with honesty, and with humility in that.
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I think really thinking through the passage in Hosea 10, 12,
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where it just says, so for yourselves, righteousness, reap steadfast love,
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break up your fallow ground that he may come.
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I would ask that you would pray that over. I suggest not only that we would
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break up our fallow ground in the posture of repentance and confession and a
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willingness to come in that, but also that the Lord of glory,
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that he would come in, that he would come in and break up that fallow ground
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so that if he pours out his presence, if the rain of revival comes,
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that the ground would soak it up and that a harvest of righteousness would come forth.
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We want to see people see him rightly.
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That is what we're asking for. Lord, would you grant us that we would see your face?
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If you are going to come and you're going to knock that night.
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Father, we have hearts to say, Lord, we want to let the King of glory in,
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that those gates would be opened, that we would respond.
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And then we would bear fruits, keeping with repentance.
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This is not a one night event meant to get people excited about,
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oh, revival, prayer, worship, whatever.
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It's meant to say, Lord, you have my entire life.
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To say that now and forever, Father, if I'm in a room that people will one day
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call, that was when a revival happened or not.
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Father, I want to pray that you would move. I'm going to pray that you would
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come. I'm going to pray that you would visit your people.
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I want to pray that we would be awake and getting ready for when you will come.
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You know, if you're going to call for hype, you probably wouldn't call for an
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all-night prayer meeting.
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And you probably wouldn't say that the theme is going to be repentance.
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And you also probably wouldn't say don't come unless God tells you to.
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And I just want to say, Tab, I can call you. I guess they call you Tab.
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I just want to say thank you for having that heart.
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You know, Hosea 10, 12 has kind of been my favorite revival verse of all time.
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And there's more ingredients. There's more principles of revival in that verse
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than any other verse I know of in Scripture.
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And also your whole focus on repentance.
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And I often think when God, if he decided, decided, how am I going to introduce
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the ministry of my son here on earth?
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He really gave him a twofold message through someone that was very zealous, John the Baptist.
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And it was turning the hearts of the fathers to the children,
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children of the fathers, cross generational and repentance.
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And he knew that's a highway. Isaiah says that God can come down with his presence.
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Where there's holiness that follows repentance. So thank you so much, Tab.
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And here's what I'd like to end today. I wish you would pray.
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And I wish specifically you would cry out, if you would,
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for your generation, but also for all generations, that God would put in our
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heart, really what he's put in your heart and many others right now across the
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nation and world, that God would put that and multiply it.
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And as Jonathan Edwards said, accelerate it in a briefer period of time.
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Would you pray for us and with us?
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Father i thank you that's the
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last words that the gospel of matthew records jesus
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is saying is that behold he is with us always even to the end of the age lord
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jesus that you've granted us and given us your presence um that all of this
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goes back to jesus that we will not be able to Do you get a vision for spirituality
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or for faith apart from the cross,
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apart from the body and the blood of Jesus Christ,
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apart from the life given us to walk alongside of us?
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Lord, we have your omnipresence, but Father, we're asking and asking and asking for more.
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Lord, give us an imagination for more.
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Give us an imagination that you would actually come in ways that we just do
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not have the capacity or the imagination or the wherewithal to ask for.
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Lord, Father, strengthen the walls of our soul as other saints have said before
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me, Lord, to host glory, to ask for glory, to intercede and to contend for more than this.
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Lord, you've given several of us, many of us, many that we do not know,
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burn, Father, a desire for your presence, Father, a burning hope.
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And longing for you. Father, I pray that you would reignite the hearts of those
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whose love has grown cold.
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Father, I pray that you would call forth those that you have called to intercede
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to ask for your presence.
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Father, I thank you for the ways in which you're moving in this generation.
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I thank you that we're hearing story after story after story of people coming
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to see Jesus Christ more rightly than they ever have before.
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Lord, you're giving glimpses of yourself, Father, in greater and greater measure.
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And Father, we ask for just more of that. We ask for a clarity of vision of
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the person of Jesus Christ, he who comes with fire in his eyes,
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Lord, who is holy and holy and holy.
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And how can we respond, but in zealous repentance to the person of Jesus, saying, you are King.
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You are the King of glory, Lord, that we may receive you well.
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But I think about when Jesus came in, the triumphal entry, where his presence
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stirred up the people, Lord.
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You would grant your presence, Father, here on September 26th,
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Father, in so many different ways and across so many different places over this world,
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Lord, that you would grant your presence and that would stir up these generations,
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stir up your people, Father, but that it would be followed by zealous repentance.
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Because if it is not followed by that kind of repentance, Lord,
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how else do we respond but in rejection to the person of Jesus?
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Lord, and we want to be a people that says, Lord, the King of glory.
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And Father, I pray as we pray, Lord, as I pray, as our friends pray,
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as our listeners pray, Father, as your people join together in prayer on our
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knees before a holy God, Lord, that you would give us clean hands and a pure
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heart that just continues to say, Lord, we want you.
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Father, we want you. We long for you. We need you.
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Lord, we do not know how desperately we need you. And yet let us pray beyond
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our capacity or recognition for how deeply and desperately we need your presence.
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Father, when we gather your people, would you remind us that we are not alone
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because you are present and because you have set others who have not bowed the
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knee to idolatry, to the spirit of this age, to the culture that wants to destroy and corrupt.
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Father, would you forge for yourself a people set apart that are continuing
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to say, come Lord Jesus, we need you and we want you.
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Um father if you knock jesus if
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you come and you knock father i pray that you
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would find a people that opens the gates opens the doors
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whose um land whose foul ground has
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been broken up and prepared for the flood of your presence oh
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jesus that harvest of righteousness would grow up and go
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forth and take the message of the beauty of jesus
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and life forevermore do this whole what we
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desire for people to come to another person jesus because when
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you know jesus everything everything everything changes
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um that's right burn is holy burn is pure
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grant that your name would be exalted and ours forgotten that you may receive
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all the glory and honor and the praise and that your people would be awake awake
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and alerts and excited father excited and expectant for you to return lord we
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love you um deep in this prayer in us um.
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Amen and amen. Wow, thank you so much.
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I couldn't help as you were praying to reflect on blessed are the pure heart.
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They're the ones that are going to see God.
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And we shall stand in his holy place. He that has clean hands and a pure heart.
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And just so thankful for how God has put that message into your heart.
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And I want to encourage all of you that are listening to this podcast.
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You may say, I would love to have that same fire in my heart that I just heard.
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And Tabitha's heart. And I believe God can do that.
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I believe God longs to do that. And just a very practical tool.
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If you'll go to onecry.com on the landing page, you'll see an exercise.
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It's kind of a diagnostic tool. But something that I think will really encourage
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you is called My Personal Revival Journey.
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My Personal Revival Journey.
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And I try to go through that periodically, not just once.
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We kind of leave it on the landing page because revival, the scripture says
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revive us again. It's not a one time.
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It's getting in God's presence and time and time again.
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Turn us again, O God, unto thee.
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We need to go back and ask God for a fresh touch and fresh wind.
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And fresh fire in our heart.
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So, Tab, thank you so much. One Cry family, thank you so much for tuning in.
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And I'm just looking so forward to future podcasts because I believe every week
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we're going to hear an additional story of what God is going to do in coming
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and visiting His people once again with His manifest presence.
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So, God bless you and thank you.
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Maybe so. Thank you.