American Revival

# Revival: The Spiritual Awakening Across America

 Discover the signs of revival happening across America, its significance, and how it impacts believers and the church today.

In recent times, a powerful movement of revival has swept across America, igniting a renewed passion for faith and spirituality. Many might ask, what does revival truly mean? In this post, we will explore the essence of revival, its current manifestations in society, and why it matters for believers and the church. Join us as we delve into insights from a recent discussion on the Testament Faith Podcast, featuring Ray Bradshaw, John Paul Murphy, and John Quinn.

## What is Revival?
Revival, as defined by Webster's dictionary, is the act of bringing something back to life, consciousness, or a state of flourishing. It signifies a resurgence or renewed interest in faith and spirituality. Many people visualize a revival as large gatherings in tents or churches, filled with fervent preaching. However, true revival encompasses so much more than emotional gatherings; it's about awakening hearts and rekindling faith.

The narrative of revival often leads to questions: Are people genuinely experiencing transformation, or is it merely a trend? As we engage in this dialogue, it's essential to recognize that revival is not just about the event itself but about the lasting impact it has on individuals and communities.

## Signs of Revival in America
The conversation highlights several indicators of revival occurring in America today. One significant aspect is the surge in Bible sales and downloads. Reports show that Bible sales are at an all-time high, indicating a growing hunger for the Word of God. Additionally, the younger generation is exhibiting different behaviors compared to previous generations. For instance, many young people are choosing not to drink alcohol, signaling a shift in values and priorities.

This revival isn't confined to church walls; it's a cultural phenomenon that transcends traditional boundaries. From college campuses to social media, many are openly expressing their faith and seeking a deeper relationship with God. As Ray mentioned, the focus should shift from negativity and skepticism to recognizing the positive changes happening around us.

## The Role of Discernment in Revival
While revival is often celebrated, it's crucial to approach it with discernment. The conversation touched on the importance of not just celebrating baptisms but ensuring that there is follow-up and discipleship for new believers. Are they being integrated into the church community? Are they being mentored and guided in their faith journey?

As believers, it's our responsibility to engage with those who come to faith and help them grow in their relationship with Christ. The church should not only be a place for worship but also a nurturing environment where new believers can thrive.

## Conclusion: Embracing the Revival Spirit
Revival is a call to action for the church and its members. It is an invitation to participate in the ongoing work of God in the world. Instead of focusing solely on the negative aspects of society, believers are encouraged to look for signs of hope and transformation.

As we witness this revival, let us remember to support and nurture the new believers in our communities. The revival spirit is about more than just numbers; it's about hearts changing and lives being transformed. Let us continue to pray for revival, not just in churches but in our hearts and lives.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What does revival mean in a spiritual context?
Revival refers to a renewed interest and commitment to faith, often characterized by emotional gatherings and a resurgence of spiritual practices.

### How can I recognize signs of revival in my community?
Look for increased interest in spiritual matters, higher attendance at church services, and a general trend of people seeking a deeper relationship with God.

### Why is discipleship important during a revival?
Discipleship ensures that new believers are guided and supported in their faith journey, helping them grow and integrate into the church community.

Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:00

Welcome to the Testament's Faith Podcast. I'm Ray Bradshaw, and joining me again today is John Paul Murphy and John Quinn from the World of Faith Church out of Kingsville, North Carolina. And today on today's podcast, our topic's going to be revival. We're going to watch a couple of small videos on baptisms and try to show how America and the world actually is having a revival of coming back to Christ. I'm going to start out by first I want to say happy today is Memorial Day. Happy Memorial today, all the veterans out there. Thank y'all for your service and everything you've done for us and continue to do. Revival, according to Webster's dictionary, is the act of bringing something back to life, a consciousness or a state of flourishing. It refers to the resurgence or renewed interest in a subject, practice, or trend. I know a lot of people in America when they hear revival, the first thing they think of is a big old tent popped up in a parking lot somewhere and you know, have a big preaching. And we do call those revivals at church. I mean that's what it is. We're trying to awaken more people and get them to come to Christ. Or either come back to Christ and revive their life, so to speak. It also refers to a series of highly emotional evangelistic meetings meant to spark spiritual awakening. Like I just said, we're trying to spark people back life back up, bring them back to Christ, and convert new people to Christ to be Christians. Yeah. How do y'all feel about that remarkable?

SPEAKER_08 1:36

A lot of people look at it as, like you said, you know, tent meeting, big giant services, right, um, things like that. And but revival's happening across the United States and across the world right now, and people, some people are, you know, I I hate to put it like this, but some people are still praying. Lord sin revival, Lord sin revival, Lord send revival. And if you're too blind to see it right now, I mean there's something happen all across the globe right now. Um, not just here in America, but across the globe. I'm seeing a hunger for God in the church. I'm seeing a hunger of God for in the college campuses, hunger for God everywhere. And, you know, I get so fed up with hearing people talk about how bad things is, but they can't because they're too focused on the bad. They need to turn CNN off and Fox News, and they need to turn off all the things. Like I've had this conversation with you, Ray. You know, it's depending on what you look at. Like, I don't have negative stuff on my feeds, I don't have negative stuff coming through because I'm too busy focusing in on what's going on. You know, Peter was walking on the water and he started looking at the water and everything around. It's got his focus on Jesus. I'm too busy focusing on Jesus. The more I focus on Jesus, the closer I'm gonna get to him, the closer things I'm gonna have.

SPEAKER_09 2:54

Say one thing I don't like in your unfollowed.

SPEAKER_08 2:57

Yeah, I'm not gonna do it. So is you know, dead things coming back to life, as you were mentioning. Cold hearts catching a fire again. Yeah, that's right. You know, some people that, you know, sin being exposed and repentance coming in. That's what revival is all about. Things being coming in, hunger for God returning to people, and that's what we're seeing in America. You're seeing um, I gave it a while back. We were talking about how many Bibles have been at an all-time sell on high on Bibles, download, download of Bibles being at all-time high. Um, Jen, the new generation not drinking alcohol like you know, previous generations.

SPEAKER_09 3:34

It was Jim Bean had to let off hundreds of employees not too long ago.

SPEAKER_08 3:38

Um, and there's things coming through that is happening, and if you sit around and you don't pay attention, you'll never see it. But I'm I'm busy looking at what's going on at what God's doing. There's uh the Holy Spirit's moving through people, a lot of lost people that never knew Jesus are getting saved. I mean, we looked at um, you know, there's a lot of actors. I mean, we talked about Joe Rogan before that's you know, started coming back to the Lord. We've talked about other people that we've seen, you know, that are big influencers giving their hearts to Jesus. And, you know, people say, Well, are they really saved? That's not your judge.

SPEAKER_07 4:17

That's right.

SPEAKER_08 4:18

If you got the Lamb's book of life on your coffee table, yeah. If you got it on your coffee table, then well, who's the who's the one to judge? The thing is, if they're proclaiming Jesus Christ, yep, that's the beginning of it. You don't like when I first got saved, I'll tell you, was I perfect? No. Me neither. I was a working progress, and I'm still not perfect, but he was working on me. I'm a lot better now than I was. And so you got to understand when you come to Christ, it's a work in progress. Amen. You know, and it's a work in progress. He don't just he don't find you cleaned up and you're perfect. He's he starts cleaning you up. So when people say this, well, they've sinned. Well, let me tell you, just like Jesus told that little the people that was ready to stone the lady for adultery. Yeah. You without uh sin, cast a first stone, please. Otherwise, shut up and keep keep a walking, you know. Because I don't put down somebody that, you know, I see so much times, even in the church, well, you know what they used to do. Well, yeah. What did you used to do? That's what I want to ask. What did you used to do? Are you perfect without spot or blemish? You know, don't judge people that's coming out with this, you know, you see these people coming to Christ in a whole new way. Your heart should pour out like, yeah. Now we have a job now that we see this revival coming along, is to help make people disciples of God to get busy doing the work. The church should have their doors open. We should be opening more, not less. You see churches that only open up one time a week or once a month or uh every other week or stuff like that. Waste of real estate. I mean, I want to look at you and say, what are you doing? You know, there's a movement happening right now that you should be getting going after the souls of these people. So if you instead of sitting here in your chair or your lazy boy sitting there typing, well, you don't know how they're doing, you should get up there and go to work and say, you know what? These people are getting saved and they're getting baptized. I've got some work to do. I'm gonna get them in and I'm gonna start discipling people. I'm gonna start showing them how to live, I'm gonna start doing things for the kingdom of God.

SPEAKER_07 6:21

So I do have a video looted. Yeah. A guy was talking about that.

SPEAKER_05 6:25

He was asking these college campus revival baptism. Revival.

SPEAKER_09 6:30

Well, you know, what what he was talking about, you know, that you're not gonna look on the news and find these stories that we're talking about. The the news media, they're they they make money off selling fear. I mean that that's what their job is. The bad the bad news spreads, and that's that's what they do, and that's what people do on social media. And my question is before like and the other thing he was talking about, before you bash somebody that is on that type of platform reaching millions of people and they're they're proclaiming Jesus Christ. How many are you reaching? That's right. I mean, how many people are you reaching on your computer bashing them? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:09

Yeah, let's watch this video right quick. This guy here is saying that from what I'm gathering out of it, he just thinks that people are getting wet and nobody's actually going out and after they're getting baptized is actually doing the discipling part of it.

SPEAKER_05 7:23

This revival baptisms, is this a good or bad thing? I'm looking at it, I don't I don't I don't know that it's as positive as people are thinking because it looks like all that's happening is people are getting wet. Now, if they had somebody there or an organization who understood discipleship, that discipleship has a beginning and an ending. Um, it's reproducible, it has goals, you establish them in the word of God, you establish them in the Pause.

SPEAKER_07 7:52

He said the beginning and ending of discipleship. Did discipleship ever end?

SPEAKER_08 7:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:58

When you go to heaven, when you did, when you're gone, but that's not he's using it like it's a like a course, a seven-week course, like it like it's a college course.

SPEAKER_09 8:08

Well the thing is, my next question for this guy is rather than sitting here being on here, why don't he instead of talking about it, why don't he go find out?

SPEAKER_07 8:16

Right.

SPEAKER_09 8:17

If I if I instead of posting this video, I'd have been trying to find out what was going on. Because why am I gonna ask the question I don't have an answer to?

SPEAKER_08 8:27

I'm gonna go find an answer. Yeah, I'm gonna go see what's going on.

SPEAKER_07 8:31

We won't watch this whole one here because I'm not all that fond of it. But he was basically saying is people just getting wet or they actually get what he's getting at, and or are they, you know, it's like we talked about this earlier. If if if they've professed that they've said Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and they've been baptized, now that's between them and the Lord now.

SPEAKER_08 8:53

Yeah, that's right. It's not our job.

SPEAKER_07 8:55

That's up to them to get into a good church. Goes into judge not lest you be judged. Yeah, and get in that Bible and start learning. Yeah. I mean, it's not a college course.

SPEAKER_09 9:04

My thing is how many people go to church on a Sunday every Sunday basis that ain't saved. That's right. That ain't ain't living out there.

SPEAKER_07 9:12

And there's a lot of them too that still go to church every Sunday, but when they leave their church on Sunday, that's the last thing they don't go out there and try to bring more people to Christ plant seeds.

SPEAKER_09 9:24

You don't know how many of them going home, getting drunk watching the race. That's right. I mean, they're not up there, you know.

SPEAKER_04 9:30

Well, new tonight, more than two thousand.

SPEAKER_09 9:33

I'm nobody's case on that one. I'm just saying, you know, rather than asking the question and putting it out there and it looking like I'm down any at all. Anytime somebody accepts Jesus and gets baptized publicly, my first question ain't, well, is somebody doing something afterwards? You tell them, you know, go to your local church. You you start, you, you find somebody that's you know, you'll find guidance.

SPEAKER_08 10:02

And any minister that's worth five cents most of the time is already doing that. Yeah. You know, I've been to a lot of a lot of places, and you know, even out-of-town ministers that are doing baptisms or doing anything, they're like, now get involved in your church.

SPEAKER_06 10:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 10:17

They're they're giving them a command. Now it's up to the person whether you you heed word to it or not. But I I notice that all the time is you know, you know, a lot of them are are telling them to get involved in church. You know, normally they know what church to tell them to go to. Yeah, they're too sending them to a church. They give them two or three references of churches. Like, yeah, um, you know, they're like, This is a good church, this is a good church, this is a good church. They'll give them three or four references to go check out. They don't send them to a dead church. Yeah, they try to get them to somewhere to can that can help them out. And that's what you know I've seen in my life, you know, and the same thing when we get people that's being baptized in our church, we you know, we spend time with them, we talk to them, I call them up. I've got everybody's number that's been baptized this week, and I'll call them and check all of them and talk to them. Yeah, you have to counsel them. Absolutely. That's part of discipleship. You're not just supposed to get them in and do nothing with them. But I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 11:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 11:14

And that might have been where that guy was going on that last video, too, is that you know, you know, you got a mass baptism of 2,500 people aren't who's going back and checking up on those people.

SPEAKER_08 11:23

Yeah. I can understand that. It's as hard, it would be difficult, but you can't turn people away to want to be baptized.

SPEAKER_07 11:29

Of course, now I will say in this next video we get ready to watch there was a mass baptism down in Florida, 2,500 students and Americans. But the church that was doing it has over 14,000 members. Yeah. Yeah. That that's amazing in itself. Yeah. And then there was that was a lot of people on the beach.

SPEAKER_09 11:45

Well, I, you know, I doubt that the 120 were really ready for the 3,000 that got saved on the at the day of Pentecost.

SPEAKER_08 11:54

Yeah, I don't think they had a room big enough. They didn't have anything ready. They didn't have the PA system set up. They didn't have anything. They were just they just went with it.

SPEAKER_09 12:02

They don't many people down on them. No. And they would lift them up.

SPEAKER_07 12:06

Yeah. Let's look at this this next one. Shoot it to this is the one in Florida.

SPEAKER_04 12:11

2,000 people baptized during the Church of 1122's annual beach baptism at Hannah Park. Take a look. This video shows the thousands of people from across the first coast that took part in the major event. The church tells us around 2,500 people were baptized.

SPEAKER_08 12:26

They had multiple lines, too. They had multiple lines. And you know, in a in a church that size, they're not dealing with just one pastor. They got a lead pastor, and they probably got, I bet, a hundred different pastors inside that church. You know, at least a hundred that's in there.

SPEAKER_07 12:43

They have their lead pastor.

SPEAKER_08 12:44

And then they have uh, I'd bet you there's probably uh, I would say at least fifty to a hundred different other pastors that's under him. How many lead past they had in that church? 14,000.

SPEAKER_07 12:56

Yeah, they at least got they got at least a hundred pastors. I mean, I imagine that's probably several campuses too. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Um this next one, pretty nice. It's probably about 50 here at this one. Yeah. I can't remember if this I know the girl doing the baptizing was raised here in North Carolina from, but she might be in Tennessee or somewhere doing it. I can't remember. It shows you what's happening in America. Young man right there, that goes me back to thinking about something else we've talked about before. Like I'm not going there. I mean, it's like, you know, how young some people think you have to be a certain age to be baptized. Where there's some religions that sprinkle you when you're born, they think that's good enough. But I mean, when you get old enough to think for yourself and can have thought and you know the difference between right and wrong, and you and you feel like you need to accept Jesus Christ, your Lord Lord and Savior, I don't care if you're two or twenty or two hundred, you should be able to do it.

SPEAKER_08 14:00

Yeah, that's right. I mean you can make a decision, you know. That's one of the questions. Do you know Jesus Lord is your Lord and Savior? Do you want to be baptized? And you know, that's the main thing. Can you answer that? Can you tell you can you kindly tell me what and one of the things you know that we did right before our baptism is you know, I kind of held a class on it. Anybody want to be baptized? Right. Talk to them about it, explain it, go in detail. You got questions, ask me.

SPEAKER_07 14:26

And um, you know, they call Jesus the bridegroom. So when somebody when you're just like somebody can't really get married, you cancel.

SPEAKER_06 14:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:34

So in the same way in a baptism, they need to be canceled. Yeah. And make sure that they're doing it for all the right reasons.

SPEAKER_08 14:41

That's what I did with my class, and I I explained it the same way you're talking about baptism as in marriage. I talked to him, I said, you know, when I asked my wife to marry, we were getting married. I said, that means I'd already accepted her and she had already accepted me. You get what I'm saying? Just like when you asked Jesus to come in your heart, he's already accepted you and you have accepted him. Then we had the ceremony that we put the ring on, and everybody else got to see a commitment we had already made before that. Do you understand? I said, that's the same thing baptism is. That's right. We're showing the commitment we've already made.

SPEAKER_07 15:13

Baptism is the ring ceremony. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 15:16

That's right. That's that's what I was trying to explain to the people because some of the people's like, I don't know if I'm ready for that. I'm like, what do you mean you don't know if you're ready? Like, how do you not know? Like, to me, that's the question that rings out to me the quite loudest. I don't know about you. But how do you not know if you're ready if you've already asked him in your Lord and Savior? You know, at that point, you've already made the commitment.

SPEAKER_06 15:35

That's right.

SPEAKER_08 15:36

Like it's just asking, like, when you ask Marie to marry you, you've already made a commitment, baby. We're gonna get married. Now the only thing we gotta do is figure out when and where, like the baptism, when and where, baby, we're gonna do it. And that's that's like, because I asked my wife to marry on um December 20th 25th with January the 30th, 30th. We were married. Like a month later, we got married. I was like, we're gonna go ahead, let's do it now. Same thing with baptism. Like, I look at it the same way. Well, I got saved, I'm ready to go get baptized. Let's get this thing on the road, you know. Um that should be the same thing as a commitment already made that um that you're doing to God. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 16:12

This next one I have coming up, they claim to be the largest mass baptism in history. They claim there were 4,000 baptized. I've once again I apologize for the audio on some of these videos. It's not seeming to be a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

It was a sight to behold thousands wading into the waters of Pilates Cove to celebrate their new life in Christ.

SPEAKER_08 17:01

Yeah, I mean this is like a once-in-a-lifetime thing that's happening right now. Like more than one like a I mean, this is amazing.

SPEAKER_07 17:08

I will say that, you know, I'm glad that we do have you can see stuff like this.

SPEAKER_08 17:13

Yeah, but I mean, I don't know there's any uh you come on, I mean, somebody would have told you about a mass bass season even in the back in the 80s.

SPEAKER_07 17:20

You would have heard about it somewhere. Yeah, somebody would have told you about it.

SPEAKER_08 17:24

Something would have happened. It would have got passed around.

SPEAKER_07 17:26

They might not have said it on the news, but it would you would have you would have heard it somehow. Yeah, I've never heard anything like that. That's right. This next one, I'm assuming it's over in Africa. Yeah, it touched my heart the most. That's right. I like this one. I love the dedication they went through to do this. Y'all will have to forgive me on some of this camera switching. I am self-produced.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

This tribe was unriched, never heard of Jesus Christ until this moment. The truth of the gospel hit this land, and over 200 people gave their life to Jesus, and now they were ready to be baptized. In the middle of the desert with no water in sight, they were determined to fulfill the scriptures for their lives, wrapped in plastic, embraced it with a large rocks, and then many other people walked for miles and miles to the nearest well to find water. This was only about ankle deep, but it took them over two days to fetch the water they need to fill the hole where they would be baptized one by one. It was a beautiful sight to see how eager they were to get baptized and to get filled with the Holy Spirit. One by one they got baptized, and the whole village got baptized. And there was a man, his name was Manochak, and he observed how the lot was moving. And he jumped into the water, and the Lord used him to baptize his own people. Next, his wife, Caroline, was so nervous at first, but also eager to be used by God in a very powerful way. And she and him became a pastor in this village to perform baptism in the name of Jesus. Jesus says in the Great Commission, go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and did it and didn't have no water, right?

SPEAKER_08 19:18

No water. Yeah, 200 people. Yeah. I mean you can't I wonder if that guy would say they meant it too that we watched a while ago.

SPEAKER_07 19:27

I don't know, man. I mean, they were really they really wanted it, man.

SPEAKER_08 19:34

Yeah, they were really wanting it. They were towed that water and to do the things that they did. I thought that was amazing.

SPEAKER_07 19:40

That was probably touched my heart the most, seeing how one of the last ones I have. Yeah. One of the things that makes me proud here in America too is seeing a lot of young people on the college campuses.

SPEAKER_08 19:50

Yeah, because you think about before Charlie Kirk and all the things that was going on before then, how everybody was like down in colleges and down in things. And now it's like uh, especially since Kirk, you know, everything that happened with him and he that shot look at the revival that's been springing up in the the the college campuses. I mean, oh yeah, that does me good. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

Baptisms of hundreds of young people. Thousands come to raise hearts of joy in song. There's a palpable spirit moving on college campuses, arenas, and megachurches. Younger generations gathering to worship, coming to faith, as the new Fox Nation special reveals.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

There's spiritual hunger in Gen Z, Bible sales are booming, things that you never thought would happen before.

SPEAKER_03 20:37

It's a kind of worship that's different from their parents and grandparents.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

This is a relationship with grace. And I think that's what young people resonate with today. This isn't achieving, it's receiving. It's not trying to be good enough to earn God's love. God already loves us.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Churches are reporting record numbers of young people filling pews, especially in the Catholic Church, while reports show social media is exploding with young faith influencers spreading a new approach to religion. Still, while Pew Research Center data shows religion is gaining influence in America, and that Gen Z is showing higher rates of religion, researcher Ryan Burridge isn't convinced there's an actual great awakening.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

We're not seeing anything in the data that even points close to the idea of a mass revival in America. For us to go from a 25% weekly attendance rate to a 35% weekly attendance rate means 35 million new people are gonna be going to church this Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 21:26

But for others, the numbers only tell part of the story.

SPEAKER_08 21:30

This is a We get it going on. People don't see that what's going on through they're too blind.

SPEAKER_07 21:38

You gotta see it, man. You gotta wake up.

SPEAKER_08 21:40

Yeah, wake up. Look around.

SPEAKER_09 21:41

All you ever do is watch the negativity, you ain't gonna see it. But if you'll find news outlets like CBN does a lot of Christian Broadcast Network, they do a lot of of showing stuff like that.

SPEAKER_07 21:54

Right. Yeah. And I was sort of surprised, like, you know, one or a couple of them on there that Fox News was actually showing it.

SPEAKER_09 22:00

Yeah. Instead of instead of searching for bad stuff, why don't you search what's going on in the church world? Yeah, that's right. What's going on in America that's good.

SPEAKER_07 22:11

Yeah, that's we need more of that. They cut on their local news. Our local news here, all they do is just always show bad stuff.

SPEAKER_08 22:22

Another person got shot, another person did this, another and that's all they could show.

SPEAKER_07 22:26

Chase this, that, and the other. Yeah. I get I don't I don't even watch it anymore.

SPEAKER_09 22:32

If if you just listen to what is on Facebook or social media, and you just listen to what's coming through the news media, you'll think America's doomed. I mean, but with God, there's always hope. Yep.

SPEAKER_08 22:45

I've got I've looked I've you block and I can fix it. If you say I have got all these issues on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and the only thing I see is new, I can tell you how to do it. There's an easy way to go on there and block everything that's negative.

SPEAKER_06 23:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 23:03

And if you'll block everything that's negative on there, guess what? It won't do nothing but fill it up with good, because that's what I got. I got preachers, I got evangelists, I got minister, I've got nothing but churches on my Facebook, X, Instagram, Twitter. That's all I've got. And you know what? You eventually you'll get rid of all of it. I promise you. But you got to make that decision that I'm done with it. And then you'll say, Well, they're my friends. Are they really your friends? If I don't think they post this bad stuff all the time. Because some people you can deal with that. Because I mean, I've I've blocked a lot of the people on my Facebook that don't think, well, you know, when it rains, it pours. Well, it don't rain and pour at my house. I have a good life. And so you have what you say out of your mouth. And see here, the problem is this is what really gets into it. You will have what you say. The Bible clearly tells you life and death is in the power of the tongue. So if you constantly talk bad about America and you can constantly talk bad about things that's happening, don't be surprised when things is ending up at your house. When you're part of America, your part is bad. When your stuff's getting laid off, when your stuff's happening, because you have done nothing but talk about about it. But when everybody else and then you're like, well, everybody else is just being getting doing everybody else is doing well except me. Well, because you're stinking mouth.

SPEAKER_07 24:19

Yeah, because you got you wake up with that attitude. That's the attitude you want to carry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 24:24

Here's what the Bible actually says about that. People that always that always talking about that, they have a broken spirit. The Bible says that a broken spirit drieth the bones. But a merry heart does good. Does good like a medicine? A merry heart does good like a medicine. If it's always bringing you down, then you need to delete it.

SPEAKER_07 24:46

That's right.

SPEAKER_09 24:47

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 24:48

You get rid of it.

SPEAKER_08 24:49

Yeah. I mean you can't. Doesn't the Bible talk about putting a guard over your eyes and your mouth and whatever you're looking at?

SPEAKER_09 24:55

Guard your heart, guard your eyes. Yeah. What goes better for you? What goes into eyes and into ears goes into the soul. That's right. If you're putting the word of God in, you're going to have a lot better life.

SPEAKER_07 25:09

Ain't that a truth?

SPEAKER_09 25:10

You you do not go to the garbage can look and supper because you put trash in it.

SPEAKER_07 25:15

That's right.

SPEAKER_09 25:16

But if you put trash in your heart, you're going to get trash out.

SPEAKER_08 25:18

Do you want to let's cut into what the Bible says about revival in?

SPEAKER_07 25:22

Oh, yeah, I was getting to say y'all, I was gonna read Psalms 85, 6, and 7. Yeah. Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your mercy, Lord, and grant us your salvation. And you can see throughout the Old Testament, especially that the chosen people, the Israelites, had a lot of revivals. I mean, they were they would turn and start going their opposite ways, and then they would come back. I mean, they were constantly in revival. And God was showing them why every time they came to revival, he was showing them the miracles and stuff he could perform. Yeah. It they needed a fresh fire. Right. And that that's what And that leads back to that's why we have revived vouls at churches, because that's what that's the best.

SPEAKER_09 26:11

I'm gonna tell you what, if you look at if you look at churches, a lot of churches need revival. They do. I mean, they need reviving because the in order for something to be revived, it had to have been alive at something. If you restart an engine, it had to be started at one point in time. That's right. Well, there's a lot of churches in America that need a fresh fire, that they need revival to come back to what they once were because nobody wants to be around death. Nobody wants to be around something that's like that. You know, David said revive us again. He didn't say breathe life into us for a first time. You know, revival is one of the main things about revival it is to bring the people that have got cold back around.

SPEAKER_10 26:58

That's right.

SPEAKER_09 26:59

The ones that have become complacent back around. Because if you get the people that were once on fire for God back fired up, they're gonna affect people around them. They'll start inviting people to the revival to the meeting that's going on.

SPEAKER_07 27:15

Yeah, I think John Paul had that verse about the dry bones. That's a good example right there of a true revival. Yeah. As far as like bringing it bringing it, like you said, it to revive something, it had to once to be alive.

SPEAKER_06 27:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:33

It was God showed Ezekiel the dry bones to hopelessness, a spiritual death. Then the breath of God entered them and came from the force wind old breath and the breath on these slains that they may live again. That's Ezekiel 37 9. Yep. Revival is the breath of God entering a dry place. Really think about it. It's the breath of God entering into a place that's dead, giving breath back into it again. And, you know, John's saying there's a lot of places that don't have any movement, you know, you've got to have fresh revival. And, you know, a lot of people don't want revival. I'm not maybe they say they just don't.

SPEAKER_07 28:11

They want to be complacent.

SPEAKER_08 28:13

They say they want revival, but here's the thing they don't ever want to stay, they don't want to have a revival because they don't want to have a revival because they're not willing to do anything to have it.

SPEAKER_09 28:23

They block it to be at church.

SPEAKER_08 28:24

Yeah. You got people that don't want to spend more than one day at church. And they work there. Mm-hmm. Well, they got I've got things going on. We got a ball tournament this weekend, we got this and that and the other. When you start putting everything else before God, you don't really want to revive. Right. I mean, I'm talking I'm not talking about our church or or you or anybody. I'm talking about I've seen this in my own life where I hear people talking about, well, we want a fresh move of God, and then they start telling me about how busy they are. You can't be busy, too busy for God, because when God's calling to do something and pour out fresh winds into the place, and then if you do anything, they're like, oh, I can't stand this.

SPEAKER_09 29:05

You know, when the spirit starts moving, they're like, oh, we want to see people come into the kingdom, but we don't want to lose our charity. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 29:12

And I'll admit I was like that most of my adult life.

unknown 29:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:16

But we've all been like that.

SPEAKER_07 29:17

I hate guilty as charged. I'm giving it to them. I wanted Jesus and I wanted to know more about him, but I weren't willing to put him first.

SPEAKER_09 29:25

That's why that's why me and him talk so much about this rapid fire men's conference that's coming up. If you're a man, go. If the only way you can get God made life on June the 6th at 8 a.m., be there.

SPEAKER_08 29:38

It breathed fresh life into us. That was one of the things that that came into you know revival. Seeing 250 men, praising God, right? Praising God with all their heart, loving Jesus.

SPEAKER_09 29:50

There's a businessman said he left there wanting to be a preacher.

SPEAKER_08 29:53

Yeah. I mean, that's what and that's what it should do. It should put a hunger on the inside of you when people are getting up there pouring their heart out. So Hosea 6, 1 and 2, come and let us return to the Lord, for he has torn, torn, but he will heal us. He has stricken, but he has and he will bind us up. And after two days he will revive us, and on the third days he rose up, and that we may live in his sight. Notice revival connects us to returning to God, repentance, restoration. That's what revival is all about. Like we just said, we found out we were wrong. There's nothing wrong with finding out you're wrong about some things. What is wrong when you won't point out them things that you're wrong about and fix them things? Let God say I stay wrong. Yeah, you choose to stay wrong. There should be a come of repentance. I mean, I've had repent for things that that I had not because I was sinned, because I didn't do all that God was wanting me to do.

SPEAKER_09 30:51

And I was like, Lord, delayed obedience is still disobedience. Yeah, delayed obedience is still disobedience.

SPEAKER_07 30:58

For those of you that are interested in the Rapid Fire Men's Conference, here's the uh some information on it. We hosted by Agape Life, 220 Franktown Road in Richland, North Carolina. Saturday, June the 6th, 2026. They're gonna serve breakfast at 8 o'clock. Conference starts at 9, and then there's gonna be lunch at 12 afterwards.

SPEAKER_09 31:21

And it don't cost anything to go.

SPEAKER_07 31:22

It's free of charge.

SPEAKER_09 31:24

And they give away, they got pheasant hunt, they're giving away a turkey hunt, they're giving away a two-man fishing trip chartered, they got they give away D walk tools. I mean, they don't give away cheap stuff, they give away good stuff.

SPEAKER_07 31:37

It's gonna be an awesome event. So like I said, if you can make it to Richland, North Carolina on Junior 6th, I suggest getting there.

SPEAKER_09 31:44

If you say it's too far, how far have you driven for a concert or a ball game? Oh Lord. Hey, that's true.

SPEAKER_08 31:50

Yeah, I've been. So that saved you from having to say it, John. Yeah, that stirred us up on the inside.

SPEAKER_07 31:56

I've driven four or five hours for a concert before in a big game.

SPEAKER_09 32:00

Now that's that's a men's conference now.

SPEAKER_07 32:02

Yeah, a men's conference, that's right. Right. So I mean you're close to Jacksonville, so the ladies can drop the men off and they can go to Jacksonville to where they want to do. Yeah. That's right. Just the only way you got to get it.

SPEAKER_08 32:14

And we're actually having a women's meeting that day, too. At church. At a church. Oh yeah. So we're gonna we're gonna cover them up so they didn't have to worry about it.

SPEAKER_07 32:22

But theirs is at three. Yeah. Yeah, dead on. Did she ever post anything on that? I don't know. Getting back to get my scriptures over here.

SPEAKER_08 32:31

You got tightened up now. I'm trying. It takes me a minute to flip.

SPEAKER_09 32:36

I know, man.

SPEAKER_08 32:37

You know, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_09 32:38

The church is over two thousand years old and still growing around the world. It's it's survived the Roman persecution, Nero, Hitler, Stalin, communism, plagues, wars. You know. But you know, it talks about uh Jesus said, you know, uh, on this rock I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

SPEAKER_07 33:00

Right.

SPEAKER_09 33:00

The church is not gonna be defeated. And that that's what people need to realize whenever they're looking at all this bad stuff. Jesus said that, you know, that some things were gonna happen. You know, he said he talked about there would there would be a falling away. But the thing is, you need to make sure you're not the one of the ones falling away. You need to make sure that you have your fire. Right. Don't be one of the five foolish uh virgins. You know, it was five wise and five foolish, some of them, five of them didn't carry no oil with them, and five of them carried extra oil and their fire went out. Don't be like the the five foolish and miss Jesus' coming.

SPEAKER_07 33:41

Took me a minute to find it. But on the same day, June the sixth, women you're invited to the World of Faith ministries in Kinsville, North Carolina for gathered in grace. That's gonna start at 3 p.m. Yep. So you're more than welcome to come. And rich man's in Kingsville's not that far apart if you need to go drop your husband off when you come to Kingsville. Yeah, or vice versa. So y'all come and join.

SPEAKER_08 34:04

So one of the perfect representatives of revival in the Bible, that to me another good representation is 2 Kings 22. And it's talking about um Josiah when he was eight years old, he became king, and he came back, and they had been worshiping idols before him, and they had been living in a Rome because of the king before him, and they discovered the book of the law, and then if you look in verses eleven, they heard the book of the law, and then they repented and turned back and worship was restored. They came into a major move of revival in that and that movement there. So, you know, it doesn't matter how far we've came off, because these guys had really came off. Right. I mean, if you read the whole story, I mean I would encourage you to do 2 Kings verses 22 to 23. You see how far they came off from the word of God, and then they came back to it. And God is always, like John's saying, you're never too far, it's never too far. God is a strong God, He'll bring it back.

SPEAKER_07 35:17

Right.

SPEAKER_08 35:18

Even after they did all the things wrong, worshiping idols, all that, he breathed fresh fire back onto them, and God started honoring his people again and started using his people again. So it just takes, and that was only one man. So, you know, yes, he was a king, but he was only eight years old and started coming in and doing things like that. So um then Elisha, Elijah on uh Mount Carmel, 1 Kings 18. Israel had mixed up in worshiping with idols again. Elijah called a nation back to God, fire fell, people repented, false gods were exposed, all in that chapter. So you see through, like you're talking about, all throughout the new the old testament, you see revival and awakening coming, refreshing, refilling, repentance. You know, revival to me brings forth a lot of repentance. It finds a heart that is shouldn't be where it needs to be at, and it gets you back where you where God wants you to be at.

SPEAKER_07 36:18

Yeah, on that note of the heart I had on Isaiah 57, 15. Yeah. For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy.

SPEAKER_06 36:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 36:28

I dwell in the high and holy place with him who has a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. And that's what it that right there to me wraps up revival in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_08 36:45

Yeah. It brings forth human admittedly, repentance, brokenness before God, not pride, not performance. That's right. You know, some people's like, oh, well, it's all about this performance and all that. No, when you start seeing what happens in revival going across the nation, you see people getting saved, people turning their hearts to the Lord, it just does me good. I get I'm not looking at the down and saying there's bad things happening. I'm like, man, God is doing some great things.

SPEAKER_07 37:11

I sat here this morning putting these videos together we watched, getting chill bumps.

SPEAKER_08 37:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 37:16

Pure chill bumps. What it's like.

SPEAKER_08 37:18

Yeah. That's what I see. And see, that's on my phone every day. Yeah. I can give you like videos every day and things that's happening every day that's happened across America.

SPEAKER_07 37:28

It's like when you go back, you know, it's whatever you speak comes forth. If you want to just look at negativity and be negativity all the time, that's what that's your life. Yeah. That's what you're gonna you reap what you sow.

SPEAKER_06 37:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 37:41

So if all you're gonna do is just go through TikTok and look at hate hate speech and hate this and hate that, I mean, you're gonna feel like everything around you is that way.

SPEAKER_06 37:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 37:50

When they're when in reality it's not.

SPEAKER_06 37:53

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 37:54

It's not. I mean, I I've seen people I've tried to go to be nice to and they just be right hateful in return because that's how they feel everybody actually is, because that's already that's already involved herself with.

SPEAKER_08 38:05

That's what the devil wants to do. That's right. But you get to understand, you know, that we're living in some of the last days. What does Acts 2.17 says, and then it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Yeah, he says, he says, I'm getting ready to do something.

SPEAKER_09 38:26

That that's really the only that's really the only end time scripture I even care about. And the last days I'm gonna pour out my spirit. He's right. I can care less about the rest of it. Right. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_08 38:37

Yeah. Through Acts 3 19, repent therefore and be converted, and that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. You know, a time of refreshing, that's all about revival. You know, is you know, when you get in revival, man, you get feeling good. You know, I come out of, we just came out of a conference this past week. And you see me up there Sunday morning, I was wide open, man, because I'm I I'm full, you know, because the only thing I fit in all week. That's right. The only thing I've been eating all week is the word of God. I mean, I've been eating it twice a day. Eating it, and now don't get me wrong, I listen to three or four sermons a day, but sitting in that presence with people preaching and and talking to me, I got filled up again. I was like, man, I was ready to go. I was ready to take the world on. I was like, send me into all the world, I'll take it on. And I know I'm only I was ready to go. You know, I was like charged up. You know how you get charged up? I was like a spring ready to be shot into out of a cannon. I was gone, ready to go.

SPEAKER_09 39:45

That's why I'm sitting there when people say, Well, I can just watch it on and get the same thing. No, you can't.

SPEAKER_08 39:51

No, you can't. I begged a different because I look at three sermons a day every day. But I can tell you there's something different when I'm sitting in that building. I'm telling you, I there's more power. You can just listen to it, and that's great.

SPEAKER_09 40:07

There's not as much distraction.

SPEAKER_07 40:09

The whole time I've been been in my healing after my wreck, I've watched sermon after sermon, even from y'all's church, yeah, from my church I grew up in, uh TikTok, you know, it whatever. But but the whole time I'm craving to get back in that church, in a church. Yeah. Because it is not the same.

SPEAKER_08 40:31

Is not. And I mean, because I I have found that out for sure. You know, I because I listened to a lot of messages, but I can tell you there's something different about being in that presence. That's right. Because the presence of God is there and he's moving, and you're in that presence and you're getting filled with it. You know, the biggest thing is, you know, a lot of people have lost an appetite for the Lord, but there's a return coming for appetite. People are hungry for God throughout America. And people see that it's used to be, and the Bible says as in Matthew 5 18, blessed are those who are hungry and thirst for righteousness. You know, when you get hungry for God, there's that's just we're being called to be hungry for God.

SPEAKER_09 41:13

Second Chronicles 7 14, if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. He says they're my people, if my people will humble themselves and pray.

SPEAKER_08 41:32

Humble them, pray, seek God, seek God, pray in your wicked ways.

SPEAKER_09 41:37

Repentance. Then I'll hear from heaven and I'll hear their land. Well, God's heard from heaven. He's heard the cry of the church for over the years. He's he's heard it and he's answering.

SPEAKER_08 41:48

Yeah. That's right. And some churches are so blind they don't even see it. I'm like, guys, I was talking to the ones we were talking about a while ago. Yeah, I was talking to this minister the other day, and he's like, Well, we're just praying for revival. I'm looking at him like, What would you know it if it slapped you? Yeah, I'm like, bro, have you not seen what's going on right now? Like, I I'm watching it. I'm part of one of the greatest movements that's ever happened. I mean, I've grown up in church my whole life. My grandparents were pastors. I I've grown up in this thing my whole life, and I'm seeing something now that I've never shown up you never thought would show up just out of the blue show up at church.

SPEAKER_07 42:23

Yeah. That makes me wonder when you see a pastor like that. What are they watching on social media? What are they watching? Garbage. What are they searching for? We both come up with that at the same time. Garbage. It must have been the Lord telling us. Yeah, but what are they what are they searching for? That's what I don't if they can't see this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 42:40

If you look at their face, you can probably tell because they probably got a broken spirit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 42:45

When revival comes, though, it don't only just come in one person's heart, it also attaches to a home. It comes to your house. Revival don't just stay in a building like we were talking about earlier, tent. It keeps on you on you, and then it brings forth refreshing to your house, to your marriages. You know, you want to see things change in your marriage. The more you get around in this revival that's happened, you're gonna see a change happen in your marriage, your your speech, your priorities. I mean, I can tell you my priorities have changed a whole bunch in just the last six months. Priorities have shifted. Um, holiness, hunger for God. See, all this happens when this revival came in, you know, and I I was doing pretty good before, but even more so, it's just shifting us to do more because it only just enough. Yeah, it don't just happen at that building. It comes home with you, it jumps on your marriage, it jumped, it's jumped on my wife. It ain't just come down, it ain't just jumped on me, it jumped on my wife.

SPEAKER_09 43:44

It's changed her complete attitude. Yeah, toward church and everything.

SPEAKER_08 43:48

Yeah, but she's uh I mean, she's up there all the time doing all the things together. Yeah, it changes your speech, it changes your priorities. Like my priorities was we've got to do this, this, and this, and now it's It's like, what all can we do for the church? What all can we do for the mission?

SPEAKER_07 44:03

We as men have been caught, we're called to be leaders anyway. Yeah. In the church and in our home. So I mean, if we're there doing it, then our families will start eventually seeing what we're doing, and they're gonna start. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 44:15

Well, you know, your cup runneth over, brother, and it's gonna wet everybody around you.

SPEAKER_09 44:20

You know, in Leviticus, it it talks about in Leviticus 6 uh 13, it said, The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar. It shall never go out. That burning fire, you should never let your fire go out. You never let always keep that stirring, that fire going, and keep it blazing hot because that's when you get what did what did Jesus say or what what was said in Revelation about being lukewarm, letting your fire die out. He said I'd rather you be hot or cold. But because you're lukewarm, I'll vomit you out of my mouth. I have the same feeling about something. That's right. I mean, yeah, I I do too. I mean, I can't you know, and there there was a like we just talked about, there was a time that we had become complacent. Absolutely. Even as pastors, you can become complacent. Absolutely. You can't. And you you can't complacence comes from comfort. And it then it turns into laziness.

SPEAKER_06 45:21

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 45:22

But and then you've got to, I mean, but that is not how a Christian should be. That is that is the exact opposite of what a Christian should be. Strive. Yeah, strive. You have to strive. Paul said I run the race. It's a race. You gotta run it.

SPEAKER_07 45:41

I run the race. Yeah, we just can't say, all right, I've accepted Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior.

SPEAKER_08 45:46

I'm going to heaven.

SPEAKER_09 45:47

If that's the case, let's go ahead and kill you now.

SPEAKER_08 45:49

No, I'm going to heaven. I'm not doing nothing else.

SPEAKER_09 45:51

We can do the extra long baptism now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 45:56

There's nothing gonna be, you know, you do. We discussed those levels of baptism on another podcast. Later details coming. Yeah, I had uh another one from the New Testament. I had two that I thought come along pretty good, but the revival is Mark chapter 16, verses 15 through 16. And he said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. And that to me is like this is going to with the with our church revivals. I mean, we have our church revivals to invite more people in, to revive the church and to bring those in that are curious and wanting to know and are seeking and aren't quite sure yet. Yeah. Try to keep them from being the condemned.

SPEAKER_08 46:53

Yeah. You know, and that's going on into our youth as well. I mean, it's I mean, we got a past load of youth you've seen at our church that's coming in, this, you know, and I've got more and more. I started out with just like three, three, three young boys, and now what uh my whole back row behind you. You got your but they got your back because this is our cameraman, Mr. Ray here.

SPEAKER_09 47:19

Sunday, but Sunday before you said half the congregation go back.

SPEAKER_08 47:22

Yeah, I got up there and I looked, I was reading looking at my Bible, getting ready to preach, and I looked up and I'm like, Man, where'd everybody go? Where did everybody go? I lost all my church. And it's and John had about as big a congregation in the class where he was teaching as I did, because I mean, but that's what's happening, and there's a hunger for God in the young people. And I get text messages, it would give you chill bumps because it gives me chill bumps. Reading the chill, the text message of these young people saying how much impact we have made in their life. Right. I'm like, man, we're doing it. We're doing it. They're like, man, you have made such an impact in my life. You got the churches that are dead and they don't have another. Yeah, they I got several of them that my are my friends, and they said we don't have any young people in our church. I'm like, we got a bunch. You know, like in Duplin County, we got 20. The other night we had 23 on youth night, all of them gathered around in there playing, and then there's building up more and more. And we've just started youth nights back again, uh what, maybe two, two, three months, two a month and a half before Easter. Yeah, a month and a half before Easter. So you see it's growing.

SPEAKER_07 48:30

Yeah, did you see them getting bringing their friends?

SPEAKER_08 48:33

And did you see some of them getting saved and they're getting baptized? Yep. I mean, I, you know, there was somebody called me and said, he called me and he told me, he said, I ain't gonna mention the name, but he called me. He said, I need you to pre-praying for this young girl. She needs to get Jesus. And I'm like, Well, how old is she? I said, Well, bring her to youth meet. And they showed up, and she's been there ever since. She got saved there. She got baptized. I was like, Look, don't call me telling me you want me to pray for somebody. You got a job to do. You bring them to me. Yeah, your job is to bring them to me. You get them to me, and God will take care of the rest. I'm just a vessel, but if you get them here to me, I'm not saying I'm all that in a bag of chips, but I'm saying Definitely not. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 49:16

I mean, what you were doing is explaining to them how they can help. Yeah, I hear people that's their discipleship is grabbing them and screaming, come on, let's go to church with me.

SPEAKER_08 49:24

Yeah, because I hear people all the time parents talk about my kids are bad, my kids are this. And I'm like, Well, are you bringing them to youth nine? No. Yeah, where do you come? No, but uh no, they're going to the skating ring. Well, that could be the problem. But yeah, and I've actually had this from parents. They'll tell me, oh, my kids go to skating ring on Friday night. Well, that's your problem.

SPEAKER_07 49:46

Yep, that's right.

SPEAKER_08 49:47

Or we're doing it a different way. Or we're doing it a different way. Oh, yeah, I heard it. One of them tells me, we're doing it a different way. We're not doing it in church, we're doing it a different way. I'm like, there's only one way to there's only one way to Jesus. There's only one way. And I'm not saying it's through church. Yeah. I mean, and since then, he's been in all kinds of problems. There's other people that have all kinds of problems. You've got to get your children in church, and your part of getting them revived is getting them there. You make them go to school. That's right. Yeah, when your kids was coming up, they didn't have an option if they were going to school or not, did they? No. That's what I'm saying. That's the same thing. We were in the same boat when it came to church. Yeah, I didn't have an option. You you were drugged to church. And now I'm a pastor. Yeah. I mean. Because it kept sticking into me. And God, once you get once you get in there, whether you're ready to get it or not, God will get on you, seek down on the inside of you, and keep on producing stuff.

SPEAKER_07 50:41

So yeah. I I feel like we should make our children go to church at younger age.

SPEAKER_08 50:46

Yeah, at a younger age.

SPEAKER_09 50:47

I understand once they get older, there's something parents ain't wanting to go, so they ain't making their younger.

SPEAKER_08 50:53

When you get older, there's not there's only so much you can do. I get that.

SPEAKER_07 50:57

Where I was going to that with is, I mean, like I was made to go to church at a younger age, baptized at 14.

SPEAKER_09 51:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 51:03

But then once I got my license, I was like, well, I'm not gonna go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 51:06

Well, there's a scripture that says train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's old, he will not depart from it.

SPEAKER_07 51:13

Right. But that that seed had been planted in good ground.

SPEAKER_08 51:17

In good ground. And it came up a harvest, didn't it? That's right. And you're here today.

SPEAKER_07 51:22

It took a while. Yeah. But I'm here today.

SPEAKER_09 51:25

Well, look at how long you know, you plant a cord seed a corn seed, it'll be up, it'll it'll have you a harvest in a few months, but you take like a pecan tree seed.

SPEAKER_07 51:35

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 51:36

Look at how long it takes to get a pecan off that pecan. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 51:39

Yeah. But you don't go out and chop the tree down just because they ain't produced no pecan.

SPEAKER_09 51:44

Yeah, some take a little longer to mature. Yeah. But the Bible will not my word will not return into me void. It will accomplish that which I set it forth to do. And that scripture that says train up a child in the way he should go. And when he's older, he will not depart from it. That is the word of God.

SPEAKER_08 52:01

Men you're witnesses of it. All three of us are. I mean, all three of us are witnesses of that scripture. Um that you train up a child in the way he should go. Don't give up on them.

SPEAKER_09 52:10

You like because And like you said, if they're older and and things don't look right, don't say how they look. We need to do that podcast soon on uh your words speaking into existence, even as God spoke into existence. Because what you say changes your life. What you the words that come out of your mouth, you will eat the fruit of what you say. That's right. Go ahead. I'm reading what you say.

SPEAKER_07 52:42

Um an hour now, so that's been pretty good talk.

SPEAKER_08 52:45

Yeah. Revival's happening across America. Whether anybody believes or not, you ought to get on there and start finding out the good things, and then not only just watch it, but be a part of it. Get in a church, your local body. I'm not inviting you saying you got to come to mine or you can go to any. Yeah, well, John will say you can't. But what I'm saying is get involved. Get involved, get out and do the work of God. Go out and make other people disciples, not just yourself. Get help people, get be push them on to being baptized. Talk to them, not like, well, you got to get baptized, but talk to them about it. Encourage them. Encourage them to be witnesses, encourage them to do things.

SPEAKER_09 53:28

If two to three people invite somebody to go to the same place to a church, if you take three people and invite them to the same place, they're more apt to go than if just one invites them.

SPEAKER_08 53:39

That's the same thing, like a restaurant or anything. Man, we ate it. This place and it's really good. And then he tells you he ate that place and really good. You're gonna eventually go try that place. So invite people to church, get people interested in coming. That's me and that's my word for being out. Be a part of this great awakening that's coming across the United States. Don't sit on the sideline, get out, let's win more people for Jesus Christ. Let's do it all that we can do. We've got a race to run and let's all gas, no breaks.

SPEAKER_09 54:07

And if you get here's the here's another thing to go with that. If you will get somebody else's children in church, you will God will not, if you do something for God, he will not owe anybody anything. And if you get somebody else's family saved, God is obligated to save yours.

SPEAKER_07 54:24

I've seen that happen too with a younger person getting in church and then it starts rubbing off on their parents. Yeah. Then they get in trouble. I got a whole back row of it. Guys, this has been a good talk on revival. There's something that we need to get out there, and like John Paul said, you need to get out there and get out there and spread the good news and be disciples. One thing I wanted to add to it, like we talked about earlier, get away from all that negative news. If you see something on Facebook and you don't like it, instead of scrolling by, you know, you can hit that little X button in the top corner of it and say, not interested. The more you do that, the less it'll show you. That's right. Just look at the good news. There's a lot of people I've done that. Well, I mean, you think about it, you see you're a lot of people arguing on these keyboard warriors arguing on Facebook because they've just read something they don't like. Well, if you don't like it, just keep scrolling. But then again, I'm also to the point where if you don't want nobody to comment on anything, you don't post it. Yeah. So if you post bad stuff like that, expect you're expecting the confrontation. All right, guys, with that being said, we're gonna close this one out. As usual, we always get John Paul to lead us out in prayer. Um if you haven't done so already, go to YouTube, subscribe, give us a like and a share. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, all your most social medias, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. With that being said, y'all have a uh great week, and God bless you. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do we. John Paul.

SPEAKER_08 55:55

Lord, we thank you for this fresh breath of revival that's been going across the land. Thank you that we are part of it. Thank you that each and every one of our viewers is getting revived by hearing this message. Lord, and as it goes out, let it minister to their souls. Let them get on fire for God, let them do the work of Jesus Christ here on this earth. Lord, we thank you for it in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_07 56:20

Amen. God bless y'all.