 radiant church how is everyone tonight join me as we pray father we're here for you tonight we're here for you tonight all across this room just go ahead lift up your hands with me it's a sign of invitation unto the Lord father we're here for you tonight we're not here to be entertained we're not here for a show but God we're here for you Holy Spirit I ask all across this room you would increase our awareness of your presence time increase our awareness of your presence Holy Spirit even before you make a noise before we make a sound Lord we recognize that you're here all across this room let's just begin to lift up our voice beautiful things about gathering on Sunday nights like this is we don't have a time constraint and it magnetically draws the hungry but one of the things I think we need to be aware of constantly in our lives is the power of distraction and the power of exhaustion see we have about a million things every single day of our lives asking for our attention think about every one of the social media posts that every day in the multiple times we check our phones it's like look at me look at me think about the advertising on the television that you watch where people are spending millions of dollars to post ads filled with humor and something witty to grab a hold of your attention and say look at me you walk into the balls and stores have posters up it's the clothes that people wear it's the cars that they drive we live in a world where our attention is constantly being pulled on and it creates exhaustion it creates this numbness and sometimes we even bring that to Jesus where we can be in the presence of the one who right now is the centerpiece of the universe the one that angels countless myriads of angels are gathered right now around the throne with living creatures and saints think about the scene before the glassy sea and heaven at this moment we're living creatures and angels are looking upon the one who's on the throne who at this moment has nail scars in his hands that forever will be a reminder of the price he paid on earth for our redemption blood flowed out of those wounds and the Bible describes him as the lamb who was slain who seated on the throne and angels in the saints constantly fall down in his presence and awe and wonder they throw their crowns down at his feet in awe and wonder worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive glory and honor and power and dominion and majesty and praise the Bible describes his eyes like burning fire blazing with zeal his voice is like the sound of many waters eclipsing every waterfall and every river and every wave that roars on every ocean his voice is louder he's the one has the power to break the seals on the unbreakable scroll of God's judgments on the earth he's the center of it all and may we never become exhausted and looking at him church listen to me right now our feet are in richland michigan but we're seated with christ in heavenly places right now we're standing in a sanctuary in the middle of a cornfield but we are in the throne room of heaven and what we say and what we pray and what we declare in this place is as if we were standing before the throne looking at Jesus eye to eye and when we say you are beautiful it means something when we say to him you are glorious it means something thanksgiving and adoration open the door for God to come and to touch our lives and to renew us and strengthen us the Bible says those who wait on the Lord will be renewed tonight you might be tired tonight you might have come in here and just say I want to draw near because I want to hear what God has to say to me but I'm physically tired and my attention is just exhausted tonight can I just invite you turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in his wonderful face so that the things of this earth grow strangely dim and the light of his glory and grace we just lift up our hands holy hands in this place all over and I want I want to invite you to just close your eyes where you're at and I want you to just see Jesus see him high and lift it up see him glorious hear his voice utter your name see the light that's unapproachable radiating from the very glory of God an emerald rainbow over his throne myriads myriads angels saying glory and I want you to see I'm looking right at you saying you were made for this moment you were made to worship me you are a worshipper rise up you worshipper rise up you son you daughter of God rise up and let your spirit rise up and let your voice do what you were created to do let your heart do what I made it to do which is to magnify me and for me to respond in loving presence towards you come on let's sing all the glory now let's worship him tonight we draw near to you Jesus we draw near to you we know that when we draw near to you Lord you come running to us draw near to us it's a father that's what we're asking for you to do tonight the mystery of how you can come and you can fill a moment how you can fill space with eternity and change a moment into a beginning point that transforms the rest of our lives just because we've been with you Jacob said the Lord is here and I did not know it how awesome is this place Lord it just took a moment for you to open his eyes to see the ladder and the angels ascending and descending upon it or that moment changed the trajectory of a man's life and Lord tonight we're asking that you would open the eyes young and old and everything in between that you would open our eyes tonight in a way that only you can the intellect of man cannot open the eyes of the heart the strongest argument the most personal moment even on the emotional level he cannot open the eyes of the heart Holy Spirit it takes you to come and to open the eyes and release wisdom understanding and revelation and Holy Spirit I'm asking tonight for you to do that in us Lord we cannot stand one more moment of walking in our own strength and according to our own sight and our own wisdom Lord we can't live another moment of being moved only by the emotional realm or the intellectual realm we need to walk and step with you Holy Spirit we've been called to live for your glory for your honor Jesus and I'm praying tonight Lord that in this moment you would release wisdom revelation knowledge of Jesus the hope of our calling the inheritance that we have in the saints Lord you would you release that in this room in every life tonight so that we might follow you or that we might follow you in everywhere that you're going just as it was said that they follow the lamb wherever he would go Lord we want to follow the lamb we want to follow you the lamb of God wherever you go lead us from this point forward into the plans and purposes you have for us in Jesus name amen amen good to know that we're following Jesus that's one of the that's one of the the slogans of the Moravians and you may not know who the Moravians were they were a group of people that a couple hundred years ago at a place called Herne Hut ran because of religious persecution and a man named Nicholas von Zinsendorf welcomed them in and they started a community and a prayer meeting that lasted a hundred years 24 hours a day seven days a week think about that we did it for eight days about about a month ago they did it for a hundred years and out of that came this came this this theme this vision statement mission statement they said may the lamb of God receive the rewards of his suffering and so wherever the lamb would go they would follow many of them in order to bring the gospel to people that had never heard the gospel in the West Indies islands of the Caribbean they knew that they could never they would never hear the gospel on her own so many of these Moravians actually sold themselves into slavery so that they would go to the West Indies become slaves so that they could bring the gospel to those who would otherwise never hear it that's what it means by where wherever the lamb goes that's where we're going and that's the level of just radical wild obedience that Jesus is calling his followers to in this hour that's the way I want to be I don't know about you but that's the way I want to be I want I want that yes to be that loud and that big and that resounding in my heart that it's not Jesus I'll follow you as long as it's only but Jesus I'll follow you with or without ghost how many want that how many want that to be the yes the undeniable yes in your heart Jesus tonight would you do that in us would you seal that in us so that something about the way that we live our lives is all for your glory God give us supernatural courage and boldness radical obedience to follow you with or thou goest we pray in Jesus name amen amen that's good come on can we just applaud Jesus in this place tonight I love it love it well you you can go ahead and find your way to your seat if you would I think I heard a shofar in here right here shofar in here who has the shofar it's Sunday night all right stand up we're gonna give it a blow you're ready just right where you're at on account of three ready one two three love it church has begun that's when you know right there happy Sunday night everybody so glad you guys came out listen it's I know it's spring break and we even thought you know should we do a Sunday night on spring break with so many people I mean it's Michigan and in Michigan we all know that spring break is like it's it's we we escape from the the state of Michigan we go someplace warm most of us the rest of us you know we suffer for Jesus but but I just thought to myself it would be it would be irresponsible for us to have Dr. Michael Brown with us and not have an extended meeting where we can dig a little bit deeper and so I wanted to I wanted to do that and I knew that the hungry would come and hear you guys are and we're very excited what I want to do tonight is I'm gonna invite Dr. Brown up in just a moment and we're gonna do we're gonna I'm just gonna interview him and draw here's why I did it I have questions I want to ask so it's actually very selfish but I'm hoping that the conversation that we have is really gonna help set all of us about the the moment that we're living in in history and time and also help us walk this out with strength and endurance in Jesus and so everybody would you help me welcome to the platform Dr. Michael Brown as he comes on up hey can I just thank you up front for calling me here to suffer with you yeah thanks for coming yeah he left 70 degrees in North Carolina 70 plus suffering for Jesus you're like a Moravian a modern-day Moravian there you go now almost almost not quite slightly a slight difference two books I want to highlight for everybody tonight that you should get and we have them both available one is he highlighted it this morning why so many Christians have left the faith and this is an important book because the fact that you're here tonight means that you haven't left the faith or you know you're considering the faith possibly but I'll guarantee you this you probably know somebody or will know somebody who is struggling with their faith or maybe possibly even rejecting it and walking away for multiple different reasons this book is going to be super helpful for you to know kind of the different roads people are walking down know how to pray know how to have a conversation with them it's Dr. Michael Brown's latest book the book I love that I read a couple months ago is called revival or we die and a great awakening is our only hope and we'll we'll cover a lot of this content anything you want to say about either of these books tonight yeah so revival or we die is really written to to light a fire in you it's the most important book I've written on revival in over 25 years so as you read it you'll get a picture of what revival looks like and feels like and and the impact that it can have and I believe it'll spark something within you to go after God to say what what could God do in my life and as I mentioned this morning why so many Christians have left the faith you'll find it super practical relevant it'll give you understanding where others are struggling so you can help them and if you yourself are having questions it'll give you an outlet it'll give you a place we can go and then we can point you in the right direction so so one book really informative eye opening the other really inspiring and if you buy two you get two two for two your bookstore I can't give a special deal so you buy two you get two there you go what a deal yeah plus I'm Jewish we don't give like good discounts anyway what I love about this particular book and this isn't like a sales pitch on this book but what I love about the message of this book is you wrote it last year I believe it came out October of 2021 so it's year and a half year and a half and you know you were saying in this book what I think a lot of people were saying which as we look even in 2021 coming out of 2020 looking on the horizons at the the divide the polarization that's taking place in our nation it became very evident I think it still is very evident that one of the only things that's going to turn the tide in American culture is a spiritual awakening and what was beautiful about it is I was reading it a lot of the things that I and other people have been saying I think God's kind of speaking the same thing to the church but as a couple about a month and a half ago or a couple months ago as as very college began to experience an outpouring and then other little places other colleges other churches here even in in radiant church we began to experience what we call an outpouring or a visitation of the Lord it filled I think myself and it filled a lot of people with hope that if revival is the only answer even though it hasn't at this point been culturally transformative the asbury revival just shows me it's kind of like the Lord just going yeah I can still do it look what I can still do and there's no generation that's outside of my reach when you wrote this uh I'm sure that you pulled a lot of your experiences both your knowledge of revival history but also being one of the leaders in the 90s of the brownsville one of the last great revivals that hit America can you tell not everybody might know that about you maybe tell a little bit about what took place in the 90s how that was connected to your personal calling and how it connected to the message of this book yeah so I'll I'll try to do it concisely because it's kind of a whole life thing yeah so I got saved in 71 those who were here this morning heard about my early years in the Lord hunger passion thirst being with the Lord but the time I was saved 10 11 years finishing up my my doctoral work at New York University and a little bit cynical towards some of my early Pentecostal roots I had left my first love I was still a committed believer just like the church in Ephesus was orthodox and strong I was a committed believer we were active in ministry we took refugees into our home to live with us from Southeast Asia and things like that everyone that knew me at NYU where I was doing my grad work knew me as a strong believer but God began to convict me that I had left my first love and in 82 really brought me through months of repentance because it's a prideful thing you know that now you get a deal with you you've you've been telling people certain things and you've been wrong or you've you've missed the marks somehow so God really purge brought me to repentance and during that time gave me a picture of an outpouring that would come to my home church then so I was I was a younger elder quote an elder in training taught out at Sunday school active in ministry within the church but it was barely charismatic I mean barely we we affirm things of the spirit but there was no agreement on what the baptism of the spirit was that you'd never have manifestation of the gifts or anything like that we would have once a month a Sunday prayer meeting and it was the dullest it would be hard to imagine a more dull meeting it was so dull we were all required to be there as part of the leadership team but the pastor knew we would conveniently forget it was that Sunday night and literally some Sundays he would call each of us at prayer meeting tonight remember and and I remember the prayer the the pastor would play piano we'd sing a few hymns and then they'd give a list of prayer requests and in the course of 30 days it was inevitable that the cat would be found or that the cold would leave or that somebody would find a job I mean it's his endless prayer requests and there was no power or anything God showed me he was going to use me to preach a message in that church and the spirit would fall and it happened November 21st of 82 the pastor just stepped down because the struggles in his life I preached that Sunday and the spirit fell we had three months and six days of an outpouring and we we had it happen to be that Sunday night was prayer meeting Sunday and the spirit fell for four hours I mean no no organized anything the spirit fell for four hours gifts of the spirit were manifest is like we fell asleep in one place and woke up in another the repentance was so deep I remember one of Nancy's friends for three for three days during that week was just weeping all day in the presence of God we had prayer breaking out in so many homes at night we gathered together to go to three four in the morning we we open the church every Sunday night for prayer and and solid three hours of the Holy Spirit falling people getting saved and all he did was pray there was no music there was no teaching just praying people getting set free and then ultimately the church rejected what God was doing God moved me on by way of excommunication I left the church who was excommunicated for leaving but but anyway um shortly after that the spirit moved on me in prayer one day I was I was new to some of the experiences and that's the scary thing when you're experiencing something in God you love Jesus right you're not like experimenting it with all kinds of alternate forms of spirituality you're not just looking for an experience you're earnestly seeking the Jesus of the Bible and the Holy Spirit begins to move in ways you've never seen before and you've just been excommunicated on top of it so the Holy Spirit falls on me in travail in the spring of 83 and God says to me you'll be in a revival meaning I'll be ministering in a revival that'll touch the whole world so immediately I thought I'm crazy this is this is insane but each day that went on God would deepen it and even people I expected to debunk what I was saying when I shared with them they affirm the reality of it and and that became the deep passion of my heart I must see revival I've seen it I've tasted it I've seen the radical change in dozens of people's lives in these three months and six days what happens when God moves in such a way that it floods through the whole country what what are the possibilities and we were reading books like why revival tarries during the outpouring by Leonard Ravenhill we had watched videos of James Edwin war teaching about revival and past history in America so our faith was there our expectation was there of what could happen and is that like a prophetic sign yeah it's raining there you go it's definitely raining yeah I can you ever been in a steel roof building when it starts raining in the middle of a yeah that is really really feels prophetic I've been preaching here and it's been so loud that nobody could hear me really which is really offensive you know I I don't feel offended I feel this is confirmation that's confirmation let it rain the range of revival okay so by the way don't post on internet miracle miracle confirmation of revival rain falling as Dr. Brown speaks we needed a little a little bit more than that okay so Lord low more low more so God then connects me seven years later with Leonard Ravenhill supernaturally he's 82 years old at this point I had I had seen him preach when he was 76 at the Brooklyn Tabernacle and when he finished his message the altars were flooded with people weeping and wailing and crying out it was it was supernatural I'd been in the meeting after that with almost 5,000 people in Anaheim California at the Vineyard John Wilbur's church and he couldn't finish preaching his message because the the whole place was filled with people on their faces crying out and weeping and repentance he had this incredible anointing on him God connected us and that only deepened the fire the hunger the faith and and then here's what happens over the years when you pray for something that God's promised you for a long period of time at a certain point when it doesn't happen you begin to wonder whether God really promised it it's just human nature there's even scripture about it I've often taught on you begin to question did I really hear God or maybe I exaggerated maybe I didn't pray enough so I missed God maybe I sinned and I blew the opportunity and and you go through this this is what I'm going through it's like the years are going on and now it's 93 and the reports of refreshing the Holy Spirit being poured out I thought well maybe I exaggerated my role maybe I'm just supposed to write books on revival and preach on revival and I travel around and minister and I've altar calls and people sobbing and crying out they want it God desperately I remember being in Scotland and we were in this meeting that was in a building that that just had kind of tile floor so no carpet and I remember I just preached on seeking God and people were all on their knees by these little chairs on this vinyl floor and there were puddles of tears everywhere because nothing to absorb it puddles of tears I remember saying God how long how long was right after that the spirit fell the churches where I'd been in in England and began to hear the reports and I thought well did I hear God or not and then I began to hear about something happening in Pensacola Florida and God was using a friend of mine Steve Hill I knew something was at the door I knew something was near my book from holy after the holy fire came out in March of 1995 the closing words of the book it's it's a book about America being on the edge of revival the closing words of the book March 95 or are you ready I knew something was near I knew it and then three months later revival breaks out in Pensacola and it took me 11 months before I could finally get down there Steve invited me to come down and when I finally got down there the opening night I knew this this is the beginning of the thing I was praying for thank God for the other moves and what's happening but the thing that he had shown me this this heavily repentance based move of God here I was and then immediately that week God called me to be part of the team and begin to serve there in different ways and and I'm an eyewitness to what God did you know I was just looking at my Facebook earlier a post from one of our missionaries so he came to the revival as a young man he had been a youth minister but while a youth minister bound by pornography had to step down he and his wife came to Brownsville radically dramatically transformed by the power of God graduated from our ministry school been in the Philippines now over 20 years his oldest daughter is now a missionary to Japan and and he and his family were just in Japan and he was scheduled to be at one church his son was with him they asked him why don't you preach and this is now second generation of the the the kids of those touched in revival now missionaries being sent out going around the world burning with the same fire and I remember Lee that as the crowds were pouring in remember over over five year period cumulative number over three million people cumulatively came through the doors of this one church in Pensacola and seated maybe 1800 2000 in the main sanctuary that more than 300,000 different people responded to the altar calls I mean because every name was registered over 300,000 different people let alone all those that came forward repeatedly and the critics would say it's just emotionalism the critics would say this is not going to last and I said well this one's been radically saved a year does that count well who cares about a year it's like you know they just graduated from our ministry school does that go well who well now they've been out on the mission field over 20 years burning bright bearing fruit that's what happens in times of revival and there's an account in the beginning of revival where we die from one of our grads about coming down to Pensacola coming into the service encountering God in the dramatic way that he did and going back to his high school radically saved radically transformed leading many of his friends to the Lord that same year and to this day as I travel so the revival ended in 2000 this day to this day as I travel I run into many people who come up to me and the first thing is I saw you at Brownsville so Brownsville assembly of God as known as the Brownsville revival I saw you at Brownsville and Jesus touched me and I've been changed ever since and they're burning bright they'll break down crying and said I went there was 14 and Jesus changed me they're crying about it today because what God did is that real so we're so amen amen we think lasting fruit is is it remained of interest for three hours you know or lasting fruit is a week later people remember the message I'm talking about lasting fruit of lives transformed now going on 25 plus years and they're still burning bright for Jesus that's what happens in times of revival my pastor actually went down there at Brownsville and he had been on voice rest for months because he had nodules on his vocal cords and they put him on voice rest he wasn't able to preach very discouraged he went down to Brownsville you know all pastor Benson Wayne Benson came down there was prayed for and God healed him completely his restored his voice healed him of the voice nodules he went home and they carried the revival fire to Grand Rapids and had an outpouring there for I think a couple years that was really profound so we saw that so here's what's interesting to me how long did Brown the Brownsville outpouring last so it began Father's Day of 95 and if you actually watch the service it's kind of a nothing service the main worship leader was not there Steve Hill's message was nothing special he gives an altar call and almost nobody responds and then he says how many want a fresh touch from God and almost everybody does and that's when the spirit came down but even they're watching it outwardly you wouldn't know it something happened John Kilpatrick who didn't want to be there that day he was struggling with depression his mother died a few weeks earlier some of his best friends had just left the church it was the worst week he had had leading up to revival he was going to stay home that Sunday but because it was Father's Day felt he had to show up right so he's there when Steve says how many want a fresh touch and the whole place stands up he says to himself oh no I'm going to get out of here as father when I'm a meal with my family but he notices something going on people being touched and when he steps down to see what's happening he literally people heard some people thought there was a train coming by that hurt thunder he realized a river had just rushed into the building and it hits him in the ankles he actually feels this thing flood through the building and and tries to get up back on the pulpit you can see when he stands up on the platform he's he's a little shaky and and he says this is it revivals here get in he sensed it and a little while after that Steve went to pray for him never touched him and he was laid out and that never ever ever happened to him and it was out for three plus hours so when people saw that they realized God's come here something's happened and and it lasted from June of 95 to the end of 2000 by by by 2000 especially mid 2000 it was waning God was still moving powerfully the church was healthy the school was on fire but but it lasted say from 95 to 2000 so basically five plus years and and at the height of it a good three four years so when it's full intensity you know you've had God moving in recent months and seen how overwhelming that can be think think of this going on for five plus years at the height of it which was probably about three years that the lines would form at six in the morning now what do they form at six because the the church said you can't get online before six because people would leave the meeting one two in the morning go get a bite and come back in their sleeping bags and camp out in the in the parking lot and the pastor didn't feel good security wise so he said okay we can get security there at six a.m. and and you can get online at six you said when did the doors open six p.m. so so the lines would form and at the height of it if you showed up at six a.m. the line was already a block and a half long because people were so hungry they'd wait online 12 hours for the service to start which would then start an hour later so started started seven so 13 hours waiting for the service to start and then we'd go on average at least five hours a night so Tuesday night prayer meeting would be packed out then Wednesday night Thursday night Friday night Saturday night services all night and then Sunday morning service so think of that year in year out you would have to have supernatural endurance and people came from over 130 nations it was remarkable recently as you and i've talked we saw what began in asbury asbury has been a bellwether multiple times in the 20th century to indicate when the barometric pressure spiritually is changing in america when it's shifting towards a season of revival and i think for there were many places that when that began to happen including here god sovereignly began to move and what we experienced was and what was encouraging to me as a pastor is the level of spiritual hunger of hunger for the things of god that was demonstrated there was not an apathy there was not a complacency we had overflowing services uh Sunday morning Sunday night prayer meetings and and i asked the lord in the middle of that because you know one of the most difficult parts they don't teach you how to lead any type of revival in bible college by the way and if they did i probably missed that year because i was kicked out but but when you're in something like that what you don't want to do is get in the way of god you don't want to i don't want to shut anything down that is god but i don't want to manufacture anything that is not and that was kind of my prayer god i don't i don't know what we're supposed to do but i want to do whatever it is you're supposed to do and what the lord kind of prompted me is he he gave me this picture he said lee what's happening in asbury and what's happening in lesser degrees in in radiant and other places around the country it's like the sprinkling on the windshield when you know that there's a thunderstorm up ahead it's like this sprinkle that you know and all sudden if you have automatic windshield wipers they kick on you go oh rains up ahead and i felt like the lord just highlighted that scripture in the old testament where it says lord in your wrath remember mercy and i think for a couple of years we have seen what i believe is the beginnings of the judgment of god in the church but also on our nation but it's like god's dropping a mercy bomb on america and saying you know what if you'll turn to me i'm not done with america i will move again i can still move and and here's just a little foretaste of it my question for you is coming out of that and also being a student of revival is you know oh how do you recognize when it's a genuine outpouring versus just a great service and then how do you steward that and how not just the leadership but how do all of us how are we supposed to respond in those moments of outpouring because if it's manufactured we've all been in those where it's like we're calling it revival but it's really not revive it can wear you out but at the same token you we read about these seasons of god drawing near coming where he's wanted in a powerful manifest way and we want to make sure that we're responding appropriately what would you say to that right first let me just give a little recent historical perspective leading up to this in terms of what i've been anticipating towards the end of the browns were revival god began to speak to me about a gospel based moral and cultural revolution that would come to america and that there would be a pushing back against the radical shift and and he's spoken to me about that repeatedly year in year out year in year out and this been a major theme of our ministry but i've also known without sweeping revival in the church you can't have cultural reformation right if if we are called to be the light of the world and the and the salt of the earth if we ourselves are not right how is the world going to get right how how is there going to be a gospel based moral and cultural revolution when the church itself is compromised so i've had this promise from god for over 20 years about a cultural change and cultural pushback but also knowing there had to be revival in the church and what what it grieved me over the years is you'd think with things getting so bad and with things getting so morally and spiritually confused in america and with the divisions so so so painful in our nation that more christians would be desperate right you know it's it's it's almost say watching a football game and your your team's down by 10 points with with two minutes 10 seconds to go in the fourth quarter and they know about football here in michigan right just kidding just kidding and and you're you're uh by the way that you did have a touchdown taken away from you in in no comment yeah no comment i want to maintain my sanctification on the stage so so and anyway and and the team is just like going to the to the to the to take the hike casually and they're letting time run down it's like what are you just you know there's only seconds left what are you doing where's the urgency a minute warning right well do you have the two minute warning in college no ah okay so i was kind of mixing sports here so so and anyway uh i was saying where's the urgency where where's the hunger where's the desperation why aren't more christians praying and i know we have the big prayer fasting events like with lou angle my friend lou and or mike bickle another friend with with i-hop and they had their pockets but the church is a hole i was not finding the hunger the thirsty complacency the complacency i found so then towards the end of 2019 i began to see a rising tide of hunger and it gave me hope and in early 2020 i began to recognize some something's going on something's happening and and i remember preaching in california church probably similar size total of five six thousand people are in california and they wanted me to preach on revival on a friday night and i preached on god coming as a refiner's fire and and he did by the end of the night there were literally people on the platform with mike's confessing sin and broken and weeping and and uh and then everything seemed to go bad after that i mean we had co-vid we had the massive political divisions we had scandal after scandal in the church and when i didn't realize as it was happening is the refiner's fire is here the first stage is here the purification process god coming as a refiner's fire because when the refiner's fire comes all the junk comes up to the surface all the uncleanness like oh that's what's happening god's revealing our desperation and also judgment beginning with the house of god and and then i as i was traveling towards during coven and post-covid i went to place after place after place like radiant right come in and the altar is packed with kids going after god whether there was hunger whether there was thirst church after church not because i was bringing the presence but because the hunger and the presence was there and and i began so i knew for years that i was going to have to try to get it as many pastors and leaders together to have a way to try to mentor leaders because the holy spirit's going to be falling not just in one place but all over america thousands of holy fires so how it's very very challenging to steward the the presence of god it's you know to give a very natural illustration it's like the mike tyson line that everybody has a plan till they get punched in the mouth you know so it's like oh yeah next time we'll do this or next time we'll do that it's like when the tornado comes we'll be ready when the tornado comes you can't be ready yeah because it's tornado so how do you deal with this so i i was planning on just okay i've got to get a bunch of leaders together so so i can help pour in and bring in other leaders like jonko patrick that pastor brownsville to give wisdom and then i wrote in november i see thousands of holy fires i've had this vision for several years in my heart and and i wrote how all over america we're gonna see the fire here and here and here and here and here and here and here and which surprised me and and it was painful different people around america were writing back saying dr brown do you really think so in words they had kind of given up hope already and i was just i wasn't judging i mean it's painful like wow you don't have that hope you don't have that that encouragement that faith you think it's it's all over and it's only going to go downhill until jesus comes i wrote that and and then after much time alone with god in prayer i finally got on the radio it was the end of january and and i didn't want to say this prematurely but i got on the radio and i said the first wave of the next revivals hit america the first wave is here it's in its early stages but the first wave is here there's january 30th and eight days later the spirit fell at asbury and and to me that was just god's way of getting attention on a subject in other words it wasn't even that what happened at asbury was so extraordinary that nothing like this had happened in decades as much as god putting his own holy exclamation point and saying watch what i can do right god bless the worship team that was there that day and the the jewish brother that ministered that day but just like father's day message at brownsville there was nothing special about it god just broke out and it was nameless it was faceless i was immediately connected with some of the key people involved and i knew they're gonna have wisdom and shepherding this but think of this the last weekend when they were holding meetings open to the public the the town of willmore kentucky is six thousand people my good friend craig keen is a professor at the seminary across the street from the from the college do you know the last weekend they were flooded with 50 thousand people you know when tucker carlson talked about it on fox news and said we're gonna be heading down and asbury said do not do not come we don't want you to come we we don't want this politicized we don't want this to be a spectacle so he realized some something's going on here when you're saying don't come we don't want the attention so people having to get there not the easiest place to get to so that was a sign of the depth of hunger but i had said it's not just gonna be one place it's gonna be many many different places and they did the right thing to to to move on the way that they did and just let god move in their midst so what happens when god does move i gathered a few leaders pastor lee and about five other guys to have a brainstorming conversation as to what methods we could have what what tools we could use what we could do online different things to form a group something to to help mentor pastors as revival comes to give them insight to give input to give wisdom because it's gonna be thousands of people dealing with this for the first time and um my buddy here would actually suggest it when i called him why don't we do a call with a few key guys he doesn't show up that day i was traveling why because he was at a prayer meeting that started at eight in the morning that never stopped that's right so he was he was in we're supposed to be talking about what to do when the spirit falls and he can't get to the call because the spirit fell hang on one of the other key guys down in in the Tampa area is so overcome by god and the outpouring their experience and he doesn't know how to function he calls me dr brunt what do i do and it's like his whole body is on fire he's very organized and systematic but again presence of god comes first they're trying to have leadership meetings they can't function because what do i do it's like you're supposed to be helping people with this question and these guys are saying what do we do so that's the challenge you can talk about well next time i do it like this next time but the flood is so intense the crowd the hunger the emotion so the first thing and the essential is when god does come you have to welcome him you have to say lord it's the wrong time and the wrong place and the wrong setting but if it's you we welcome you and many times he does that to test us you know the the day when the the bank managers are coming to a you know to to visit the church because they're going to extend this big loan for a major building expansion and they've really earned your respect you're going in their jacket and tie and all this to say why don't you visit the church one sunday that's the sunday that the spirit's going to fall and and the people are going to start shaking collapsing to the ground you know at the feet of the bank manager like why this day uh think of it when when when the holy spirit came he came in a controversial way it acts right part of the crowd here's the praises of god in their own language the other crowd says you're drunk jesus walks into a synagogue and now a demon starts screaming so almost always when god comes he comes either with an intensity we're not expecting or in a particular way we're not expecting or a time in setting that we're not expecting and the question is will we welcome him yeah and and god comes where he's wanted yeah so we have to even on our personal lives if he nudges you one morning just don't eat today when you go with it now he's going to speak the next thing to you or when you just feel that little pull just put everything down for a minute and go pray if it's three minutes and and okay he's just testing so i tell pastors with multiple services right and sometimes you know with church like this you have traffic jams you have some that are centrally located and if that people don't get in and out it affects everything in the neighborhood right so what do you do when god's breaking out you got everything planned it's like well let him move if you have to shorten your message if you have to skip an offering if you or if you end up with a traffic jam you have to show that he's welcome and and then if you you sense okay maybe more is happening right maybe there's someone gone you do what you did have an extra service open the doors and see what happens um i don't know if you've ever dismissed a service okay god bless and we'll see you next week and everybody just stays there yeah that happened not too long ago you realize okay something's going on here all right praise the lord you have a great day and they're standing there staring it's like okay i think i think i get it worship team would you come back up here right because something's going on right so so you you open the door yeah and and that's what happened in Pensacola let's go another night and then another night and i remember steve hill saying that he turned to john copactoring and thought this could be a really long revival like three weeks that's what they thought early on okay so now now it is three weeks now it's a month uh a pastor friend in in california Shane idolman uh one of the pastors on the call that we had he's been seeing god move powerfully in the midst of of california so a similar situation like michigan you know just with with somebody the liberal policies etc and covid policies he's been seeing god move steadily and they they open up the services and they won seven straight nights god moving and he's an early morning prayer guy and all of this and i said okay if it keeps happening start taking a day off start there because you're not going to sustain seven days a week so once you realize it's a longer race then you have to get wisdom from god about sustainability we felt like the lord uh just highlighted he's like this is a wave and just like waves come on the shore there's going to be multiple waves in the future it's not going to be just like hey this is you're going to have services for the next several years god may do that someday but what we felt like it was it was the lord moving in shaking us out of routine christianity awakening us saying i can still do this and i'm going to visit and you're going to be responsible for when i come if i'm wanted i'll i'll i'll minister yeah and as soon as as soon as i withdraw then consolidate what i've done and get ready for the next right so that's the key thing i wanted to build on consolidating what god's done right so so think of a woman in labor and maybe the contractions are a little intense and let up well but something's actually happened in the words progress has been made so if god moves wonderfully let's say calls for repentance in certain areas calls for more early morning prayer calls for more outreach and evangelism if you'll if you'll build on that right if you'll be responsible with what he's given then he'll come with more right if it gets squandered if it's okay we got all refreshed or you know you gave us stuff but we we we we used it all up in a week right then he's going to find someone that would steward things so first you make room do it in your own personal lives when you see god moving do it in your personal lives if you say okay i've been getting up three hours early to pray i can't continue to live like this have a job and say okay if he goes on then you step back and say right what can i prune what's not essential and and then where do i have to just figure out how to work this in you know more more strategically but then you have to build on what he's done so that the next time god moves you're in a healthier place you're in a stronger place you're reaching more people and the prayer that births revival is the prayer that sustains revival so let's say there's fasting prayer to lead up to it now that it comes keep throwing something into the fire just think of the principle of always give the fire something to burn otherwise the fire goes out so here's an interesting passage leviticus chapter six three times it says i know where you're going yeah okay he tricked me with this question in the car last time he was here so go ahead trick them all right i in other words i just asked a simple question so excuse me if i'm not a phd in some medic languages actually i i got that reading the bible in english one day so i do this heber-israelite debate this past week and the guy i'm debating who's a high school dropout sets the thing up the whole time dr brown phd scholar dr brown phd scholar because one of the top scholars in the world i mean exaggerates the whole thing theologian scholar theola he he's got a whole video talking about the debate and you know who i am so i don't talk about any of that during the debate and all of his followers blast me you just think you're this phd scholar so this is a second time this week i've gotten ridiculed okay ask them the question ask them so three times in leviticus six it says the fire on the altar must be kept burning the fire on the altar must be kept burning so the question is why well on the one hand you want continuous fire so it represents continuous worship and prayer but there's something behind it why is it so important well when you get to the end of leviticus nine Aaron offers up the sacrifices for him and his four sons who are being set apart as priests they offer up the sacrifices and it says in fire came from the presence of the lord and consumed the sacrifices on the altar so in other words the first fire that was on that altar was divine fire god lit the fire so now he says don't let it go out don't so you always want to give the fire something to burn we knew before i got to brownsville this was just core internal value ready that you have to give away what you have right those of you who are gifted with generosity you are so open-handed because you know of the joy of giving but as your hands open god can keep giving more for you to give more if you're stingy and hold on nothing can get into that hand right so steve hell and evangelist his fuel every night has reached the loss reached the loss get the back sling right by god right with god get the church on fire get the sin out so that means there's a constant flow out you're touched now you're going to witness you're bringing in lost people if we keep it in and we just bless ourselves bless ourselves bless ourselves as i've said stagnating water soon stinks so it just becomes this bless me club and we get so spiritually fat we can't even walk out the doors and touch the lost so when god's touching you give the fire something to burn your own devotion more time alone with god consecration of your life outreach so that there's always a reason for god to keep moving and as you do that then is if god comes in a more sustained way that's where you have to step back and say okay what can we prune that's not essential in our own lives in church life so that we can keep this main fire burning here but without hurting the body as a whole where do we need other leaders raised up where do we need different teams to do certain things it can't just hang on one person because with all of us as time went on we did get exhausted and at the end there was a split for a couple years between john copatrick and me you know we're of course good friends to this day but as he said to me we reconciled if we weren't so exhausted i don't think the enemy could have gotten in so again in retrospect think i i do things differently but in the midst of it it's so intense what can you do differently that's really good i want to shift and just for the sake of time i want to make sure i get this question in one of the things i appreciate about your radio program which by the way tomorrow we're going to be recording uh i'll be on his radio program with him interviewed so radiant church subscribe to it three o'clock listen to it tomorrow on your app ask about your app but one of the things i appreciate about your radio program is you say that you're the voice of your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity okay and spiritual clarity moral sanity and spiritual clarity one of the things i you and i have talked about is the the similarities to where the culture of the 60s the counterculture yes was prior to the jesus movement that uh took place in the late 60s early 70s that was monumental movement of god it seems as if culturally we are in a very similar place that almost parallel to where they were in the 60s and i'm curious of what you see that way and and where we're adding culture right now here we are in the middle of the 20s we're approaching we're two years out from an election that's destined to be one of the bloodiest political seasons that our country has ever seen we're also in many ways confronting some moral ethical uh even political issues that as a pastor there are some some people that don't want to talk about culture issues some people that want to build their church on culture issues and then i think that there is the prophetic edge where we recognize what's going on spiritually but we have to be a voice prophetically to what's being said where do you think we are what do you think we can look forward to in the next couple of years and how should the church respond to this yeah so the three r's of our ministry are revival in the church gospel-based moral cultural revolution in society and redemption in israel so a revived church brings change to the society revived church provokes israel to envy the three r's go hand in hand but all fueled with revival so these have been major themes of mine for many many years and now the whole nation suddenly talking about revival i mean it's rising and boom asbury does it coincidentally right when the jesus revolution film it's about to come out and days before the spirit fell at asbury a video was put up probably it was weeks before with francis chan and others and they're showing footage from the last outpouring at asbury in 1970 and they're saying can god do it again join us at asbury february 23rd for the intercollegiate college day of prayer where we're going to ask god to pour out his spirit again on the campuses god can you do it again this is right before asbury the revival suddenly hit out of the blue i mean you talk about god saying yes i can do it again in fact i'll show up before your prayer meeting and then the jesus revolution so suddenly the themes that have been burning in my heart for decades are back in national consciousness and everyone talking about could there be another jesus revolution so remember during this time beginning in 67 and and going really to the mid 70s but the high point the early 70s that god just reached down and saved hippies radicals rebels the craziest people sex drugs rock and roll eastern religion saved us just out of the blue out of that by the hundreds of thousands around the world i've heard testimonies of many saved during that time and they're dramatic wild mind boggling it was just god said okay you you you you just came down so we've been expecting another jesus revolution in that sense and then with that a cultural shift and and and this one i've been saying and others been saying for many many years instead of the the hippies flocking in it's going to be the lgbtq folks flocking in getting radically touch transformed and just as the church wasn't ready for all the hippies coming in the church won't be ready for all trans folks coming in and gay couples and the best place to start is to say god we're not ready rather than think we have it together you don't you have no idea what's coming i've been in this focus on this for over 20 years i have no idea fully what's coming but if the heart's right it'll work out if you say god i don't know what's coming and i don't think we know how to handle it but give us a heart of love and grace and patience so that whoever comes in and whatever state we welcome them and and pour out god's love until they're transformed then everything will work out yeah so so amen so psychologist david meyers said in 2000 if you woke up if you fell asleep in the year 1960 and woke up in the year 2000 you'd wake up to the divorce rate doubled teen suicide triple reported violent crime of four times prison population of five times children born out of wedlock up six times couples living together out of wedlock up seven times and most of that shift happened right within the 60s suddenly right and and you think of what marked the 60s and the biggest parallel to me here is is the sense of upheaval and uncertainty and lostness so those of you old enough to remember with me if how many remember when kennedy was assassinated right okay it's always eight years old some of you younger older but that was a tremendously unsettling moment you know announcement comes over the pa system in the schools people start crying you know your parents pick you up to go home you know whatever it was and then 64 what was the big event that happened in 64 that really shook america half half of america watched it as it happened the Beatles the Beatles on Ed Sullivan you think what you go back and watch that young people search for it Beatles Ed Sullivan you'll think that was radical that was but it was another new thing shaking things right and then the the the hippie movement begins to rise because with the Beatles now and drug use and things that becomes more popular so suddenly with pot hallucinogenics people's mind expanding all that 68 more assassinations i mean the jarring assassination of martin lucid king dr king and then after that of robert f kennedy i mean this is within a few months so this tremendous sense of uncertainty upheaval everything shaking the good things of the of the civil rights movement challenging the status quo in america that shakes things in a positive way and against this backdrop the whole time the vietnam war right and songs against the war and you're thinking is i remember thinking okay you get to this age you get drafted you go to vietnam you die or if you came back from vietnam you came back broken and rejected by your nation or so it was a time that was it was tremendous unsettling and we began to say as young people there's got to be more okay so post-war generation where the baby boomers right all of us born with everything settling in after world war two and more and more kids go to college and all this and the american dream have a better job than your your parents a better house a better car that seemed kind of empty so we started to ask deeper existential questions why are we here what's the what's the purpose of life and we would literally just sit around get high and talk about spiritual things it was in the air a guru or a sanskrit scholar hindu leader comes over from india feeling it's the right time bases himself in new york city late 60s and forms the harry christina movement and and at the height of the movement one of their leaders told me a few years ago at the height of their movement 75 percent of the leadership of harry christina was jewish why because you had all these jewish seekers in new york and they went this way there was a term there were so many converts to to buddhism the the leading number of converts to buddhism were american jews that's when the term jubu was used the jewish buddhist so it was just this time of spiritual seeking sadly the church missed it during the counterculture revolution the church saw rebellion the church saw the sex the immorality the drugs the crazy new music and they thought this is the final apostasy jerusalem's back in jewish hands the end is near how many of you remember how many of you were saved late 60s or the 70s do you remember being told jesus is coming any minute a fact check that didn't happen it didn't happen right so so so think of this now we're that's the atmosphere that's the environment jesus coming any minute we're out of here it it didn't understand that behind the sex drugs rock and roll and rebellion there was a looking for more there was a there's got to be more in a life than just getting a job and and getting a good education for your kids so they can get a good job and the church didn't see the hunger behind the outward things and then when we started flocking into the churches most of the churches didn't recognize there was a special harvest we had very few spiritual fathers very little discipling and and no very few new wineskins for the new wine those that did get it like chuck smith at calvary chapel that birthed whole movements of hundreds of thousands of people coming to the lord and getting into churches okay so how does that relate to today i mean the sex drugs rock and roll that's that's all that's been here right you know you you've had any kind of vulgar music and expression and all this has been around and the drugs has been around and and and nothing new with that eastern religion is just normal you know everybody doing yoga is just normal so where where are the parallels to me on the one hand we're now reaping the worst of the fruit from the sexual revolution to the point of you know 13 year old girls having full mastectomies because they identify as boys only to be 18 and regret what they did i mean just the the whole breakdown that's happened but the biggest thing to me is that sense of uncertainty that that that questioning about life so you have a young generation now and young people here you've been raised now with this constant thought of of global warming and the earth is coming to an end and we're being irresponsible and destroying it more and more young people are not wanting to have kids because they don't want to bring kids into this world make the problem worse and why have kids if the world is going to end growing up like that they've grown up with the everything on social media and the constant reporting of news and tragedy that unsettles you we weren't built to get this constant bombardment which adds to the uncertainty even the uncertainty of who am i am i a boy or a girl or so all of that goes out so many broken homes my wife Nancy came from a broken home her mom was married four times we were chatting about it just a few days ago she said you know i was ashamed to let any of my friends know i was from a divorced home that's how unusual it was growing up then whereas now it's and i don't say this to condemn or attack it's just it's common kids raised in this environment and and so many fundamental values that we took for granted are just out the window now and what we see we see well the the crazy riots in the streets in Antifa and while we absolutely stand for for for righteousness we see the radicality of BLM and these other groups and we see the if you follow Gallipol 21 percent if you follow Barnipole 40 percent of of gen z's identifying as someone the lgbtq spectrum as opposed to my generation less than three percent so we see all that and don't realize there's something going on behind it there's this tremendous longing for justice just like in the 60s looking for a better world even to go in the way of marxism is thinking there can be some kind of utopia that makes it good for everybody and then the the empathy with the outsider with the marginalized so that that's why so many identify as somewhere in that on that spectrum we often just see the outward you know in the street riots without realizing behind it there's this passion for justice and righteousness but satan hijacked it just like he hijacked all the stuff in the 60s so if if we have eyes to see we see a amazingly ripe harvest right now and and especially with you add covid in and the isolation being at home constantly on top of it the the question of who's going to live and who's going to die and who do you trust and who's telling you the truth and then wherever you look to the older society the massive divisions and the politicizing and all of this we could see it as as really really bad or is really really right where do you think it's gone where do you predict for us based on everything that you know everything that you sense everything that you feel where the next couple of years are going so that we as the church can really lean in and pray so i expect unless we really become complacent on a national level and blow it or get so caught up politically that we blow it on a national level i expect in the next five to ten years a a massive national outpouring of the spirit that the the early waves that we're seeing the early trickles will be exploding all over america that church buildings will be packed that prayer meetings will be be going all night and all day and in the forefront the ones coming in the largest numbers by the millions will be lost young people i absolutely deeply expect that and with that because the devil the radical left whatever you want to call it will always overplay its hand that the pushback will continue so you're in michigan where things are going very much legislatively in the wrong direction which by the way is great news because it's going to bounce back it's going to hurt itself and hopefully this pastor and this church who have great confidence which is why i'm here because of my sense of solidarity with pastor lee and jane and and and the congregation and the leaders here and the radiant movement by god's grace you'll be the tip of the spear and made for it so church expect controversy and when it comes rejoice because that means you're doing your job that means jesus is being exalted and i can assure you it won't be controversy because your pastor said something stupid from the pulpit or something inflammatory or got nasty with a political leader rather than be because you're standing for truth and righteousness and won't back down that can lead to change across the state but already there's state after state after state in america the exact opposite of michigan they're passing righteous laws they're passing righteous laws for the unborn they're passing righteous laws to stop drag queens performing for toddlers they're passing righteous laws to push back against trans surgery on kids so the pushback is happening that will continue but the the the water level of outpouring will rise as we continue to press in and i believe it'll be all over america i don't believe there'll be a state where you're not seeing pronounced outpouring and the harvest will be coming so this is the time to really be praying for for young people to be saved not just young people but in particular this is the time to have your ears and eyes open you know parents that are that are good responsive parents especially moms you have this sixth sense about your kid you can tell what's really going on you see the outward but you know what's really going on we have to start to look for this and sometimes the people who attack us the most aggressively are the ones that really hurting and they're they're so angry and upset but deep down they're longing so don't get put off by the outward we had a guy coming to to my home church just a couple hundred people in in north carolina a few years ago and he would come in dressed all in black black fingernail polish black makeup looking as satanic as he could and he he overdid it for our church but he would go to different churches to see how he was received to test them out and he got up and said i've just met incredible love here from the people so however people come in whatever the attitude overcome evil with good overcome hatred with love and and as you do we're gonna see as i heard about amazing transformation testimony here of a girl that had gone in the way of transgender then god radically saved her and touched her those and you get to be the spiritual moms and dads the spiritual brothers and sisters the spiritual friends they're going to help see these people to wholeness and they're going to be some of the ones who help bring about radical cultural change here's what i want to do i want to invite our worship team out and uh dr brown you are someone who doesn't just know about being in the middle of revival and awakening you've been there so you carry it what i would like you to do and what i what i talked to you about earlier is i want you to pray over our house over over radiant over our people over the future and if you would ask god to impart to us courage wisdom discernment and hunger for his presence and i really believe that as a father in the faith and somebody that we regard and hold near and dear that that as you do that there's going to be an impartation and what i want to do is i want to invite us all in this room to stand if you would and if there's something inside of you that says i feel like i was made for this moment i feel like i was you may not be in full-time ministry in a church but you are in full-time ministry and wherever god has positioned you and you feel just a sense of urgency in your heart and you're hungry just saying god use me we're not going to we're not going to this is not going to go really long but i really do believe in the in the significance of impartation if that's you i just want to invite you to come and make your way up along the front and as pastor or as dr brown prays and releases that i want those of you who have that sense of urgency to be the closest to just come some of you are young people and you just feel like god's god's going to raise me up to be an evangelist to my generation some of you who are here are moms and dads and you might be sensing god's going to use me to be a mom and dad to those who have no nuclear family have no no family some of you are business people some of you are political leaders teachers whatever it is if you have that sense i want you to just come and i'm just going to release dr brown to just pray and thank you jesus you keep coming when the front's filled just fill the aisles thank you lord let me just say this before we pray when i first came here a couple years ago i walked in you were having all your your leaders from 70 80 churches that were here and i walked in just into the worship and looked around and i said to myself i'm supposed to be here and pour into these people i remember saying how do you do that you can't be everywhere but i felt that distinctly and since then gone to no pastorly better and and and feel this is one of the key places i'm supposed to pour into um my schedule was really crazy recently and we had to squeeze this in so i asked nancy hey do you mind me being away another weekend it's for this church she said okay you can go and then i said i'll be back sunday afternoon and i said they actually asked me to stay sunday night for revival service she said of course you do that so that that's our heart that's our commitment so this is not just a random prayer god sent me and he put a deposit in revival in me over 30 years ago when he when he poured out a spirit in our church and even when he saved me over 50 years ago it was in the midst of a spiritual outpouring so such as i have i give it's not it's not a magical thing but but rather god answers our prayer and out of our life experience and calling it anointing something can be imparted and the biggest thing i just sense is all of you going out in your world kids young adults older adults very old adults these singles married new and the lord old the lord you just go out as a jesus person wherever you are and it changes the world and especially young people who are whole and you're not you're not fighting off depression suicide maybe you were six months ago and jesus touched you maybe you were cutting yourself for years and jesus touched you you have something that the other kids want there's a peace you have there's a joy you have there's a sense of purpose you have and everyone here when we're not terrified of covid and we're not terrified of world events because we know the lord people are looking for what we have so as much as we're mocked and we're hated remember behind a lot of it is a searching is a hunger is so i want to pray that each of you as you go out you'll become torches so each of you as you as you pray and meet with god that something deeper will happen and remember when he nudges you go with it a belittle thing go with it he wants to use you where you are that's your place of ministry the most effective soul winning every day was those early years in the lord around all my lost hippie friends what a great harvest what a great harvest so let's worship the lord let's worship the lord thank you lord if you want raise your hands if that's the way you express yourself and just open your hearts let a prayer begin to rise from your own heart oh god touch me oh god fill me oh god forgive me for being distracted forgive me lord for drifting forgive me lord for yielding to the flesh forgive me lord for complacency for fear man whatever it is oh god make me hungrier make me hungrier come as a refiner's fire and bring up the junk purge me cleanse me wash me or let your fire fall on the sacrifices at this altar the living sacrifices let your fire fall let your fire fall let your fire fall hunger thirst desire faith oh god may it be so real we can touch it smell it feel it by faith oh god a fresh hunger for your holy presence a fresh hunger for jesus to be exalted a fresh hunger for the outpouring of your spirit oh a fresh burn for the lost break our hearts with the things that break your heart shadow our indifference oh deliver us from the love of other gods and other things that will love you and you alone make us into torches god make us into torches pray for yourself work pray for yourself send me a blaze send me a blaze god burning torch for you passionate for you hungry for you thirsty for you holy for you burning for you ties this church with a fresh spirit of intercession oh god i see it i feel it let the intercession go deeper the travail come at the prayer meetings at the worship times in the school the travail come the travail come that holy burden share your pain with us god share your burden with us god for pastor lee and the leadership here and the leadership at the radiant network of churches that they would all become burning torches that people will be drawn to the fire and the light in them lord god i pray for hearts of compassion and backbones of steel i pray for each of us and in particular for the leaders for pastor lee hearts of compassion that bleed and hurt for dying and hurting generation that bleed and hurt for those who mock us and oppose us that bleed and hurt for those who do not know you and extend life transforming love hearts of compassion and backbones of steel unshakable immovable full of courage full of truth full of faith never backing down never backing up always standing strong hearts of compassion backbones of steel lord may there be an impartation of courage an impartation of courage into our hearts an impartation of faith into our hearts and i pray oh god that the state of michigan will be shaken by a mighty outpouring of the holy spirit that the state of michigan will be shaken by a holy historic revival that will lead to cultural transformation shake everything that can be shaken that your kingdom may advance that your kingdom may advance lift your voices lift your voices lift your voices come in like a flood you raise up a standard against it god raise up a standard of righteousness in michigan raise up a church that will not bend that will not fear and will speak the word of god raise up men and women in middle school high school and college campuses who will be the john the baptist of their generation god raise up moms and dads who will raise the next generation of righteous god we're praying all across america do not turn your face away from us god in your mercy one more time we can cross this nation pour out your spirit revive your church take our gaze off of the idols of this land and put them back firmly fixed on Jesus and one more time in this generation move in this nation as you are in many of the other nations of the face of the earth god we say we are rich we say we have need of nothing but you say you are poor purchase gold from me refined into fire Jesus send the fire send the fire that refines the gold send the fire that purifies your bride send the fire that reminds us that you're not a figment of our imagination but Jesus you are alive and on the throne raise up your church in this place in this city in this state in this nation to be a people that bear your name and even bear the stigma with joy because we have been with Jesus father we pray for dr brown and we pray lord that you would strengthen him that you would expand his voice lord you would expand his platform even greater than it already is let his voice become clearer sharper more accurate lord and i'm praying that you will open doors in new areas and in new ways that are brand new to him god i'm praying that you would even open the doors in the political realm god politicians are going to reach out and say help us help us but i'm praying for an increase an increase an expansion of resources and opportunity so that his voice will reach further in this hour we need fathers Lord raise him up and strengthen him protect him and Nancy we pray in Jesus name amen thank you lord amen when god spoke to me in 83 that i'd serve as the leader in a revival that would touch the world i told a lot of my friends what was going to happen and i tell them for years so when revival broke in Pensacola and then i was called to serve there i had friends that i used to hang out with on long island other places and and they'd come to the services and they said mike you told this this is going to happen and i i'd have the habit i i tell the students in our ministry school i said look at me look at me i'm not dreaming look at me i'm not dreaming so everything we're talking about tonight and outpouring massive harvest of young people even your state being shaken young people especially look at me i'm not dreaming i'm not dreaming you're going to see it you're going to see it and i was on my way to the airport with a young man from ministry school and he asked me how often i travel and i said well i'm actually trying to cut back a little to get more time with the lord and he said oh you're like phasing out retiring i said no i haven't hit my stride yet i need more time with god so i could hit my stride so we're just getting started friends come on come on come on wasn't tonight just awesome i just feel like we've just received so much impartation wisdom let's take it let's digest it let's pray into it guys the way that the american church is going to awake is when we return to prayer when we pray seek god's face turn from our wicked ways he will hear from heaven he'll forgive our sins heal our land we are called to be a prototype praying church of the presence of god to provoke the church in america back to the place of first love prayer that's who we are radio church which means tomorrow morning at eight a.m guess what we're going to be doing we're going to be in the prayer room we will give no rest to our eyes until we have we have created a resting place for the presence of god and we want you to be there if you can be there 8 30 noon 6 30 p.m sometime this week come into the prayer room pray with us let's believe god for an outpouring of the holy spirit okay you're dismissed grab your books on the way out and we'll see you tomorrow