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Don’t Reject Revival

Tabatha Claytor 0:00

We have to be careful that we don't reject revival. You know, so churches, people, you know, individuals, you can be going to a part of a church and you say, Oh, yeah, well, I come to church on Sunday, but I don't believe in all of that. I don't know about this whole revival and all of those things. We have to be careful that we don't reject what God is doing. We have to embrace, embrace God. What are you doing in the earth? If I don't understand this, let me embrace it. Teach me. I want to learn. Yeah. I want everything that you have for me, Lord. I want to do be a part of everything that you need me to be a part of in the earth.

Welcome And Miracle Season Theme

Revival Stories And Testimonies

Ken Claytor 0:32

I just heard that some people are so afraid of wildfire that they have no fire. Hello, what's up, everybody? Welcome to another edition of Doing Life with Ken and Tabitha. We're pumped to have you guys with us today. If you're new to our podcast, welcome. You have not found us by an accident. Um, we believe we're going to share some things with you that's going to bring you closer to God and closer to the people that God has in your life. Today's episode is entitled Miracle Season. Miracle Season. All right. For those of you all who are part of our church, of course, this is our word of the year. But I wanted just to talk about the moment that we're in, not just for the people of our church, but those of you all who are connected with us online and in our podcast or even in the body of Christ, we are just prophesying that this is your, our miracle season. Uh, what does that term mean to you? What does it what does it do?

Tabatha Claytor 1:26

Miracle season, it makes me excited.

Ken Claytor 1:29

Yeah, why is that?

Tabatha Claytor 1:30

Um, I think, you know, just in terms of the world, you know, the things that happened last year, um, you know, and the body of Christ right now, just being in revival where we see people pouring into churches, um, those who kind of maybe lost their faith or just once believed and stopped going to church, they're coming back to church. And then a lot of people who say, I was atheist, I did not believe in God, who are coming to the house of God with Bibles in their hands and bringing their families. Yeah, it makes me excited because I see that happening. But then also for our church, I mean, was this back in maybe uh when did the Asbury revival happen? Do you remember that?

Ken Claytor 2:08

I'm not sure. Maybe 2002.

Tabatha Claytor 2:11

Yeah. No, this is 23, 22, 23.

Ken Claytor 2:14

Yeah, 23.

Tabatha Claytor 2:14

Um, and so it was at the the around that time with the Asbury revival. Um, it had been maybe a year before that, it was prophesied in our church um that demons were going to start be crying out in our services just because of the the worship and the presence of God. And it was at the Asbury as they come out. Yes, yes, not in, you know, yeah, in in torment, honestly. Um, but and then it was about a year after when that was happening at Asbury. We had like a Wednesday night service, and we said, Lord, whatever's happening in the earth at Asbury and all of that stuff, do the same thing here. And it was a crazy good night of worship. Um, and then also at that night, the demons cried out and we um cast demons out of people. There was um a suicide pack between teenagers that we broke that suicide pack, and these teenagers are still alive today. Um, so there was a lot that happened. But since then, we began to see now every Sunday service, there are people that are delivered from demonic influences, demonic oppression and possession. And so we've been seeing that also in the last couple of years. We've been seeing more healing, more healings taken place where we had um one of the most beautiful testimonies of a man being healed from cancer. Um, and we've had testimonies of people being healed from, you know, their shoulders, their knees, their feet. I mean, just all kinds of things. A woman was healed from brittle bone disease, which is a rare disease. So there's all of these healings manifesting. Um, and then women who were barren, I mean, just being able to conceive, women who have had miscarriages, multiple miscarriages, but God does something in her womb, and now her womb is able to give life and to healthy babies. I mean, there's just so many good things happening that I would call miraculous.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Yeah.

Tabatha Claytor 4:08

These are miracles, and we're seeing it happening every single Sunday at our church, every single Wednesday at our church. People are prayed for and are healed, and that's what I that's what I mean by miracle season.

Making Miracles Normative

Ken Claytor 4:20

I think this might be the most powerful episode that we've ever done. I would really encourage the people to lean in all the way through this episode, share this one with somebody. This is going to be a lifeline because even as you're speaking, I sense such a strong anointing for what God wants to do in our generation. There were so many things that, as you were talking, was running through my spirit, my heart, my mind. Um, the first one is that miracles are are should be normative. Yes. You know, they're not the like, I I think that for some people, especially cessationists who believe that miracles have ceased with the canonization of scripture or the death of the last apostles, to all that we say by humbug. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. Matter of fact, the Bible says that these signs shall follow them that believe. Yes. Meaning that if you believe, there should be signs following you. And so we don't believe God because of a sign, but because we believe God, signs should follow us.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Yes.

What Miracle Season Means Personally

Ken Claytor 5:15

The Bible teaches us that He will confirm His word with signs following. So we got to come to the place where we make miracles normative. And this is what we've seen since we've taken this posture. We're seeing every Sunday, for the most part, demons get cast out of people. Okay? Now, there are a lot of atmospheres that you can create in the church world that's just focused on doctrine and people are learning and even going through counseling, but you can't counsel a demon. You got to cast out a demon. That's right. You can't counsel a demon. And I'm not afraid to use words like demon because the Bible does. I think there's a section of Christianity was almost like, well, that's weird, that's strange and spooky, so let's just stay away from it. And we say we can't stay away from it and be like Jesus because not only did Jesus not stay away from it, he went towards it and the demons cried out and they came out. So it's very important that as a born-again believer, it doesn't matter what denomination you're a part of, that you want to be more like Jesus. Yes. And we come to the place where we make miracles the norm. Every single Sunday, for the most part, somebody gets healed, people get saved all of the time. And we're seeing an uptick in this. Not just for our church, but we believe that this is an uptick around the world. Yes. Now, what I uh I I feel like you have something you want to say, but I do want to say, what does this have to do with the person who's listening right now? The person who's watching right now, and we're talking about revival in the world and our church. Can you make this like personal for just one moment? When we talk about miracle season, what in the world does that mean for us, for them personally?

Tabatha Claytor 6:47

I think it means, you know, so if I look at us in our house and our family, it's kind of twofold. Number one, we all need a miracle. Somebody, I think I believe everyone needs a miracle in their life. There's something, and and what is the definition? You define this definition.

Ken Claytor 7:03

For me, a miracle is the breaking of natural law with supernatural results. So when he parted the Red Sea, Red Seas aren't supposed to be parted. God steps in and breaks natural things with supernatural results. When the sun stood still, the sun is supposed to move around, but it stayed, it stood still for a matter of time. That's a breaking of natural law. Okay. So when somebody's healed, the dead is raised. It is breaking the natural course with supernatural results. And miracles are normal for the believer.

Tabatha Claytor 7:34

Yes. And so with that definition, you know, uh, most of us we need a miracle.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Yeah.

Tabatha Claytor 7:41

We need a miracle in our lives, um, whether it's with our children, in our personal life, with our health, maybe it's in our finances, maybe everything saying it should look like this in the natural. But we need God and His supernatural to come in and change our situation. That's what a miracle is. And so why is it personal to me? Because I want to see God's supernatural hand come and change situations in my life. But then also, I want to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Jesus said, like you were saying, Jesus said, these signs will follow those who believe. That means everyone, not just you because you're a pastor, not just people who have gone through seminary school, but every believer. That means my 14-year-old son, these signs will follow him because he believes that we would cast out demons, lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. And so that's why when I say that um I want to uh minister and I want to go out, if I'm going to feed the hungry, I'm I'm going to have a literal sandwich in my hand, but I'm also going to be equipped to cast out demons, and I'm also going to be equipped to lay my hands on the sick and see them healed. That's what Jesus did everywhere he went.

Doctrine, Demonstration, And The Holy Spirit

Ken Claytor 8:58

Yeah. You cannot separate the demonstration from the gospel. And for those of you all who are nervous because you've been taught about doctrine, um, we're not theologically unsound. Matter of fact, all of what we believe comes from theology. So we base our life based upon scripture. But you cannot put God inside of the box of scripture because God is bigger than his book. People might not like the way that sounds, but it's true. God is bigger than his book. Right. He's bigger than 66 books of the Bible and 40 authors over a span of 15 years. He's bigger than that. He is so big he doesn't fit inside of the book. So what happens is when I can't explain it, I want to say it's not a God. Then you got your group of people that as soon as a miracle happens, they call it the devil. Now, how do you give more power to the devil than you do God? All of that is just bad theology. And so in the in the New Testament, even Paul would say that it's not just the teaching of doctrine, it should be followed with demonstration. It's not by man's wisdom, but by the power of the Spirit. John 14, 12 says, These works that I do, Jesus speaking, shall you do, and greater works than these shall you do. Because I go to be with the Father. Yeah. So there is a biblical expectation that as a born-again believer, not a seminary grad, not an ordained person, not a five-fold ministry gift, as a born-again believer, you should be doing the works that Jesus did. Yes. And we try to limit that to just like, well, let's feed people and let's be nice to people.

Tabatha Claytor 10:28

Well, we'll pray, but then we don't expect results.

Ken Claytor 10:34

Where we should be operating because the same Holy Spirit that was upon Jesus, when he was a Holy Spirit anointed with the Holy Spirit and power, went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the enemy. Acts chapter 10, verse 38 is the same Holy Spirit that is in us and upon us right now. And it's not just for us to go and pray and hope something happens and give some people a sandwich. It's for us to go and make sure that heaven is invading the earth and his kingdom come, his will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and there's no sickness in heaven. And so we have a right, a justifiable expectation to drive out sickness in the earth in his name. Right. And I just feel like God is raising up in this season a generation of people that get that. And I don't feel like wasting time arguing with people that don't and want to just study and read, because I love to study and read, but I want to study, read, and show the works of the kingdom in the earth.

Tabatha Claytor 11:27

I I think sometimes, you know, I met someone just recently and they were saying that they don't believe in God anymore and all of that stuff. And I said, Well, it's too late for me. I've already seen miracle signs and wonders. I've seen demons cast out, I've seen people get healed. And he was just so intellectually smart. And so he said he went and read all read all these books and all this psychological stuff. And he says, Well, basically, people are fake, you know, people it's people going crazy and acting like a demon. He said, They're just doing that in their mind. It's it's psychotic. And he said, and people who get healed, they they just the the he it the sickness comes back. And I was like, Well, that's not true. I've seen many people, I've been healed myself, the sickness didn't come back. You know, I was able to defute everything that he says, but I think some people it and and I told him this, and this is something that it's funny because you you this is what you would say. I said, Well, you're just trying to make sense of all of this, but it faith doesn't make sense, it makes faith. You can't make sense all of this. Yeah, faith don't make no sense. And I literally preached to him something that you would preach, and um, it was it it was so good. Yeah, but yeah, we we can't make sense of this.

Ken Claytor 12:28

Well, because we live in an information age, and to many people seeing is believing, they and the scripture says that knowledge puffs up. That means the more you read and study, the more pride you can get into.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

Yeah.

Awakening vs Revival Explained

Ken Claytor 12:42

And you can miss what God's doing. And this is my thing for people. All right, so this is what I believe for you all who's listening and watching. Listen to me now. I believe that you're in a season right now, that this is a season where you are about to see some of the greatest miracles that we've ever seen in the history of mankind. I believe that we're gonna see things where people have been bound to a substance for years, if not decades, and gonna be set free in a moment. Not a 12-step plan, but a one-step plan. Jesus steps in by his power and sets people free. Um, I believe we're gonna see people who the doctor said there was no cure, but they get completely healed by the power of God. I believe we're gonna have relatives and friends that have rejected Christ and even been hostile towards the gospel, like antichrist, get radically saved. I'm talking about filled with the Spirit, praying in tongues, leading small groups, leading mission field, lead their careers to serve and serve Jesus. I'm talking about like radically saved. This is a miracle season. If you receive that, please put it in the comment section.

Tabatha Claytor 13:44

Yeah, I receive it.

Ken Claytor 13:45

Because it's so true. And so for us, this is a word for our church, this is a word for our family, this is a word for the body of Christ, this is a word, and we and we're seeing this. You know, I was praying, and um I I just felt like the the Lord put in my spirit awakening. And I really didn't even have a natural thought about awakening. It wasn't like I read a book about awakening or had a conversation about awakening, and it was so simple in my spirit, I almost could have missed it, but I heard awakening. And I know enough church history to know that there was a first and second great awakening. So I went and I said, Man, let me study the first awakening. And so the first great awakening was a span from about 1730 to 1740, and there were so many people getting saved. It was such a revival that hit America that it led to the American Revolution. The second Great Awakening was from about 1790 to about 1840, 1800 to 1840, 40 or 50 years. There was so much revival and outpour of the Holy Spirit, it led to the abolition of slavery. Um, now you say, what is an awakening? An awakening is a little bit different than a revival. So we always say that revival is here and revival is now. And revival is busting out around the world right now. Now, some people are missing it because they're they're too political to see what God's doing. They're too black or white or brown, they're too in the in the natural. And really, over the last six months, there's been wars, government shutdowns, rumors of wars, murder mayhem. And the people who are shouting across the comments, they are so mad at people that they're missing what God's doing around the earth. So my word of warning is don't get distracted by the hatred division and what's happening between China and the government and hummus and all these different things that you miss what God's doing in the earth. So it's almost like they're completely blinded, they don't even see it. But anyway, there's revival. So what is an awakening? An awakening is multiple revivals that are happening over a span of time. So a revival is like a unique outpour of the Holy Spirit. It's where there's an uptick of salvations, an uptick of healing, an uptick of the presence of God. Okay. And we can kind of study revival history and we can see that. Revivals most of the time can bust out in a church or in a specific location and they last months and maybe even years. Like Brownsville, it lasted uh five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years, okay. But um, for the most part, they're kind of in one location in a brief amount of time. An awakening is clusters of revival that are happening in the same era. So it impacts millions, okay, and it's longer. So it's more like a decade, two decades, three decades, four decades. It is the culmination of many revivals. And this is what happens is that revivals together can lead to awakening. Awakenings can lead to reformation. Okay. And when you reform, there's religious reformations like the Protestant reformation, from Catholicism to Protestant beliefs. Um, there can be social reformations. We see stuff happening in our economy, stuff is happening in the world right now. What is happening? Social reformation is happening. And so that's why it's so important that we steward revival, because revivals can turn into awakenings, and awakenings can bring forth reformation. And reformation is what can transform nations and make us ready for the second coming of Christ.

Don’t Snuff The Fire

Tabatha Claytor 17:08

And I love it. What you said is that we have to be careful that we don't reject revival. You know, so churches, people, you know, individuals, you can be going to a part of a church and you say, Oh, yeah, well, I come to church on Sunday, but I don't believe in all of that. I don't know about this whole revival and all of those things. We have to be careful that we don't reject what God is doing. We have to embrace, embrace God. What are you doing in the earth? If I don't understand this, let me embrace it. Teach me. I want to learn. Yeah, I want everything that you have for me, Lord. I want to do be a part of everything that you need me to be a part of in the earth.

Ken Claytor 17:43

Ooh, I just heard this. Some people are so afraid of wildfire that they have no fire. Some people are so afraid of what they call wildfire or strange fire that they have no fire. Right. And what I've learned is that you're gonna get some weird with the wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 17:57

Yeah.

Ken Claytor 17:58

And men have been the ones who've, you know, revivals probably would never stop, but men stop it because it got too much. The the meeting lasted too long. There was too many bad reports. The newspaper said this about us. I don't want to be a weirdo. I don't understand this, so I'm gonna stop it. I believe that God's raising up a generation of people that won't snuff revival. We won't grieve the Holy Spirit. We say, God, just do more. God, do more as long as you're in it, you know. And so I I consider myself like a revivalist by nature. I'm like a down low revivalist. I know I'm a pastor, I'm more of an apostolic figure. Um I I love you like to start fires. Well, the Lord spoke to me, and there's not, there's I can put almost like on the on two hands things that I know God said. And I I know God spoke to me years ago, and he says, you carry revival. And I've always tucked that away because you say, What does that mean? I I'm still trying to figure it out. But what I believe it means is that God's given me an anointing to make dead things come alive and to bring, to like breathe on revivals that are happening and actually spark revivals.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Yeah.

Ken Claytor 19:01

And I don't know. If I look at the fruit of my life, I mean our church is called Alive Church. I see a revivalist part of the name. Um, I feel like this past year we led, I don't know, 85,000, 9,000 people or so to Jesus in a year. That's that's pretty good for a local church.

SPEAKER_03 19:19

Yeah.

Revival History Highlights

Ken Claytor 19:20

Um, I feel like, you know, I feel like there has been miracles and some healings and things that I don't know. I feel like I do carry revival and I and I can help other people kind of have that spark as well. If I go to churches, I feel like I do, I make a deposit of that. Yes. That's my favorite thing to do. It's like, don't, don't invite me to no Bible study. Don't invite me to like Sunday and you give me like 20 minutes. Invite me to something where I can start a revival that will take over not just your church, but your city. Yes. That's my favorite things to go to. So I'm a down low revivalist. Like I've looked at revival history, and my whole thing is like same God back then, same God right now. God, if you've done it before, God won away. You do it again. And so I just feel like we're in a season where now we're raising up other revivalists. It's like, Lord, send revival. Lord, send it now. I mean, we got people, we got intercessors praying for it. We got people, and I'm seeing it bust out around the world. And um, it's an amazing thing, it really is. You know, when with the Charlie Kirk assassination months back, um, I woke up the next morning and the Lord showed me a vision. It was a mantle that was falling on a generation. And he said to me that with the death of one man that he was going to raise up other people that walked in biblical clarity and boldness and carried the power of the spirit. And that is not a political statement, that is a spiritual one. And let he who has ears hear. Because if you think that's a political statement, you're the you're the person who gets off because you don't understand deep things. Right. But for those of us who understand that that was a moment that gave birth to another moment, regardless of how you felt about it, revivals happening around the world. We had a person come to our church a little bit back, and the couple was an atheist. And they came to our team with a Bible in hand after church, and they said, This is our first time at church, and they had their Bible in hand. They said, We just bought a Bible and we were atheist. This is our first time in church, this is our first Bible, and we don't know what's in it, but we want to know.

unknown 21:23

Wow.

Ken Claytor 21:23

With tears in our eyes, they held their Bible throughout service. You say, What's that? That's an awakening.

unknown 21:28

Right.

Ken Claytor 21:29

An awakening is when something was off and God turns it on. It's like if you come into a dark room and you flip the switch. Yeah. It's like I wasn't a believer, but all of a sudden I was. I was lost and now I'm found. And so there's a lot of people that will miss that, but that is now the customary thing.

unknown 21:48

It is.

Ken Claytor 21:49

And like if people want to fight doctrinally about the dumbest stuff, what name you baptize people in, if God uses women, if he don't, well, he used the other.

Tabatha Claytor 21:58

Can we agree on the cross?

Ken Claytor 21:59

He used prophetesses, stop it. Yeah, like listen, I've always looked look, we have we have agreement in the essentials, we have unity in the non-essentials. And I ain't got time to fight with other believers about non-essentials. But what I do believe is Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except by him. And if you believe that, then we brothers, we family. But I'm not gonna slow down my revival because you don't like people laughing. I'm not slowing down my revival because I can't explain why there's rain in the in the building right now and the shower's a blessing, but it we ain't got no leaks in here. I can't I ain't got time to try to sit down and explain to you. If you don't want that, go somewhere where stuff ain't happening. But we want to see God show up and you say, What is a sign and a wonder? It makes you wonder. Some wonders just make you wonder. You said, I don't know what. And in the world, just because God doesn't fit in your book. He don't fit in the box. Yeah. You know. But I mean, that's that's so when I study, and I'm a revivalist, so I've spent hours studying revivals of old. I mean, from the day of Pentecost, A.D. 30, the birth of the church, mass conversions, sermon from Peter's Sermon on the Mount to the Moravian revival in 1727. It was unity amongst refugees. It was nonstop prayer for about a hundred years. The layman's business revival of 1857 to 1858. It was a noonday prayer meeting of business people where the Holy Ghost fell, and business people were by the millions praying in other tongues. 1859 revivals in Wales, um, 1859 to 1860, reported over 100,000 converts in Wales. The Welsh Revival, 1904 to 1905, 100 conversions in one year, crime rates dropped, influence spread to other nations. The Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, 1906 to 1909, um, under William Seymour. Um, it was interracial. Um, God used women in in in those meetings. Um, people prayed in other tongues, people were healed in that in those meetings, okay? Um the Korea Revival, 1907, deep repentance. Um, it was catalytic for the Korean Christ Christianity movement, um, East African revival, um, from uh Rwanda to Uganda, East Africa, late 1920s to 1940s. Um, it was a grassroots holiness repentance movement, reshaping Anglican and other churchgoers across the region, the Jesus movement, um, 1960s, the 1970s, the youth Jesus people coming to Jesus, hippies coming to Jesus, the Toronto Blessing in Canada, 1994 to the mid-2000s, renewal meeting at Toronto Airport influenced global charismatic churches, the Brownsville, which was like a branch of Toronto, 1995 to 2000, nightly meetings drew millions of people. And then the Asbury outpouring in Kentucky on February 8th, uh, 2023 is when it was. Student-led multi-week worship prayer, tens of thousands visited, and um gatherings happened and reported at other campuses. And so those are just some of the history. That's not a full list of revivals, but I'm back to my same sentence. Same God back then, same God right now. And I just feel like in this miracle season, God's about to do more.

Tabatha Claytor 25:04

Yeah. Well, I don't know. I don't think I had the privilege to be alive in any of those other revivals. Asbury.

Ken Claytor 25:11

Well, you were alive with Toronto 1994. You just wasn't saved.

Tabatha Claytor 25:14

Oh, I was yeah, I just wasn't safe. So maybe I was dead.

Ken Claytor 25:17

There was a branch of Toronto in Brownsville that came to Lakeland. Yeah. And we did go to that one in 2007.

Tabatha Claytor 25:22

We did, we did.

Ken Claytor 25:23

I just don't remember anything that is a little controversial, and some people don't put it with with those revivals, but some do, you know. But yeah. Yeah, it was it wasn't as important.

Tabatha Claytor 25:33

I feel like this is bigger what we're entering into. I mean, it's just bigger. It's like, you know, a um a zoo street. It's like a it's just something that's that's bigger and more significant. It I feel like it has more spiritual weight with it.

Ken Claytor 25:45

I believe it.

A Global Move, Not One Location

Tabatha Claytor 25:46

Um and it's not just in one, it doesn't seem like in one central area of the the nation like LA. This is like abroad. This is in Ireland, you know, this is in Europe.

Ken Claytor 25:56

Yeah.

Tabatha Claytor 25:57

Uh so yeah I I'm just excited about it. Yeah.

Invitation To Pastors And Leaders Network

How To Attract God’s Presence

Ken Claytor 26:00

I mean, if you're watching this and you are a pastor or you are a second chair leader that is under a lead pastor, and you guys want to start revivaling your church, or you feel like God's doing something and you want to learn more, um, we recently launched what I'm calling the Global Pastors Leaders Network. It's simply a network of pastors around the world that have some of the same heart desires and beliefs as we do. And we want to help train and release and impart into you guys. And so if you want to reach out to us, um there's a few things that we're doing. We do a monthly leadership call for pastors. Um, we also do um a leadership one day once a year, and we also do a thing called a live conference, which is an encounter and an impartation conference that we would love for you to come to. Um, but my goal is to be able to gather pastors around the world who, number one, um have a revival heart. We want Holy Spirit to be in the front of our church, not in the back room somewhere. Number two, you believe in integrity and character in the pulpit, and that's important to you. And number three, you want a church that resembles heaven, different nations, different ethnicities, different backgrounds, but one God. If that bears witness with you, we would love for you to be a part of our network as we grow together and we invest in the Bix C church. But I wanted to go into creating an atmosphere that attracts God because I just believe that revival to me is not something you come to, it's something you carry. And so revival to me is not camp meetings, it's not like 10 weeks of meetings where we just stood up late all night. Those that that can be like how revival is. Like stewarded it and like uh uh, you know, that can be good.

SPEAKER_04 27:40

Yeah.

Ken Claytor 27:40

But revival is not something you come to, it's something that you carry. So to me, it's not just a meeting, it's a revelation of who's in you and then how you influence and impact the world as well. So I wanted to leave them with like a few thoughts about how you create an atmosphere that attracts God. Tell me what you think about this. Number one, it starts with thanksgiving, not scrolling. Okay. Um gratitude shifts your hearts, shifts your heart from lack to God's presence. Yes. Okay. So before you turn on your phone, name three things out loud, play a worship song, um, get on your knees. There's just something about the person that starts off with thanksgiving that comes before the scrolling, the emails, the texts that creates an atmosphere of revival.

Tabatha Claytor 28:30

Yeah, definitely. I think um this morning um I woke up out of the bed and uh it's something that you were teaching recently about Thanksgiving and praise. And I woke up out of the bed this morning, I just put my hands up and walked to the bathroom because you know, I didn't even open up my mouth yet, but I just put my hands up because I know that that's praise unto God. It's like, no, with my body, I'm gonna give you Thanksgiving. And so, yeah, little things like that matter.

Ken Claytor 28:57

It shifts the atmosphere. Number two, make space because margin invites presence. Okay, God feels what you make room for. So block 10 to 15 minutes a day, like non-negotiable time, God time, yeah, Bible, silence, prayer, put it in your calendar, okay? And you can also talk to the Lord. This is your time. Speak because your servant is listening. Yes. But make space because margin invites presence.

Tabatha Claytor 29:26

So good. Uh, we talk about the first 15 a lot. Yeah. So the first 15 minutes of your day, give it to the Lord.

Ken Claytor 29:32

Yeah. And hopefully you can do more than that. You know, I just, I just, I really do. I mean, just for me. This is not a law, but for me, yeah, I need more time than 15 minutes. But if you can do if you only got 15 minutes, that's a great place to start. Number three is this clean hands, light heart, quick repentance. Okay. Unconfessed stuff, it dulls your sensitivity. Repentance restores the flow. Yeah. Each night, search me, oh God. You know, Psalms 139. Confess, receive forgiveness, release others. Holy Spirit, I turn from this, I renounce this. Wash me. Yeah. Wash me clean. Make me white as snow. Make me quick to forgive.

Tabatha Claytor 30:12

I look at repentance and like confession, you know, asking God to forgive, you know, forgiveness and then forgiving others, as it's like you only have two arms, two hands. Yeah. You can only carry so much in your arms, right? And I want to be carrying joy, peace, love, forgiveness. I want to be carrying the fruit of the spirit. If I have bitterness, unforgiveness, resentment, hatred, I just don't like this person, you know, all of that stuff, it's taken up. I don't have room for peace. I don't have room for joy. You can only carry so much. Everything that is not of God, I want to drop it so that I can carry all of the goodness that God has for me.

Ken Claytor 30:53

Come on, come on. Number four is practice expectancy and take small faith risks. Now, if you want his presence, okay, if you want a Stuart revival, practice expectancy. Yeah. Miracles often meet simple obedience. Lord, who can I encourage or pray for today? If you sense a nudge, act kindly and briefly. Could I pray a 10-second prayer for you? Yeah. Give me courage, Lord, for the small yeses. There is something about practice, practicing expectancy and taking small faith risks that God meets us at.

Tabatha Claytor 31:29

That's good. Yeah. Expecting that God is going to do something special today.

Ken Claytor 31:33

Yeah. I just don't want you to get into the routine this year. Oh, I'm going to church. I'm going to small group. No, I'm expecting here. And even waiting for God to move.

Tabatha Claytor 31:41

Expecting and even, I don't know if this is on your list, but even invite God to do something special today. God, I welcome you to taking me out of my comfort zone today. God, do something unexpected today. I'm here. I'm listening. I'm waiting.

Ken Claytor 31:55

Number five is tell and retell your testimonies. What God did before built faith that he can do it again. Keep a God did note. Share one story every week with a friend or a small group. Do again in me through and through me what you've done before, oh God. What you've done in another, oh God, do it in me. There is no way that I'm going to listen to all those revivals. I will jump off this podcast in a lickety split and go research every one of them and say, God, what you've done before, do it again and even do more. Because we believe greater. You can do greater. Number six is honor people. You got to call out the gold. Now, if you want to create an atmosphere, you got to call out the gold. Now it's easy to call out the things that you don't like. But honors honor welcomes the king and it lifts faith in the room. Daily, speak one sincere affirmation text, face to face, refuse to gossip. Let me say it again. Refuse to gossip. If it ain't bringing life, why are you saying it?

Tabatha Claytor 32:56

Right.

Ken Claytor 32:57

If you got something negative say, you can go to that person personally and work it out. But if you're saying something negative about somebody ain't in the room, you ain't helping nothing. You're hurting it. Help me see people the way you see them. Honor is the currency of the morale.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Absolutely.

Ken Claytor 33:10

Number seven, fast something. Fast from something. So we're ending our fast, you know, because fasting, it turns up your hunger. Not your natural home. But but God is attracted to hunger and thirst. He wants to be where he wants to be wanted. He wants to be where he is wanted to be. You know what I mean? Right. So your hunger and thirst is actually what attracts God. Fasting turn down turns down the noise. So your desire for God turns up, you know. And so since we're in the middle of fasting, I think as we come to the end of the fast, we got to think, what part of this should we continue? Because I don't want fasting to be something that I do just for the first 21 days of the year. I want it to be something that I do throughout the year, periodically. And so number eight is this guard your gates. Guard your gates. Boundaries protect presence. What you repeatedly consume shapes your atmosphere. And so I, for me, I don't have time for like scary movie commercials, horror movies, thrillers that make my spirit jumpy. Yeah. Um it's hard to be entertained by devils and cast them out at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Yeah.

Ken Claytor 34:21

When it comes to Halloween, I'm not participating. Um I I I love having fun and we'll go out in the community and we'll light the night. But as for me in my house, we ain't drop dressing up like ghosts, goblins, demons, devils, warlocks, witches, sorcerers, or none of that.

Tabatha Claytor 34:39

Right.

Ken Claytor 34:40

I I'm not playing with stuff. I listen, I'm not entertained by stuff I should cast out.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

Right.

Ken Claytor 34:45

And I think unfortunately, um, we can think things are cute, and um, I'm not here to create any kind of uh legalism, but I am here to sound the alarm that demons ain't never been cute and never will be. Um they want to inhabit people who don't know no better. And we see too many people oppressed. And um it'd be good people too, they just don't know no better.

Tabatha Claytor 35:06

Well, when we read the Bible, we see that witches are real, that sorcerers are real, yeah, that demons are real, that ghosts, I mean, they're not ghosts, they're demons. These these are real things, and so it's nothing to celebrate.

Ken Claytor 35:18

Yeah. Next would be live naturally, supernatural in community. Faith grows with others, not in isolation. Join a group, man, join a serve team, pray with somebody weekly. Um, Lord, ask, ask the Lord, Lord, knit me to people who stir my faith. One of the easiest ways to kind of create the presence of God in your home is to go to somebody else's home who create the presence of God and then go home and do what they do. Yeah. You know, find a miracle worker and then go hang out with them and find out how they live. Yeah. Kind of repeat the same. And this will be my last one is reduce the secular and increase the sacred. And um, so to start this year off, this is gonna be our best year ever if it's our best year spiritually.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Yeah.

Guard Your Gates And Raise Hunger

Ken Claytor 35:59

I challenge the people who are listening and watching to take the six-month challenge. Say, from January to June, I'm gonna sell out for God. I'm talking about I'm not gonna stop. I'm gonna cut off wrong relationships, I'm gonna cut off toxic behaviors, I'm gonna put some things that are permissible but not wise. I'm gonna put it on the altar. I'm gonna spend time in God's word daily. I'm gonna plan my calendar and my life around church and around spiritual things. I'm gonna say no to sin. I'm gonna hate what God hates and love what God loves. And for six months, I'm gonna burn with fire and watch what happens at the end of six months. Don't do this whole God thing for 30 days or just in January, and then we don't know where you are by February, or just in February, we don't know where you are by March. Seasons change in six months. And if your life is not different at the end of six months, you can disconnect this podcast, treat me like I'm a liar. But if your life is changed at the end of six months because you went hard and you did everything, yeah, all of a sudden you can say, okay, let's do it another six months and another six months. And I have two campus pastors that came to our church, out one out of the nightclub, saying that he heard me talking about the six-month challenge. That was 15 years ago, and he's a pastor today because he didn't just play around with God. He took six months of his life. And so I believe that there are some of you all, it's time for you to take the six-month challenge. And what you're gonna see is more God in your life, more of his presence in your life, because revival is here and revival is now.

Tabatha Claytor 37:25

I'm ready for it.

Ken Claytor 37:26

Amen. Well, guys, that was a good one.

Tabatha Claytor 37:29

That was so good.

Ken Claytor 37:30

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