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Revivals run on prayer and there is no better way to learn how to pray than to pray. Revival prayers cover the present condition of the world and the church, and call for changes in the church so that it is again influential in the world as salt & light.

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There has never been a time when we are in more need of a great and powerful life-changing revival. The church is in desperate need for a revival and the world is in desperate need for the church to have one. A true revival is the only solution to raise the Church to normal Kingdom living, produce massive salvations, and determine the destiny of nations. A revival of the Kingdom is first a personal revival. It then becomes corporate. It is the sum of all individuals being touched anew that makes revivals so powerful. Then it touches and changes the world.

Nothing has become clearer to me than that revival is of God. It is something first revealed to those in need of it in order that they may begin seeking Him for it. The irony is that it was in His heart first. So our call to Him is a Spirit birthed call and the answer is prepared as is all his works which are know to Him from the beginning of the world. So we can safely say that once we begin to cry out we can have concrete faith that revival will come. And that crying out is through regular personal and corporate prayer.

If there is one outstanding feature and the primary one about a revival it is that the life of Christ in the body is manifested more and more. Even when the doctrine of the indwelling Christ is not clearly understood, His life is still expressed in the body. However, the truth should be revisited so as to bring the children of God to a desire for an ever increasing life of Christ. It is easy to live a religious life without the real power of that life. It is done all too much. Now is the time for change. We must come to say “for me to live is Christ.”

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	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - Part 5 The King, The Kingdom And Revival; More Than A Revival, A Restoration Of Kingdom Message Date: 2/21/2010 We can reign in and within the world now. Ultimately Jesus will reign over all the world. Its blessing, power and provision can be received now through Holy Spirit. The same way it worked in Jesus is how it is to work in us. When it does, the Kingdom manifests (Matthew 12:28). But the Kingdom is God's and not man's and thus it has a superior motive derived from the character of God. He acts lovingly and redemptively. We enter the Kingdom experientially and it enters us spiritually. In both cases the Kingdom rules.
	Message Title - Trust, Belief, Faith - Part 2 Message Date: 12/13/2009 God guards, covenants and preserves our inheritance but we must remain in faith. His promises to us are unconditional and conditional in that we remain in faith. Both are necessary. Exercising our faith is always a choice. We are tested in our faith (Rom. 5:2-5). There is joy in this testing (James 1:2). There is proof in this testing (1 Peter 1:4-7). The testing of our faith results in spiritual growth.
	Message Title - Trust, Belief, Faith - Part 1 Message Date: 12/6/2009 Many people are experiencing above average challenges in life. Stress abounds, caused in part by the world's economy, health issues, terrorism and strife. Up until a few years ago conditions were such that most of us didn't have a great need to exercise our faith. There was relative prosperity, for example, but that had more to do with the conditions in the world or our own natural strengths. It is different now and our faith is being dragged out of the storage chest and dusted off. God entrusted us with faith - Jude 3. None of us is born with inherent faith. It is given to us (Eph. 2:8). Our salvation by faith is of God. We have a free will to exercise it. Our faith is stimulated by hearing the Word, reading Scripture, prophecies, and God speaking to us internally. Exercising our faith is always a choice. The faith we have is entrusted to us by God which when used puts us all in the honor roll of faith.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 7 Love Is - 1 Corinthians 13 Message Date: 11/29/2009 Love is directly connected to the spiritual gifts. 1 Cor. 13 actually begins in 1 Cor. 12:31. We can divide the first 13 chapters as.... * Chapters 1-3 -- The need for love with gifts * Chapters 4-7 -- Love defined as to character and relations * Chapters 8-13 -- The eternal state of our being expressed as love enduring when all else passes away Without love we end up using the gifts as noisy cymbals which do not benefit us Love is patient with people and doesn't retaliate when unjustly dealt with. Love is kind and is focused on people, is gentle and benevolent. Love is not jealous nor does it desire the possessions of others. It doesn't seek to control others. Love doesn't brag or boast in anything. Love is not arrogant or proud. Love is not rude, nor does it ignore others. It doesn't act indifferent/discourteous towards others. Love doesn't seek for its own satisfaction. Love isn't easily provoked. It isn't easily irritated or angered. Love doesn't account for wrong suffered. It doesn't hold records of wrongs nor does it store up grievances to be used at a later date. Love doesn't delight in evil or unrighteousness. It does, however, rejoice in truth. Love bears all things and provides an environment to put up with until healing comes. Love believes and sees the best in others, and to believe the best for others. Love hopes. It holds out a favorable expectancy for all believers. Love endures and provides a steadfastness to endure temptation and trials without retaliating or rejecting another person. God knows us perfectly and in time we will know Him intimately. Love is the means to this end. The spiritual gifts and ministries heal, prepare and perfect. Love finishes the work.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 6 How Love Works In Us To Make Us Whole Love Never Runs Dry - Wonders Of His Mighty Love Message Date: 11/15/2009 The love of God (salvation love we see in John 3:16-17) is a guiding love that flows like the river Jordan. We must first identify God's love further by contrasting it to human love which by comparison is weak and frail. Human love has controls and regulators on it. Without the life of Christ indwelling us, it is like a glove without a hand....limp. When the hand fills the glove and directs it, it becomes the hand of God's love reaching out. We, as Christians, learn the difference as we travel along the Christian path. Idolatrous love has no place in us. Things that keep us from coming after God will reveal that we love God too little, not others too much. Idolatrous love compromises and competes for our heart. We must know (1 John 4:10) that God loved us before creation. We cannot earn His love. He freely gives it. We must freely receive it, and then freely give it to others. The mix of need-love and give-love makes for healthy Christians.
	Message Title - Blessings In The Heavenlies Spiritual Warfare Message Date: 11/8/2009 The word 'blessing' in Ephesians 1:3 comes from the Greek word eulogian from which our word eulogy comes. It is God's action upon someone who is spoken well of. We are well spoken of because of our position in Christ and our endowments. There are three major areas of struggle. Our fallen nature. The fallen world. And satan and his evil spirits. Satan seeks to control the world through governments, nations or religion. But we are higher in position and rank, stronger in God's strength, and equipped with the Lord's armor.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 5 Fulfilling the Royal Law of Love Message Date: 10/25/2009 Many Christians practice some love and some hatred, and live in a mixture which they have come to think is the norm. The tongue reveals this mixture, James 3:10. Hatred is an extreme opposite of Love. It is malicious, is often unjustified and causes darkness, unhappiness, offences, and stirs up and drives away others. God's love is from above and is pure, peaceable, gentle, merciful. It produces high quality character that generates the grace of God, without partiality, not wavering, without hypocrisy, and has no double standard. Peace reigns. We must decide what environment and what identity we wish to live in and have. James 2:8 says we are to live fulfilling the royal law of love. So, it should/must be our decision to have no mixture. * Owe no many anything but love -- Romans 13:8 * Love enough to correct -- Hebrews 12:5 * Love overwhelms the sins of others, but hatred stirs up strife -- Proverbs 10:12 * Live by the life of the Loving One in us. For us to live is Christ, Phil. 1:21 * Desire to create an identity and atmosphere of love.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 4 Knowing God And His Love Message Date: 10/18/2009 While we might have a traditional understanding of God's love through His healing, providing, protecting, and answering of prayers, there is a longing to know the Father more, and to receive and understand His love more. Knowing God's love is not just getting your way and getting things that you ask Him for. It is not just goose bumps and excitement. It can include those, but there is more to the God kind of love and knowing Him. This love has "another" as its objective. We learn and know God's manifest presence by practicing His love towards others. In doing so, all become givers, and all become receivers. God is always present, but manifests Himself in, by and through love (agape love). As our hunger to know God and His love more is satisfied, we become vessels of that love to those around us and in the world.
	Message Title - God Sending His Word Message Date: 9/6/2009 Psalm 107:19-20 (NIV) - "Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. He sent forth His word and healed them...." Summary: God is speaking in response to our prayers for revival (Psalm 107:20). We cry out, and God hears our prayers. He sends His Word to heal and deliver. We must learn to listen in order to hear and receive. And, of course, we must learn to obey what He says.
	Message Title - The Course of This World - Part 2 Message Date: 7/19/2009 Summary: This is the second part of last week's message.
	Message Title - The Course of This World - Part 1 The Course of the Kingdom Message Date: 7/12/2009 Summary: There is a truth about the course of this world. It has a path of destruction to it. The course of the world is like a raging river that takes everything caught up in it and sweeps it along. As an illustration, when I was a child I used to spend time at the local river banks. There was a kid there fishing and his line got caught in some reeds. He proceeded to pull up his pant legs to go into the river to free it. We warned him that there were leeches in the river but he paid us no attention. Well, sure enough, when he came out of the river he had leeches stuck to his legs. Leeches that such your blood. That's what happens when you get into the course of the river of this world. Nobody can get into it without getting contaminated through its disobedience, self satisfaction (of the flesh/mind), unbelief, etc. The world can look good and might be doing some "good", but at its root is contamination of various sorts. In this teaching we look at the course of this world and the course of the Kingdom. Part 2 will be covered next week.
	Message Title - The Rising of One Stepping Into Corporate Anointing Message Date: 7/5/2009 Summary: As the Father, Holy Spirit and Jesus were committed to each other, we are to be equally committed to the Lord and to one another as in seeking first the Kingdom of God. The rich, precious, right anointing of Holy Spirit (Psalm 133:2) on the head of Aaron is a picture of us as the one body functioning in our ministry to God on behalf of men and on behalf of God to men.
	Message Title - The Power of the Word "IN" Christ IN Me Coming & Abiding (The Grace For Both Comes From Christ) Message Date: 6/7/2009 Summary: This is the third part of the message about the power of the word IN, and the important truths that as Christians we are IN Christ and that Christ is IN us. The Holy Spirit may give us power, but the end of the whole thing is not to have power, but power for life. We can get so caught up in the excitement of people and activities (and even sometimes ministry) and end up getting off course. This happens because we never learned how to abide. Grace enables us. The same grace that called us enables us once we respond and abide in Him. Our call is to come to Him and stay/abide with Him.
	Message Title - The Power of the Word "IN" IN Christ and Christ IN Us - Part 2 (Salvation Is A Person) Message Date: 5/24/2009 Summary: This is the second part of the message about the power of the word IN, and the important truths that as Christians we are IN Christ and that Christ is IN us. Do you know that the devil is not threatened by our knowledge of the Scriptures? Rather, he IS threatened by the character of Christ being formed within us. There can be a lessening of our expectations of what it is to live as a real Christian, because we're doing so much in our own power and think that we're calling upon the Holy Spirit for a little help when in reality He is just along for the ride. And He is not going to step into action until we finally say "that's it, I'm done", and then He can and act in our lives. Because we are IN Him, we are saved. Our salvation is in Christ Jesus. When He died, we died. When He rose, we rose. When He stood before the Father (Eph 1:6), we were blessed in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. When the Father looks at you and I He looks at Christ and we are counted clean, pure, justified, and blessed in all of the promises of God. And so there we are IN Christ receiving everything. And while it is true that because we are IN Him we are saved, because He is IN us we are being saved. There is an exact ultimate application to our lives that eternity is ours with God because of the work of Christ and our faith in Him and that we are IN Him. But day to day salvation occurs because He is IN us. The overcoming of our lives occurs through Christ IN us, by Christ IN us, and by no other means.
	Message Title - The Power of the Word "IN" IN Christ and Christ IN Us Message Date: 5/17/2009 Summary: We have previously looked at the power of the word OF. Now we look at the power of the word IN. This word is used in connection with two of the most important realities of our life as Christians. The first is that we are IN Christ and the second is that Christ is IN us. When we come to realize the immense significance of these truths and then put them into practice, our lives will change beyond anything we have ever experienced. In order for this to happen we do need a change in our paradigm of how we think as Christians, which affects our behavior. It is repentance at the core of our faith. It will place our faith on the indwelling Christ, and not ourselves, and our energy to function as Christians.
	Message Title - The Power of a Resurrected Life - Part 3 Forgiveness of Sins on Earth--Our Ministry Message Date: 5/3/2009 Summary: Within a short time before Jesus was to leave this earth, He appeared to His disciples and symbolically blew on them the Holy Spirit. he then commissioned them to the same ministry He had. He said as the Father has sent Me so send I you, told them to receive the Holy Spirit, and then declared that whosoever sins they would remit (forgive) they would be forgiven, and whosoever sins they retained (didn't forgive) would not be forgiven. In this teaching we look at the categories of sin, the character in Christ that made Him so compassionate in forgiveness, and then 4 illustrations of Him forgiving. All of this provides us with examples of how we are to function in forgiveness as a ministry to the church and to the lost. It is truly an "everybody" ministry.
	Message Title - Resurrection Sunday (Principle of Death and Life) Message Date: 4/12/2009 Summary: The concept of resurrection existed before there was a human death. God placed it in creation first as a sign of what He would do with Jesus and then mankind. Throughout the Bible evidence of resurrection exists. It exists in the three major feasts of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles, and then in the raising of the dead in both old and new dispensations. Jesus taught of the corn of wheat dying to bring life, of the need to take up our crosses and die, and of the kingdom as a seed sown that dies and brings forth fruit, some 30, 60, and 100 fold. Both Satan and God use death as a primary weapon either of destruction or of life. The one holds men in bondage to sin, sickness and fear of death, and the other to freedom from sin, sickness and self.
	Message Title - In Defense of Little Generals and Small Armies Message Date: 4/5/2009 Summary: The Christian church is full of what I call "little generals and their small armies". These are the leaders and believers joined in congregations all over the world. There are more small churches than large ones. Both these leaders and believers of small armies are often assaulted with the thought that they are insignificant in this world and make no difference at all. This is a favorite tactic of the enemy. He uses it especially in times of crisis, like what the church and the world are experiencing right now. This brings about various responses and often paralyzes the leadership. We look at the seemingly insignificant role of some unnamed people who in their one act of obedience played vital roles in the whole Passover week. If we can see the context of our lives and make the connection to the whole of what is going on in the church and in the world, we would think and act differently. The enemy calls us "feeble" as Sanbalat did with the Jews and Nehemiah, who were rebuilding the wall. God just calls us. He knows we are neither feeble nor insignificant to Him.
	Message Title - Members of the Body of Christ and of One Another Message Date: 3/22/2009 Summary: We are continuing our series on the significance of the word 'OF'. We have taught on being born OF the Spirit, the power OF the cross, and now we look at being members OF the body OF Christ and OF one another. This teaching begins with what the body of Christ is and how we get into it. It explores the understanding and misunderstanding of the word 'member'. Misunderstanding our true membership in the body as an organic truth has caused so much heartache and loss of vital functions of true body life. A parallel is drawn from the main activities of the human body which are (1) its efforts to nourish, develop and mature itself to full potential and (2) its protection against harm, sickness and sin, all of which impede its progress and development. These same two are transferred to the spiritual body of Christ and explored as to how the spiritual body functions the same way along its pathway to maturity. This teaching lingers a bit on how sin damages the overall effectiveness of a member and thus the impact on the whole body. We also look at how a sinning member is treated and restored by the spiritual members. The attitude in restoring a sin sick person are the same in restoring to health a physically sick person. Full recovery for you is our prayer.
	Message Title - Honoring Fathers & Mothers Who Dug Previous Wells Message Date: 2/8/2009 Summary: The wells of the Old Testament were life sources dug by the patriarchs. Their enemies filled the wells with dirt (sign of flesh/conflict) in order to stop the life source (water). Those wells then needed to be re-dug in order for the water to freely flow again. This theme of re-digging spiritual wells is occurring today all over the world as we find that our own wells (personal lives) have become stopped up, and God is telling us to have them re-dug in preparation for the coming revival. This call to remember our fathers and mothers is a call to honor them. God wants us to honor our spiritual fathers and mothers of faith (both yesterday and today) for the wells they have dug for us, and for their personal sacrifice. We are to also honor our birth fathers and mothers, remembering how God worked through them to touch our lives. This honoring is long past due, as it is missing in today's Church and in our society. Society doesn't even honor our own President. This honoring will help lay the groundwork for revival in the Church and in our personal lives. And society itself will begin giving honor to whom it is due. Praise God!
	Message Title - The Year 2009 Message Date: 1/4/2009 Summary: I felt a quickening of the Holy Spirit to talk about the number nine, and whatever it can mean for the new year 2009. I don't normally talk about numbers concerning a new year, but this year it really seemed that God wanted to emphasize something about the number '9'.
	Message Title - The Glory of the Incarnation Message Date: 12/28/2008 Summary: Glory to God on the Incarnation. The virgin birth had to be preceded by the divine conception. It was supernatural and all together miraculous. As the angel said, "nothing is impossible with God." Luke 1:37. But it is the "behind the scenes" that we look at to appreciate the act involved as the Creator entered creation. The Greater descended into the lesser and afterwards drew a fallen race up to be seated in the heavenlies. The humility of our Lord to carry out this process of growing from conception to the birthing, from childhood to manhood, and then to the cross, the grave, the resurrection and then the ascension, is all part of one great and miraculous theme. This theme is laid down in the parable of a corn of wheat dying. In all of nature there is a death and life cycle; the one yielding up in order to bring about life for others. The incarnation thus begins this process and lays down our pattern for life, for ministry and for victory as well.
	Message Title - Love and the Power of Prophecy Message Date: 11/02/2008 Summary: There is a power to prophecy that is unmatched by the other gifts of the Spirit in that it is the one gift that can bless all of a congregation at once. While we are happy for anyone who is healed, and to some extent when one gets healed we are all better for it, it is still not the same as all receiving simultaneously from the mouth of the Lord. Even though the Church has had the prophetic ministry restored to it, the Church as a whole is now experiencing some decline in the use of the prophetic in its congregations. The enemy would like to diminish or shut down this vital gift. While we are not excusing the abuses and disappointments, and all that comes with learning to hone our sensitivity to the Spirit, we still believe that when God speaks to one or all in prophecy, we are edified, encouraged, strengthened and comforted. As in all types of prophetic words, we eat the chicken and spit out the bones. Careful discernment is a must.
	Message Title - Sure Prophecy For These Times Message Date: 10/12/2008 Summary: Everybody realizes that the world right now, and not just America, is in turmoil. And the prevailing influence affecting people today is fear, a power emotion. The enemy works through fear, and fear influences decisions that people make. So we must have God's view and wisdom on the things and issues around us. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. And we need truth today. We need more than what we hear and see on the evening news or read in the newspapers. We need the greater truth of God that overrides what the world is saying. Today's world is more challenging than the one many of us grew up in. But God is there to meet the challenge with us. He delights when these things happen because they allow Him to manifest Himself in greater contrast to what is going on in the world around us, and to reveal Himself in such a good and powerful way. God knows the hearts of men and how to get to them, and what to do. Our faith therefore is in Him. God has given us His perfect peace through the Holy Spirit. He brings that peace to us by reminding us of the truths that Jesus has taught us, and to unveil the truth that we need to have working in and through us. Therefore our hope is anchored in God, His truth assures us, and His perfect peace settles us.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #7 Message Date: 08/17/2008 Summary: Everything that God has done He has done by His Spirit. This is clear from creation to salvation. The Father made the plan, Jesus played it out and now the Holy Spirit is perfecting it in our lives. From the beginning with Adam, it was made clear that he was to live in dependence to God. The Tree of Life was his life line. By choosing the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, Adam allowed the same pride of Satan to work in him and he thus lost his right to live. The world we live in is contrary to us. All that is in it the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life, is not of the Father. We who have been born of the Spirit are said to overcome the world. Jesus said He had overcome the world. But we have to have the same mind set to see what this overcoming is. He nullified the power of the world to cause Him to act and react like it. He was not induced to follow its precepts, motives, modes of life etc. Jesus could live free of the influence of the world and we can too. But it is important to take on the life of the Spirit in order to do that. Only by the Spirit can we be successful. Never will our manner of victory look anything like that of the world. If it did, we would be of the world. Prayer for the Holy Spirit to continually live out Christ’s life in us must be as continual as breathing. We must learn to engage the Holy Spirit in prayer especially at contact points that are particularly difficult. These contact points are the times we know to be especially trying whether with people or situations. We must learn that from the beginning God has done all by His Spirit and nothing without. It is to be the same for us. Our Father has longed for us to live in fullness of Him by the Spirit. That has been part of His plan from the beginning.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #6 Message Date: 08/03/2008 Summary: There comes a time when we find out we are not able to produce a life of Christ on our own. This is usually after a long period of effort that includes some success but a large enough amount of failure to prove to ourselves we are not going to advance much beyond some behavior modification. This was so well understood by the early apostles that they would pray for the Holy Spirit to be instrumental in releasing power within the believers so they could really experience being changed into the life of Christ. This is how we come to know the love of God beyond mere mental assent. It is experience whereby the believer understands the original intensions of God's love to bring us to the type of life He always had in mind for us. We can experience this love by the power of the Holy Spirit who will overpower the areas of resistance and rebellion, and enable us to love as Christ in all times and in all situations. At first blush, this doesn't appeal to some as they think God's love is Him doing something for them in answer to prayers or they seek some emotional sensation. These are part of knowing His love. He heals us and provides for us and shows His faithfulness to us. But beyond that, God has an eternal plan for our existence that we are to experience. It is living according to His eternal plan. When we begin to see how the Holy Spirit does His work in us, and we become more and more like Jesus without our works, it is truly a love expression that will bring tears to the eyes of the serious Christian.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #5 Message Date: 07/27/2008 Summary: Who is this King of glory who pursues me with His love? Perhaps no single truth is more wanting in the Church than man's attempts to experience God's love. It has been the cause of so much work and religious effort, all to no avail. The methods man has chosen have brought about strife and conflict and no limit to pain and disappointment. The answer is found in God. The Holy Spirit is the person of the Godhead who is most responsible to bring this love into us and thereby enable Jesus to dwell in our hearts, minds, emotions, passions and desires. But before He succeeds in this we will come to repent of all the other methods that are at work in us that seek to have God and man love us.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #4 Message Date: 07/20/2008 Summary: This teaching about being filled with the Holy Spirit addresses five points. They are (1) what is our motivation for being filled, (2) what is God's motive for filling us with the Holy Spirit, (3) how praying is the best way to be filled and remain filled, (4) obstacles to praying, and (5) an illustration of how to realize the Holy Spirit filling us in our lives.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #3 Message Date: 07/13/2008 Summary: The growth of the Church is dependent on the working of the Holy Spirit in the believer. We must be filled with the Holy Spirit. We do lack understanding, however, on being filled with the Holy Spirit. There are Scriptures that may not seem to the believer to be about the Holy Spirit filling us, but in fact are. Eph. 3:14-21 is such a Scripture. In order for Jesus to dwell in our hearts and for God to fill us with His fullness, we must be filled with the Holy Spirit. It is by Him that we have both the Father and the Son in us and this is how we come to know them and the great love God has for us. We can know this love beyond mere knowledge. This love is experiential. It is more than emotion and sentiment. It is by having the Holy Spirit begin to take over our hearts and all that our hearts encompass. All of our emotions, thoughts, will, intentions, passions, reasoning and desires are elements of the heart. These can be united with the Holy Spirit and take on the very character of Christ. We can know His love both as receivers of it and also as portrayers of it to one another and the world.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #2 Message Date: 07/06/2008 Summary: There is nothing that any one of us can do on our own to become a better person, or to become a better Christian. What truly changes us is the Spirit of Christ within us. A continual infilling as we surrender more of our life to Him. Through the continual infilling of the Spirit we learn God from personal experience, versus just learning about God. And we then desire a greater degree/infilling of God in our lives. This is all preliminary to revival.
	Message Title - Filled With the Holy Spirit - #1 Message Date: 06/29/2008 Summary: God has made known the mystery of His will when times reached fulfillment that He would bring all things in heaven and earth together under one head, even Jesus Christ. Jesus is the head of the Church (His Body) which is the fullness of Him who fills all in all. These things are in the process of fulfillment. It is by the Spirit of Christ that we now live. He is the Spirit of life. If we allow Him to be our life, how will this change our behavior, our decisions, and ultimately the church?
	Message Title - Doubt Is Not Merely Unbelief, But Another Belief - Part 5 Freedom From Legalism Message Date: 06/08/2008 Summary: All religions are legalistic except Christianity. However, in spite of our confessions about faith versus works, and grace versus law, most Christians are under some law or legal system. Often they are legal systems we make for ourselves. The Law of the Spirit of Life sets us free from all laws of sin and death. We want to be a people who will disciple new believers in faith and not by works, and by grace and not law. We want ourselves to be free -- Jesus can indeed set us free.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God -- Part 36 (Revival Considerations) Two Categories of Reviving: Psa. 85.6 "People" and Hab. 3:2 "Works") Message Date: 06/01/2008 Summary: This message is meant to give us all some perspectives on revivals and some considerations on what to expect and prepare for. First and foremost are the reviving of God’s children and the reviving of God’s works. Then this teaching looks at how important it is to have a vision beyond the initial excitement of healings and miracles. We offer suggestions on how the nations can be changed and how revival is the only answer big enough to address all of mankind’s dilemmas.
	Message Title - Doubt Is Not Merely Unbelief, But Another Belief - Part 4 (Eliminating Conditions for Healing) Message Date: 05/18/2008 Summary: This message was shortened due to the way the Holy Spirit moved during the meeting on Sunday. It is on the same subject of removing the other beliefs that compete with our faith. We address the possibility that some have ended up producing methods and formulas for exercising their faith, and have moved away from "have faith in God". This is where Mark 11:22-24 begins in the teaching of Jesus on the matter of faith in our hearts. Is it possible that we are removing verse 22 from the continuation of verses 23-24? The latter verses without the 22nd may not be faith in God but rather in another system of believing.
	Message Title - Doubt Is Not Merely Unbelief, But Another Belief - Part 3 (Removing Doubt In Heart) Message Date: 05/11/2008 Summary: The ever present phrase "if it be Thy will" has been the death blow to many prayers. It sounds honorable and humble, but actually is an escape clause for those praying in case things don't come to pass. The end of this type of praying is things don't usually come to pass, and therefore a new and abhorrent theology is developed that puts God in a place of playing favorites and looking sometimes like He is doing the same thing the devil is. This teaching asks some questions about whether we get our theology from the world (with all of its devastation and destruction) and from the uninformed who can't tell the difference between the devil's work and God's, or do we get our understanding from the word of God and Jesus who said the works I do are because the Father is in Me (John 10:38).
	Message Title - Doubt Is Not Merely Unbelief, But Another Belief - Part 2 (Overcoming Doubt In Our Heart) Message Date: 05/04/2008 Summary: There are more than a few "hidden" thoughts that compete with our faith for healings. If we don't recognize that they linger in us, then when we are in those times where we need our faith, these old arguments have an opportunity to surface and make their case. Today we consider the concepts of (1) What am I to learn from this? (2) Is this to draw me closer to God (3) This sickness will keep me from sinning (4) Suffering and martyrdom make me holier (5) Sickness is my cross to bear (6) This is a thorn in the flesh like the apostle Paul's. There was a tremendous presence of God from the beginning of worship right through to the end of our Sunday meeting. His anointing was strong to bring confidence to all that we have the same Holy Spirit present in all revivals and that He longs to manifest Himself in us, around us, and through us. Revival is here!
	Message Title - Doubt Is Not Merely Unbelief, But Another Belief Message Date: 04/27/2008 Summary: In this teaching we pick up on the matter of doubt that Jesus said should not be in our hearts. What is considered here is that doubt is not necessarily unbelief, but another belief. Most Christians do believe God heals and will use His children to heal. Some hesitate at "will He heal". But the bigger hindrance for some is not that God can or will heal, but that another method has come to compete and oppose our faith. This has to do with the predominating thoughts or views of the society that we are born into. I pray this is helpful for you and eliminates the underlying thoughts that keep us from getting all that God has intended for us.
	Message Title - A Heart of Faith (Faithfulness Is Firmness) Message Date: 04/20/2008 Summary: This revival is going to bring a fresh understanding and operation of faith. The exploits of God’s children will be mighty because we will be the people who KNOW their God. In this teaching we revisit the wonderful truth of Mark 11:22-25. We see fresh the power of keeping our hearts so as to produce the right “issues of life.” We see how important it is not to miss a step in the outline Jesus gave, because nobody should ever say with their mouths what isn’t yet believed in their hearts. This is not about a positive mental attitude. Faith is way beyond that. For many who have given up on trusting God, this will be a restart. For those of us who have yet to experience real working faith, this is a new beginning.
	Message Title - The Burden of the Lord (Matthew 11:28-30) Message Date: 04/13/2008 Summary: It is one thing to have Jesus remove our burdens that we have incorrectly carried. It is another thing to take His burden. In addition, we can ask “what is His burden?” In this message we look at the most basic of interests that consume the Lord and comprise His burden. It is possible to have His burden in your life and to live with the same desires and purposes. That is another aspect of revival.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 35 (Kingdom Advance) Message Date: 03/09/2008 Summary: Matthew 11:12 gives clear truth about the Kingdom and how it is advancing. It is forceful in its reach to the future. At the same time it is assaulted by forces that would halt or slow this advance. The coming revival will be a supercharged thrust to drive the Kingdom into more of the darkness of this world. In the meantime we will face resistance like Moses and Aaron did with Pharaoh’s magicians. Counterfeit miracle courses are already on the scene to deceive the unknowing. Our determination to have a revival is like the attitude of Nehemiah who told his enemies that wanted him to come down off the wall, “I am doing a good thing.” We must see our lives and all of our covenant relationships and ministries as works God has ordained as good works. We must not come down and let the spirit of abortion cut short the value of our lives and our prayers before they have been 100% completed.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 34 (The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise With Healing In Its Wings #5) Message Date: 03/02/2008 Summary: There has never been a revival in which the fear of the Lord wasn’t present. From the time of Acts and throughout the history of revivals, holy reverence accompanied the people of God and was felt by the unbelievers. The fear of the lord is different from fears of terror and loss in the world. These always have the image of a bad outcome. The fear of the Lord is good as it separates us to God and He preserves us, Mal. 3:16-18, Mal. 4:2. This teaching includes a prophetic night vision received by Frank Hammond in 1985, a full 16 years before the attack on the Twin Towers in New York and 22 years before we in America and many around the world have begun to feel the economic “pinch”. In his vision three eagles assault America and the church. The assault represents for us today the conditions that prevail that make it right for a revival. The whole outcome depends on the church and her willingness to repent and pray. As you listen to this, please ask God for a holy fear to come upon you and for a intense desire to see the church “awakened” by a revival that is desperately needed by the church and the world.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 33 (The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise With Healing In Its Wings #4B) Message Date: 02/24/2008 Summary: This is the second part of discovering our Need for a vision of a revival. The first focused on some negatives that show how desperate the church is for a revival. This part focuses on the hunger for revival that exists in a growing number of saints. The points that are given here are not intended to be exclusive, but a fair overall representation of the things at work in those hungry for revival. Some will have more impact your life as they touch the nerve of your spirit. Those are the ones to let the Holy Spirit stimulate in you.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 32 (The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise With Healing In Its Wings #4A) Message Date: 02/17/2008 Summary: We must have a vision of the need for a revival before we can even begin to pray for one. This teaching in two parts looks at the negative and positive aspects that form this vision of the need for a revival. Just as the prophets of the old covenant revealed conditions in Israel that God wanted the nation to repent of so He could release his blessings and avert judgment, we too must see our state so repentance can flow. The stakes have never been higher for the individual the church worldwide and the nations. When recognizing the “sins” of the body, a proper attitude must accompany these discoveries. It is not judgment or criticism. No, it is sorrow and prayer for forgiveness, not just for our sins which we recognize in ourselves, but for the whole body. If during the course of these teachings we have the slightest bit of criticism surface, it too must be repented of. Again, this is the negative side of the vision. The next teaching will reveal the positive heart conditions that long for a revival and also stimulate our prayers. I add finally that this is a message for the whole church and not some segment that we think is worse than others. As I have said repeatedly, *the church is in desperate need for a revival and the world is in desperate need for the church to have one.* A true revival is the solution and the only solution to raise the church to normal kingdom living, produce massive salvations and determine the destiny of nations.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 30 (The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise With Healing In Its Wings #2) Message Date: 01/20/2008 Summary: We are in embryonic stage of a revival. It will be worldwide. The question some are asking already is what will it be like? All revivals have similarities and distinctions too. They all restore things to the church and they always renew the churches first love. That is the core value of revivals. The life they have is the life of Christ Himself. He rises in us and we live as He meant us to. If I may be so bold, there are some distinctions to the coming revival I strongly sense. They are contained in Malachi 4:2. This scripture has been lingering in my spirit for some time and I think it reveals two of the things God will restore to us. These are righteousness and healing. We are looking at how these two will manifest. They won’t be dropped out of the sky on us. They are the results of the Sun of righteousness with healing in its wings, rising in us. Our part is desiring for this to happen and to function in faith that it is. We look at the early churches ministry of healing within the body in this message.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 29 (The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise With Healing In Its Wings #1) Message Date: 01/13/2008 Summary: All revivals have some things in common. They are also distinct as each brings back to the church something that needs to be restored. This revival is no different. Several of the things being restored during this revival are righteousness and healing. But for you who revere my name, The sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Malachi 4:2. This is an introductory teaching on the topic. But included in the same scripture are three other significant points that will highlight the revival. The revival will bring back a fear of the Lord, (those who fear my name). We will experience an ever increasing presence of the Lord rising in His body, (the sun of righteousness rises in His people like the natural sun rises in the heavens). The church will experience such joy she will act like calves released from the stall. In this message we address the aspects of righteousness and healing.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 23 (Revival Knowledge of the Christ Life) Message Date: 10/28/2007 Summary: If there is one outstanding feature and the primary one about a revival it is that the life of Christ in the body is manifested more and more. Even when the doctrine of the indwelling Christ is not clearly understood, his life is still expressed in the body. However, the truth should be revisited so as to bring the children of God to a desire for an ever increasing life of Christ. It is easy to live a religious life without the real power of that life. It is done all too much. Now is the time for change. We must come to say “for me to live is Christ."
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 22 (Inroads Into The Community; Binding and Loosing) Message Date: 10/21/2007 Summary: The coming of the Lord in a revival has preparatory phases. Prayer is fundamental as an ongoing element of revival. But some attention to the Lord impacting the community is needed. We are being led by the Holy Spirit to reach out in compassion to the community by offering prayer to all who wish. Even if people don’t reply with a request for us to pray, we still do damage to the spiritual realm with our prophetic acts. This is a form of binding and loosing. We are already praying for the community to be loosed of all privacy and isolation and anything that would keep them locked up and unable to receive what God wants to give them. We are binding the powers of evil and binding into society the blessings of heaven. People can be bound with good things and not just bad. They can be loosed from evil and good can be loosed to them. It is all in the way we exert our power in prayer and other prophetic acts. This then is exercising the keys of the kingdom.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 20 (Revival Illustration) Message Date: 9/30/2007 Summary: Revival is always a return from death to life. Normally we don’t think of Job’s experiences as similar to a revival. But he did die in some ways and was resurrected into a new and better life. He lost life as he knew it, but through his perseverance and repentance, (which he didn’t know he needed to do until God showed him), gained a new and more abundant life. I am not an expert on Job. I am merely experiencing similar things. I find these experiences and the length of time they have been, do more to conform me to Christ than anything else could have. A short stint would have left me just thinking I was a man of great faith and that I could eliminate all of life’s problems and not go through them. Most of real life is experienced below the surface. That is where God does His best work. A revival is always about God doing a deep work.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 18 (Praying For The Results of Revival) Message Date: 9/16/2007 Summary: Revivals run on prayer and there is no better way to learn how to pray than to pray. Revival prayers cover the present condition of the world and the church and call for changes in the church so that it is again influential in the world as salt and light. So these prayers address a few of the things we are asking to see revived in us. In other words we are praying the results. More of these praying times for additional changes will follow as the Lord leads. We hope those of you who listen can join in agreement for us and yourselves for these changes and that a mighty revival will spread through out the church.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 15 (Advancing Revival and the Kingdom - Three Words) Message Date: 8/19/2007 Summary: Being truly revived and moving into Kingdom life requires ever increasing understanding about God’s purposes and His ways. A better knowledge of Romans 8:28-31 is necessary to finding the Lord’s purpose in all of life’s *good and bad.* What really is the meaning of good and how do we extract it from all things? In addition, we need to learn how to forget things that are behind so whatever has produced the wrong confidence in us can be dismissed. Even more important is to dismiss those events that have wounded us so badly that some cannot make any progress in their walk, always being held by the past. This is so important for all who want *to press for the prize.*
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 13 (Allowing the Holy Spirit to Bind the Strongman of Self -- continued) Message Date: 8/5/2007 Summary: In this message we share one of the widely used prayers during the Welsh Revival of 1904. This prayer along with the 4 point message of Evan Roberts was very instrumental in bringing about one of the greatest moves of God we have ever known. You will be amazed at the similarities in the prayer to the issues of today. Lastly, we point out a number of indicators regarding one being personally revived. Everything doesn’t happen all at once, even if there are some flash points that spark ones personal revival. All revivals are personal as well as corporate. It is the sum of all individuals being touched anew that makes revivals so powerful.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 12 (Allowing the Holy Spirit to Bind the Strongman of Self) Message Date: 7/29/2007 Summary: The Lord gave me Matt. 12:29 Sunday morning and said that He was going to show us a perspective of this word that He wanted the church to understand. It has to do with the Kingdom and how we struggle with a “strongman” within us. That strongman is the SELF. Self is responsible for wanting to maintain control which shows up in all manner of ways. It continues to hold to its methods, ways, and routines in an attempt to improve life. It wants to overcome the things it thinks are wrong. It works harder for fewer results, but continues to hold on to control. It can only be defeated when someone stronger comes in and binds the strongman and then establishes unity within. Self will never cast out self. That is why disappointment and discouragement remain in so many lives. But the “stronger One can reveal the inner motives and desires, secret ambitions and lusts, and above all the IMAGE we seek to maintain. All of that is dealt with by the King as we give Him rights to our secret chambers as well as the authority to deal with our recurring sins. Things are brought out into the light and darkness flees. Vulnerability is a weapon against the self life. A revival of the Kingdom is first a personal revival. It then becomes corporate. Then it touches and changes the world. The Kingdom advances. Peace reigns.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 11 (Mercy and Compassion) Message Date: 7/22/2007
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 9 (Vision For Revival of the Kingdom) Message Date: 7/8/2007 Summary: Praying and believing for Kingdom revival is surely spiritual warfare. Restoring the church to a lifestyle of the Kingdom is our goal. But it is clear that there is resistance and some of that showed up as I began my message. It was difficult to begin and it seemed that I couldn’t even focus on the scripture I wanted to start with. Many in the congregation must have been praying as I did inwardly to regain my clear direction. In a short time the resistance lifted and everything became clear and focused. Some of you may have experienced similar things and I want you to know you are not alone. Most of the church has only read of revivals of the past. None have experienced what happened in Wales at the turn of the 20^th century. The whole world was impacted by it through the presence of the Holy Spirit who literally changed the atmosphere of cities, regions and nations. The affairs of men changed and social and political changes were dramatic. Revivals are the cure of all ills in the world. They do in short time what methods and programs could never accomplish over sustained effort. Revivals are supernatural. This teaching looks at the first church with its Pentecostal experience and how that played out to alter the world forever. The whole of the move was supernatural, spontaneous, involved angels, dreams, visions, trances, miracles, healings, signs and wonders along with the ongoing guidance of the Holy Spirit who selected people, places and actions to extend the Kingdom. I extracted some of the events and just listed them and concluded with a summary of distinguishing conditions that made for the continuing expansion of the Kingdom. We look at the Book of Acts (of the apostles) which should be renamed acts of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ since these acts included the acts of everyday believers. May this stimulate your hearts to seek what the Lord himself wants us to seek, as He is the author of revivals.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 8 (Revival) Message Date: 7/1/2007 Summary: Nothing has become clearer to me than that revival is of God. It is something first revealed to those in need of it in order that they may begin seeking Him for it. The irony is that it was in His heart first. So our call to Him is a Spirit birthed call and the answer is prepared as is all his works which are know to Him from the beginning of the world. So we can safely say that once we begin to cry out we can have concrete faith that revival will come. This message looks at some of the conditions that the Holy Spirit uses to stimulate our hearts to seek revival. As you listen, may the Holy Spirit birth a revival heart in you and cause you to join us in prayer for the coming revival.
	Message Title - Power and the Kingdom of God - Part 7 (Reverential Fear of the Lord) Message Date: 6/24/2007 Summary: When holy fear comes to the body of Christ it is associated with the power of God. Often the displays of power, healings and miracles create an atmosphere of awe and reverence. Such an environment is conducive to salvations as the Holy Spirit is so prominent and manifestly present. The time we are in is one of pending revival. A revival is really the restoration of authentic Kingdom life. This is our goal. We want an authentic on going life style that is full of life, holiness and the power of God to change the conditions of the world. As the church goes, so goes the world and not the other way around. The early church walked in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Ghost and the church grew in numbers. Let’s begin to believe for the power of the Holy Spirit and the fear of God to be a major part of the coming revival that will reshape society as the body becomes more and more the expression of the Kingdom of God.
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