Welcome back. We're so happy
that you could spend the last
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few moments of
the Sabbath with us.
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And we're now coming
down to our 7 o'clock hour
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and the time when
Pastor Dwight Nelson will be
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bringing us another in
his series on the cross.
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And this one is entitled
Near the Cross: the Burial
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and Resurrection
of a Fallen Brother.
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I've got to admit,
Jim, and I think you do:
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Dwight is one of
my favorite speakers.
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Oh, he's right
there at the top. Yeah.
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My son Jim sent me a
notice. He said: "Dwight Nelson
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is in my top five. " And
I thought that was pretty...
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I was... I said...
'cause Jim knows preachers...
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I was going to ask:
are you in his top five?
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Well, he said I was, but...
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But he said: "Of course, Dad,
you're number one. " Very good.
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That's politically correct. But
he's a very diplomatic boy...
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he really is.
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He is on 3ABN on Sabbath
afternoons I think about 1:00.
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1 PM. And you know,
we pre-empted him when we
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came from Jerusalem
with our Live that time.
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And I was getting e-mails
particularly from one fellow
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that gave me the roughest
time - I remember - about that.
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And if you're
watching - and I hope you are -
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we will try never to
do that again. All right?
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'Cause we're going to be coming,
by the way, live from Jerusalem
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on November the 23rd.
Put it on your calendar.
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It'll be 4
o'clock to 6 PM over there
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which is in the morning
over here, so you'll be able
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to pick it up in the morning.
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And by the way,
there are brochures here.
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I hope some of you pick them up
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and go with us to Israel
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because we have a good
group planning on going.
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And that broadcast will be
coming from the Valley of Elah -
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that's right - where
David fought Goliath.
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That's right, and where our
satellite message goes round
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the world, folks. You
see, there's still a battle
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between good and evil
going on, and we thank the Lord
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that right in that very
valley over 125 satellite dishes
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are putting out the signal
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plus fiber optic
cables around the world.
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It's very impressive. It
is. I've been there, and some of
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those dishes are 30 meters
across... that's almost 100 ft.
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Right... enormous. Incredibly
large satellite dishes
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sending the
gospel around the world.
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Well, to get to our message
for the day, we are so happy
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that our pastor, our friend, has
been here with us these days.
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We had to book him last year to
get him this year - way back -
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his schedule is so full,
but he has been a blessing
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has he not? He certainly
has! And we love him dearly.
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Well I'm going to ask
you to have our prayer as we
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bow our heads together.
Gracious Father, we thank you
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so very much for
this sitting together.
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We thank you for the words
of life which have been preached
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with power by
Pastor Dwight Nelson.
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We ask for him from You
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heaven's very best.
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Use him as an instrument
of teaching and righteousness
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this night and give us open and
and receptive ears and hearts
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that we may be not
just hearers of the Word
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but doers thereof.
Because it is in the doing
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that we are made
like Christ Jesus.
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Be the honored guest;
be the speaker we do pray,
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dear Father, as we thank
you in Jesus' name, Amen.
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And what's our music tonight?
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Sandra Entermann is going
to be singing No One Knows Me
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Like You. Amen.
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In the beginning I never knew
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just how much I
really needed You.
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More than a friend...
someone I could talk to...
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You changed me in so many ways.
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Nobody knows me like You.
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You put Your arms around
me, You bring me through.
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And there's many times
I don't know what to do.
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Though some know me well
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still nobody knows me like You.
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All of my secrets to You I tell.
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You saw each time
that I slipped and fell.
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And You know my faults...
Yes, You know them well
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but You never turned
me away. No, no, no...
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Nobody knows me like You.
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You put your arms around
me, You bring me through.
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And there's many times
I don't know what to do.
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Though some know me well
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still nobody knows me like You.
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Walking in Your
presence is where I want to be.
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You said in Your Word...
You said that You would lead me.
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Yes, I love You...
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oh, I really love
You. I'll go anywhere
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as long as I
know You'll be there.
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All of those
nights that I was afraid
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I stood on the
promises You have made.
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The way that I act
sometimes I am afraid
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but You never turned
me away. No, no, no...
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Nobody knows me like You.
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You put Your arms around
me, You bring me through.
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And there's many times
I don't know what to do.
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Though some know me well
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still nobody knows me like You.
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Nobody knows me...
Nobody knows me like You.
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You put Your arms around
me, You bring me through.
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And there's many times
I don't know what to do.
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Though some know me well
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still nobody knows me like You.
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Though some know me well
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still nobody knows me like You.
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Though some know me well
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still nobody knows me
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like You.
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Amen!
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Thank you, Sandra.
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Nobody knows me
like You do, O God.
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What a God...
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because He knows us the
way He does and still loves us.
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That's the
amazing amazing truth.
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In spite of what He knows.
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Sometimes the Holy
Spirit calls an audible.
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You know what that is?
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Yeah. Men are nodding.
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When you change
the plan on the spot.
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Comes from football.
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I was doing some
reflecting and studying
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and had some time to
pray this afternoon...
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late afternoon.
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And the Holy Spirit called
an audible... said "I'm changing
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your plans. "
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So I'm going to go with
what He's laid on my heart.
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That last piece in
this little mini-series?
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You can get it:
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www. pmchurch. tv
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Be a few others there
in the archives as well.
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Oswald Chambers was the
one who wrote: "When God gives
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a vision you must transact
business along that line. "
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I'm in the middle of a
5- week-old story right now,
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and so I'm going to pray
with you and then just pick it
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right up where we
are at Andrews University
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in the Pioneer Memorial Church
as we speak. Let's pray first.
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Oh Father, how true that
is. There's nobody that knows us
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like You do and You love us.
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We're not worthy of
Calvary's outpouring.
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You have paid an
infinite price to win our minds,
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our hearts, our bodies, our all.
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But we cannot forget as
the theme of this Camp Meeting
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on the backdrop behind me
reminds us: there's not only
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an outpouring
that came at Calvary,
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there is to be one more
outpouring at the end of time.
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Connect those two outpourings
in these few moments together
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and pour out into
us we humbly pray.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
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We just finished a school
year at Andrews University.
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A great school
year... another busy one.
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And the reality of... I've
been on that campus now for
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for 30 years.
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I'm going to tell you
very very much upfront
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I love that university.
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I've given my life to it.
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I believe in it.
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If you trace it back you
can go Andrews University,
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Emmanuel Missionary
College, Battle Creek College.
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It's Battle Creek College in a
new location. That's what it is.
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And you know
Battle Creek College.
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So it's been an honor - a
humbling honor - to serve there
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these past three decades.
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But after 30 years a rest-
lessness is bound to stir up
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your mind and your spirit
and you're saying: "God, what...
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what else would
You like to do? "
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Four weeks
ago... Four weeks ago...
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It's a Monday. We've got a big
church board meeting that night.
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We've finished our staff meeting
and our youth pastor is in
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my office: Micheal Goetz
who preached for me today
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at Pioneer.
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I forget what led us into
conversation, but he stuck
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his head in the office
and we're talking. And somehow
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the conversation turns to
"What is God going to do next? "
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"What could God do
to raise the bar so high
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that nobody could say: "I
have my fingerprints on that. "
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It was Daniel Burnham,
the great Chicago architect,
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the World's Fair back
at the turn of the century,
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you remember? 1890's
the Chicago World's Fair.
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Daniel Burnham
who made the statement
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"Make no small plans for
they do not contain the magic
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to stir men's souls. "
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When it comes to God, you need
a God-sized vision, don't you?
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I mean, come on.
We're standing in a ministry
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that was raised up because of
a God-sized vision, aren't we?
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Isn't that what this
place is about? Amen!
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So Michael and I are talking
and he says: "You know, Dwight,
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wouldn't it be something
if there was some way we could
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turn this campus into
missionaries who are reaching
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the lost right here. And
yeah, boy, wouldn't that be.
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Oh good night, it's 20 minutes
till the board meeting. "
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He's gone and a split
second later there's a
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knock on my door. And in
our place the offices are shut
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like Fort Knox 'cause
it's 6:40 in the evening.
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And I'm thinking
"Who's at the door? "
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So I say: "Yo! "
And the door opens
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and in comes a college kid.
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I said: "What's up? " He
said: "Pastor, I need to talk
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to you. " I said: "Bad
timing... I don't have time.
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I've got a board meeting
in 20 minutes and I'm chairing
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the board. " I said:
"What are you thinking about? "
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He says: "I've just been
walking on this campus thinking
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we need God to do something
big at Andrews University. "
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And boom! I'm
thinking Michael; I'm thinking
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this kid named Jonathan.
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I said: "What
are you thinking? "
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"Well you know what? " he says,
"I think we ought to call for
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a day of special
prayer on this campus. "
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I said: "Jonathan, we
are four days till exam week.
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There's no way we
can get the word out.
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Here's what let's do. I
want you to find 12 friends,
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twelve of your classmates,
twelve of your peers,
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and you band
together - the 13 of you -
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and you pray all this summer
long that God will do a new
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thing at Andrews University.
You just pray for God to do
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what He's already laid the
burden on your heart to do. "
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We knelt down and we had prayer.
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I'd just had prayer with
Michael. Now Jonathan and I
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are having prayer. He
walked out the door...
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it's 10 minutes to board meet-
ing. Go to the board meeting.
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For our worship that night
we just shot right into this
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conversation. Had a
very open board meeting.
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Very candid conversation
about life at Pioneer
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and Andrews University.
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Had a season of earnest prayer.
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The next week... Exam
week is the week that came next
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and then there's graduation.
The next week it's a Monday
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and I'm meeting with
one of our campus chaplains
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José Bourget, who's on our staff
at Pioneer... a great guy...
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All our pastors are... I'm so
lucky. Five of our pastors, our
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senior leaders, are
32 and 33 years of age.
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And it's such an honor
to work with a bunch of
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sharp young pastors.
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José and I... because at
Andrews University the moment
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the graduation is over
you are immediately planning
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the new school year.
You have no time to breathe.
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It's just... We've got
June, July, and it's here.
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So José and I are talking
and we bring in the TV producer.
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Our media director,
Nick Wolfer... he comes down.
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I'm thinking: "What
can we do that's new? "
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And it's just... You know,
you can change the wallpaper
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and the backdrop so many
times and it's no longer new.
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And we're all sensing that.
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We're back in my office and José
is saying: "You know, Dwight,
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I just had the interview
for some student chaplains.
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I'm telling you, " he
said, "there is a vacuum
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of moral
leadership among the young. "
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He said: "I'm
really concerned. "
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I said: "José, what would
it look like if God just...
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if God just poured
out showers of blessing? "
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He says: "You
know how I picture it?
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I picture if the Spirit
got poured out on this place
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that students would be
pulling off the sidewalk,
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pulling into dormitory rooms,
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pulling out of a
classroom huddled in prayer.
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Praying all the
time with each other. "
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Wouldn't that be something?
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We finished our 3-hour
meeting and I hurried home
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because I have to... the Academy
asked me to come over and speak
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at the Academy the next
morning. Ten-minute talk.
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Spent an hour and a
half on that devotional.
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Working an hour and a
half on it. I'm through.
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I'm kneeling down... I'm
in my little study. I say:
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"OK God, bless the devotional,
" and I heard a voice.
00:16:10.05\00:16:12.33
Now I didn't hear just a
voice but I HEARD a voice
00:16:12.53\00:16:16.00
as it were. And the voice said:
00:16:16.20\00:16:18.77
"Nice devotional,
Dwight... the wrong one. "
00:16:18.97\00:16:21.85
I got up and just out
loud I said: "You've got to be
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kidding me. I just spent
this evening getting ready. "
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I went and sat back down.
Pulled out the same yellow pad
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and then the same voice
said "Why don't you talk about
00:16:32.39\00:16:35.33
what I'm talking to
you about right now? "
00:16:35.53\00:16:37.56
"Why don't you
tell about Jonathan? "
00:16:37.76\00:16:39.95
"Why don't you tell
about raising the bar so high
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that only God could have
His fingerprints on it? "
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So I scribbled something out.
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Then I... "Whoo, this is
not going to be pretty at all. "
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Get up early the next
morning, go up in my room
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and have worship and I say:
"God, You're going to have to
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bless this...
this is not much. "
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I get up and I tell the students
"You know, I had a little
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something different.
" I told the experience.
00:17:05.69\00:17:07.41
"This is what's on my
heart... " and for ten minutes
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I talked to them. I
told them the story.
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I said: "You know what?
You guys at Andrews Academy...
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you're the feeder
to Andrews University.
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You're the next generation
coming. What would happen
00:17:20.44\00:17:23.29
if God would raise up a
generation of moral leaders
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right here - right
now - among you seniors?
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And you infiltrate that
campus and you come as radical
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disciples of Jesus. " And
I'm kind of stumbling around.
00:17:31.70\00:17:34.53
Really, it's not very pretty
at all and I'm feeling it.
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But I knew I need to make an
appeal. And so I said: "Listen,
00:17:39.28\00:17:41.26
would you be willing -
you seniors in particular,
00:17:41.46\00:17:43.83
others as well - would you
be willing to offer your life
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to God as a moral leader when
you come to the University? "
00:17:46.20\00:17:50.46
Kids started
jumping up, jumping up.
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Well, they probably just...
everybody stands around here
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anyway. I tell you, I'm feeling
so bad about that devotional
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because I'm used to preparing
for a talk, you know, and
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I don't just walk
up and start talking.
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Then after it's over I chat with
a few kids sitting right here.
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We just chit chat, chit chat.
I said: "I'm out of here...
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I'm just leaving. "
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I'm driving away, just
slipping out... not talking
00:18:17.78\00:18:20.64
to anybody. I'm driving
away... I'm halfway home
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right by Apple Valley Market...
00:18:23.19\00:18:24.94
if you've been to
Berrien Springs...
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and that same voice said to me:
00:18:27.21\00:18:28.38
"What in the
world are you doing? "
00:18:28.48\00:18:31.34
"You're supposed to be
back there. Now is the time
00:18:33.13\00:18:35.82
to be there. " I turn right
around in Apple Valley parking
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lot. I drove
back. I said: "OK. "
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I walked back in and I
said: "OK. " There was a senior
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sitting on the front row.
I went and found that senior,
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pulled him out of study hall.
I said: "I've got to talk to you
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right now. " We went into the
chapel... just the two of us.
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He said: "You know something,
Pastor? When you called for
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moral leaders my
heart just stirred up. "
00:18:54.05\00:18:57.15
Boy, I needed to hear that!
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"My heart just stirred up. "
00:18:59.54\00:19:01.29
He said: "I want to be
that moral leader when I go to
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Andrews University next
year. " I said: "Good on you...
00:19:03.56\00:19:06.36
let's pray
together. " We prayed.
00:19:06.46\00:19:07.83
Then I said: "You know,
as long as I'm here... "
00:19:08.13\00:19:10.09
The principal's door was
open; I stuck my head in.
00:19:10.29\00:19:12.31
Bob Overstreet. I said:
"Hey Bob, you got a minute? "
00:19:12.51\00:19:14.90
He said: "Sit down. "
He said: I've been thinking
00:19:15.10\00:19:17.01
about what you've been saying.
" And he opened up his heart.
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We began to talk.
00:19:22.44\00:19:24.81
This idea of moral leadership...
He said: 'Dwight, what would
00:19:24.84\00:19:27.25
happen if that was
Andrews Academy's gift
00:19:27.35\00:19:31.56
to the University:
young moral leaders? "
00:19:31.76\00:19:34.02
He said: "I want to
pledge everything I can do
00:19:34.22\00:19:38.66
to raise up that
generation of moral leaders. "
00:19:38.86\00:19:40.45
We clasped hands
together and prayed earnestly.
00:19:40.55\00:19:44.55
I'm walking out and the
Bible teacher's walking in.
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He said: "Hey Dwight,
that's something, huh?
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Kids stood. " He said: "I
saw the kids. The usual...
00:19:48.11\00:19:50.42
the usual ones stood...
" Which is what I figured.
00:19:50.52\00:19:53.04
But then he said: "I was
watching a young girl there
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and I said: 'She will
never stand for this appeal. '
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And Dwight, she
jumped to her feet. "
00:19:58.79\00:20:00.55
So I'm thinking: "Wait a minute.
00:20:01.59\00:20:03.44
Maybe God is up to something. "
00:20:04.77\00:20:07.66
It's Tuesday. I
raced back to work on a new
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mini-series that
begins that Sabbath.
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I get back to that desk...
same yellow pad is sitting there
00:20:14.02\00:20:16.14
and God is saying: "You know
what Dwight, you're going to
00:20:16.34\00:20:17.68
drop that mini-series you had
in mind and I want you to talk
00:20:17.79\00:20:21.69
about a new thing.
00:20:21.79\00:20:23.34
And just like that with a pencil
I began to scribble it down.
00:20:23.74\00:20:27.19
I said: "I've got to check to
see if this verse is even in the
00:20:27.69\00:20:30.31
Bible. " I thought it was...
you know, a new thing. Well,
00:20:30.41\00:20:35.37
it's probably
everywhere in the Bible.
00:20:35.47\00:20:36.81
I went... I went... I
pulled out my computer program.
00:20:36.91\00:20:38.98
There's only one place... one
place in the entire scripture
00:20:39.19\00:20:42.12
that God makes this promise.
00:20:42.32\00:20:43.75
That promise was
embedded on that yellow pad.
00:20:43.95\00:20:46.00
I called the girl up
- our graphics designer
00:20:46.20\00:20:48.17
who is on our team. I
said: "Rachelle, I've got...
00:20:48.38\00:20:50.01
I've got bad news. "
'Cause she had just sent me
00:20:50.21\00:20:52.28
the new poster for the new
series. I said: "I have bad
00:20:52.38\00:20:54.57
news. It's not
going to be that. "
00:20:54.67\00:20:56.08
She said: "Dwight, I have
24 hours to turn it around. "
00:20:56.38\00:20:58.75
I said: "God be with you. "
00:20:58.95\00:21:00.75
And she was so sweet.
00:21:01.15\00:21:04.04
These are all young
adults. She was so sweet.
00:21:04.24\00:21:06.42
She said: "All right,
give me that 24 hours. "
00:21:06.62\00:21:08.88
Because it's the bulletin cover.
It's the graphics for the TV.
00:21:10.00\00:21:12.87
It's the posters on campus.
Everything comes out of that
00:21:13.07\00:21:15.49
art work. That Sabbath
when I stood up in the pulpit
00:21:15.59\00:21:19.03
we opened our Bibles together
and I'm going to ask you
00:21:19.43\00:21:21.92
to do the same
thing. I want you to go to
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Isaiah chapter 43 verse 19.
00:21:23.76\00:21:25.69
I thought this verse was
embedded all through scripture.
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There's only one
place... this is it!
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This is it!
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But for four weeks now
the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:21:31.48\00:21:34.74
on the campus of Andrews
University... we have been
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claiming a single
promise for the new year.
00:21:36.98\00:21:39.81
We're calling it A
Pre-Season of Prayer.
00:21:40.01\00:21:42.56
You know, here's how...
For 30 years past here's how
00:21:42.76\00:21:44.58
we did it: OK,
the new year is...
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Oh, the new year is next week!
00:21:45.79\00:21:47.21
Folks, let's have a
special prayer for the new year.
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Come on. Let's have a special
prayer. The new year is about
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to begin. That's what
we've done for 30 years.
00:21:52.27\00:21:55.61
And it suddenly has occurred
to me: "You know what, Dwight?
00:21:55.91\00:21:58.25
You're about
three months too late. "
00:21:58.45\00:22:00.90
You know in all the
major sports of America -
00:22:02.15\00:22:04.52
we're talking about major
league baseball and football
00:22:04.62\00:22:06.55
and hockey and basketball -
00:22:06.75\00:22:08.21
they all have what
they call a pre-season.
00:22:08.41\00:22:11.28
Isn't that right,
fellows? A pre-season.
00:22:11.38\00:22:13.81
I'm not really big into sports
but I do know about pre-seasons.
00:22:14.01\00:22:18.44
You know what a pre-season is?
00:22:18.54\00:22:19.90
You play the games
but nothing counts.
00:22:20.00\00:22:22.17
Isn't that right?
You play the games.
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.07
It's a warm-up. It's getting
ready for the real thing.
00:22:24.17\00:22:26.87
In three months, two
months, one month, one week.
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What would happen if we
had a pre-season of prayer?
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And by the way, when I'm
talking about this University
00:22:32.52\00:22:36.01
that I love and this
congregation that I pastor
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.37
I'm thinking about your
congregation back at home.
00:22:38.57\00:22:40.74
I'm thinking about
where you go to church.
00:22:40.94\00:22:42.76
I'm thinking this promise ought
not to be only good for us.
00:22:43.06\00:22:46.78
It ought to be perfect for you!
00:22:46.88\00:22:48.77
You can take it
back to your preacher.
00:22:49.87\00:22:51.45
You can say:
"Pastor, I've been thinking.
00:22:52.56\00:22:54.79
God promises in Isaiah 43:19
00:22:55.09\00:22:57.60
a stunning promise, and
I'm wondering if we ought
00:22:57.80\00:22:59.92
to start claiming
that promise here. "
00:23:00.02\00:23:01.64
You take it to your preacher.
00:23:01.94\00:23:03.62
You can tell him where
you got it from: Isaiah 43:19.
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Isaiah 43:19... here it
is in the New King James.
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God speaking:
"Behold, I will do a... " What?
00:23:12.01\00:23:16.92
"I will do a new thing. "
00:23:17.13\00:23:18.63
"I will do a new thing. "
00:23:19.03\00:23:21.80
"I am promising you,
Israel, in your meltdown,
00:23:22.00\00:23:27.09
in the mess you're in,
I am standing before you
00:23:27.29\00:23:30.55
as Almighty God and I
am promising you I will do
00:23:30.75\00:23:33.79
a new thing. You can trust Me. "
00:23:33.89\00:23:37.76
We live in a world
today where the communication
00:23:40.27\00:23:43.37
cycle is 3 seconds long.
Boom! And the headline is there.
00:23:43.57\00:23:46.10
Boom! And another
headline. Boom! And another.
00:23:46.30\00:23:48.09
We live in a world
where new has become jaded.
00:23:48.29\00:23:50.60
New and improved; new and
improved; new and improved.
00:23:50.80\00:23:53.18
And it's never
improved but it's new.
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Have you noticed?
00:23:55.41\00:23:56.93
We are jaded as a people.
00:23:58.16\00:24:00.19
Jaded by this concept of "new. "
00:24:00.39\00:24:02.66
And yet God has the audacity
to stand before us tonight
00:24:02.86\00:24:05.34
with this them
plastered on the wall behind me:
00:24:05.37\00:24:08.14
Showers of Blessings.
00:24:08.24\00:24:09.67
Because that's what He's
talking about right here.
00:24:10.53\00:24:12.14
Watch this... Isaiah 43:19:
00:24:12.24\00:24:14.30
"Behold I will do a new thing.
Now it shall spring forth. "
00:24:14.41\00:24:16.96
It will come,
Dwight. Will you know it?
00:24:17.16\00:24:19.57
"Shall you not know it? I
will even make a road in the
00:24:19.77\00:24:21.89
wilderness and
rivers in the desert.
00:24:21.99\00:24:24.25
The beast of the field
will honor Me... " Verse 20:
00:24:24.45\00:24:26.03
"and the jackals and the
ostriches because I gave waters
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.78
in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert
00:24:28.88\00:24:31.00
to give drink. " Now,
to give drink to whom?
00:24:31.20\00:24:34.33
What does it say? "I
will give drink to My people,
00:24:34.63\00:24:37.74
My chosen. " Four
times in two verses
00:24:37.94\00:24:41.16
God's talking about water.
00:24:41.37\00:24:42.56
Four times.
Rivers in the wilderness,
00:24:42.76\00:24:44.72
waters in the desert,
00:24:44.92\00:24:47.42
drink for My people.
00:24:48.91\00:24:51.05
"I will do a new thing. "
00:24:52.86\00:24:53.91
Whatever this new
thing is ladies and gentlemen
00:24:54.11\00:24:55.88
it has to do with water. It
has something to do with water
00:24:56.08\00:24:59.09
because the moment He
promises a new thing He says
00:24:59.29\00:25:01.35
"I'm going to let water come out
of that dry and barren land. "
00:25:01.55\00:25:04.77
"I will do a new thing. "
00:25:05.07\00:25:06.80
There were no chapters
when Isaiah wrote his book.
00:25:08.33\00:25:13.35
They put them in centuries
later... millennia later.
00:25:13.65\00:25:17.24
So there was no
break... it just kept going.
00:25:17.54\00:25:19.75
And four breaths later
00:25:20.05\00:25:22.58
you come to Isaiah 44:3.
00:25:22.78\00:25:24.93
It's all a part of this passage.
00:25:25.14\00:25:26.33
Isaiah 44:3. Water, water,
water. "What do you mean, God,
00:25:26.53\00:25:29.80
when You're talking about
water? " Read Isaiah 44:3.
00:25:29.90\00:25:31.99
"For I will pour
water... " There it is again.
00:25:32.29\00:25:35.71
"I will pour water
on her who is... " What?
00:25:35.92\00:25:39.24
"I will pour water
on him who is... " What?
00:25:39.44\00:25:42.14
On those who are
what? Are thirsty.
00:25:42.34\00:25:45.29
"and floods on the dry ground. "
00:25:46.15\00:25:50.11
Now keep going. "I
will pour My Spirit
00:25:50.41\00:25:53.59
on your descendants
00:25:53.80\00:25:57.75
and My blessing
on your offspring. "
00:25:57.96\00:26:01.23
When God says: "I'm going
to pour water in the desert
00:26:02.71\00:26:05.27
and rivers in the wilderness"
00:26:05.47\00:26:07.23
what's He talking about?
00:26:07.44\00:26:08.83
What's He talking about?
00:26:09.13\00:26:10.71
He's talking about the
Holy Spirit, is He not?
00:26:11.01\00:26:13.95
Dry and barren.
There is no more fitting
00:26:14.19\00:26:18.20
and appropriate description
of human civilization
00:26:18.40\00:26:21.20
than those words
"dry and barren" tonight.
00:26:21.40\00:26:24.19
We are as dry
as the dead desert.
00:26:24.39\00:26:28.55
"I will pour water
on those who are thirsty
00:26:28.85\00:26:32.45
and floods on the dry
ground. I will pour My Spirit
00:26:32.95\00:26:37.63
on your descendants and
My blessing on your... "
00:26:37.83\00:26:41.61
OK, how many here have
children. Put your hand up
00:26:42.25\00:26:44.41
if you have children. Come
on... don't be embarrassed.
00:26:44.51\00:26:46.34
They'll know the hands that go
up... well maybe who they are.
00:26:46.54\00:26:48.59
Don't worry about it,
just put your hand up.
00:26:48.63\00:26:50.18
OK, keep your hand up.
Come on, come on, come on.
00:26:50.39\00:26:51.52
How many here have children?
00:26:51.72\00:26:52.92
How many here
have grandchildren?
00:26:53.12\00:26:54.39
How many here
have grandchildren?
00:26:54.69\00:26:56.30
Do you have seed?
Do you have offspring?
00:26:56.50\00:26:59.46
Do you have descendants?
Are they secure in the Lord?
00:26:59.66\00:27:03.81
Whenever I go and meet
with a team of pastors -
00:27:08.23\00:27:11.32
and I love hanging
around with pastors...
00:27:11.52\00:27:14.06
it's been my life -
00:27:14.26\00:27:16.27
the moment we diverge... we
diverge from the intended topic
00:27:17.66\00:27:23.47
and we talk about
children... I'm telling you,
00:27:23.67\00:27:26.91
it's like a
symphony of handkerchiefs.
00:27:27.12\00:27:29.36
They just start coming out.
People start pulling them out.
00:27:29.76\00:27:32.65
They start... they dab their
eyes. They start to sniffle.
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.44
Why? Because our children
are not only our greatest joy...
00:27:35.64\00:27:41.43
they are our deepest heartache.
00:27:41.73\00:27:44.90
FOR ALL OF US!
00:27:45.92\00:27:47.29
Pastors are no different than
you and you are no different
00:27:47.69\00:27:51.18
than us.
00:27:52.35\00:27:53.95
Our children... thank God
for every one of them that's
00:27:54.15\00:27:57.49
saved tonight.
00:27:57.59\00:27:58.62
Thank God for every one of
them that loves Jesus tonight.
00:27:58.82\00:28:01.55
But please, God, for
all those who don't love You
00:28:01.66\00:28:05.61
and who are not saved tonight
00:28:05.81\00:28:07.74
that is an amazing promise.
00:28:08.66\00:28:10.63
God says: "I will pour out
My Spirit on your descendants
00:28:11.03\00:28:14.65
and My blessing
on your offspring. "
00:28:14.85\00:28:17.50
I tell you what: even if
you didn't belong to a church,
00:28:18.61\00:28:20.49
even if you're just a Lone
Ranger back where you came from
00:28:20.59\00:28:23.16
and you have no congregation
to belong to. And I'm very sorry
00:28:23.36\00:28:26.23
for you if you don't
have a church to belong to.
00:28:26.43\00:28:28.28
It is God's... it
is God's body on earth.
00:28:28.48\00:28:32.36
I know who the head
is. Christ is the head
00:28:32.56\00:28:34.10
but the church is the body.
00:28:34.30\00:28:35.46
Even if you had no
church to belong to,
00:28:36.87\00:28:40.30
nobody for whom to claim
Isaiah 43:19 and Isaiah 44:3,
00:28:40.50\00:28:45.31
no church. But
if you have children
00:28:45.61\00:28:48.56
you have a reason tonight madam,
you have a reason tonight sir,
00:28:48.76\00:28:51.97
to go to your knees, put
your finger on this text,
00:28:52.17\00:28:55.95
and say: "God, I'm begging You:
00:28:56.15\00:28:58.86
Do... please... do a new thing.
00:28:59.16\00:29:04.17
Please, I beg of You. "
00:29:04.58\00:29:06.77
After I shared that
first teaching at Pioneer
00:29:07.17\00:29:11.39
a buddy of mine - Gary Burns
- who is Communication Director
00:29:11.53\00:29:14.52
for the Lake Union Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists
00:29:14.62\00:29:17.00
was sitting in the audience.
00:29:17.10\00:29:19.32
So he gets his
little... He's Mr. Texter...
00:29:19.42\00:29:21.34
So he gets his little...
00:29:21.55\00:29:23.21
I'm amazed that you
people know how to text.
00:29:23.41\00:29:25.26
Isn't that something?
00:29:25.56\00:29:26.94
And you're probably amazed
that I know how to do it too!
00:29:27.24\00:29:28.87
Well I really
don't, so anyway...
00:29:29.07\00:29:31.31
But anyway, Gary
sends me a little text.
00:29:31.51\00:29:32.96
He says:
"Dwight, Dwight, Dwight:
00:29:33.16\00:29:34.29
three ingredients. " OK,
this is a very short text.
00:29:34.59\00:29:37.71
It reads like
this: "Three ingredients
00:29:37.91\00:29:39.45
for transformational revival"
00:29:39.75\00:29:42.17
because that's what
that's talking about.
00:29:42.38\00:29:43.83
When God's talking about pouring
out floods on the dry ground
00:29:44.13\00:29:47.30
that's revival. Do you
know what a revival is?
00:29:47.50\00:29:49.19
A revival is a resurrection.
00:29:49.22\00:29:50.71
That which is dead
is brought back to life.
00:29:50.91\00:29:53.04
So when our world church
president is going around the
00:29:53.92\00:29:56.10
world and saying: "We
need to pray for revival"
00:29:56.20\00:29:58.73
what he's saying is: "We
are in a heap of trouble. "
00:29:58.93\00:30:01.92
Our church is in a heap
of trouble and he's right!
00:30:03.56\00:30:06.12
Because the church has you
in it and me in it, that's why.
00:30:07.24\00:30:10.23
Amen. We're always thinking
about the heap of trouble
00:30:10.43\00:30:12.57
is our neighbor across the pew.
00:30:12.67\00:30:13.93
But actually, yeah. We are in
a heap of trouble. Look at that.
00:30:14.23\00:30:17.81
You know my friend Ron Clouzet?
00:30:18.11\00:30:21.37
You know Ron Clouzet? He's
written a book... great book.
00:30:21.57\00:30:24.67
Our staff just
finished reading it for worships
00:30:24.77\00:30:26.57
all this last year. You
can get the book after sundown
00:30:26.67\00:30:29.66
in the ABC tonight.
00:30:29.76\00:30:32.70
Title of the book:
Adventism's Greatest Need:
00:30:32.93\00:30:34.97
the Outpouring
of the Holy Spirit.
00:30:35.17\00:30:36.48
Adventism's
Greatest Need. In that book
00:30:36.68\00:30:39.66
Ron offers this diagnosis
of the community of faith
00:30:40.83\00:30:44.50
I love.
00:30:44.70\00:30:46.15
"Admittedly, in the vast
areas of the Western world
00:30:48.62\00:30:51.80
we are a church in decline. "
00:30:52.01\00:30:53.89
True or false? True. It's true.
00:30:54.20\00:30:56.57
"Our preoccupation for the
things of the world and our
00:30:57.67\00:31:00.04
searing blindness to our
true condition have made us
00:31:00.14\00:31:02.53
who have talent, resources,
and much history in Jesus
00:31:02.74\00:31:05.87
a puny spiritual people.
00:31:06.08\00:31:08.11
We really are terminally
ill but little do we know it.
00:31:10.18\00:31:13.73
We have been medicating
for so long that we don't know
00:31:14.03\00:31:16.74
what health is like any more.
00:31:16.85\00:31:18.37
What we desperately need is
a double dose of spiritual aid,
00:31:18.57\00:31:21.69
a revelation of the
character of Christ,
00:31:21.89\00:31:24.25
and a thorough
baptism of the Holy Spirit. "
00:31:24.45\00:31:27.38
We have been self-medicating.
00:31:30.03\00:31:32.09
Americans are good
at self-medication.
00:31:32.59\00:31:35.05
Why do you think they
advertise so much medicine
00:31:35.94\00:31:39.79
in the evening
during the news hour?
00:31:39.99\00:31:41.89
They're
targeting this generation.
00:31:42.09\00:31:43.86
Buy... ask for it by name
the next time you see your doc.
00:31:44.36\00:31:49.19
We are self-medicators.
00:31:49.42\00:31:51.32
We have self-medicated
ourselves in the church.
00:31:52.07\00:31:54.16
We have self-medicated
ourselves by affluence.
00:31:54.46\00:31:57.08
We have so much now
it's almost embarrassing.
00:31:57.39\00:32:00.68
It'd be embarrassing
to bump into Peter, Paul,
00:32:00.89\00:32:03.49
John, James, and the lot.
00:32:03.59\00:32:05.92
If they saw our parking lot...
00:32:06.32\00:32:08.71
If they saw our parking lot...
00:32:10.09\00:32:13.00
They'd say: "You
guys are still here?
00:32:14.24\00:32:15.82
You have instant communication;
you have text messaging;
00:32:17.43\00:32:20.12
you have e-mail;
you have live video.
00:32:20.32\00:32:24.23
You can talk to the
whole world simultaneously
00:32:24.43\00:32:26.82
and you're still here? "
00:32:27.02\00:32:29.01
We've been
self-medicating ourselves.
00:32:29.41\00:32:31.91
We are a puny
people spiritually.
00:32:32.11\00:32:34.39
We need for God to do
a new thing in our midst.
00:32:35.48\00:32:39.53
Amen! If He does
not do a new thing,
00:32:39.83\00:32:41.92
it's over... it is over.
00:32:42.12\00:32:45.36
And God will wait
as long as it takes
00:32:46.36\00:32:49.18
to finally
raise up a generation.
00:32:49.49\00:32:52.10
He's not in a rush.
00:32:52.50\00:32:54.29
He will not hurry
through His end game.
00:32:54.69\00:32:57.61
He will put it off
as long as necessary
00:32:57.91\00:33:01.61
because He never fails. Amen!
00:33:01.91\00:33:05.82
He'll take as
much time as He needs.
00:33:06.02\00:33:08.91
He will win... He will win.
00:33:09.21\00:33:12.64
The question is:
Will we win with Him
00:33:13.04\00:33:15.59
or will He win without us?
00:33:15.89\00:33:18.40
"I will do a new thing. "
00:33:18.90\00:33:24.25
Amen! Boy, that's what we need.
00:33:24.55\00:33:26.29
We need it in the
Pioneer Memorial Church
00:33:26.59\00:33:28.57
where I serve.
00:33:28.97\00:33:31.03
We need it in the
church where you worship.
00:33:31.43\00:33:33.87
We need "a new thing. "
00:33:34.44\00:33:36.08
So, Gary sends me
this text message.
00:33:38.01\00:33:40.14
Three keys to
transformational revival.
00:33:41.37\00:33:44.28
Now he picks the three
words and he puts them there
00:33:44.69\00:33:47.04
in his little text message.
I don't know if he picked them
00:33:47.14\00:33:49.06
in some certain order
but I can tell you that
00:33:49.16\00:33:51.64
by their first
letters they spell a word,
00:33:51.74\00:33:53.65
and I'm going to give the word
to you because you will never
00:33:53.75\00:33:55.69
forget these three words I
predict once you log them in.
00:33:55.79\00:33:59.29
The letters were
D... and the word...
00:34:00.17\00:34:02.67
U... and the word...
00:34:02.87\00:34:04.18
E... and the word.
00:34:04.38\00:34:06.02
DUE.
00:34:06.52\00:34:08.61
That was right after that
opening installment of this
00:34:09.57\00:34:11.66
little three-part mini-series
that's now on our website.
00:34:11.76\00:34:14.40
DUE.
00:34:15.37\00:34:17.51
For the last three weeks I
have been brooding over it:
00:34:17.61\00:34:20.25
DUE and the three words.
00:34:20.46\00:34:23.20
Could it be that these
three words are long overDUE?
00:34:23.50\00:34:28.71
They're past DUE... DUE.
00:34:28.91\00:34:32.80
You say: "Dwight,
come on, come on, come on.
00:34:33.10\00:34:34.47
Quit playing
games. What's the DUE? "
00:34:34.57\00:34:36.13
I was hoping you'd ask.
00:34:36.33\00:34:37.52
D = desperation.
00:34:37.72\00:34:40.33
Ingredients for
revival: D... desperation.
00:34:41.33\00:34:44.48
I am desperate... we are
lost unless You intervene.
00:34:45.52\00:34:51.35
Transformational revival.
Ingredient #1: desperation.
00:34:52.32\00:34:55.50
U = urgency.
00:34:55.70\00:34:57.81
Desperation, urgency.
00:34:58.54\00:35:00.99
Urgent God, You can't
wait. If You wait, I'm gone!
00:35:01.88\00:35:05.64
We'll lose this generation.
00:35:06.80\00:35:08.72
D = desperation.
U... What was U again?
00:35:09.78\00:35:13.07
Urgency. E... What was E again?
00:35:13.27\00:35:15.61
Expectancy.
00:35:16.01\00:35:18.50
Expectancy. Just
write those three down.
00:35:18.80\00:35:21.12
DUE.
00:35:21.32\00:35:23.80
Desperation,
urgency, expectancy.
00:35:24.10\00:35:28.61
You know what kind
of praying that is?
00:35:30.60\00:35:32.11
Right here in
Isaiah. I found it.
00:35:33.30\00:35:35.33
Gary sends me this text message
and look at this. Watch this.
00:35:35.53\00:35:39.26
Oh, did you know these
verses were in your Bible?
00:35:39.46\00:35:41.55
Just turn a few pages
over... Isaiah chapter 62.
00:35:41.65\00:35:45.34
Isaiah 62...
take a look at this.
00:35:46.03\00:35:47.63
Isn't this something?
00:35:47.83\00:35:48.88
Talking about desperation,
urgency, and expectancy...
00:35:49.28\00:35:53.10
God is calling
for it right here.
00:35:53.40\00:35:55.19
He says: "I will
do a new thing. "
00:35:55.99\00:35:57.96
"I will pour water upon
him, upon her, upon them who are
00:35:58.16\00:36:01.75
thirsty. I will pour
floods on the dry ground.
00:36:01.85\00:36:05.62
I will pour My
Spirit on your descendants
00:36:05.82\00:36:07.39
and My blessing
on your offspring. "
00:36:07.59\00:36:10.23
"I'll do a new thing
but you have to ask Me...
00:36:10.43\00:36:13.98
you have to ask Me. "
00:36:15.64\00:36:18.63
You say: "that is
really mean of God.
00:36:22.09\00:36:24.07
I mean, come on
God... just do it.
00:36:24.27\00:36:26.02
Don't sit around and wait for us
to have a pre-season of prayer.
00:36:26.32\00:36:28.56
Just do what You've got to do. "
00:36:28.76\00:36:30.03
"No, " He said, "I'm not
going to do what I've got to do
00:36:30.23\00:36:31.91
because if I do what I
should do and you're not praying
00:36:32.11\00:36:34.84
it will spoil on the
vine just like that. "
00:36:36.03\00:36:38.44
"You ask me. I'm going
to honor your free choice.
00:36:40.86\00:36:44.40
Do you want your congregation...
00:36:44.80\00:36:46.76
Do you want that
congregation to experience
00:36:47.06\00:36:50.11
something it never has before?
00:36:50.31\00:36:52.31
Do you want a new
thing? Ask Me... ask Me. "
00:36:52.52\00:36:56.63
And that's what He's saying
right here. This is Isaiah 62:6.
00:36:57.53\00:37:00.59
"I have set
watchmen on your walls
00:37:00.79\00:37:02.76
O Jerusalem. " By
the way, Jerusalem,
00:37:02.96\00:37:04.81
or Zion is what God calls the
church in the Old Testament...
00:37:04.91\00:37:07.22
What God calls the
church in the New Testament is
00:37:07.52\00:37:09.51
ecclesia which is our...
we call it church. It means
00:37:09.61\00:37:12.41
the called out
ones... the chosen ones.
00:37:12.51\00:37:14.23
So what God is saying about
Jerusalem, He's talking about
00:37:15.03\00:37:17.67
the church. What does He
say here? Look at that again.
00:37:17.77\00:37:19.72
"I have set watchmen on
your walls, O Jerusalem. "
00:37:19.82\00:37:23.06
Do you know who
these watchmen are?
00:37:23.26\00:37:24.73
I'm going to tell you
who they are in advance.
00:37:25.03\00:37:26.51
You know who these
watchmen are? We have them.
00:37:26.74\00:37:28.58
We have them at the Pioneer
Memorial Church and I thank God
00:37:28.79\00:37:31.37
for every one of them. You
have them in your congregation.
00:37:31.58\00:37:34.37
You may be one of them.
00:37:34.47\00:37:35.71
They are often times
anonymous; they are unrecognized
00:37:35.91\00:37:39.40
and usually unrewarded publicly.
00:37:39.80\00:37:43.56
But the watchmen - these
sentinels on the walls of your
00:37:43.89\00:37:47.52
church back at home - are the
men and women and young adults
00:37:47.62\00:37:50.76
and some teenagers now
00:37:50.96\00:37:53.07
who have felt the call of
God to privately intercede
00:37:53.27\00:37:57.16
for your congregation.
00:37:57.36\00:37:59.29
They are praying.
There's no big show.
00:37:59.79\00:38:03.21
There's no big fanfare.
They don't get up on Sabbath
00:38:03.41\00:38:05.29
and say: "By the way I
just wanted you to know
00:38:05.39\00:38:06.84
I've been praying all
this week. " Not a word!
00:38:06.94\00:38:08.71
They're the watchmen.
00:38:09.62\00:38:11.40
They are the first
degree of intercessors.
00:38:12.45\00:38:15.07
They are the
spiritual advance guard
00:38:16.30\00:38:21.08
and God has
them in every church.
00:38:21.98\00:38:24.11
You may be one.
00:38:24.41\00:38:25.98
God says: "I have set watchmen
on your walls, O Jerusalem. "
00:38:29.02\00:38:34.33
These are the people who...
keep reading: "They shall never
00:38:34.63\00:38:37.83
hold their peace... "
What's that next line?
00:38:38.03\00:38:40.50
"day or night. "
"They shall never hold their
00:38:40.70\00:38:42.68
peace day or night. "
00:38:42.78\00:38:46.57
They don't hold their
peace. These are the private
00:38:47.58\00:38:50.41
intercessors of the first degree
00:38:50.51\00:38:52.88
who spend hours in prayer.
00:38:53.28\00:38:56.18
I've been privileged to
know a handful of human beings
00:38:56.48\00:38:59.46
like that. I know them by name.
00:38:59.57\00:39:02.22
I know them by practice.
00:39:02.52\00:39:04.15
I know that whenever I go
somewhere, whenever I'm in deep
00:39:04.35\00:39:07.42
need, they will be the first
people I privately call and say:
00:39:07.52\00:39:10.39
"Would you
please pray for this. "
00:39:10.50\00:39:13.07
They want no reward,
00:39:13.47\00:39:15.48
they seek no recognition,
00:39:15.68\00:39:17.00
but they are God's
gift to the church.
00:39:17.30\00:39:21.94
"I have watchmen on
these walls who give... "
00:39:22.34\00:39:26.39
How does He put it here?
"They never hold their peace
00:39:26.59\00:39:29.75
day or night. " The
problem of even mentioning them
00:39:29.95\00:39:32.24
is that you and I
automatically might defer
00:39:32.44\00:39:34.84
our prayer
responsibility to them.
00:39:35.05\00:39:36.62
"Well good. I'm glad
God's got watchmen on the walls.
00:39:36.72\00:39:38.78
You guys keep at it, will you?
00:39:38.88\00:39:40.66
I have other things
I need to be doing. "
00:39:40.86\00:39:42.44
We cannot defer... we cannot
default our prayer duty to them.
00:39:42.74\00:39:46.47
No, no, no, no.
That's why God goes on.
00:39:46.67\00:39:48.29
Look at this. He says: "Look
it... I have these watchmen.
00:39:48.50\00:39:50.03
They never hold
their peace day or night.
00:39:50.13\00:39:51.40
Now you... you who make
mention of the Lord... "
00:39:51.50\00:39:54.57
Do you ever make
mention of the Lord?
00:39:54.78\00:39:56.41
In your praying, do you
make mention of the Lord?
00:39:56.71\00:39:58.10
Of course you do. He's
talking to you and me now.
00:39:58.30\00:40:00.27
"You who make mention of
the Lord do not keep silent
00:40:00.58\00:40:04.86
either and give Him... "
What's that next couple of?
00:40:04.96\00:40:08.91
"Give Him no rest till He
establishes, until He makes
00:40:09.11\00:40:13.06
Jerusalem" - the church
- "a praise in the earth. "
00:40:13.17\00:40:15.60
In other words: "You give Me no
rest until I revive the church.
00:40:15.80\00:40:19.25
You stay on Me. " I found this
in the New Living Translation.
00:40:19.45\00:40:23.93
And they were telling
me at the prison ministries
00:40:25.99\00:40:29.35
earlier this morning
that they use the New Living
00:40:29.45\00:40:32.03
because it's easier for
the prisoners to understand
00:40:32.23\00:40:34.09
sometimes. Let me read this
to you, so you can just follow
00:40:34.29\00:40:36.47
in whatever translation you
have, but here's the New Living.
00:40:36.57\00:40:38.29
"O Jerusalem, I have
posted watchmen on your walls
00:40:38.49\00:40:42.40
and they will pray to the
Lord day and night for the
00:40:42.50\00:40:44.49
fulfillment of His promises.
" Now, to the rest of us:
00:40:44.59\00:40:47.21
"Take no rest all you who
pray. Give the Lord no rest
00:40:47.41\00:40:52.85
until He makes Jerusalem
the object of His praise. "
00:40:53.05\00:40:55.22
Did we talk about desperation,
urgency, and expectancy?
00:40:55.42\00:40:57.76
Have we already
talked about that?
00:40:57.86\00:40:59.08
That's what's happening
here. "Give Me no rest. "
00:40:59.28\00:41:01.19
In fact, the New Voice
translation just came out
00:41:01.39\00:41:03.64
this last year. Let
me share this with you.
00:41:03.74\00:41:05.56
I like this
rather free rendition.
00:41:05.76\00:41:08.23
"Tirelessly pester God. "
00:41:08.43\00:41:11.59
Do you know what it
means to pester somebody?
00:41:12.50\00:41:14.10
What's it mean? Tell me what
it means to pester somebody.
00:41:14.20\00:41:16.52
Huh? Do what?
00:41:16.82\00:41:18.77
Needle them... nag!
00:41:19.76\00:41:22.39
Must have experience.
00:41:22.70\00:41:24.33
Pester... what
does it mean to pester?
00:41:26.04\00:41:27.71
Nag nag nag nag
nag nag nag nag nag.
00:41:27.81\00:41:29.47
God says: "Hey!
Hey! Pester Me. "
00:41:29.57\00:41:31.86
"Pester Me. Give Me no rest
00:41:33.11\00:41:36.07
until I revive
the church on earth. "
00:41:36.27\00:41:39.59
Desperation... help
me out. What's this D?
00:41:39.99\00:41:42.46
What's this U? Urgency.
What's this E? Expectancy.
00:41:43.83\00:41:47.86
Long overdue... this prayer
experience that God is calling
00:41:48.57\00:41:52.05
for... long overdue.
00:41:52.25\00:41:54.91
"Take no rest... give
Me no rest... pester Me
00:41:55.11\00:42:00.21
until I... until
I do a new thing.
00:42:00.72\00:42:03.33
Until I pour water on
those who are thirsty.
00:42:03.63\00:42:07.77
Floods on dry ground and
My Spirit on your descendants
00:42:07.97\00:42:11.01
and My blessing
on your offspring. "
00:42:11.21\00:42:12.78
"Pester Me... stay after Me. "
00:42:13.08\00:42:15.66
Friend of mine gave
me a book last week.
00:42:19.59\00:42:21.66
I was reading it
this afternoon, too.
00:42:21.96\00:42:24.15
Boy, the book has
just stirred up my soul.
00:42:24.35\00:42:26.38
And that's why the
Spirit said: "Dwight, you better
00:42:26.59\00:42:28.23
just do business where...
transact business where I'm
00:42:28.33\00:42:31.27
working on you right now. "
00:42:31.37\00:42:32.63
Title of the book
is The Circle Maker.
00:42:32.83\00:42:35.15
It's written by Mark Batterson.
00:42:36.50\00:42:38.91
Listen to this: "Desperate
times... " Oh, that fits our
00:42:39.11\00:42:41.44
word desperation, doesn't it?
00:42:41.54\00:42:42.79
"Desperate times call
for desperate measures. "
00:42:42.99\00:42:46.17
By the way, if you go on
our website you get all these
00:42:46.20\00:42:48.30
studies. That's
all I'm working off of.
00:42:48.40\00:42:50.75
I've got no notes up
here, it's just the study guide.
00:42:50.95\00:42:52.54
They're all there on our
website: www. pmchurch. tv
00:42:52.74\00:42:56.65
"Desperate times call
for desperate measures
00:42:57.37\00:42:59.61
and there is no more desperate
act than praying hard. "
00:42:59.72\00:43:03.33
Not praying
light... praying hard.
00:43:04.33\00:43:06.93
"There comes a moment when
you need to throw caution to the
00:43:08.08\00:43:10.61
wind and draw a
circle in the sand.
00:43:10.71\00:43:12.29
There comes a moment when
you need to defy protocol,
00:43:12.49\00:43:14.84
drop to your knees, and
pray for the impossible. "
00:43:14.95\00:43:17.72
Would it be impossible
for God to revive the church
00:43:18.13\00:43:20.93
in North America? How
about just the church in America
00:43:21.13\00:43:23.87
period? It almost feels
like it would be impossible now.
00:43:23.97\00:43:28.15
"Desperate times call
for desperate measures. "
00:43:29.10\00:43:33.61
Draw a Circle in the
Sand. The book is based
00:43:34.76\00:43:38.95
on an intertestamental,
true story that Josephus
00:43:39.15\00:43:42.05
tells us about.
Between Malachi and Matthew
00:43:42.15\00:43:44.48
you know there's still
the history of the Jews.
00:43:44.68\00:43:46.97
And there was a
prophet named Honi... H-O-N-I.
00:43:47.17\00:43:50.67
The land was
under a blazing drought.
00:43:51.87\00:43:56.68
One day Honi walked out
with all the people watching him
00:43:56.98\00:43:59.52
and he drew a
circle in the sand.
00:43:59.73\00:44:01.48
And he says: "God, I'm
stepping into this circle
00:44:01.68\00:44:04.74
and I am not leaving this circle
until You answer this prayer.
00:44:04.94\00:44:09.32
Send rain. "
00:44:09.52\00:44:12.42
Ladies and gentlemen, that's
what Isaiah 62 verses 6 and 7
00:44:13.02\00:44:17.05
is all about.
"Give Me no rest. "
00:44:17.25\00:44:21.06
"Pester Me until I pour
out the windows of heaven
00:44:21.26\00:44:26.36
and the rain of the Spirit. "
00:44:26.56\00:44:29.15
"There comes a moment
when you need to defy protocol,
00:44:30.93\00:44:33.04
drop to your knees, and
pray for the impossible.
00:44:33.25\00:44:34.93
There comes a moment when
you need to muster every ounce
00:44:35.03\00:44:37.51
of faith you have and
call down rain from heaven. "
00:44:37.61\00:44:40.40
Do you know that that
phrase Showers of Blessings...
00:44:40.60\00:44:42.63
do you know that that phrase
is a direct quote from the
00:44:42.83\00:44:44.85
book of Ezekiel? God has
promised showers of blessings.
00:44:44.95\00:44:48.38
That isn't some hymn writer's
little cute nifty phrase.
00:44:48.48\00:44:51.39
That is a direct
quote from Ezekiel.
00:44:51.60\00:44:53.47
"I will give you
showers of blessings
00:44:53.67\00:44:56.00
but you must
ask... you must ask. "
00:44:57.02\00:45:00.06
Ellen White... Let
me share this with you.
00:45:00.36\00:45:01.95
This is Christ Object Lessons.
00:45:03.04\00:45:04.85
You ought to jot this page
number down; this is dynamite.
00:45:05.05\00:45:07.52
Page 147. That little classic
on the parables of Jesus.
00:45:07.72\00:45:10.90
Notice how it opens up.
00:45:11.20\00:45:13.18
These are all there. If you
get the study guide you have it.
00:45:13.39\00:45:15.83
"Plead... plead... "
That's one of those desperation,
00:45:16.03\00:45:21.37
urgency,
expectancy words, isn't it?
00:45:21.57\00:45:23.78
"Plead... " She doesn't say
ask, she said: "Plead with Me. "
00:45:23.98\00:45:27.25
"Plead for the Holy Spirit.
God stands back of every promise
00:45:27.45\00:45:32.56
He has made. I suppose
that would include Isaiah 43:19
00:45:32.66\00:45:35.17
and Isaiah 44:3, wouldn't it?
00:45:35.27\00:45:36.93
I think so. With your
Bible in your hands...
00:45:37.13\00:45:40.17
with your Bible in your hands
00:45:40.37\00:45:42.75
you say: "I have
done as Thou hast said;
00:45:42.95\00:45:45.52
I present Thy promise ask
and it shall be given you,
00:45:45.72\00:45:47.97
seek and you will find,
knock and it will be opened
00:45:48.17\00:45:49.76
unto you. When with
earnestness and intensity... "
00:45:49.86\00:45:53.47
What was that DUE?
What's the D again?
00:45:53.67\00:45:55.40
What's the U again?
00:45:55.80\00:45:57.30
What's the E again?
00:45:57.70\00:45:58.90
That's what this
quotation is talking about.
00:45:59.20\00:46:01.66
"With earnestness
and intensity... "
00:46:01.86\00:46:04.36
I tell you what: a
quickie little prayer
00:46:05.82\00:46:07.95
will not save a
single child of God.
00:46:08.15\00:46:10.51
You want to save the
young in your church?
00:46:10.71\00:46:12.43
You want to save the
young in your family?
00:46:12.63\00:46:14.00
It won't happen
with a little quickie...
00:46:14.20\00:46:15.30
"Oh, by the way God,
bless my grandchildren
00:46:15.50\00:46:17.33
and save them. I've got
stuff to do. Good-bye. "
00:46:17.43\00:46:19.64
No child will get saved
with a quickie little prayer.
00:46:20.78\00:46:25.57
Oh well, they said
we ought to be praying.
00:46:25.87\00:46:28.01
"With an intensity
and earnestness... " DUE!
00:46:29.37\00:46:32.88
Long overdue. "With an
intensity and earnestness... "
00:46:33.18\00:46:36.69
"When with earnestness and
intensity we breathe a prayer
00:46:36.89\00:46:39.22
in the name of Christ
there is in that very... "
00:46:39.32\00:46:41.45
Oh, I love this.
"There is in that very
00:46:41.65\00:46:44.59
intensity a pledge from God
00:46:44.79\00:46:49.33
that He is about to answer
our prayer exceeding abundantly
00:46:49.53\00:46:53.79
above all that
we ask or think. "
00:46:53.89\00:46:56.33
Now I want you to
listen to me carefully.
00:46:56.63\00:46:57.85
Listen, listen, listen.
00:46:57.95\00:46:59.01
Sometimes when you pray...
00:47:00.14\00:47:02.48
Does it happen to you, too?
00:47:02.68\00:47:04.09
You are so
intense into that prayer
00:47:04.39\00:47:07.26
that you actually start to weep.
00:47:07.57\00:47:09.86
Does that ever happen to you?
00:47:10.16\00:47:11.52
Yeah, of course it does.
00:47:11.82\00:47:13.30
What the author is saying
00:47:15.86\00:47:18.29
is when your prayer
reaches that level: desperation,
00:47:18.89\00:47:24.75
urgency, and expectancy
00:47:24.95\00:47:26.91
and it wells up within you
and your eyes begin to tear
00:47:27.11\00:47:32.21
that very
intensity is God's pledge:
00:47:32.51\00:47:36.73
"Girl, boy: I'm going to do...
00:47:36.83\00:47:41.02
I'm going to
answer your prayer. "
00:47:42.45\00:47:44.58
The very intensity
is God's way of saying
00:47:45.76\00:47:50.60
"Connect. I hear you.
00:47:51.00\00:47:55.23
I hear you. "
00:47:55.63\00:47:57.75
Isn't that something?
00:47:59.23\00:48:00.99
Wow!
00:48:02.22\00:48:04.31
Desperation, urgency,
00:48:04.81\00:48:08.36
expectancy.
00:48:13.01\00:48:15.12
"Desperate times call
for desperate measures. "
00:48:18.03\00:48:20.89
Ladies and gentlemen, if the
Spirit isn't poured out on the
00:48:20.99\00:48:24.38
church in the United States
00:48:24.48\00:48:26.60
Laodicea is dead... it's over.
00:48:27.00\00:48:31.74
Calvary was the beginning of
an outpouring that manifested
00:48:32.89\00:48:38.23
itself in Pentecost, didn't it?
00:48:38.33\00:48:40.41
Pentecost... Fifty
days after the cross.
00:48:40.61\00:48:43.51
Fifty days later - 10
days of which were preceded...
00:48:43.81\00:48:46.95
preceding ten days
preparing for Pentecost...
00:48:47.15\00:48:49.70
Calvary is always
connected with an outpouring.
00:48:50.01\00:48:53.68
It's not a mistake
that we went to the cross.
00:48:53.98\00:48:56.50
Our hearts have
to be broken there.
00:48:56.70\00:48:59.14
We have to ask forgiveness.
00:48:59.44\00:49:00.54
We have to make
some things right.
00:49:00.74\00:49:01.97
We have to take
down a few walls.
00:49:02.17\00:49:03.82
We cannot leave these walls up.
00:49:04.02\00:49:06.22
God will not bless
a fractured community.
00:49:06.52\00:49:09.09
We can't be television stations
competing with each other.
00:49:11.30\00:49:14.66
Amen!
00:49:14.96\00:49:16.62
We cannot. God says:
"I'm not going to bless you. "
00:49:17.30\00:49:20.37
"I'll give you a
modicum of blessing. "
00:49:20.88\00:49:23.02
"Desperate times call
for desperate measures. "
00:49:26.66\00:49:29.39
And it may mean
picking up the phone.
00:49:29.69\00:49:31.88
Somebody that you've
been alienated with...
00:49:33.15\00:49:34.75
Picking up that phone
and saying: "It's over. "
00:49:34.95\00:49:37.32
"I want to be bonded with you.
Whatever you do I wish to do. "
00:49:39.45\00:49:44.59
"Your mission is my mission;
your dream is my dream. "
00:49:45.87\00:49:51.75
We can't leave these walls up
00:49:52.86\00:49:55.47
nor can we leave the walls
up that separate us as races.
00:49:56.91\00:50:01.63
Amen.
00:50:01.93\00:50:03.28
God will never revive a
church with racial walls.
00:50:03.48\00:50:06.81
Never, never, never!
00:50:07.11\00:50:10.09
He will not revive a church
that is racially segregated.
00:50:11.09\00:50:14.76
Separate but equal... He
will not revive a church.
00:50:15.06\00:50:18.26
You can say all you want.
"Well He'll just bless us both
00:50:19.26\00:50:22.73
separately. " He
won't bless you both at all.
00:50:22.93\00:50:26.81
Not with that kind of attitude.
00:50:27.21\00:50:28.98
The wall has to come down.
00:50:30.26\00:50:32.19
It has to come down.
00:50:33.24\00:50:35.00
There'll never be
revival without it.
00:50:35.30\00:50:37.14
You can pray till you're
blue in the face for revival
00:50:37.34\00:50:39.40
but if you're leaving a
wall up and you know it's a wall
00:50:39.60\00:50:41.60
between you and that
brother, you and that sister,
00:50:41.70\00:50:43.78
you and that
organization, you and that race,
00:50:43.88\00:50:46.12
there will never
be a revival for you.
00:50:46.42\00:50:48.50
"I can't get water through
here. You want floods on the dry
00:50:48.80\00:50:52.29
ground? You've
dammed the whole place up. "
00:50:52.39\00:50:54.23
"I don't have little
pockets that I rain on.
00:50:56.36\00:50:59.44
I want to rain on
the entire church. "
00:50:59.64\00:51:01.96
Ladies and gentlemen: the
point is God is ready to do
00:51:02.26\00:51:04.98
a new thing. It's time we
ask Him to do a new thing.
00:51:05.08\00:51:10.21
Desperation,
00:51:15.92\00:51:18.36
urgency, expectancy.
00:51:18.66\00:51:23.25
"Behold I will do a new thing.
00:51:28.02\00:51:32.07
I will pour water on him
- on her - who is thirsty.
00:51:33.48\00:51:38.15
I will pour My
Spirit on your descendants
00:51:42.45\00:51:44.82
and My blessing
on your offspring. "
00:51:46.21\00:51:50.84
We end with the words of Jesus
00:51:52.34\00:51:54.35
who must have
had Isaiah 44 in mind
00:51:56.00\00:52:00.18
when He spoke these words:
00:52:00.38\00:52:02.49
We'll end with Jesus'
words. Red letters words
00:52:02.79\00:52:04.57
if you have a red letter
Bible... the gospel of John.
00:52:04.67\00:52:06.74
The gospel of John chapter 7.
00:52:07.64\00:52:09.78
In the great Feast of
Tabernacles, the very last day
00:52:11.36\00:52:15.28
Jesus, who had been incognito,
stands up and with this clarion
00:52:15.48\00:52:20.13
trumpet voice cries out
words we need to hear tonight.
00:52:20.23\00:52:24.76
This is John chapter 7...
00:52:25.19\00:52:27.08
John chapter 7 verse 37:
00:52:27.28\00:52:30.07
John 7:37: "And
on the last day -
00:52:31.71\00:52:35.59
that great day of the
Feast of Tabernacles -
00:52:35.79\00:52:39.37
Jesus stood and cried out
saying: 'If anyone thirst... '
00:52:39.40\00:52:43.85
There it is: 'if
anyone is thirsty...
00:52:44.05\00:52:46.58
let him come to Me, let
her come to Me and drink.
00:52:47.64\00:52:50.24
She who believes in
Me, he who believes in me
00:52:50.47\00:52:53.34
as the scripture has said
out of his heart will flow
00:52:53.54\00:52:56.88
rivers of living water. '
00:52:56.98\00:52:59.11
The same words in
the Greek Old Testament
00:52:59.14\00:53:01.70
are here in John's gospel.
00:53:01.90\00:53:04.07
The same linkage to
Isaiah... the same wording.
00:53:04.17\00:53:07.16
'Out of their hearts will
flow rivers of living water. '
00:53:07.56\00:53:10.63
But... " verse 29... "this
He spoke concerning the Spirit
00:53:10.73\00:53:13.58
whom those believing
in Him would receive.
00:53:13.68\00:53:16.09
For the Holy Spirit was
not yet given because Jesus
00:53:16.19\00:53:18.91
was not yet glorified. "
00:53:19.11\00:53:20.61
Glorified is code
language for Calvary.
00:53:22.22\00:53:24.87
Glorified is code
language for the cross.
00:53:25.88\00:53:28.81
Ladies and gentlemen: I
have great news for you tonight.
00:53:29.73\00:53:32.17
The cross has already happened!
00:53:32.47\00:53:35.17
2,000 years ago
He has been glorified
00:53:35.47\00:53:39.20
and He's ready now to
a church that is thirsty,
00:53:39.40\00:53:43.45
to a people that is
pleading, He is ready now
00:53:43.65\00:53:47.01
to pour out His Spirit.
00:53:47.12\00:53:48.68
The question is:
"Are you ready to ask? "
00:53:48.98\00:53:52.31
Are you desperate enough?
00:53:54.99\00:53:57.11
Are you urgent enough?
00:53:57.90\00:53:59.76
Do you expect that He can
do what He has promised to do?
00:54:00.06\00:54:04.76
Do you believe?
00:54:04.96\00:54:07.52
Then we must ask.
I'm going home early
00:54:12.16\00:54:15.89
in the morning. Our
pre-season of prayer goes on.
00:54:16.09\00:54:19.29
We are not
going to quit praying.
00:54:19.49\00:54:20.96
And if you don't want to
pray for your home church
00:54:21.16\00:54:23.03
then I wish you'd
pray for Andrews University
00:54:23.23\00:54:25.10
and for Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:54:25.30\00:54:27.24
You don't want to pray for your
home church that's your business
00:54:27.44\00:54:29.54
then pray for mine.
00:54:29.74\00:54:31.59
We need God to do a new thing.
00:54:32.10\00:54:35.39
Amen! We desperately
need God to do a new thing.
00:54:35.69\00:54:41.41
Would you join
me in that prayer?
00:54:41.71\00:54:43.76
Would you be willing to
say: "Hey listen, Dwight,
00:54:44.26\00:54:46.48
I'm willing.
You can count me in.
00:54:46.78\00:54:49.02
I'll be one of those sentinels.
00:54:49.23\00:54:50.26
I'm going home as a
watchman, a watchwoman.
00:54:50.29\00:54:52.06
I will be on the walls
and I will give God no rest
00:54:52.16\00:54:55.09
until He pours out
His Spirit on my church. "
00:54:55.29\00:54:57.73
Would you be
willing to be one of those?
00:54:58.13\00:54:59.82
Would you stand to your
feet and say: "All right, God,
00:55:00.02\00:55:01.96
you can count me in. I
will do this by Your grace.
00:55:02.16\00:55:04.88
I will do this by Your grace.
00:55:04.91\00:55:08.18
I will do this by Your grace. "
00:55:08.48\00:55:12.03
Oh God, there's
nothing special in us.
00:55:12.13\00:55:14.69
I'll tell you what's
the truth about us, Father:
00:55:15.47\00:55:17.07
is we're desperate.
00:55:17.27\00:55:18.78
We are urgent.
00:55:18.98\00:55:20.52
We believe You can do
what You have promised to do.
00:55:20.92\00:55:24.20
We plead... we plead
for the showers of blessing.
00:55:24.40\00:55:28.56
Do something in North America.
00:55:29.16\00:55:31.28
Do something in
the United States.
00:55:31.38\00:55:33.44
Do something in my home church.
00:55:33.55\00:55:35.16
Dear God, do
something among us as a people.
00:55:35.26\00:55:37.99
Don't leave us the same.
00:55:38.19\00:55:39.23
Don't let us go
home the same tonight.
00:55:39.43\00:55:41.41
Don't let us go home the same.
00:55:41.82\00:55:43.92
Keep us asking and
pleading and asking and pleading
00:55:44.22\00:55:47.01
until the day the floodgates
of heaven are thrown wide
00:55:47.21\00:55:50.29
and the floods of
Christ Jesus Himself
00:55:50.49\00:55:54.41
are poured out upon
a dry and dusty world.
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Please dear God, begin
with these who stand before You.
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Honor him, honor
her. Don't let us forget
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we have made this
pledge. Keep us praying
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until Jesus comes I
pray. Sing it with me:
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"There shall be
showers of blessing: "
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Oh, that today they might fall;
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You know the words
better... Come on, keep going:
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There shall be
seasons refreshing,
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Sent from the Savior above.
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Sing it out now:
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Showers of blessing,
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Showers of blessing we need.
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Mercy drops
round us are falling,
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But for the showers we plead.
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Sing that chorus again with me:
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Showers of blessing,
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Showers of blessing we need.
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Mercy drops
round us are falling,
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But for the showers we plead.
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Now sing it quietly...
sing that chorus quietly:
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Showers of blessing,
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Showers of blessing we need.
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Mercy drops
round us are falling,
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But for the showers we plead.
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