WEBVTT 00:00:15.050 --> 00:00:21.250 Awesome, awesome. Get your coat on. I'm in Dallas, 00:00:21.250 --> 00:00:25.190 and then I was in Phoenix yesterday. So I go 00:00:25.190 --> 00:00:28.289 from about 110 to this. So I never know how to 00:00:28.289 --> 00:00:31.170 pack for these kind of trips. So this is what 00:00:31.170 --> 00:00:39.929 I got. Good. Good. I would encourage you. I don't 00:00:39.929 --> 00:00:41.729 know if we have any recordings or anything last 00:00:41.729 --> 00:00:44.969 night, but I was with you guys last night. The 00:00:44.969 --> 00:00:47.829 Lord met us. It was beautiful. And for you guys 00:00:47.829 --> 00:00:49.829 who don't know, my name is Corey Russell, and 00:00:49.829 --> 00:00:52.189 I spent, originally from Northwest Arkansas, 00:00:52.609 --> 00:00:56.549 got radically saved in 1997, got married to my 00:00:56.549 --> 00:00:59.689 beautiful wife in 1998, had my first daughter 00:00:59.689 --> 00:01:03.590 in 1999, and then we moved to Kansas City to 00:01:03.590 --> 00:01:06.010 join the International House of Prayer, where 00:01:06.010 --> 00:01:09.989 we spent 18 years in day and night prayer in 00:01:09.989 --> 00:01:13.430 Kansas City. Two years ago, the Lord sovereignly 00:01:13.430 --> 00:01:15.790 moved us to Dallas, Texas to join the Upper Room 00:01:15.790 --> 00:01:19.170 Church. It's been a blast, and it's awesome. 00:01:19.329 --> 00:01:22.790 I'm a man that's just eaten up with prayer and 00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:25.230 calling the whole body of Christ across the earth 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:29.870 to intimacy with God, intercession, and getting 00:01:29.870 --> 00:01:33.810 close to God. I believe that we're in an interesting 00:01:33.810 --> 00:01:37.409 hour of human history, and I believe Jesus gave 00:01:37.409 --> 00:01:40.709 us one. You know, in his last message, it's called 00:01:40.709 --> 00:01:44.109 the Olivet Discourse, and he lays out about 25 00:01:44.109 --> 00:01:47.530 verses about the end times, the Antichrist, the 00:01:47.530 --> 00:01:50.950 abomination of desolation, all the stuff that's 00:01:50.950 --> 00:01:54.069 going to come in the last days. And I imagine 00:01:54.069 --> 00:01:55.730 the disciples are sitting there, and they've 00:01:55.730 --> 00:01:58.790 got, well, how many gallons of water do we need 00:01:58.790 --> 00:02:01.989 to store up? How many bags of rice do we need 00:02:01.989 --> 00:02:05.480 to go ahead and get? How much gunpowder and guns 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.500 and artillery? How much prepping do we need to 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:12.539 do, Jesus? And he looks us right in the face, 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:16.800 and he makes a really simple yet profound statement. 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:24.280 He says, watch and pray. Watch and pray. Get 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:26.879 your eyes opened and get your spirit engaged. 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.340 Get your eyes open and get your spirit engaged. 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.699 They will be the greatest commodities. In the 00:02:33.699 --> 00:02:35.479 midst of the generation of the Lord's return. 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.580 And I believe that we're living in that generation. 00:02:39.979 --> 00:02:42.199 Nobody knows the day or the hour, but the scripture 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:46.300 commands us to discern the times and the seasons. 00:02:47.139 --> 00:02:49.199 And I believe that we're in the beginning of 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.180 the birth pangs. It's what Jesus calls it. We 00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:53.879 got some moms that have had babies out here. 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:56.840 Three of you. We got one mom right here. Okay. 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:02.030 Come on, mamas. We've had four babies. And watching 00:03:02.030 --> 00:03:05.430 those birth pangs, watching the contractions 00:03:05.430 --> 00:03:09.349 as they get closer and closer and closer until 00:03:09.349 --> 00:03:14.189 the full birth, Jesus likens the generation of 00:03:14.189 --> 00:03:17.569 his return to birth pangs and the way that a 00:03:17.569 --> 00:03:21.569 woman gives birth to a child. And I believe that 00:03:21.569 --> 00:03:24.289 2020 is, we are going to look back on as one 00:03:24.289 --> 00:03:28.039 of those. Divine thresholds that we crossed over 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:31.620 that another contraction is leading to the generation 00:03:31.620 --> 00:03:34.379 that is going to lead to the literal return of 00:03:34.379 --> 00:03:39.099 Jesus Christ. I mean that. I believe that firmly. 00:03:39.219 --> 00:03:42.500 So that changes how I live Monday through Saturday. 00:03:43.099 --> 00:03:46.479 And that delivers me from 45 minutes and 20 bucks 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:58.639 once a week. I give 50, brother. Whatever. Whatever 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:03.460 is always my segue word. So anyway, so it's good 00:04:03.460 --> 00:04:08.000 to be with you guys. Let me backtrack back into 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.860 greeting meat before I just talk about the end 00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:14.280 times and watching and praying. So anyway, good. 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:17.439 If you have your Bibles, turn to Hosea 10. Hosea 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.639 10, it's one of the minor prophets. And we'll 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.209 just jump in. I believe that we're... And I guess 00:04:24.209 --> 00:04:26.370 that's a good way to preface where I'm going. 00:04:26.389 --> 00:04:29.790 I didn't mean to. I believe that we're living 00:04:29.790 --> 00:04:32.829 in the generation of the Lord's return. Okay? 00:04:33.230 --> 00:04:38.670 That's a pretty dramatic statement. I believe 00:04:38.670 --> 00:04:43.490 Israel in the land, Jerusalem under Israeli control, 00:04:43.689 --> 00:04:49.509 the signs of Matthew 24. There are 22 signs in 00:04:49.509 --> 00:04:53.730 Matthew 24. 22 signs in the cosmos, earthquakes, 00:04:54.029 --> 00:04:58.550 famines, pestilences. We're seeing relational 00:04:58.550 --> 00:05:04.170 signs, betrayal, offense, hatred, cold love, 00:05:04.389 --> 00:05:09.509 falling away. We're seeing many of those signs, 00:05:09.649 --> 00:05:12.569 and I believe one of the verses that Jesus says 00:05:12.569 --> 00:05:14.089 he's going to be in the middle of that generation, 00:05:14.110 --> 00:05:17.230 that this gospel will be preached in all the 00:05:17.230 --> 00:05:20.290 world. as a witness to all the nations, and then 00:05:20.290 --> 00:05:23.610 the end will come. In the middle of the generation, 00:05:23.870 --> 00:05:26.509 and as we're moving into this hour, I believe 00:05:26.509 --> 00:05:29.329 that what God's going to release, and I believe 00:05:29.329 --> 00:05:32.089 it firmly, we are going to see the greatest outpouring 00:05:32.089 --> 00:05:34.569 of the Holy Spirit that has ever been released 00:05:34.569 --> 00:05:39.230 upon the planet. The greatest outpouring of the 00:05:39.230 --> 00:05:43.629 Holy Spirit. I'm talking about cities and regions, 00:05:43.670 --> 00:05:47.500 even nations. coming underneath the manifest 00:05:47.500 --> 00:05:52.160 presence of God. When I talk about revival, I'm 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.319 not talking about will you come to our revival 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.180 next month. I'm talking about when God takes 00:05:58.180 --> 00:06:01.779 the stage and to where the crack house and the 00:06:01.779 --> 00:06:05.220 church house are all vulnerable to the manifest 00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:08.779 presence of God and to where there will be no 00:06:08.779 --> 00:06:12.420 pedophile ring that can live within a 50 -mile 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:16.680 radius of this place. No crack house. No human 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.779 trafficking ring. Where the spirit of conviction 00:06:19.779 --> 00:06:25.500 is resting on regions. That's what revival history 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:28.899 tells us is that when God shows up, it's not 00:06:28.899 --> 00:06:31.699 about human personalities. It's not about the 00:06:31.699 --> 00:06:33.839 gifting of a preacher or the gifting of a worship. 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:37.300 It's when man takes the back and God takes the 00:06:37.300 --> 00:06:41.279 stage. And where God begins to do effortlessly. 00:06:41.899 --> 00:06:45.079 what we have tried to do a hundred years. And 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.639 now in an environment of revival, the same phrases 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:55.220 now reap 500 -fold return. So I believe in divine 00:06:55.220 --> 00:07:00.800 seasons where God openly manifests the rule and 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.879 the reign of His Son. Jesus is reigning right 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:09.449 now at the right hand of the Father. But the 00:07:09.449 --> 00:07:15.329 lost many times don't know it. Revival is when 00:07:15.329 --> 00:07:21.490 the lost knows it. Revival is when the lost and 00:07:21.490 --> 00:07:25.389 the believer alike are aware there is a man at 00:07:25.389 --> 00:07:29.029 the right hand of the Father and that he is glorified 00:07:29.029 --> 00:07:31.769 and he has all authority and all power and it's 00:07:31.769 --> 00:07:34.829 in those seasons that we see the works of Satan 00:07:34.829 --> 00:07:38.910 destroyed. We see the powers of darkness destroyed. 00:07:39.250 --> 00:07:42.990 We see the battering ram of the word of God destroy 00:07:42.990 --> 00:07:47.610 all darkness and evil and wickedness and Satan 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:51.829 is cast down from heaven. That's seasons of revival. 00:07:52.050 --> 00:07:55.189 I wish I could take the next hour and lay out 00:07:55.189 --> 00:07:57.329 to you stories, but that's not my purpose this 00:07:57.329 --> 00:08:01.490 morning. I love revival seasons. I want to say 00:08:01.490 --> 00:08:04.420 that I believe in a billion soul harvest. That 00:08:04.420 --> 00:08:08.680 is going to come in in this next wave. A billion 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:14.100 soul harvest. But I want to talk to you this 00:08:14.100 --> 00:08:16.579 morning about how do we prepare for revival? 00:08:17.980 --> 00:08:21.199 How do we as believers, I'm really firm about 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.319 the 2 Chronicles 7, the if my people principle. 00:08:25.259 --> 00:08:28.959 The if my people principle, God releases mercy 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.220 into the earth through the agent of the church. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.759 The church is his vehicle of the bringing forth 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:42.139 a blessing for a lost world. So how do we prepare 00:08:42.139 --> 00:08:45.259 for revival? Why am I saying that? This morning, 00:08:45.299 --> 00:08:47.259 the Holy Spirit, I was going to preach something 00:08:47.259 --> 00:08:49.620 else this morning, and I felt the Holy Spirit 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:52.779 whispering to me, I want to move in revival here. 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.059 I want to move in this region with the spirit 00:08:56.059 --> 00:08:59.600 of revival. I don't preach this. I honestly haven't 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.440 preached. I had to go back about a year ago. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.200 to the last time I preached this message. And 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:08.720 I felt like the Holy Spirit said, chunk what 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.759 you're doing. I want you to get them positioned 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.399 and aligned for what I'm about to do. I even 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.460 believe that the fact that we haven't had church 00:09:17.460 --> 00:09:19.940 for the last two weeks, it's almost been like 00:09:19.940 --> 00:09:23.490 a sanctifying season. and a preparation season 00:09:23.490 --> 00:09:26.870 because as you go to four services and as you 00:09:26.870 --> 00:09:28.769 move into the next, I feel like there's a crossing 00:09:28.769 --> 00:09:31.529 over season that's taking place, and the Lord 00:09:31.529 --> 00:09:33.789 wanted just to prepare you. It's like Joshua 00:09:33.789 --> 00:09:36.549 telling them, three days, prepare yourself. We're 00:09:36.549 --> 00:09:38.570 about to cross over. I feel like it's been a 00:09:38.570 --> 00:09:41.210 three -week season before we cross over, and 00:09:41.210 --> 00:09:44.190 there's going to be a new people with a new purpose 00:09:44.190 --> 00:09:47.210 and join together at Life Bible Church as we 00:09:47.210 --> 00:10:00.289 move forward. Hosea 10 verse 12. In the middle 00:10:00.289 --> 00:10:04.889 of a mostly judgment book where Hosea is hitting 00:10:04.889 --> 00:10:10.029 northern Israel over cycles of wickedness, evil, 00:10:10.190 --> 00:10:13.970 and judgment. He says you guys are in the midst 00:10:13.970 --> 00:10:18.230 of a deadly cycle. You guys are in a cycle of 00:10:18.230 --> 00:10:20.149 sowing and reaping that's brought about a lot 00:10:20.149 --> 00:10:23.830 of turmoil. And I believe many of us. And I felt 00:10:23.830 --> 00:10:27.570 it at the end last night. I feel like 2020 and 00:10:27.570 --> 00:10:30.190 COVID, many of us have gone into our homes and 00:10:30.190 --> 00:10:32.809 we've entered into some bad sowing and reaping 00:10:32.809 --> 00:10:37.250 cycles. Some things that we haven't dealt with 00:10:37.250 --> 00:10:40.570 in years, we found ourselves slipping back into 00:10:40.570 --> 00:10:44.350 in this last season. Things that we would have 00:10:44.350 --> 00:10:47.190 never gone back to in our boredom, in our pain. 00:10:47.899 --> 00:10:50.779 In our looking for needs to medicate the pain, 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.080 we've gone back to old places and it's brought 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.240 about bad cycles. And I believe that God is releasing 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.000 a lifeline to us today to enter into a new sowing 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:07.700 and reaping cycle. Hosea 10 verse 12. He says, 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:12.639 sow for yourselves righteousness. Reap in mercy. 00:11:13.379 --> 00:11:17.320 And here's the phrase. Break up your fallow ground. 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:25.399 Break up your fallow ground for it is time. Everybody 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:30.200 say it's time. He says it is time to seek the 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:34.860 Lord till he comes and rains down righteousness 00:11:34.860 --> 00:11:38.179 upon you. We've been singing all morning about 00:11:38.179 --> 00:11:42.179 rain, the cloud. Jenny brought it up last night 00:11:42.179 --> 00:11:44.639 about... That in the same way Elijah brought 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.820 down fire and confronted all the false gods of 00:11:47.820 --> 00:11:50.340 Israel and then birthed the cloud that ended 00:11:50.340 --> 00:11:53.019 the drought. So that's what God was doing in 00:11:53.019 --> 00:11:55.759 this hour. And I believe that God is ending a 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.600 drought. And that God is ending a drought, a 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.919 spiritual drought over this region. And I'm believing 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.399 that God is wanting to release the rain of the 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:10.759 Holy Spirit. But this issue of sowing for yourselves 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.629 righteousness. reaping in mercy in this phrase, 00:12:14.710 --> 00:12:17.289 breaking up your fellow ground, I'm going to 00:12:17.289 --> 00:12:19.590 give you what many in the modern church would 00:12:19.590 --> 00:12:22.710 call a cuss word, and it's the word repentance. 00:12:25.570 --> 00:12:30.289 Can I talk about a cuss word today? Repentance. 00:12:31.629 --> 00:12:35.009 It's not fancy. It's not fashionable. It's not 00:12:35.009 --> 00:12:38.350 sexy. But I want to tell you, it's the age -old 00:12:38.350 --> 00:12:43.179 way of growing in favor with God. Are those seasons 00:12:43.179 --> 00:12:45.899 where you break agreement and you realign your 00:12:45.899 --> 00:12:50.539 mindset, your life, and you deal the death blow 00:12:50.539 --> 00:12:54.559 to anything, any person, any substance that is 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.879 standing in between you and fresh connection 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:01.480 with God. And you never graduate from repentance. 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:04.659 There are always seasons of fresh repentance, 00:13:04.980 --> 00:13:07.320 fresh changing. A matter of fact, the Lord told 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.600 me there has to be a fresh turning to move into 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:15.570 a fresh season. And that we want to live in last 00:13:15.570 --> 00:13:18.470 season's revelation based on the last season's 00:13:18.470 --> 00:13:20.549 turning. And so whenever you want to move into 00:13:20.549 --> 00:13:23.789 a new season of grace, it requires a fresh repentance, 00:13:24.149 --> 00:13:27.269 a fresh turning, a fresh realigning to your original 00:13:27.269 --> 00:13:30.730 vows, your original calls, your original consecration. 00:13:30.789 --> 00:13:33.330 We must realign ourselves. That's called repentance. 00:13:33.570 --> 00:13:41.250 And God calls that beautiful. Whenever you want 00:13:41.250 --> 00:13:42.970 to move into something new, it's going to require 00:13:42.970 --> 00:13:48.009 a fresh turning. Which means God's going to get 00:13:48.009 --> 00:13:53.929 up into your Netflix account. I mean, we just 00:13:53.929 --> 00:13:57.590 say a phrase like, I know, brother. No, no. It's 00:13:57.590 --> 00:14:00.529 God showing up in your Netflix account. It's 00:14:00.529 --> 00:14:02.649 God showing up in your social media interaction. 00:14:03.950 --> 00:14:07.830 It's God showing up to how many beers are in 00:14:07.830 --> 00:14:11.860 your fridge. And how much you've been drinking 00:14:11.860 --> 00:14:14.100 in this last season compared to other seasons. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.820 Can we get practical? It looks like what you 00:14:19.820 --> 00:14:23.899 do before you go to sleep. It's really practical 00:14:23.899 --> 00:14:26.840 and the Lord says you would have never, it's 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.120 not about this or that, but there are things 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.990 that you have let go in this last season. And 00:14:32.990 --> 00:14:35.730 I want to put my finger on it and call you gently 00:14:35.730 --> 00:14:38.889 back to me because I'm wanting to break in with 00:14:38.889 --> 00:14:43.029 fresh encounter in your life. I want to break 00:14:43.029 --> 00:14:45.950 in in fresh places in your life. And I'm inviting 00:14:45.950 --> 00:14:49.750 you to bring one weak reach to me. If you give 00:14:49.750 --> 00:14:56.470 me one reach, I'll make 99 to you. He goes, don't 00:14:56.470 --> 00:15:00.179 you miss that tenderness in the Bible? Don't 00:15:00.179 --> 00:15:02.200 you miss that tenderness in prayer where you 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:06.559 used to cry? Where you used to carry my heart 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.840 in speaking my word to others? I want to get 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:11.759 back to what we used to have with each other. 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:19.840 God is so nostalgic. And he really loves to reminisce. 00:15:20.580 --> 00:15:23.480 And he calls us back to early seasons of love. 00:15:25.419 --> 00:15:28.019 He says, sow for yourselves righteousness, reap 00:15:28.019 --> 00:15:31.220 in mercy. He says the phrase, break up your fallow 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:36.299 ground. He's going to liken our hearts to the 00:15:36.299 --> 00:15:41.000 way that ground is for a farmer. And the fallow 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.879 ground is the ground that was useful in the previous 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.840 season, but in time it became hard, it became 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:53.539 weedy. Seedy, hard ground. And the only way to 00:15:53.539 --> 00:15:57.019 make it useful again is it needs a tiller to 00:15:57.019 --> 00:16:00.279 till up the ground below and to make it moldable 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.659 and soft again so it can receive this seed's 00:16:03.659 --> 00:16:07.659 word. And it can receive this season's seed and 00:16:07.659 --> 00:16:11.620 so that it can bring forth a new season. And 00:16:11.620 --> 00:16:13.879 what I love about God is he says, I'm not going 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:18.659 to do it for you. See, God has a part and you 00:16:18.659 --> 00:16:22.470 have a part. God won't do your part and you can't 00:16:22.470 --> 00:16:27.990 do his part. I like to say it this way. God doesn't 00:16:27.990 --> 00:16:33.330 dance with mannequins. First off, that's weird. 00:16:35.570 --> 00:16:37.870 That's what everybody wants God to do. God, I 00:16:37.870 --> 00:16:42.049 want you to do it all. And he goes, no, I don't 00:16:42.049 --> 00:16:45.269 dance with mannequins. You make decisions. You 00:16:45.269 --> 00:16:50.639 make choices in your secret place. You distance 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:52.960 yourself from things and watch me move because 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:00.019 I don't dance with mannequins. I believe that 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:02.559 God wants to release a breaking up of the fallow 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:04.680 ground of our heart. Well, Corey, how do you 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:09.039 know if you've got fallow ground? I have my litmus 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.480 test. It's when's the last time did I cry when 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:16.319 reading the Bible? When's the last time the spirit 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.019 of prayer touched me and I felt groanings and 00:17:19.019 --> 00:17:21.599 grippings and the spirit of prayer coming out 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.079 of me? When's the last time wave after wave of 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.200 intimacy washed over me and I just felt embraced 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.119 in Abba and I felt enjoyed by Abba? When's the 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:38.500 last time the fire of God was on me? And if I'm 00:17:38.500 --> 00:17:40.240 doing the math and I've got to think about it 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.319 too long, I need to break up my fallow ground. 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.180 I believe that God wants to release three gifts 00:17:50.180 --> 00:17:55.039 to you today. There are three gifts. I call it 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.759 revival praying. And revival always begins in 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:04.660 here. Revival praying always begins in here. 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.660 I believe that God wants to release tears, the 00:18:07.660 --> 00:18:11.680 gift of tears, to tenderize the soil of our hearts. 00:18:14.029 --> 00:18:17.509 The gift of tears is the revelation of your inability 00:18:17.509 --> 00:18:25.569 to change anything of yourself. Tears tenderize 00:18:25.569 --> 00:18:29.650 the soil of your heart. I believe that God wants 00:18:29.650 --> 00:18:33.029 to release the gift of tongues to till up the 00:18:33.029 --> 00:18:37.890 soil of your heart. Tongues till up the soil. 00:18:38.089 --> 00:18:41.650 I care less about your theological badge of whether 00:18:41.650 --> 00:18:44.960 or not you believe in it. My question is, do 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.500 you live in that reality? Do you cultivate periods 00:18:48.500 --> 00:18:53.740 of praying in the Holy Spirit? When you begin 00:18:53.740 --> 00:18:56.160 to give yourself to a life of tongues, it tills 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.240 up the soil and it brings your soul life and 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:02.880 puts it in the back seat and it puts your spirit 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:08.299 man in the front seat. Tongues till up the soil. 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:13.440 And I believe that God wants to release the gift 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:18.680 of travail. The gift of travail tears the soil. 00:19:22.420 --> 00:19:28.000 Tears, tongues, and travail. Note that none of 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:37.119 them have to do with words. I couldn't tell if 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.809 it was a creek in the stage. We had a duck caller 00:19:40.809 --> 00:19:43.869 over here. Saw somebody hunting over here or 00:19:43.869 --> 00:19:48.390 something. I said, we're in the middle of a hunt 00:19:48.390 --> 00:19:54.029 here. I want to talk to you about the gift of 00:19:54.029 --> 00:19:56.410 tears a little bit this afternoon or morning 00:19:56.410 --> 00:20:01.869 or wherever we're at. Everybody say four days 00:20:01.869 --> 00:20:10.940 late. That's how late Jesus was to Lazarus. Some 00:20:10.940 --> 00:20:16.500 dear friends of his, Mary and Martha sent a letter 00:20:16.500 --> 00:20:20.140 to Jesus in John 11, saying, hey, he whom you 00:20:20.140 --> 00:20:25.599 love is sick. Jesus gets the letter, and from 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.740 the very beginning in John 11, he looks at his 00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:30.640 disciples and he says, this is not going to end 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.700 in death. This is not going to end in death, 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:37.539 but it's so that the Son of God would be glorified 00:20:37.539 --> 00:20:42.339 through it. Jesus knows what he's going to do 00:20:42.339 --> 00:20:45.880 from the very beginning, and he tells him it 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:48.619 won't end in death. He didn't say he wouldn't 00:20:48.619 --> 00:20:55.359 die. And Jesus, from the very beginning, knows 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.519 what he's going to do. He knows the end of the 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.619 story, but he refuses to fast forward to the 00:21:03.619 --> 00:21:08.559 end of the story. He's going to let a storyline 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.579 unfold to bring forth something in the heart 00:21:12.579 --> 00:21:16.900 of his beloved ones to partner with him into 00:21:16.900 --> 00:21:22.880 moving into the resurrection season. This is 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:27.579 important. It says that he loved them. He loved 00:21:27.579 --> 00:21:30.440 them. He loved Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. He 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.440 loved them, so he did this. So he stayed where 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:38.049 he was two more days. That doesn't sound like 00:21:38.049 --> 00:21:42.069 he loves them. If God loved me, he would have 00:21:42.069 --> 00:21:45.529 intervened when it was still on life support, 00:21:45.789 --> 00:21:48.170 when the marriage was still on life support, 00:21:48.349 --> 00:21:52.549 when the kids were still somewhat coming to church, 00:21:52.750 --> 00:21:56.730 when the finances were still barely making it. 00:21:57.289 --> 00:22:00.170 He would have broken in time if he loved me. 00:22:04.430 --> 00:22:07.690 I feel like the last decade, and I feel like 00:22:07.690 --> 00:22:10.789 2020 is bringing a threshold crossing over, but 00:22:10.789 --> 00:22:13.549 for many of us, it's been a lot of time of delayed 00:22:13.549 --> 00:22:21.150 promises, deep things that have died, and our 00:22:21.150 --> 00:22:24.109 hearts are continuing on because it's what we 00:22:24.109 --> 00:22:27.349 do, but many of us have suffered deep blows to 00:22:27.349 --> 00:22:34.230 our faith. Jesus gets the letter and he stays 00:22:34.230 --> 00:22:36.450 where he's at two more days. And Jesus knowing 00:22:36.450 --> 00:22:39.410 that he's going to stay two more days is going 00:22:39.410 --> 00:22:43.710 to mean Lazarus dies. Why doesn't Jesus just 00:22:43.710 --> 00:22:47.210 translate to Bethany, lay his hands on Lazarus, 00:22:47.230 --> 00:22:51.750 he gets healed, and they have a party? Why does 00:22:51.750 --> 00:22:55.690 the ones that he loves the most, does he take 00:22:55.690 --> 00:23:02.549 through the most intense, painful, delays in 00:23:02.549 --> 00:23:05.170 their faith to bring forth something glorious. 00:23:06.230 --> 00:23:10.369 Why didn't Jesus do this to a Pharisee? Why didn't 00:23:10.369 --> 00:23:14.150 he do it to a stranger or to a disciple or some 00:23:14.150 --> 00:23:16.769 other person? Why does he do it to someone that 00:23:16.769 --> 00:23:23.150 he loves? He stays where he's at. And friend, 00:23:23.210 --> 00:23:24.930 I want to tell you, there have been many of you 00:23:24.930 --> 00:23:27.369 that have been in those seasons. Jesus, break 00:23:27.369 --> 00:23:29.930 in, break in, break in. And in some ways, the 00:23:29.930 --> 00:23:32.509 thing you've cried out from the depths has died 00:23:32.509 --> 00:23:36.329 in the meantime. And he didn't break in on your 00:23:36.329 --> 00:23:39.470 timetable. It didn't look like what you thought 00:23:39.470 --> 00:23:42.049 it was going to look like. No matter how much 00:23:42.049 --> 00:23:44.910 you prayed and fasted, it didn't look like it. 00:23:44.950 --> 00:23:47.990 And I found in my journey that in those kinds 00:23:47.990 --> 00:23:52.910 of seasons, two types of responses emerge. There's 00:23:52.910 --> 00:23:56.289 really three. There's one that just checks out 00:23:56.289 --> 00:23:59.430 and you head to Harry's bar and you drown yourself 00:23:59.430 --> 00:24:04.930 for the next 40 years. But what you see in John 00:24:04.930 --> 00:24:09.670 11 are two different responses. And I believe 00:24:09.670 --> 00:24:11.650 that they're connected to Mary and Martha's first 00:24:11.650 --> 00:24:15.769 story in Luke 10. Because in Luke 10, Jesus came 00:24:15.769 --> 00:24:19.559 into Bethany their first time. And Martha swirled 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:23.319 up running around and Mary was sitting and hearing 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.640 the words of Jesus. Which means Mary refused 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.339 to get caught up in the swirl around Jesus, but 00:24:30.339 --> 00:24:33.119 she learned how to wait and connect with God 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:36.599 in the midst of all the busyness. Which means 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:39.019 she came out of the God of the swirl and busyness 00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:44.269 and distraction. So fast forward to the death 00:24:44.269 --> 00:24:47.890 of Lazarus. Jesus is now four days late, shows 00:24:47.890 --> 00:24:51.930 up into Bethany. Martha, I love it, she's pacing. 00:24:52.069 --> 00:24:53.789 Where's he at? I know he got the letter. Why 00:24:53.789 --> 00:24:56.109 didn't he get here? Why didn't he get here? I 00:24:56.109 --> 00:24:57.509 know he got the letter. Why didn't he break in? 00:24:57.569 --> 00:25:00.589 What happens to the human heart in that season? 00:25:02.089 --> 00:25:04.150 I don't know if I'm talking to people. Have you 00:25:04.150 --> 00:25:06.670 been there? Do you know what I'm talking about? 00:25:09.309 --> 00:25:11.369 If you haven't, keep seeking him. It'll come. 00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:19.599 Martha runs out to Jesus. As soon as she heard 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:21.759 it was Jesus, she ran out to him, and this is 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:23.640 what she said, Lord, if you'd have been here, 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.119 my brother wouldn't have died. If you'd have 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.680 gotten here in time, we would have never been 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.940 in this situation if you'd have gotten here two 00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:38.599 days earlier. But then she quickly made the statement, 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.079 I believe it's more of an accusation, but then 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:43.779 she's going to shift back into her nice, what 00:25:43.779 --> 00:25:50.319 I call bumper sticker Christianity. Her t -shirts 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:53.519 and good confessions and hallelujahs. But I believe 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.700 you can ask God anything and he'll give it to 00:25:56.700 --> 00:26:01.180 you. Jesus looks at her stone cold right in the 00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:03.539 face and says, your brother will rise again. 00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:14.140 She says, I know. Whenever anybody says I know, 00:26:14.299 --> 00:26:20.529 they don't know. I know. He will rise again at 00:26:20.529 --> 00:26:23.990 the resurrection at the last day. That's good 00:26:23.990 --> 00:26:26.490 theology. She has revelation of a resurrection. 00:26:26.930 --> 00:26:30.490 I know, hallelujah, he's going to break in. Someday, 00:26:30.589 --> 00:26:36.390 on the last day, it's coming one of these days, 00:26:36.450 --> 00:26:38.670 and I'm just hoping, and I'm guarding my heart 00:26:38.670 --> 00:26:43.089 with all my theological walls to protect me from 00:26:43.089 --> 00:26:48.210 leaving God. It sounds nice. It sounds faith 00:26:48.210 --> 00:26:51.190 -filled. It sounds noteworthy. But Jesus says, 00:26:51.269 --> 00:26:53.970 honey, resurrection isn't just coming someday. 00:26:54.390 --> 00:26:58.289 Resurrection is today. I am the resurrection 00:26:58.289 --> 00:27:03.490 and the life. No, no. It's really good when resurrection 00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:07.930 shows up at your house. When resurrection shows 00:27:07.930 --> 00:27:11.630 up to your marriage. When resurrection shows 00:27:11.630 --> 00:27:16.319 up to your kid that's strung out on drugs. When 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:19.480 resurrection shows up to dead finances, when 00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:22.420 resurrection shows up to dead bodies, when resurrection 00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:27.539 shows up, he says, I am the resurrection and 00:27:27.539 --> 00:27:30.079 the life. He who believes in me, though never 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:32.480 die. He goes, do you believe this? Yes, Lord. 00:27:33.259 --> 00:27:36.960 You are the Christ, the son of God. Lots of good 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:42.559 confessions did get nowhere with Jesus. See, 00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:44.599 I found that there's two types of responses. 00:27:44.619 --> 00:27:49.160 There's ones that hide behind their theologies 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:55.039 and don't let the moment cut them. It doesn't 00:27:55.039 --> 00:28:00.339 actually cut them over the pain, over what didn't 00:28:00.339 --> 00:28:03.960 happen. And they refuse to get out of the tension. 00:28:04.859 --> 00:28:07.460 And they're not going to hide behind their buzzwords, 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:10.119 but they're going to get caught into the vortex 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:14.339 of intercession. which is, I know who you are, 00:28:14.460 --> 00:28:23.119 but I don't understand. Your ability to move 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:28.319 God is directly connected with you letting the 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:39.440 moment move you. She hits the wall. And she runs 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:41.220 back into the city, and I love this. She looks 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:43.740 at Mary and she goes, the teacher's come and 00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:48.420 he's calling for you. We don't see Jesus ask 00:28:48.420 --> 00:28:50.619 for Mary. I think Martha looked him in his eyes 00:28:50.619 --> 00:28:53.380 saying, all of my theological bantering isn't 00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:56.839 getting us anywhere. She learned something back 00:28:56.839 --> 00:28:59.759 there in that earlier season. I've got to pull 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.960 on my ace card. Mary was sitting and she ran 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.019 out to Jesus. Look at this. In John 11, verse 00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:10.809 about 31, Mary is going to run out to Jesus, 00:29:10.930 --> 00:29:14.390 she's going to fall to his feet, and with tears 00:29:14.390 --> 00:29:17.630 in her eyes, she's going to say the exact same 00:29:17.630 --> 00:29:23.549 phrase as Martha. But she's going to pray it 00:29:23.549 --> 00:29:27.470 from here, with tears in her eyes, and how you 00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:30.829 can say the same thing, but from two different 00:29:30.829 --> 00:29:34.250 approaches, two different spirits, and two different 00:29:34.250 --> 00:29:36.670 realities, and it will provoke two different 00:29:36.670 --> 00:29:42.970 responses. Martha goes, if you'd have been here, 00:29:43.029 --> 00:29:47.049 my brother wouldn't have died. But I know. Mary 00:29:47.049 --> 00:29:49.730 goes, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't 00:29:49.730 --> 00:29:52.289 have died, which I don't understand. But I'm 00:29:52.289 --> 00:29:56.170 refusing to get out of the tension. I'm refusing 00:29:56.170 --> 00:29:58.630 to check out on the golf course or check out 00:29:58.630 --> 00:30:01.950 on ESPN or check out at the bar or check out 00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:04.309 with another relationship or check out to other 00:30:04.309 --> 00:30:07.250 places to medicate the pain of what it didn't 00:30:07.250 --> 00:30:09.049 look like what I thought it was supposed to look 00:30:09.049 --> 00:30:15.950 like. What happens when it doesn't look like 00:30:15.950 --> 00:30:19.109 what you dreamed about and you realize it was 00:30:19.109 --> 00:30:30.369 your dream? And he said, he came, she cries, 00:30:30.509 --> 00:30:32.369 and she said, Lord, if you'd have been here, 00:30:32.390 --> 00:30:34.269 my brother wouldn't have died. If you'd have 00:30:34.269 --> 00:30:37.289 gotten here in time. It says that when Jesus 00:30:37.289 --> 00:30:40.569 saw her weeping and the Jews who were with her 00:30:40.569 --> 00:30:46.619 weeping, the Bible says, He groaned in the spirit. 00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:56.019 The kind of prayers that provoke a groan in God. 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.000 I don't know about you, but I'll tell you what 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.400 I believe happens right here. I believe Mary 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:10.799 and Luke 10 learned to let his words go to her 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.160 deep. That in the hour of her crisis, her deep 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.519 called out to his deep. And she pulled a resurrection 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:29.400 out of him. He groaned in the spirit. He says, 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.740 where have you laid him? Now he's acting. And 00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:37.839 they go, come and see. And then we see the longest 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:45.059 verse in the Bible. I mean it. I think Jesus 00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:51.480 wept is around 30 minutes. What does it tell 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.539 you about God? We know what he's going to do, 00:31:55.660 --> 00:32:02.259 but yet he will not get by the process of getting 00:32:02.259 --> 00:32:06.140 into the valley with his friends. And in the 00:32:06.140 --> 00:32:10.220 valley of weeping, the Son of God, surrounded 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:14.819 by... Pharisees and Sadducees and critics and 00:32:14.819 --> 00:32:18.079 skeptics, strangers and disciples and friends, 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:22.460 surrounded by all of them, a storm comes out 00:32:22.460 --> 00:32:31.640 of the Son of God's eyes. He wept. God weeps. 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.880 And you've got to watch him weep. I want to tell 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:42.539 you something that I believe is coming to the 00:32:42.539 --> 00:32:47.319 church. It's the vulnerability of God. I believe 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:50.440 vulnerability with God and vulnerability with 00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:54.240 one another is going to come to the church or 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:56.099 we're not going to move into the next season. 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:01.259 There's a breaking point. People ask, what do 00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:04.259 you think he was crying over, Corey? Well, first 00:33:04.259 --> 00:33:09.910 off, the fact that God weeps. Only a weeping 00:33:09.910 --> 00:33:21.029 God can wipe away tears from your eyes. I believe 00:33:21.029 --> 00:33:26.309 he's weeping tears of pain. Tears of deep compassion 00:33:26.309 --> 00:33:31.470 and love for his friends. Tears of anger. Do 00:33:31.470 --> 00:33:34.170 you know that the resurrection of Lazarus is 00:33:34.170 --> 00:33:36.490 going to be the final nail in the coffin for 00:33:36.490 --> 00:33:40.349 Jesus' death? Jesus understands that what's about 00:33:40.349 --> 00:33:43.170 to happen is going to kick start a series of 00:33:43.170 --> 00:33:50.950 events that will result in his own death. His 00:33:50.950 --> 00:33:53.809 tears of hatred. You ever been so angry you cry? 00:33:56.529 --> 00:34:04.369 Jesus hates death. He hates death. He kills it. 00:34:04.450 --> 00:34:10.260 He killed it and he's going to kill it. And he 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:12.320 wept and he wept and he wept and he wept and 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:14.400 he wept and he wept and we watch him and we watch 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:16.099 him and we watch him. Let's get to the resurrection 00:34:16.099 --> 00:34:20.840 of Lazarus. No, behold him a little longer. Let 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:24.860 him weep in front of you. Let the God -man cry 00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:28.039 in front of you and feel the bowels of heaven 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:32.630 getting stirred deep. Wells of compassion. Deep 00:34:32.630 --> 00:34:36.090 wells of righteous power. And righteous anger. 00:34:36.289 --> 00:34:38.949 And righteous zeal. Getting stirred up within 00:34:38.949 --> 00:34:41.949 the son of God. Be with him in that weeping room. 00:34:43.849 --> 00:34:47.170 Or keep your plastic high fives and claps. And 00:34:47.170 --> 00:34:52.849 disengaging your heart. Living at a distance. 00:34:55.090 --> 00:34:59.000 He's the God that comes close to us. He wept 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.639 and he wept and he wept. And then everybody gives 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:05.280 their commentary about why he's weeping. Some 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.139 of them said, look at how much he loves Lazarus. 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:09.239 The other said, why didn't he get here earlier? 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:21.199 He dries his eyes. He washes away the tears. 00:35:21.940 --> 00:35:27.760 And then he starts moving towards the tomb. Starts 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.780 moving towards the tomb. Tears are the seedbed 00:35:30.780 --> 00:35:36.380 for resurrection. Tears are the seedbed for resurrection. 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.900 He goes to the tomb and he told them, move the 00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:46.639 stone away. And now we get to see faith -filled 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:57.809 Martha in action. Lord, he stinks. Which means 00:35:57.809 --> 00:35:59.650 she's not as awesome as she was claiming earlier. 00:36:00.849 --> 00:36:03.809 Let's get practical, Jesus. That thing's dead. 00:36:06.190 --> 00:36:07.969 He says, didn't I tell you that if you would 00:36:07.969 --> 00:36:14.010 believe, you would see the glory of God? He says, 00:36:14.050 --> 00:36:16.429 Father, I thank you that you hear me. You always 00:36:16.429 --> 00:36:21.630 hear me. And when he had said this, he said, 00:36:21.670 --> 00:36:32.320 Lazarus, come forth. Lazarus, come forth. Lazarus, 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:36.920 come forth. And a man who had been dead for four 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:43.019 days walks out of a grave clothed in the linen, 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:47.760 and they have to unwrap him. I believe with all 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:50.460 my heart that there is a breaking point that 00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:53.380 is coming to the church in this hour. There's 00:36:53.380 --> 00:36:57.219 a breaking point in our personal lives. Personal 00:36:57.219 --> 00:36:59.900 things touch us at deeper levels and get into 00:36:59.900 --> 00:37:02.219 places that are hard that other things don't, 00:37:02.219 --> 00:37:06.119 so he makes it personal. It touches us in a way 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.420 that nothing else could touch us. It gets into 00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:12.079 places that religion won't touch, that big things 00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.860 won't touch. It touches you, and God uses that 00:37:14.860 --> 00:37:20.920 to pull you into his heart. I believe with all 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.320 my heart there's coming a breaking point in prayer 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:27.460 for the people of God. Tears, tongues, travail, 00:37:27.699 --> 00:37:31.260 a deep groan, shifting out of religious praying 00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:34.699 and praying from a different place and praying 00:37:34.699 --> 00:37:37.179 from a deeper place of God, you're all I got. 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:39.480 There's a breaking point that's coming to the 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:48.159 church. It's called revival praying. It's called 00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:52.780 revival praying. The breaking point, God's usually, 00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:57.400 I always think of Genesis 24, 32. No, no, it's 00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:04.940 32, 24. It says, now Jacob was left alone. And 00:38:04.940 --> 00:38:07.079 a man laid hold of him and wrestled with him 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.199 all night. There's something about God getting 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:17.820 you all alone. And then Jesus, the WWE wrestler, 00:38:18.019 --> 00:38:25.429 lays hold of you. The greatest UFC fighter you've 00:38:25.429 --> 00:38:30.630 ever seen lays hold of you. And you enter into 00:38:30.630 --> 00:38:34.150 the wrestle. And in the wrestle, you get transformed. 00:38:35.630 --> 00:38:39.949 You get your name changed. You get a limp. And 00:38:39.949 --> 00:38:42.130 God allows you to stay in the wrestle. It's his 00:38:42.130 --> 00:38:48.329 grace to stay in there. That's where people get 00:38:48.329 --> 00:38:54.769 changed. Some of you, this may not even make 00:38:54.769 --> 00:39:06.969 that much sense. It's okay. I believe that the 00:39:06.969 --> 00:39:12.130 breaking point coming to the church is the necessary 00:39:12.130 --> 00:39:16.530 breakthrough to seeing what we want God to do 00:39:16.530 --> 00:39:20.690 in our families, in our marriages, in our children. 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.460 In our communities, in our cities, in our nation. 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.619 We're like, God, fix it, fix it, fix it. And 00:39:31.619 --> 00:39:37.260 he's like, feel it, feel it, feel it. God, just 00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:40.500 fix this issue so we can move on. And he says, 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:43.119 when's it going to cut you? When are you going 00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:48.059 to quit throwing money at it? When's it going 00:39:48.059 --> 00:39:51.579 to get up into your golf schedule? And you're 00:39:51.579 --> 00:39:54.280 ESPN watching. When's it going to get up in the 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.260 middle of your life and let it cut you and provoke 00:39:57.260 --> 00:39:59.880 something deeper out of you than living at a 00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:07.099 distance? I'm not a check off your box. I want 00:40:07.099 --> 00:40:11.539 to cut you and bring you in close to me. And 00:40:11.539 --> 00:40:14.139 I want to release resurrection life and power 00:40:14.139 --> 00:40:18.559 in your family. I want to speak to dead marriages 00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:23.619 and they come forth. You know what I love that 00:40:23.619 --> 00:40:26.480 he's four days late? Because Jesus isn't intimidated 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:32.300 by four days dead. Some of y 'all, it's been 00:40:32.300 --> 00:40:36.119 four years. Some of you, it's been 40 years. 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.119 He ain't intimidated because he's outside of 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:47.179 time. And he can speak to time from outside of 00:40:47.179 --> 00:40:51.800 time and redeem it in a moment. Resurrection 00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:55.280 power's coming. Break up your fallow ground. 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.679 It is time to seek the Lord till he comes and 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:03.519 rains righteousness upon you. It's time to seek 00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:08.719 him till you feel him again. It's time to say, 00:41:08.780 --> 00:41:12.059 God, cut me. Seek me like you never have. I prayed 00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:14.500 it over a guy last night, but I feel like there's 00:41:14.500 --> 00:41:17.420 a new season of seeking God that is coming upon 00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:21.710 this place. There's a grace. I feel like we're 00:41:21.710 --> 00:41:26.710 in a window to seek him. Isaiah 55 says, seek 00:41:26.710 --> 00:41:32.510 the Lord while he may be found. What does that 00:41:32.510 --> 00:41:34.590 look like? Get practical with me, Corey. All 00:41:34.590 --> 00:41:38.789 right. Last time was a little too practical. 00:41:38.849 --> 00:41:43.110 Let's get a little less practical. You wake up 00:41:43.110 --> 00:41:47.510 tomorrow morning at 530. You take an hour with 00:41:47.510 --> 00:41:51.550 God in the morning. And you show up to that same 00:41:51.550 --> 00:42:00.670 boring spot for the next month. Until. And you 00:42:00.670 --> 00:42:09.070 go on the journey of your boredom with God. And 00:42:09.070 --> 00:42:16.510 it's in that place that he comes. Jesus, come 00:42:16.510 --> 00:42:21.219 on up here, guys. I'm not normally this intense, 00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:25.519 but whatever. If I'm at a 9, I'm normally at 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:32.260 an 8 .5. Anyway, I didn't want to preach this 00:42:32.260 --> 00:42:33.920 word. I don't like preaching this message. It's 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:38.539 kind of hard. But I only preach it to a place 00:42:38.539 --> 00:42:40.760 that I feel like God's bringing you to a precipice. 00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:47.460 He's bringing you to a threshold. He's bringing 00:42:47.460 --> 00:43:00.440 you to a place of breaking. God, I thank you, 00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:06.599 Lord. I thank you, God, that you're going to 00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:08.420 release tears back into the eyes of the church. 00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:15.619 William, who's the founder of the Salvation Army? 00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:22.940 Booth, William Booth. They had done, he had sent 00:43:22.940 --> 00:43:25.480 a team of people to a city. They labored for 00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:27.989 three weeks, got nothing. They write a letter 00:43:27.989 --> 00:43:29.929 saying, William, we're out of options. We don't 00:43:29.929 --> 00:43:32.590 know what to do. We're not seeing anybody saved. 00:43:32.750 --> 00:43:35.769 Anything happened. And he wrote back a two -word 00:43:35.769 --> 00:43:50.289 letter. Try tears. Try tears. I'm not talking 00:43:50.289 --> 00:43:54.190 about emotionalism. I'm talking about you coming 00:43:54.190 --> 00:43:58.559 to the stark truth. And the awareness of your 00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:01.940 inability to change anything. In and of yourself. 00:44:03.340 --> 00:44:09.719 Tears are born when you run out of options. Amen. 00:44:09.739 --> 00:44:22.059 Let's stand. I believe rain is coming. Now that's 00:44:22.059 --> 00:44:31.719 not too prophetic out here in Oregon. But I believe 00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:33.719 that the rain above is connected to the rain 00:44:33.719 --> 00:44:37.920 in our hearts and our eyes. I just want you to 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:39.579 lift your hands. I'm going to just pray that 00:44:39.579 --> 00:44:43.659 God would consecrate you and set you apart for 00:44:43.659 --> 00:44:47.760 a season of revival praying. Some of you, you 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:50.000 have personal things that are touching your life 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.599 and you're drawn into this in a personal way. 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.260 Some of you are going to get brought to the Lord's 00:44:57.260 --> 00:45:02.219 heart for our nation. For our cities, our state. 00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.480 God, I just pray right now that you would take 00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:22.159 us into your holy heart. What I love about this 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:26.480 song, this cloud, there's a cloud. It's out of 00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:30.389 1 Kings 18. Where Elijah goes to Mount Carmel. 00:45:30.550 --> 00:45:33.889 He tells his servant, go down there for there 00:45:33.889 --> 00:45:38.269 is the sound of abundance of rain. And the servant 00:45:38.269 --> 00:45:41.550 came back seven times. And what did he say? There's 00:45:41.550 --> 00:45:49.289 nothing. So Elijah said, go again. Go again. 00:45:52.030 --> 00:45:54.469 Which means I believe God is calling that Hosea 00:45:54.469 --> 00:46:00.420 10, 12. Seek him, till. Seek until he comes and 00:46:00.420 --> 00:46:05.039 rains righteousness upon you. God, I pray right 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:10.639 now that you would release prayer until. God, 00:46:10.739 --> 00:46:12.800 I pray that you would release the gift of tears. 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:18.380 God, I pray for the gift of tongues and the gift 00:46:18.380 --> 00:46:22.340 of travail. God, I pray that we would break up 00:46:22.340 --> 00:46:25.300 our fallow ground. That you would release a season 00:46:25.300 --> 00:46:29.019 of repentance. A season of seeking you in a way 00:46:29.019 --> 00:46:32.920 we never have before, God. Not just for our president, 00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:35.559 the president we want to get into office, or 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.139 this person to get into office, but because, 00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:54.199 God, we want to get closer to you. Release the 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:56.559 gift of tears. I want to ask across this place 00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:59.000 right now, many of you are in one of those seasons 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:01.840 where the deepest thing you've cried out for, 00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:06.519 in many ways it feels it's dead. And you feel 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:10.239 like Mary and Martha. And you don't know how 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:14.599 to reconcile what you know about God and what's 00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:18.639 happened. And you would say, I'm in a place like 00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:35.010 that. I want you to raise your hand. God, I ask 00:47:35.010 --> 00:47:40.389 you to visit us right now. You're the God that 00:47:40.389 --> 00:47:46.869 gets into the valley with us. Come, Holy Spirit. 00:47:47.010 --> 00:47:50.309 Just wait another minute. If you have your prayer 00:47:50.309 --> 00:48:26.090 language, just begin to pray in the Spirit. Or 00:48:26.090 --> 00:48:30.309 call us at 541 -995 -8282.