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00:05 ♪ >> WELCOME BACK TO OUR SECOND
00:13 HOUR ON PRAYER AND REVIVAL, AND PASTOR DAVID SHIN HAS BEEN 00:18 WALKING US THROUGH THIS VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC. 00:24 SOMEBODY SAY ARE THEY JUST TALKING ABOUT PRAYER? 00:29 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNICATING WITH ALL MIGHT GOD, IF YOU HAVE 00:34 A FAMILY MEMBERS THAT YOU LONG TO HEAR FROM, YOU WOULDN'T 00:39 HESITATE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. 00:41 AND HOURS CAN GO BY WHEN YOU ARE TALKING TO SOMEBODY THAT YOU 00:45 REALLY LIKE OR LOVE. TIME BECOMES NO FACTOR. 00:48 THE QUESTION THAT MANY OF US MIGHT ASK OURSELVES IS HOW MUCH 00:53 TIME DO WE SPEND TALKING TO GOD. ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO CLAIM TO 00:58 HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL MIGHTY GOD. 01:02 HOW MUCH DOES PRAYER PLAY A ROLE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 01:08 THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THAT. 01:10 NOT ONLY IN PRAYER IN THE TECHNICAL SENSE OR IN THE 01:14 SPECULATIVE SENSE, BUT ALSO IN THE PRACTICING SENSE. 01:18 BECAUSE IT HAS SO MANY TENTACLES TO IT. 01:21 >> UH-HUH. >> AND YOU BROUGHT THAT OUT 01:25 BEAUTIFULLY. PRAYER IS IN THE HANS OF FAITH. 01:31 NOW FOR THE PERSON LISTENING TO THE PROGRAM THAT THEY MAY NOT BE 01:35 A CHRISTIAN BUT THEY PRAY, HOW CAN WE DIFFERENTIATE PRAYER TO 01:42 GOD OR PRAYER IN GENERAL? BECAUSE PEOPLE PRAY -- SOME 01:46 PEOPLE PRAY TO IDOLS AND STATUES, AND SOME PEOPLE PRAY 01:51 INNER -- THEY TRY TO FIND THE INNER PEACE, THE INNER ANSWERS. 01:55 >> UH-HUH. >> SO JUST SHARE THE DIFFERENCE 01:58 BETWEEN PRAYING TO ALL MIGHTY GOD AND JUST PRAYER IN GENERAL. 02:02 >> UH-HUH. WELL, WE'RE LIVING IN A TIME 02:06 WHEN A LOT OF EASTERN PRACTICES ARE BEING BROUGHT INTO MAIN 02:13 STREAM IN WESTERN CULTURE TODAY. MEDITATION, PRAYER ARE THINGS 02:18 THAT ARE KIND OF IN VOGUE AND PRACTICED BY INDIVIDUALS THAT 02:22 MAY NOT BELIEVE IN A PERSONAL GOD, BUT THEY SEE IT'S BENEFITS 02:28 AND SO FORTH. NOW A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IS 02:32 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT BIBLICAL PRAYER VERSUS EASTERN MEDICATION 02:37 IS THAT BIBLICAL PRAYER IS NOT A MINDLESS EMPTYING OF YOUR MINE 02:41 TO BRING IT TO A CERTAIN WAVE AND SO FORTH. 02:44 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CONCEPT OF BIBLICAL PRAYER, IT'S 02:56 INTEL INTELLIGENT, IT'S COGNITIVE, AND 03:01 IT'S PERSONAL TO THE BIBLE. WHEREAS EASTERN IS -- MANY TIMES 03:06 IT'S A CERTAIN TYPE OF EMPTYING THE THOUGHTS, BRINGING YOUR 03:09 BRAIN TO A CERTAIN STATE OF MEDTIVE STATE AND SO FORTH. 03:17 A CERTAIN CALMING EFFECT. SO THAT'S A FUNDAMENTAL 03:22 DIFFERENCE. NOW THERE IS COMING INTO 03:27 CHRISTIANITY AND EVEN EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY, A CONCEPT 03:30 OF -- OF TYPE OF PRAYER THAT IS -- THAT HAS BEEN INFLUENCED 03:35 BY EASTERN MEDICATION. IN OTHER WORDS THE CONSTANT 03:39 CHANTING OF CERTAIN PHRASES. BRINGING YOUR BRAIN INTO A 03:42 CERTAIN WAY, VISUALIZING, AND ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING 03:46 WITH -- WITH DIFFERENT SPIRITS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 03:48 AND IT'S JUST FASCINATING BECAUSE THERE IS A 03:56 COUNTERFEIT-TYPE OF PRAYING THAT IS EVEN COMING INTO -- INTO THE 04:00 CHRISTIAN CHURCH TODAY, AND SO WITH EVERY TRUTH THERE IS A 04:04 COUNTERFEIT, AND THE MODEL THAT WE NEED TO FOLLOW -- WE NEED TO 04:07 MAKE SURE THAT IT'S BEING BASED ON THE WORD OF GOD, AND NOT ON A 04:15 CERTAIN TYPE OF PRACTICE THAT IS NOT BIBLICAL, AND IT'S NOT 04:19 PRAYING TO THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, BUT YOU ARE OPENING 04:23 YOURS UP FOR SPIRITUALISM, I BELIEVE, AND COMMUNION WITH 04:28 SPIRITS THAT ARE MASQUERADING AS -- AS -- AS BIBLICAL -- AS 04:34 BIBLICAL ENTITIES, BUT IN REALITY, IT IS -- IT IS NOT 04:39 BIBLICAL PRAYER, BUT YOU ARE ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING, I 04:42 BELIEVE WITH DEMONS MASQUERADING AS SOMETHING ELSE. 04:48 >> IN MATH VIEW 6:7, WHEN YOU PRAY DO NOT USE VEIN REPETITION. 04:56 THAT'S ANOTHER KIND OF PRAYER TODAY. 05:02 FOR THEY THINK THEY SHALL BE HEARD, FOR THEY ARE MUCH 05:07 SPEAKING. >> UH-HUH. 05:08 >> TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO PRAY, ONE INSTRUCTOR SAID, I 05:13 WANT YOU TO WRITE A LETTER TO SOMEONE, AND WHEN YOU WRITE THAT 05:16 LETTER, START WITH THE PERSON'S NAME, A SALUTATION, SHARE WITH 05:21 THEM YOUR THOUGHTS AND THEN TAG IT, YOU KNOW, MUCH LOVE OR 05:26 WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, YOURS TRULY. 05:29 >> UH-HUH. >> BUT -- AND THEN MENTION THEIR 05:32 NAME PERIODICALLY THROUGH THE LETTER. 05:35 BUT YOU DON'T SAY, DAVID BY THE WAY, DAVID, AND DAVID, BY THE 05:41 WAY -- AND SOME PEOPLE EVEN PRAY THAT WAY. 05:43 >> UH-HUH. >> THEY MENTION THEY CALL GOD SO 05:47 OFTEN, IT'S LIKE HE SAYS I HEAR YOU. 05:50 I GOT IT. I KNOW YOU ARE TALKING TO ME. 05:53 IN THE HEATHEN PRACTICES THAT IS ILL STATED. 05:58 ELIJAH, MUCH SPEAKING AND GOD DIDN'T HEAR A THING. 06:01 AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER KIND OF PRAYER THAT WE WANT TO AVOID, 06:05 BECAUSE IT'S A ROADBLOCK TO REAL PRAYER TO A TRUE GOD. 06:08 >> UH-HUH. AND I LIKE STEPS TO CHRIST WHERE 06:12 IT SAYS THAT PRAYER IS LIKE TALKING TO GOD AS TO A FRIEND. 06:15 SO THERE'S THAT PERSONAL ELEMENT TO PRAYER. 06:18 IT'S -- IT'S TALKING TO A -- A BEING. 06:21 IT'S BEING AUTHENTIC. IT'S BEING REAL. 06:25 IT'S BEING TRANSPARENT, AND THERE IS A -- A DIFFERENCE 06:29 BETWEEN PRAYING FOR SPIRITUAL NEEDS AND PHYSICAL NEEDS. 06:37 WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR AVERAGE PRAYER MEETING AND YOU ASK, HEY, 06:42 DO YOU HAVE PRAYER REQUESTS. I CAN GUARANTEE, BECAUSE I HAVE 06:46 BEEN TO ENOUGH PRAYER MEETINGS, AND YOU SAY, HEY, DO WE HAVE 06:52 PRAYER REQUESTS? I GUARANTEE THAT 90% OF THOSE 06:55 PRAYER REQUESTS ARE I LOST MY KEYS. 06:58 PRAY FOR THIS SO AND SO IN THE HOSPITAL. 07:00 PRAY FOR THIS PERSON THAT BROKE THEIR ARM. 07:03 PRAY FOR THIS PERSON THAT NEEDS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE -- IN OTHER 07:07 WORDS 90% OF THE PRAYERS ARE PHYSICAL -- ARE PHYSICAL, AND 07:11 I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE SHOULDN'T PRAY FOR THIS PERSON THAT IS 07:14 DIEING. WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THE PHYSICAL 07:17 OBVIOUSLY. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK ON A PIE CHART 07:20 OR GRAPH, AND YOU SAY HOW MUCH OF MY PRAYING IS PHYSICAL, AND 07:25 HOW MUCH IS SPIRITUAL. IF YOU ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME, 07:29 I WILL DO IT. ALL OF THESE PRAYER REQUESTS, 07:32 JOHN 5:14, AND SO FORTH, AND IN MY STUDY, I CAME TO THE CON M 07:41 MUGS -- CONCLUSION, WHEN HE SAYS ASK, ASK, ASK, ASK, LIKE SIX 07:48 TIMES, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE. IT SAYS OUR FATHER WILL GIVE THE 07:53 HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK. IN OTHER WORDS GOD'S PRIMARY 07:56 CONCERN WITH US IS OUR SALVATION, IS OUR SPIRITUAL 08:00 NEED. GOD'S PRIMARY GOAL IS NOT THE 08:03 AMERICAN DREAM. IN OTHER WORD'S -- 08:05 >> VERY GOOD POINT. >> -- GOD'S WILL DOES NOT EQUAL 08:10 THE AMERICAN DREAM. HAVING 2.5 KIDS, LIVING IN THE 08:17 SUBURBS, AND HAVING A BIG HOUSE AND AN SUV. 08:21 AND WE NEED TO MAKE THAT DISTINCTION, AND THERE ARE 08:24 CERTAIN THINGS THAT WHEN WE PRAY FOR, THEY ARE ALWAYS YES. 08:30 FORGIVENESS OF SINS. ALWAYS YES. 08:32 A CHRIST-LIKE TEMPER. ALWAYS YES. 08:35 THE HOLY SPIRIT, ALWAYS YES. A MERCEDES. 08:38 >> NOT ALWAYS YES. >> YES. 08:40 I SHOULD SAY NOT ALWAYS YES. THESE TYPES OF 08:43 THINGS -- THERE'S -- THE PHYSICAL NEEDS, AND -- AND WHEN 08:46 WE LOOK AT GOD AND WHAT HIS PLAN FOR OUR LIVES IS, YOU KNOW, HE 08:51 IS LOOKING AT OUR EXISTENCE ON THIS PLANET EARTH, JUST LIKE 08:55 THIS SPECK, AND THEN THERE'S ETERNITY BEYOND, THE POTENTIAL 09:00 FOR ETERNITY BEYOND. AND GOD'S PURPOSE IS HOW DO I 09:04 GET DAVID TO LIVE WITH ME FOREVER, AND IF IT MEANS A 09:08 LITTLE BIT OF DISCOMFORT, A LITTLE BIT OF CHALLENGING 09:12 SITUATIONS, SO THAT I CAN BE IN TUNED TO HIM SPIRITUALLY. 09:15 HE IS WILLING TO ALLOW SOME DISCOMFORT SO THAT I CAN HAVE 09:21 ETERNITY WITH HIM. HE HAS GOT THAT ETERNAL 09:26 PERSPECTIVE IN MIND. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 09:28 >> AND SOMETIMES HAVING THAT NEW CAR AND ALL OF THESE THINGS IS 09:32 ACTUALLY AN IMPEDIMENT TO OUR SALVATION, AND IT'S NOT BY 09:36 ACCIDENT THAT MANY PEOPLE -- WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 09:38 STATISTICS AND SURVEYS OF INDIVIDUALS, AND YOU ASK HEY, 09:42 WHAT JUST HAPPENED BEFORE YOU DECIDED TO TURN TO GOD? 09:46 THE MAJORITY OF THEM IT'S A LIFE-CHANGING EVENT. 09:49 >> IT'S A CRY ADVERTISE MOMENT. >> IT'S A CRISIS MOMENT. 09:54 WHERE THEY ARE AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE, AND THEY TURN TO 09:57 GOD. AND THAT IS ACTUALLY A BLESSING. 09:59 ONE GUY I BAPTIZED. HE LOST EVERYTHING. 10:03 HIS COMPANY PRIOR TO THAT WAS ABOUT TO BE BOUGHT BY APPLE 10:09 COMPUTER. HIS COMPANY WAS WORTH MILLIONS, 10:12 AND THEN THE DOT-COM BUBBLE BURST. 10:18 AND THEN SOMEONE KNOCKED ON HIS DOOR AND SAID DO YOU NEED BIBLE 10:23 STUDIES? AND HE SAID ABSOLUTELY YES. 10:27 AND HE BECAME BAPTIZED, SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, I 10:31 BELIEVE -- IF YOU ASKED HIM, HEY, WOULD YOU HAVE ACCEPTED 10:35 THOSE BIBLE STUDIES WHEN YOU HAD ALL OF THESE THINGS? 10:38 HE PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE. BUT IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE 10:41 THERE'S A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR PHYSICAL AND OUR 10:44 SPIRITUAL, AND SOMETIMES BEING PHYSICALLY CONTENT AND HAVING 10:49 ALL OF THESE AC -- ACUTE TRA MENS ARE A DISCOMFORT TO US 11:01 SPIRITUALLY. SO GOD ALLOWS DISCOMFORT AND 11:05 PAIN SO WE CAN HAVE OUR ATTENTION BE AROUSED. 11:10 >> GOD SEES IN THE ETERNAL TRAJECTORY. 11:15 WE OFTEN LOOK AT THE STOPS ALONG THE WAY. 11:18 PEOPLE STOPPING, IF YOU WOULD, TRAVELING FROM FLORIDA TO 11:23 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA -- I USE THAT ANALOGY, BECAUSE I TOOK 11:27 THAT JOURNEY A NUMBER OF TIMES. AND ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ARE 11:32 CONTINUALLY STOPPING. I NEED SOME CHIPS. 11:34 CAN WE GET AN ICE CREAM BAR. I NEED A, I NEED A, I NEED 11:39 A -- AND YOU SAY WE'LL NEVER GET TO OUR DESTINATION. 11:43 YOUR NEEDS ARE SUPERSEDING OUR JOURNEY. 11:45 AND SOMETIMES IN OUR OWN LIVES, OUR NEEDS -- SORRY -- OUR WANTS 11:51 SUPERSEDE OUR JOURNEY WITH CHRIST. 11:55 THAT'S WHY HE HEARD THE CRY OF THE ISRAELITES, TOOK THEM OUT OF 12:00 EGYPT, BECAUSE THEIR CRY WAS -- THEY WANTED TO BE FREE 12:03 FROM THE BONDAGE OF EGYPT, BU NOT FROM THE THINGS OF EGYPT. 12:07 AND SOMETIMES GOD WANTS TO FREE US NOT JUST FROM THE BONDAGE OF 12:11 OUR WORLD, BUT FROM THE THINGS OF OUR WORLD. 12:13 >> UH-HUH. >> AND BECAUSE HE HAS A FAR 12:16 GREATER PICTURE OF ETERNITY, THE PRAYER TAKES YOU TO THAT PLACE. 12:21 I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP, BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE WATCHING 12:24 THE PROGRAM OR YOU MAY BE LISTENING IN YOUR CAR, GOD IS 12:29 NOT WAL-MART. HE IS NOT A SWIPE OF THE CARD. 12:33 HE IS NOT PRESS THE BUTTON OR -pCHOOSE THE DOOR. BECAUSE BEHIND THAT DOOR YOU 12:37 MIGHT HAVE THE GRAND PRIZE. GOD LOOKS AT IT WITH THIS 12:42 ETERNAL PICTURE, AND SAY WHAT WILL HINDER THIS PERSON FROM 12:51 MAKING THE KINGDOM? >> UH-HUH. 12:54 >> I NEED TO REVIVE THAT FAMILY BECAUSE THEIR FOCUS IS SKEWED. 12:59 >> UH-HUH. >> SOMETIMES HE'LL ORDER SOME 13:05 DISAPPOINTMENT. >> UH-HUH. 13:06 I LIKE WHAT CS LEWIS SAYS, GOD WHISPERS TO US IN OUR TIMES OF 13:13 PEACE, AND YET THE VOICE GROWS LOUDER IN OUR TIME OF PAIN. 13:17 >> EXACTLY. >> AND I HAVE HAD INDIVIDUALS 13:20 SAY, PASTOR I PRAYED FOR SO AND SO, OR MY LOVED ONE, AND GOD 13:24 DIDN'T ANSWER MY PRAYER, AND THEY PASSED AWAY, YOU KNOW? 13:27 AND THEY SAY, I DON' BELIEVE IN PRAYER ANYMORE. 13:30 BECAUSE WHAT IS THE POINT? WHAT IS THE POINT? 13:32 HE DIDN'T ANSWER MY PRAYER FOR THIS PERSON. 13:36 AND THAT IS -- FIRST OF ALL, WE DON'T -- YOU KNOW, MANY THINGS 13:41 ARE A MYSTERY. >> YES. 13:43 >> MANY THINGS ARE A MYSTERY. WE -- WE DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL OF 13:49 THE DYNAMICS OF WHAT IS GOING THROUGH THE MIND OF GOD, AND ONE 13:53 THING I DO KNOW IS WHEN GET TO HEAVEN AND WE LOOK BACK FROM THE 13:57 ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE, THAT THINGS WILL MAKE SENSE, BUT WE'RE IN A 14:02 CERTAIN PLACE RIGHT NOW, AND IT REMINDS ME OF THE IMPRISONMENT 14:06 AND DEAH OF JOHN.-HERE IS MAN THAT HAS DEDICATED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO JESUS, AND HE 14:12 IS IN PRISON. THIS IS ACCORDING TO 14:14 SCRIPTURE -- THIS IS JESUS'S BIOLOGICAL COUSIN. 14:20 BIOLOGICAL, SO THIS IS -- >> CLOSE CONNECTION. 14:22 >> YEAH, THIS IS A BLOOD RELATIVE. 14:26 HE IS FAMISHING IN PRISON. HE IS A GREAT WORKER FROM GOD, 14:30 AND YET FROM ALL EXTERNAL APPEARANCES, IT LOOKS LIKE JESUS 14:35 HAS ABANDONED HIM. COULD HE HAVE SAVED HIM? 14:40 OF COURSE, COULD HE HAVE AT LEAST VISITED HIM? 14:43 OF COURSE. BUT HE DIDN'T. 14:45 AND THIS INDICATES TO THE DISCIPLES THIS WAS JUST -- THEY 14:49 COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 14:51 HOW IS HE GOING TO LET HIS OWN COUSIN, GREAT WORKER FOR GOD, 14:57 THAT IS DIEING IN PRISON ON EXECUTION ROW, YOU KNOW, ABOUT 15:01 TO GET HIS HEAD CHOPPED OFF, AND JESUS DOES NOTHING. 15:05 AND JESUS ESSENTIALLY LETS HIM DIE MARTYR'S DEATH. 15:13 AND THIS BECAME A MOMENT OF JUST IN -- INCREDIBLE MOMENT. 15:25 AND IT BRINGS TO -- TO LIGHT THIS IDEA THAT FROM THE ETERNAL 15:32 PE PERSPECTIVE, THAT FROM AN 15:38 ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE, NUMBER 1, JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS FOREVER 15:43 BEYOND THE REACHES OF SATAN. NUMBER 2, IT WAS FOR THOSE THAT 15:48 WOULD COME AFTER JOHN THAT WOULD LANGUISH IN PRISON, THAT WOULD 15:53 DIE THE MARTYR'S DEATH, THAT JESUS POINTED TO THIS MAN, AND 15:58 SAID HE IS THE GREATEST PRO PROPHET. 16:01 NOT ISAIAH, MOSES, DANIEL, THE PEOPLE THAT WROTE ALL OF THESE 16:05 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, BUT THE MAN THAT DOESN'T HAVE A SINGLE BOOK 16:09 IN THE BIBLE THAT POINTS HIS WAY TO JESUS -- POINTS HIS MINISTRY 16:13 TO JESUS, HIS WHOLE MINISTRY WAS TO POINT OTHERS TO THE LAMB, AND 16:17 THEN DIES A MARTYR'S DETH, HE SAYS THIS IS THE GREATEST 16:23 PROPHET. AND IT SAYS OF ALL THE GIFTS 16:26 THAT HEAVEN CAN BESTOW, FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST IN HIS 16:31 SUFFERING IS THE HIGHEST HONOR. AND I JUST THINK TO MYSELF, 16:35 LIKE, WOW. WOW. 16:37 THE HIGHEST HONOR. BECAUSE SOMETIMES I THINK, HEY, 16:40 THE HIGHEST HONOR WOULD BE TO PASTOR THIS LARGE CHURCH 16:43 OR -- YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? OR GET -- OR -- OR WHATEVER, 16:47 BECOME GENERAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENT, SOME PEOPLE SAY, 16:51 WHATEVER. THIS IS THE HIGHEST HONOR. 16:54 BUT JESUS SAYS THE HIGHEST HONOR IS TO SUFFER WITH HIM IN HIS 16:59 SUFFERING. >> I'M GLAD WHEN THE APOSTLE 17:05 WROTE THAT HE SAID IF WE SUFFER WITH HIM, WE'LL ALSO REIGN WITH -pHIM. 17:10 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE DON'T GET A PASS. 17:12 I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO POINT OUT 17:16 HERE IS THAT YOU DON'T GET A PASS FROM THE CHALLENGES OF THIS 17:19 LIFE. NOBODY GETS A PASS. 17:21 I SAID TO A YOUNG PERSON THE OTHER DAY -- THEY SAID I'M JUST 17:26 SO GLAD THAT SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE OUT SOON, AND I SAID DON'T 17:31 MAKE SCHOOL BE A BAD THING. YOU LEARN A LOT THERE. 17:34 IT PREPARES YOU FOR LIFE. BUT IT'S BETTER TO STRUGGLE NOW 17:39 THAN LATER. IT'S BETTER TO PERSPIRE NOW THAN 17:45 TO PERSPIRE LATER. BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO SWEAT 17:49 SOMEWHERE. SWEAT NOW WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE 17:51 A BENEFIT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO SWEAT LATER. 17:55 AND THEY SAID WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I SAID LIFE -- YOU DON'T GET 17:59 PASS. YOU ARE GOING TO FACE 18:01 DIFFICULTIES AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER. 18:03 AND WE TALKED ABOUT PRAYER, BUT NOW THE PRAYER THAT LEADS INTO 18:07 REVIVAL HELPS YOU TO UNDERSTAND IN THIS REVISED STATE EVERYTHING 18:13 COMES INTO CONCEPT. THE PRAYER, SIGNIFICANT. 18:15 WHAT ABOUT THE REVIVAL? >> WELL, THE REVIVAL IS MADE 18:25 MANIFEST WHEN YOU SEE PHENOMENON THAT IS ABOVE AND I DON'T THINK 18:28 WHAT YOU NORMALLY SEE. HUDSON TAYLOR WAS A MISSIONARY 18:33 TO CHINA. AND HE STARTED A MISSIONARY 18:41 BASED SOLELY ON PRAYER. AND RATHER THAN ASK FOR MONEY, 18:46 HE WOULD JUST ASK GOD. AND PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS CRAZY. 18:51 THAT THIS MOVEMENT FOR CHINA WOULD SIMPLY NOT BE SUSTAINABLE. 18:55 AND HE WAS ABLE TO LEAD THOUSANDS TO CHRIST IN CHINA, 19:00 JUST SIMPLY ON PRAYER, AND WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE WHEN WE'RE 19:05 PRAYING FOR REVIVAL, WE'RE PRAYING FOR SPIRITUAL REVIVAL. 19:09 IT'S THE SPIRITUAL REALM WE'RE PRAYING FOR. 19:13 WE'RE PRAYING FOR TRANSFORMATIONS, AND INDIVIDUALS 19:15 TO BE ONE TO CHRIST, THAT'S WHAT WE ARE PRAYING FOR, AND THAT IS 19:20 GOD'S PRIMARY GOAL. IT'S SAVING ME, AND SAVING 19:24 OTHERS THROUGH ME. SO THAT'S THE TYPE OF REVIVAL 19:26 THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. WHEN W LOOK AT HUDSON TAYLOR'S 19:31 LIFE, I WANT TO READ THIS FROM A PERSON THAT WAS AT A PRAYER 19:35 MEETING WITH HUDSON TAYLOR, AND THIS IS FRO THE BOOK HUDSON 19:39 TAYLOR'S SPIRITUAL SECRET, AND IT SAYS, MR. TAYLOR OPENED THE 19:44 PRAYER MEETING BY LEADING OUT IN A HYMN. 19:48 HIS APPEARANCE DID NOT IMPRESS ME. 19:52 BUT WHEN HE SAID, LET US PRAYER, MY IDEAS UNDERWENT A CHANGE. 19:58 I NEVER HEARD ANYONE PRAY LIKE THAT. 20:01 THERE WAS A SIMPLICITY, A TENDERNESS, A BOLDNESS, A POWER 20:06 THAT HUSHED AND SUBDUED ME, AND MADE IT CLEAR THAT GOD HAD 20:11 ADMITTED HIM TO THE INNER CIRCLE OF HIS FRIENDSHIP. 20:15 SUCH PRAYING WAS EVIDENTLY THE OUTCOME OF LONG CARING IN THE 20:22 SECRET PLACE. AND TO HEAR MR. TAYLOR PLEAD FOR 20:26 CHOO -- CHINA WAS TO KNOW SOMETHING. 20:32 THE MEETING LASTED FROM 4:00 TO 6:00, BUT SEEMED ONE OF THE 20:38 SHORTEST MEETINGS I HAD EVER ATTENDED. 20:41 SO HERE IS A THIRD-PERSON ACCOUNT, AND HE GOES ON LATER 20:44 AND SAYS HE HAD NEVER HEARD ANYONE PRAY LIKE THIS BECAUSE CH 20:55 SPURGEN. SO THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE 20:58 AT THE BASIS OF THESE REVIVALS, YOU CAN SEE THEY HAD A DEFINITE 21:03 CONNECTION WITH THE LORD JESUS THAT WAS UNPRECEDENTED AND WAS 21:07 SADLY NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS PREVALENT IN SOCIETY AND 21:12 CULTURE. AND YOU HAVE ANOTHER STATEMENT 21:13 HERE, IT SAYS REVIVALS ARE BORN IN PRAYER, WHEN WESLEY PRAYED 21:18 ENGLAND WAS REVIVED, WHEN KNOX PRAYED SCOTLAND WAS REFERRED. 21:27 11,000 YOUNG PEOPLE WERE ADDED TO THE CHURCH IN A YEAR. 21:30 WHOLE NIGHTS OF PRAYER HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SUCCEEDED BY WHOLE 21:35 DAYS OF SOUL WINNING. AND I EXPERIENCED THIS 21:38 PERSONALLY WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE I TOOK A SUMMER -- MY SUMMERTIME 21:44 OFF, AND I WENT TO SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES TO BE A BIBLE 21:49 WORKER. WE WERE WORKING RIGHT THERE IN 21:58 FIGUEROA AND FLORENCE -- >> YEAH. 22:02 >> AND WE WALKED. AND WE WERE STAYNG AT A SITE IN 22:07 COMPTON. THE FIRST TIME I WENT OUTSIDE, 22:09 IT WAS AROUND JULY 3RD, AND I HEARD ALL OF THESE FIREWORKS. 22:14 AND I SAID WHY ARE THEY CELEBRATING ON JULY 3RD? 22:17 >> AND THE GUY SAID THAT'S NOT FIRE CRACKERS. 22:22 THAT'S GUNSHOTS. AND I WAS LIKE, OH, MAN, THIS IS 22:26 CRAZY. AND SO WE WENT DOOR TO DOOR, AND 22:28 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE WOULD DO IS KNOCK ON THE DOOR WITH A 22:33 CLIPBOARD, AND WE WOULD SAY, WE'RE JUST GOING DOOR TO DOOR 22:37 AND WE BELIEVE IN PRAYER, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO PRAY FOR YOU. 22:40 DO YOU HAVE ANY PRAYER REQUESTS? AND GET ALL OF THESE PRAYER 22:44 REQUESTS. THE CLIPBOARD WOULD BE FILLED 22:46 WITH ALL OF THESE NAMES, AND WE WOULD GO BACK TO OUR ROOMS AND 22:50 PRAY FOR EVERY SINGLE NAME. AND FOR THAT SUMMER, EVERY OTHER 22:55 NIGHT FOR, I WOULD SAY, 11 WEEKS, WE PRAYED ALL NIGHT EVERY 23:03 OTHER NIGHT. YEAH, IT WAS SOMETHING I NEVER 23:05 DID BEFORE, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS CRAZY. 23:09 I SAID WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SLEEP? 23:12 AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. 23:14 SO WE WOULD GO THROUGH -- AND I REMEMBER ONE TIME I FELL ASLEEP 23:20 AND THEY ALL LEFT ME, AND SO WE WOULD PRAY THROUGH THOSE NAMES 23:25 AND GO BACK AND OFFER THEM BIBLE STUDIES, AND I JUST SAW MIRACLES 23:29 THAT SUMMER AS NEVER BEFORE. WE HAD LIKE -- WE PITCHED A TENT 23:32 RIGHT THERE, AND WE HAD LIKE 700 TO A THOUSAND PEOPLE ATTENDING 23:37 THAT MEETING. >> WOW. 23:39 >> IT WAS CRAZY. NO MAIL OUT. 23:42 JUST DOOR TO DOOR -- ABOUT 20 BIBLE WORKERS GOING DOOR TO 23:47 DOOR, AND THE ONLY THING I CAN ATTRIBUTE IT TO WAS PRAYER. 23:54 IT WAS A TRANSFORMATIVE SUMMER, BECAUSE I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF 24:00 MEETING INDIVIDUALS FROM THE DOOR TO THE MEETINGS TO BAPTISM. 24:05 AND I REMEMBER JUST CRYING AT THE SITE OF THAT BAPTISTRY AS 24:11 THE PERSON I HAD FIRST MINISTERED TO WAS GOING DOWN 24:16 INTO A WATERY GRAVE AND BEING BAPTIZED. 24:19 IT WAS A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE. 24:21 AND THE REVIVAL IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS AND MINDS THAT SUMMER I 24:27 CAN ONLY ATTRIBUTE TO PRAYER. AS WE SAW THESE INDIVIDUALS IN 24:30 THE HEART OF LOS ANGELES JUST GIVING THEIR -- THEIR LIVES TO 24:34 THE LORD JESUS. AND WHEN WE THINK ABOUT REVIVAL, 24:39 THERE'S A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF REVIVAL. 24:43 I WANT TO GO THROUGH THREE KEYS. THE FIRST ONE IS ASK FOR IT. 24:47 BECAUSE JESUS SAYS TO ASK FOR IT. 24:49 IT'S THAT CONSENT. IT'S THAT PERMISSION. 24:52 PERSONAL REVIVAL, SAYING LORD, I'M DEAD SPIRITUALLY. 24:56 PLEASE HELP ME. HELP ME WILLING TO BE MADE 25:00 WILLING, AND THE BEAUTY OF PRAYING AND ASKING FOR REVIVAL 25:03 IS SAYING LORD, I DON'T HAVE THE DESIRE, HELP ME TO DESIRE. 25:08 IN OTHER WORDS YOU DON'T HAVE TO FABRICATE SOMETHING BEFORE YOU 25:11 COME TO GOD. YOU SAY, LORD, I'M COMING WITH 25:14 ALL OF MY BAGGAGE AND MOTIVES, AND ISSUES, AND I DON'T EVEN 25:19 WANT TO, BUT HELP ME TO WANT TO. IT REMINDS ME OF THAT FATHER 25:23 THAT SAID TO JESUS, HE SAID, I BELIEVE, HELP THOU MY 25:35 UN -- UNBELIEF. LUKE 11:9-13 SAYS SO I SAY TO 25:42 YOU, ASK AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU, SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND, 25:46 KNOCK AND IT WILL BE OPENED TO YOU, FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS 25:51 RECEIVES, FOR HE WHO SEEKS FUNDS, AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS IT 25:57 WILL BE OPENED. IF A PERSON ASKS FOR BREAD FROM 26:00 ANY FATHER AMONG YOU, WILL HE GIVE HIM A STONE? 26:04 OR IF HE ASKS FOR AN EGG WILL HE OFFER A SCORPION. 26:09 IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH 26:15 MORE WILL THE HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM. 26:19 SO IT'S LIKE SIX TIMES, ASK, ASK, ASK, ASK. 26:26 AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE GREEK OF THIS, IT SAYS 26:29 LITERALLY -- WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE GREEK, IT GIVES -- HOW MUCH 26:34 MORE WILL THE HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE 26:37 WHO KEEP ON ASKING? IN OTHER WORDS IT'S NOT JUST ONE 26:40 AND DONE. IT'S THAT CONTINUAL POSTURE OF 26:45 ASKING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. >> YOU KNOW, PASTOR SHIN, YOU 26:49 BROUGHT UP A POINT. MY WIFE AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS 26:53 LAST NIGHT. IT'S AMAZING HOW GOD 26:57 SYNCHRONIZED THIS TOGETHER. THERE IS A DEVOTIONAL CALLED 27:02 PRAYER. AND WE HAD ONE HERE FOR OUR 27:05 CHURCH, AND WE DISCOVERED THE WORD IMPORTUNATE PRAYER, AND 27:16 THAT MEANS -- THIS TEXT ILLUSTRATES IT BEAUTIFULLY. 27:19 IT MEANS ASKING GOD ALMOST TO THE POINT OF ANNOYING HIM. 27:24 >> WOW. >> IMPORTUNATE PRAYER. 27:31 THE UNJUST JUDGE AND THE WOMAN WHO JUST WOULD NOT STOP TELLING 27:35 HIM HER NEED. AND HE GRANTED IT TO HER, JUST 27:39 TO PREVENT HER FROM ASKING IT AGAIN. 27:42 GOD DOESN'T GRAND OUR NEED TO PREVENT US FROM ASKING HIM, BUT 27:47 IT WAS POINTING OUT -- IT WAS CHANGING US. 27:52 THIS -- THIS IMPORTUNATE PRAYER, AND THAT WAS A WORD I HAD NEVER 28:03 SEEN. AND SOME PEOPE WATCHING, HAVE 28:05 BEEN TOLD, WELL, YOU PRAYED, LEAVE IT TO GOD. 28:08 WELL, IT'S LIKE MAKING ONE STATEMENT TO THE PERSON THAT 28:11 COMES TO YOUR TABLE. I DIDN'T GET THAT. 28:14 I SAID IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN? 28:18 TOO BAD. AND GOD DOESN'T MISS WHAT WE 28:22 SAY, BUT THE PERSISTENCE OF ABIDING IN HIS PRESENCE, AND 28:28 LINGERING IN HIS MERCY IS A CHANGE THAT WE BEGIN TO SEE HOW 28:32 IMPORTANT IT IS TO -- AS SHELLEY QUINN SAYS TO PRESS INTO THE 28:37 PRESENCE OF GOD. SO THAT'S A NEW WORD. 28:41 KEEP ASKING. >> KEEP ASKING. 28:42 >> ASK, ASK, ASK, AND CHANGE THE PASSION GROWING INSIDE OF YOU. 28:47 >> UH-HUH. >> THE JUDGE REALIZED SHE IS NOT 28:53 BACKING DOWN. SHE REALLY MEANS THIS. 28:55 >> YES, PERSISTENCE IN PRAYER, AND THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT 29:00 CONTINUALLY ASKING, AND IT'S NOT UP THERE, LIKE, DAVID ASKED 100 29:07 TIMES, I GUESS I'LL GIVE IT TO HIM. 29:10 BUT PRAYER CHANGES US, AND WHAT PERSISTENTLY PRAYING TO GOD IS 29:17 IT INCREASES OUR DESRE TO RECEIVE. 29:19 IT INCREASES OUR CAPACITY TO RECEIVE. 29:22 THINK OF THINGS THAT YOU ASKED. I THINK OF THINGS THAT I ASKED 29:26 FROM MY PARENTS AROUND CHRISTMASTIME. 29:29 I KEEP ASKING, I KEEP ASKING, AND THE MORE I ASK, THE MORE I 29:33 WANT IT. I WANT IT MORE THAN EVER. 29:36 >> SALIVATING. >> YEAH, IT JUST INCREASES THAT 29:40 CAPACITY TO RECEIVE, AND -- AND THERE'S PART IN THERE -- IT'S 29:44 LIKE GOD DESIRES TO POUR OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT ON US. 29:47 HE IS YEARNING, IT'S THE GREATEST GIFT THAT HE CAN BESTOW 29:53 ON MAN. GOD WANTS TO GIVE US THE HOLY 29:56 SPIRIT MORE THAN PARENTS LONG TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO THEIR 30:00 CHILDREN. IN OTHER WORDS HE IS EAGER. 30:04 BUT HE SAYS ASK, BUT THE ISSUE IS, WE DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY 30:08 TO RECEIVE IT. IF I JUST SAY, GOD GIVE ME THE 30:14 HOLY SPIRIT, AND GO ABOUT MY DAY, MY VOLUME TO RECEIVE IT IS 30:19 THIS BIG. BUT WHEN WE ASK, ASK, ASK, ASK, 30:24 ASK, THAT CAPACITY INCREASES AND THAT DESIRE INCREASES AS WE 30:30 CONTINUALLY ASK. THAT'S WHY HE SAYS KEEP ON 30:34 ASKING. GOD DOES NOT SAY ASK ONCE AND 30:38 YOU SHALL RECEIVE. HE BIDS US ASK UNWEARINGLY 30:43 PERSIST IN PRAYER, TO PERSISTENT ASKING BRINGS THE PETITIONER 30:48 INTO A MORE EARNEST ATTITUDE, AND HERE IS THE KEY PART, IT 30:53 SAYS AND GIVES HIM AN INCREASED DESIRE TO RECEIVE THE THINGS FOR 30:58 WHICH HE ASKS. THAT'S FASCINATING. 31:01 IN OTHER WORDS THIS INCREASED DESIRE IS -- IS -- DIRECTLY 31:08 PROPORTIONAL TO US PERSISTENTLY ASKING. 31:11 AND IT'S INTERESTING JUST BECAUSE -- JUST BEFORE THIS 31:14 ACCOUNT IN LUKE 11, THERE IS THAT STORY OF THAT NEIGHBOR THAT 31:19 KNOCKS ON THE NEIGHBOR'S DOOR AND SAYS HEY -- AND IT'S AT 31:22 MIDNIGHT, SAYS HEY, I HAVE A GUEST, AND I HAVE NO BREAD, YOU 31:28 KNOW? AND THE PERSON IS IN BED, AND HE 31:31 SAYS, LOOK, I'M IN BED. IT'S LIKE I DON'T WANT TO COME 31:34 TO THE DOOR, AND THE BIBLE SAYS BECAUSE THE PERSON IS RELENTLESS 31:39 IN KNOCKING HE GETS UP JUST TO GET RID OF HIM, AND GIVES HIM 31:46 THE BREAD. AND THE POINT OF THAT PARABLE IS 31:50 THAT PERSISTENCE, IS TO KEEP ON ASKING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND 31:54 IN THIS DIRECT CONTEXT, SOMETIMES WE USE THAT WHOLE 31:59 ASKING PARADIGM TO ASK FOR -- YOU KNOW, LORD PLEASE 32:03 GIVE ME A CAR OR THIS PHYSICAL BLESSING, BUT THIS IS DIRECTLY 32:11 FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. SO CONTINUALLY ASKING INCREASES 32:15 OUR DESIRE FO THE HOLY SPIRIT AS WELL. 32:21 >> I WANT TO ADD ANOTHER COMPONENT. 32:24 HAVE YOU EVER DRIVEN PAST A BREAD FACTORY? 32:26 >> I -- A PASTRY FACTORY. >> OKAY. 32:30 YOU COUL SMELL IT. AND IN YOUR PSYCHE YOU COULD 32:34 ALMOST TASTE IT. THERE IS THIS DRIVE THAT SAYS TO 32:38 YOU, I HAVE GOT TO HAVE A PASTRY. 32:42 OH, THAT BREAD SMELLS SO GOOD. PERIODICALLY, WE WOULD GO TO 32:47 SUBWAY. >> UH-HUH. 32:49 >> EAT FRESH. >> UH-HUH. 32:51 >> AND DURING THE LUNCHTIME THEY HAVE THOSE BREAD OVENS GOING 32:55 VERY WELL, AND I ASKED ONE OF THE AT TENANTSSANT VN 33:06 VN -- ATTENDANTS, DO YOU EVER JUST SELL THOSE BREADS? 33:15 AND IF PRAYER -- IF WE ANTICIPATE THE BEAUTY OF PRAYER, 33:22 WE BEGIN TO TASTE PRAYER. WE BEGIN TO -- OUR SENSES ARE 33:26 BEGINNING TO TUNE INTO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE'RE IN 33:29 THE PRESENCE OF GOD BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS THINK, HOW 33:35 WOULD YOU BEHAVE IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIGNITARY, OR INWHITED TO A 33:41 CASTLE OR THE WHITE HOUSE, OR AN EMBASSY, AND YOU ARE TOLD THIS 33:45 IS A SPECIAL EVENT. THE ANTICIPATION IS SOMETIMES 33:48 GREATER THAN THE ACTUAL EVENT. >> YES. 33:51 >> BUT WOULD IT BE OPPOSITE WITH GOD IN THE ANTICIPATION FAILS -- 33:57 >> YEAH. PAILS. 33:59 >> PAILS? THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE. 34:02 AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE THOSE WHEN GOD BRINGS US INTO HIS PRESENCE. 34:07 SOMETIMES GOD BRINGS US INTO HIS PRESENCE WHEE HE KNOWS THAT 34:11 UNLESS I -- UNLESS I BROUGHT YOU TO THIS -- TO THIS EXPERIENCE 34:15 YOU WOULDN'T THIRST FOR MY PRESENCE AS MUCH AS YOU DO NOW. 34:19 AND PRAYER IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, HOW THESE ARE 34:23 ILLUSTRATING HOW NECESSARY IT IS TO KEEP ASKING, TO NOT GIVE UP, 34:29 TO NOT GIVE IN. AND OFTENTIMES PEOPLE GIVE UP 34:33 SHORT. >> YES. 34:34 >> -- OF THE FINISH LINE. >> YES. 34:37 >> SHORT OF THE BLESSING. >> YES. 34:40 THINK OF ELIJAH WHERE HE -- AFTER THE MOUNT CARAMEL 34:45 EXPERIENCE, HE TOLD EVERYONE LOOK, THERE IS GOING TO BE RAIN. 34:49 AND HE HAD TO PRAY SEVEN TIMES. HE PRAYS AN HE TELLS HIS 34:55 SERMON, GO UP AND SEE IF THERE IS A CLOUD COMING. 34:58 HE PRAYS AGAIN, AND HE GOES BACK UP, SEVEN TIMES. 35:03 AND THERE IS A STATEMENT THAT SAYS IF HE HAD STOPPED AT SIX, 35:08 THE RAIN WOULD NOT HAVE COME. AND THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT 35:12 THAT, AND THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THAT PERSISTENCE IN 35:16 PRAYER -- >> SEND THE RAIN. 35:17 >> -- SEND THE RAIN, AND THAT INCREASES THAT DESIRE. 35:21 AND RAIN IS THAT ANALOGY, YOU HAVE THE LATTER RAIN AND THE 35:25 EARLY RAIN. AND PRAYING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT 35:27 IS SOMETHING THAT GOD IS ASKING US TO DO. 35:30 EVEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BOOK OF ACTS, JESUSES A SENDS, AND 35:41 THEY SPENDING TEN DAYS ASKING. AND THAT INCREASED THEIR DESIRE 35:46 AND THEIR CAPACITY, AND WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME, THEY WERE 35:50 READY. THEY WERE RECEPTIVE, AND THEY 35:53 WENT OUT TO CHANGE THE WORLD AFTERWARDS. 35:55 MODERN EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE PRAYED. 35:59 I THINK OF EVAN ROBERTS. HE BEGAN AT THE AGE OF 13 TO 36:04 PRAY FOR ENGLAND, SPECIFICALLY FOR HIS TOWN OF WALES, AND ASKED 36:12 GOD TO REVIVE THE TOWN OF WALES. AND HE PRAYED FOR 13 YEARS. 36:17 AND AT THE AGE OF 26, HE BEGAN TO PREACH, AND THESE NUMBERS ARE 36:22 REAL. I LOOKED THEM UP. 36:24 THIS IS KNOWN AS THE GREAT REVIVAL OF 1904, AT THE AGE OF 36:29 26 HE BEGAN TO PREACH. 17 YOUNG PEOPLE GAVE THEIR 36:33 HEARTS TO THE LORD. AND TWO MONTHS LATER, 70,000, 36:39 7-0, 70,000 PEOPLE WERE CONVERTED IN TWO MONTHS, 85,000 36:42 IN FIVE MONTHS, 100,OOO IN EIGHT MONTHS. 36:55 CRIME PLUMMETED, AND WALES WAS REVIVED. 37:00 THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN THAT PERSISTENTLY HAD A BURDEN FOR 37:05 THE LORD JESUS, BURDEN FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BURDEN FOR 37:08 WALES, AND PRAYED FOR 13 YEARS, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT USED HIM TO 37:14 BRING REVIVAL TO WALES. AND THIS WAS IN THE 1900S. 37:19 A YOUNG MAN THAT WAS USED BY THE LORD JESUS. 37:22 AND THE STATEMENT SAYS A REVIVAL -- FROM FIRST SELECTED 37:27 MESSAGES 121, A REVIAL NEED BE EXPECTED ONLY IN ANSWER TO 37:33 PRAYER. A REVIVAL NEED BE EXPECTED ONLY 37:37 IN ANSWER TO PRAYER. >> SO IF YOU ARE NOT PRAYING 37:41 DON'T EXPECT A REVIVAL. >> YES. 37:43 AND IF YOU'RE -- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIVES BEING 37:49 CHANGED AND TRANSFORMED. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A 37:53 MASS-SCALE REVIVAL, AND WE'RE TOLD BEFORE JESUS COMES THERE 37:56 WILL BE THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE LATTER RAIN 38:00 AS NEVER BEFORE, THERE WILL BE A REVIVAL. 38:03 THERE WILL BE A TRUE REVIVAL, AND THERE WILL BE A FALSE 38:08 REVIVAL. WHEN WE GOES TO THE KEYS IN 38:11 PRAYING FOR REVIVAL. FIRST YOU ASK FOR IT. 38:14 SECOND, THERE'S A PART HERE, SACRIFICE FOR IT. 38:17 SACRIFICE IS A CHALLENGING WORD TODAY, AND YOU -- YOU LOOK AT IT 38:22 IN THE LIFE OF JESUS LUKE 6:12, IT WAS AT THIS TIME, JESS WENT 38:28 OFF TO A MOUNTAIN TO PRAY, AND HE SPENT THE WHOLE NIGHT IN 38:32 PRAYER. SO THIS IDEA OF PRAYING ALL 38:34 NIGHT -- I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO SACRIFICE SLEEP. 38:39 >> YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT. >> YEAH. 38:42 SACRIFICIAL SLEEP, AND WHEN IS THE LAST TIME IN OUR CHURCH HERE 38:48 IN NORTH AMERICA THAT YOU HEARD THE CHURCH SAYING, OKAY, THIS 38:51 SATURDAY NIGHT WE'RE GOING TO PRAY ALL NIGHT FOR THE HOLY 38:54 SPIRIT? I MEAN, YOU JUST DON'T HEAR 38:56 THAT. I MEAN, THIS CONCEPT OF PRAYING 38:59 FOR A SIGNIFICANT PERIOD OF TIME IS JUST ALMOST FOREIGN TO OUR 39:02 THINKING AND UNDERSTANDING, BUT YOU SEE THAT JESUS -- I DON'T 39:05 BELIEVE THAT HE DID THIS EVERY NIGHT, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS 39:11 WAS NOT ANOMALY. THERE WERE SEVERAL TIMES THAT HE 39:16 PRAYED ALL NIGHT. ONCE BEFOE CHOOSING THE 39:21 DISCIPLES. THE OTHER TIME WAS IN 39:24 GETHSEMANE. SO BEFORE SIGIFICANT EVENTS, 39:29 OUR SIGNIFICANT DECISIONS, WE WOULD SPENDING TIME IN PRAYER, 39:35 THE ENTIRE NIGHT SOMETIMES IN PRAYER TO GOD. 39:39 AND I THINK OF SOMETIMES IN MY OWN LIFE, WHERE I HAD 39:43 SIGNIFICANT DECISIONS TO MAKE, AND I SAY A SIMPLE PRAYER AND 39:46 THEN GO MAKE THE DECISION. BUT THE BIBLE POINTS TO A MODEL 39:51 IN JESUS THAT BEFORE A SPECIFIC CRISIS THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO 39:55 THROUGH, OR A SPECIFIC TIME, LIKE AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES AND 39:59 SO FORTH, THAT WE NEED TO BE ON OUR KNEES FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD 40:05 OF TIME IN PRAYER. >> PASTOR SHIN, MY WIFE AND I 40:09 COULD TRACE GREAT VICTORIES IN OUR LIVES TO THAT VERY THING. 40:14 AND WE ESTABLISH WHAT WE CALL SPIRITUAL EBENEZERS IN OUR 40:19 LIVES. WELL AN EBENEZER EVENTS A STONE 40:22 THAT WAS ESTABLISHED AS A REMINDER THAT GOD HITHERTO 40:30 BROUGHT US. SO WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE 40:32 EXPERIENCES IN YOUR LIFE, YOU CAN LOOK BACK -- I COULD USE A 40:36 SECULAR REFERENCE. FOR THOSE OF YOU HERE IN 40:39 AMERICA, PEOPLE REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 11TH. 40:41 THAT'S AN EBENEZER. THEY REMEMBER WHEN KENNEDY OR 40:47 MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS SHOT, OR THERE WAS A STOCK MARKET CRASH, 40:52 OR THE VOLCANO ERUPTED, PEOPLE HAVE THESE MARKERS IN THEIR 40:56 LIVES, AND WE WENT THROUGH A PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING MARKER 41:00 IN OUR LIVES, AND WE SPENT ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER, AND EVERYTHING 41:05 WE PRAYED FOR WAS ANSWERED IN TWO DAYS. 41:09 >> WOW. >> EVERYTHING. 41:11 WE PRAYED FOR, GOD LITERALLY -- WE CAME OUT OF OUR 41:15 CABIN -- WE WERE LIVING IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AT THE TIME. 41:18 AND WE PRAYED AND WE ENDED UP IN YOSEMITE FOR WHATEVER REASON. 41:23 WE DIDN'T PLAN TO GO THERE. WE DIDN'T TAKE A CHANGE OF 41:27 CLOTHING, TOOTHRUSH, WE JUST ENDED UP IN YOSEMITE IN THIS 41:31 MOMENT OF GREAT CHALLENGE, AND WE JUST TOOK OUR BIBLE AND THE 41:37 BOOK TESTIMONY OF TREASURES. AND WE WERE PRAYING ABOUT 3:30, 41:41 4:00 IN THE MORNING, AND WE WERE ON OUR KNEES IN THIS SMALL 41:46 CABIN. IT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A RESTROOM. 41:48 AND HE SAID, HE IS HERE. WE SAID TO EACH OTHER. 41:51 HE IS HERE. WE WOULD FEE. 41:53 HE'S HERE. AND THAT MORNING WHEN WE OPENED 41:55 THE DOOR, WE KNEW WHY THE LORD LEAD US TO THAT PARTICULAR 42:00 CABIN, BECAUSE THERE IN FRONT OF US WAS HALF DOME. 42:05 AND ALL I HEAR IS DAVID SAYING LIFT UP YOUR EYES UNTO THE 42:11 HILLS. OUR GOD IS A ROCK. 42:15 EVERYTHING WE PRAYED FOR. EVERYTHING WE PRAYED FOR THAT 42:18 NIGHT WAS ANSWERED IN TWO DAYS. SO WHEN WE TLK ABOUT PRAYER, AS 42:22 I SAID EARLIER -- I DON'T BELIEVE IN PRAYER, I BELIEVE IN 42:26 THE ONE TO WHOM WE PRAY. >> YES. 42:28 >> BECAUSE THE VERY ACT ITSELF, WHILE IT MAY BRING FUZZY 42:32 FEELINGS, UNLESS WE HAVE THAT CONNECTION, THAT YOU JUST GET A 42:35 FUZZY FEELING, BUT YOU WON'T GET ANY RESPONSE. 42:39 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE. 42:41 >> THE RESPONSES, YES. >> THE REVIVAL THAT IS COMING. 42:46 >> YES. AND THE VERY POSTURE OF PRAYER 42:49 IMPLIES OUR NEED. IN OTHER WORDS WHY SHOULD WE 42:52 PRAY IF WE HAVE GOT EVERYTHING TOGETHER. 42:54 IF WE HAVE ALL OF THIS POWER, WHY SHOULD I PRAY? 42:58 BUT THE VERY POSTURE OF PRAYER IS, LOOK, I NEED HELP. 43:03 I NEED MY CONNECTION TO GOD. I NEED DEPENDANCE UPON GOD, I 43:11 NEED COMMUNION WITH GOD. AND JESUS LIVED IN A WAY AS OUR 43:15 EXAMPLE, AND HE BEFORE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS WOULD 43:19 SPENDING SIGNIFICANT TIME IN PRAYER. 43:21 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND IT REQUIRED SACRIFICE, 43:25 AND WHEN I WAS AT THE EAST LANCING CHURCH IN MICHIGAN, I 43:31 STARTED PASTORING THERE 2008 WAS WHEN I BEGAN PASTORING THERE. 43:36 AND 2008 WAS WHEN THE BOTTOM FELL OUT OF THE ECONOMY. 43:40 >> YES. >> AND I WAS LIVING IN MICHIGAN 43:43 OF ALL PLACES, AND MICHIGAN WAS HIT HARD. 43:47 YOU REMEMBER THE AUTO BAILOUT. THINGS WERE GOING INTO A 43:50 TAILSPIN. AND I HAD ARRIVED AND THE CHURCH 43:53 BUDGET BEGAN TO BLEED MONEY -- JUST -- WE WERE 43:57 THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN THE RED. WE HAD AN EMERGENCY BOARD 44:01 MEETING, SLASHED ALL OF OUR BUDGETS, JUST -- JUST THE 44:05 ESSENTIAL, AND WE WERE AFRAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO 44:08 CLOSE THE CHURCH. IT WAS THAT BAD, SO ANOTHER 44:12 FRONT -- WHILE THIS WAS ALL HAPPENING, I WAS AT A PRAYER 44:17 MEETING, AND THE SAINTS CAME TO ME, AND SAID THIS IS A BIBLE 44:22 STUDY. WE WANT TO PRAYER. 44:24 AND THEY SAID WE WANT TO PRAY -SACRIFICIALLY. SACRIFICIAL PRAYER. 44:30 AND I SAID, OKAY. YOU WANT TO PRAY SACRIFICIALLY? 44:35 ARE YOU SURE? AND THEY SAID YES. 44:36 AND I SAID, OKAY, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THIS SUNDAY MORNING AT 4:00 44:42 AM I'LL BE HERE AT THE CHURCH. I SAID YOU JOIN ME. 44:46 YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME, SACK FISH WALL PRAYER. 44:50 YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THEIR EYES, THEY WERE LIKE -- 44:52 >> ARE YOU SERIOUS? >> YEAH. 44:54 AND I FOUND OUT LATER, AS THEY WERE LEAVING THIS HUSBAND AND 44:58 WIFE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND THEY SAID THIS IS INSANE? 45:03 WHY DON'T YOU STOP THAT MAN? AND THE WIFE SAID WHY DON'T YOU 45:06 STOP HIM? SO I SHOWED UP NEXT SUNDAY 45:11 MORNING, AND MINE YOU, SATURDAYS MANY TIMES I DON'T GO TO BED 45:20 UNTIL MIDNIGHT. AND I HAD TO GET UP AT 3:00. 45:24 AND I SAID THEY ARE NOT COMING. I SAID I CAN'T EVEN GET THE 45:30 SAINTS TO CHURCH AT 9:30. 4:00 AM, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 45:37 I'M GOING TO SHOW UP, HAVE MY PRAYER TIME AND GO HOME. 45:41 AND AROUND 4:00 THE DOORS OPENED AND THESE BLOODSHOT EYED JUST 45:47 HAGGERED LOOKING SAINTS FILED IN. 45:52 AND I SAID HERE WE GO. AND WE PRAYED FOR THE HOLY 45:57 SPIRIT, FOR REVIVAL, PRAYED FOR TWO HOURS, AND THAT BEGAN A 46:05 JOURNEY THAT WAS JUST TRANSFORMATIVE. 46:09 WE WOULD PRAY FROM 4:00 AM TO 6:00 AM AND WE PRAYED AT THAT 46:16 TIME FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS. WE MOVED IT EVENTUALLY DOWN TO 46:22 SEVEN, AND THEN FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS THAT I WAS THERE, EVERY 46:26 SUNDAY MORNING THERE WOULD BE A GROUP OF US THAT WOULD GATHER 46:29 TOGETHER TO PRAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FOR REVIVAL, AND 46:32 THERE WERE JUST -- THERE WERE JUST MIRACLES THAT WOULD COME 46:37 IN -- THE CHURCH -- ONE STORY THAT I LIKE TO TELL IS -- THERE 46:41 WAS A SON OF A BAPTIST PREACHER THAT WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY. 46:45 HE WAS THE RISING STAR, AND HE WAS A SAXOPHONE PLAYER, A JAZZ 46:51 MUSICIAN, AND ALL OF THE -- THE MUSIC PEOPLE THAT WERE -- THE 46:56 MUSIC PROFESSORS SAID THIS MAN IS -- IS GOING SOMEWHERE, AND HE 47:00 WAS SON OF A BAPTIST PREACHER. ANYWAY ONE OF OUR STUDENTS 47:04 ENGAGED HIM AND SAID HEY, YOU WANT STUDY THE BIBLE? 47:10 HE SAID SURE. AND HE SAID LOOK, MAN, YOU ARE A 47:15 SCHOLAR, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE. 47:18 LONG STOY SHORT HE GETS INVITED TO CHURCH AND HE GETS CONVICTED 47:22 ON THE SABBATH. WANTS TO JOIN. 47:24 AND HE CALLS HIS BAPTIST PREACHER DAD, AND HE SAYS DAD, I 47:29 FEEL CALLED TO KEEP THE SABBATH. AND HIS DAD TOLD HIM, I WANT YOU 47:35 TO FOLLOW YOUR CONVICTIONS. HE GETS BAPTIZED, HE IS STUDYING 47:41 TO BE A MINISTER NOW. AND SO THAT HAPPENS. 47:45 AND THEN SHORTLY THEREAFTER WE HAVE A CHINESE STUDENT WHO IS AN 47:50 ATHEIST THAT COMES TO MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EXCHANGE 47:53 STUDENT. SHE IS STANDING ON A BUS CORNER, 47:55 A BUS STOP, AND THE SAME STUDENT ENGAGES HER, AND GETS HER IN 47:59 BIBLE STUDIES, SEVEN MONTHS LATER, SHE IS BAPTIZED. 48:06 I MEAN THERE IS A REVIVAL TAKING PLACE IN OUR CHURCH, CAMPUS 48:10 MINISTRIES AND SO FORTH, AND WHAT I FIND IS THAT THE LORD 48:13 PUTS HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS. 48:15 IN OTHER WORDS WHN WE ENGAGE IN HIS GOAL OF SAVING SOULS, GOD 48:22 OPENS THE RESOURCES. THAT'S WHAT I FOUND. 48:24 IS THAT -- IS THAT WE WENT FROM A CHURCH THAT WAS BLEEDING 48:28 FINANCIALLY, TO A CHRCH THAT WAS THRIVING FINANCIALLY, IN 48:32 MICHIGAN, AT THE HEART OF THE RECESSION. 48:35 WE ENDED THAT YEAR FISCALLY IN THE BLACK, AND EVERY YEAR SINCE 48:39 WE ENDED WITH A SURPLUS IN CHURCH BUDGET. 48:42 A SURPLUS, AND THE REASON WAS, WE WERE -- WE WEE -- WE WERE 48:47 WINNING SOULS FOR THE LORD JESUS. 48:49 THERE WAS A REVIVAL TAKING PLACE, AND GOD WAS LIKE I CAN 48:53 TRUST HIM WITH THESE RESOURCES, AND WE WERE ABLE TO HIRE A 48:57 FULL-TIME PASTOR, A BIBLE WORKER, A WEB PASTOR, AND ALL F 49:02 O THESE THINGS, AND THE ONLY THING I CAN ATTRIBUTE IT TO IS 49:06 THIS SMALL BAND OF BELIEVERS THAT WERE GATHERED TOGETHER 49:12 PERSISTENTLY, UNWEARILY, SACRIFICING THEIR SUNDAY 49:17 MORNINGS ON THEIR KNEES TO PRAY TO GOD TO SIGH -- SAY, LORD, WE 49:26 NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT POURED OUT. THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS ALL OTHER 49:30 BLESSINGS IN HIS TRAIN. >> I LIKE THAT. 49:32 >> THINK OF THE IMPLICATIONS. IN WORD WHEN WE HAVE THE HOOULS 49:43 WE HAVE EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AS WELL. 49:45 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT JESUS ABIDES IN US THROUGH THE 49:49 HOLY SPIRIT WHOM HE HAS GIVEN US. 49:53 IT'S OFTEN BEEN -- JUST A QUESTION IN MY MIND. 49:57 HOW DOES CHRIST LIVE WITHIN ME. THE BIBLE SAYS IN YOU, THE HOPE 50:02 OF GLORY. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 50:03 >> THE BIBLE INDICATES IT'S THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 50:08 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ABLE TO BE EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. 50:13 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SO AS CHRIST'S 50:17 REPRESENTATIVE, WHEN CHRIST COMES INTO US, HE BRINGS THE 50:20 HOLY SPIRIT WITH HIM. AND IT'S THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT 50:22 THAT THE NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE TAKES PLACE, THAT TRANSFORMATION 50:28 TAKES PLACE, THAT VICTORY OVER ADDICTIONS AS ALL OF THESE TYPES 50:32 OF THINGS TAKE PLACE. WE PRAYED FOR A CERTAIN 50:35 INDIVIDUAL THAT WE THOUGHT HAD NO HOPE. 50:38 SOMETIMES YOU ARE LIKE, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE. 50:40 I MET WITH THIS ONE GUY, AND I WAS JUST LIKE, OH, MY, THIS IS 50:46 HOPELESS. AND WE WERE PRAYING, AND I COME 50:49 TO FIND OUT LATER AFTER I LEFT THE CHURCH, HE WAS AT A YOUTH 50:53 CONFERENCE, AND I'M LIKE, WOE, WHAT JUST HAPPENED? 50:56 IT'S A MIRACLE. IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. 50:59 AND IT HAS BEEN VERY ELABORATING TO ME, PASTOR, TO KNOW THAT I 51:04 DON'T NEED TO DO THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 51:06 >> YES. >> YOU KNOW? 51:08 I -- I DON'T NEED TO CONVICT PEOPLE. 51:11 I DON'T NEED TO CONVERT PEOPLE. I CAN'T CONVERT PEOPLE. 51:15 I CAN'T CONVICT PEOPLE. THE HOLY SPIRIT CONVICTS. 51:18 I NEED TO COOPERATE WITH HIS LEADING, AND WHEN THE WIND 51:23 BLOWS, I MAKE THE APPEAL. WHEN I SEE THE TREE SHAKE, I 51:27 MAKE THE APPEAL. AND THAT HAS EEN VERY 51:29 LIBERATING TO ME, TO KNOW THAT THERE IS NOT A MISSING PERSON IN 51:33 THE GOD HEAD. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT MISSING, 51:36 AND I DON'T NEED TO FILL THAT POSITION, AND WHEN I ASK FOR THE 51:40 HOLY SPIRIT TO INTERVENE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE, IT'S ASKING 51:43 GOD TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE THAT I CAN'T DO, AND FOR ME TO 51:47 COOPERATE WITH HIM. >> I LOVE THAT. 51:50 THERE ARE NO APPLICATIONS TO TAKE THE HOLY SPIRIT PLACE. 51:55 EZEKIEL PREACHED, LET THE RESULTS FALL WHERE -- LET THE 51:59 RESULTS BE MY RESPONSIBILITY. >> UH-HUH. 52:02 UH-HUH. AND AS WE COME TO OUR FINAL 52:07 PIECE. NUMBER 1, ASK, NUMBER 2 52:11 SACRIFICE, AND FINALLY LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS TO ASK GOD BY THE 52:15 GRACE OF GOD TO -- TO LIVE -- TO LIVE WHAT WE BELIEVE. 52:22 I HAVE OFTEN SAID, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUES WITH SCRIPTURE THAT I 52:24 HAVE IS NOT THE PARTS THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND. 52:27 IT'S THE PARTS THAT I DO UNDERSTAND. 52:29 AND I HAVE A CHALLENGE WITH. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. 52:34 EASY TO UNDERSTAND. DIFFICULT TO PRACTICE. 52:37 LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. EASY TO UNDERSTAND, DIFFICULT TO 52:40 PRACTICE. SO YOU HAVE THESE PARTS AND WHAT 52:42 GOD IS LOOKING FOR IS FOR A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WILL LET 52:47 THE HOLY SPIRIT TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES, SO THERE'S NOT A 52:51 DISSONANCE BETWEEN THEIR PUBLIC LIFE AND THEIR PRIVATE LIFE, 52:56 THEIR PUBLIC PERSONA AND THEIR PRIVATE LIFE. 52:59 THE OFFICERS WHO WERE SENT TO JESUS CAME BACK WITH A REPORT 53:03 THAT NEVER A MAN SPOKE AS HE SPOKE, BUT THE REASON FOR THIS 53:08 WAS NEVER A MAN LIVED AS HE LIVED. 53:11 SO JESUS'S POWER CAME FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND FROM THE 53:18 AUTHENTIC LIFE THAT HE WAS LIVING, AND I -- I THINK OF THE 53:22 WAY THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS GONE TODAY, I -- I CAN'T HELP BUT 53:29 IMAGINE THAT IF THE FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS WERE TO MEET 53:33 THE 21ST CENTURY CHRISTIAN, THE AVERAGE NOMINAL CHRISTIANS, THEY 53:41 WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE BETWEEN THE TWO REALITIES. 53:45 >> VERY MUCH SO. >> AND AUTHENTIC RELIGION IS 53:52 WHAT PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR.-IT'S WHAT THE MILLENNIALS ARE LOOKING FOR. 53:57 THEY ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE THAT PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH. 54:00 THAT LIVE TH GOSPEL, NOT JUST PREACH THE GOSPEL. 54:04 THERE WILL BE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD SUCH A REVIVAL AS 54:11 HAS NOT BEEN WITESSED. SO PASTOR JOHN, I BELIEVE BEFORE 54:15 JESUS COMES ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE THERE WILL BE THIS 54:18 REVIVAL, THERE WILL BE AN OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS 54:21 NEVER BEFORE. THE LATTER RAIN WILL BE POURED 54:24 OUT, BUT MY FEAR -- OR MY PRAYER IS LORD HELP ME NOT TO MISS IT. 54:30 HELP ME NOT TO MISS THE POURING OUT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON 54:33 GOD'S PEOPLE, BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 54:35 HEARTS AND MINDS WILL BE LEAD BACK TO THE LORD JESUS. 54:39 THERE WILL BE TRANSFORMATIONS, ADDICTIONS THAT WILL BE BROKEN, 54:43 PEOPLE'S LIVES WILL BE DRAU -- DRAMATICALLY TRANSFORMED. 54:50 AND GOD WILL POUR OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT UPON THOSE WHO ARE 54:54 WAITING AND PRAYING. >> WAITING AND PRAYING. 54:58 NOT JUST PRAYING FOR IT, BUT SACRIFICING FOR IT, AND BEING 55:01 DETERMINED TO LIVE FOR IT. I WANT TO GIVE OUR AUDIENCE THAT 55:08 IS LISTENING TO OUR SHOW, I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO 55:13 CONTACT PASTOR SHIN. YOU MAY SAY I WANT YOU TO COME 55:20 SHARE THIS WITH OUR ORGANIZATION OR SCHOOL, OR MAYBE THE 55:23 UNIVERSITY. HERE IS THE INFORMATION THAT YOU 55:26 NEED. 55:50 WHY NOT INVITE HIM TO SPEAK AT YOUR CHURCH? 55:54 YOU CAN FIND HIS CONTACT INFORMATION ON THE CHURCH 55:56 WEBSITE, OR WRITE TO HIM. 56:08 ♪ 56:13 >> WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TUNING IN TODAY. 56:16 YOU KNOW, THE LORD ALWAYS CALLS US TO A PLACE OF SACRIFICE, TO 56:22 PLACE OF PRAYER AND REVIVAL, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE HAD, 56:26 AND PASTOR SHIN, ONCE AGAIN, WELCOME.-pAPPRECIATE YOU COMING TO SHARE 56:31 WITH US WHAT YOU HAVE. >> THANK YOU. 56:33 >> BUT I WANT OUR AUDIENCE TO NOT FORGET THAT THERE'S A SHORT 56:37 PASSAGE IN THE BIBLE THAT'S DYNAMIC. 56:39 IT'S ACTUALLY FILLED WITH DYNAMITE, SUMMARIZING THE 56:47 PROGRAM TODAY. PRAY WITHOUT CEASING, AND I 56:49 WOULD ADD THE BLESSINGS WILL COME WITHOUT RESTRAINT. 56:52 >> AMEN. >> WE'LL PRAY FOR YOU PASTOR 56:56 SHIN. PRAY FOR US, AND AS WE PRAY FOR 56:58 THE GOD OF OUR FATHER TO BLESS US, WE HOPE THAT HE BLESSES YOU 57:04 UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN. ♪ |
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