Revival

By Pastor Brant Baker

The world wants and must see something so spectacular and so beyond all comprehension for it to believe, or it won't believe at all. The world must see Jesus Christ, "The same yesterday, today, and forever, "You must pray with everything you have, for God has made a requirement of you and He still has yet to be inquired of for this revival. A thousand people could rock the face of the earth in one day; and just as on Pentecost, there would be one of the greatest explosions of the Glory of God.

"So shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men." (Ezekiel 37:38) The churches are empty buildings with empty people and with pulpits devoid of the Word of God and of the truth of Spirit and worship. Chuck Smith, Pastor of Calvary Chapel, and his wife Kay, would spend hours in prayer before the Lord, begging for the revival of souls and for those (later to become known as Jesus People) who would be coming to their church. It didn't just happen! They sought the Lord with everything within them. Before this mass of people came into this Foursquare Church, the church members shephered by Pastor Adams prayed before the Lord that He would do something in this church. If you never have another thing to come before His throne about- you have a need concerning souls.

God said He would be inquired of for this one thing, and as long as there is one sinner that does not have salvation and yet will receive it from Almighty God, God will yet be inquired of. Now, let's find those so we may inquire of Him for their salvation. "And they shall know that I am the Lord." (Ezekiel)

The world today laughs at a dead and superficial Church. Many ministers are scared tp preach the Word of God. Spurgeon, the great commentator on the Word of God, would have burned our ears right off our heads.

Finney would have humbled us to the place where we would slide from our chairs and beg the mercy og God Almighty for our hatred of ourselves and of others that would not seek Him in prayer.

Moody and Aimee Semple McPherson would be saddened to see what has happened today. They knew and saw the utter desolation of souls. At the beginning of their ministries thay shared and preached the basic truths only to their families. The result has been resounding throughout eternity to this day.

I pray that God will wake us up, too. Revive us again, Oh Lord! Fill the empty cities with the flocks of the Lord and those empty churches with the praises of men. Fill what is left to be filled, with Christ, and come and take us. Jesus, have mercy on us and we thank You for Your grace- that You have not erased us for our slothfulness. But Lord, You have borne with us which proves to us that You love us and will never leave us or forsake us, even when we are being so ineffective because of our selfish, cold hearts and our lack of faith and love.

This first appeared in the Shekinah Fellowship magazine Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1975, page 21