The Anna Call To Prayer And Fasting — Malachi O'Brien

Can we give the Lord a round of applause? There's no one like the Lord Jesus Christ. You may be seated. If I do anything well in this message, it is to make much of the Lord Jesus. I almost thought, Pastor Ty, you were stealing my message, because you were just going hard on it.

But we needed that. So thank you. Thank you for the great introduction. I mean that. I love you, Pastor Greg. Can we give Pastor Greg, Pastor Ty, and the Global Vision, yeah, amen. Yes. Yes. Let me just say a few things.

I don't even like saying a few things before I preach, so I want to get straight to the message. I'm wired. I'm ready to run. But let me say this. To our Pleasant Ridge family that are watching right now, more than being here, I love being your pastor.

So I just want you to hear that. For you guys watching right now, James, that's right over here. And so thank you. Amen. Amen. I told DR, DR preached the men's conference, the final sermon, and it was amazing.

And he got up and said, like, it was pretty powerful, he was like, I would take a bullet for Greg Locke. And I thought, Lord, what could I do for DR? And I decided, I decided that I could take two bullets for DR.

Nerf bullets. Nerf bullets. But I'd take two, I would. I mean, that's just the kind of guy I am for you, too, all right? So anyway, I love global vision. I love being a part. I love what God's doing. Let me say this.

As hot as you are right now, I mean, I know you're all fanning and I'm going to be moving and this is going to be good. But let me tell you something right now. This is way better than everybody who's trapped at this Burning Man Festival right now.

I'm just saying. I mean, we're actually the real Burning Man Festival. We're just worshiping the man that hasn't stopped burning since time began. So amen. Tonight, I want to speak a word to everybody, but honestly, to a specific segment in the audience tonight.

A Call to the Next Generation

And it can apply to everybody. But my laser beam focus is on the next generation tonight, okay? I'm going to be very clear. And just so you go, but I'm not in that group. Yeah, but you have kids and grandkids that are in that group.

And I guarantee you, more than anything else you want in the world, you want God to touch your kids. And you want God to touch your grandkids. And I guarantee you, for many of you in this room, the greatest burden that you carry, and I understand it, too, as a parent, is for your kids to catch fire.

And so tonight, I'm speaking to the young people. And when I'm done speaking tonight, I'm going to invite the young people to come up, to be prayed over and to be touched, and we'll have a praise party before the main event tonight, which is Mike Signorelli, Papa Sig's, that's like a really cool wrestler name.

And anyway, I just, I love Mike Signorelli, and I can't wait for you guys to hear him tonight. Amen? Let's just talk to the Lord for a second. Lord Jesus, we love you. We love you. We need you. Amen? Holy Spirit, would you make Jesus come alive in us tonight like never before?

Would you give us a burning love for the man who has eyes of fire? For the one who came and bled and died and rose again so that we could be delivered? Would you make Jesus famous in this room tonight?

He's already famous, but make him the main event, the main attraction. Jesus is everything. Jesus is everything. Jesus is everything. And it's in that name, because there is no other name, that we pray, I preach, we sing, we sit, we love.

It's in that name, I pray. And all God's people said, amen. If you have a Bible, take it to the book of Luke chapter number two, Luke chapter two. And I want to speak to you tonight on the topic of foodless days and sleepless nights.

Foodless days and sleepless nights. And I want to take you to a obscure person in the Bible that I believe the Holy Spirit put in your Bible to give some of you clarity to the vision God has for your life.

Several years ago, I was wrestling in the ministry about this, like, you know, for those of you in the ministry, you'll get what I'm saying, but there is this tug to try to climb a ladder. Now, the Lord wants to deliver you from that.

But in everything in life, there's a desire to get up higher, to achieve more. And I was feeling that as a pastor, and just something was just, it didn't feel right. It's like that, but I don't want to do that.

I don't want to. I mean, if ministry is just about getting more people in a building, that's terrible. I mean, I'm grateful for everybody who's in here tonight, and I'm grateful that next year the family reunion will be bigger, okay?

And maybe Larry will let us use his yard. I don't know. All right? But I know this, that if you make numbers in ministry or life, you're God, you will be miserable. And I was struggling. I was like, what?

It just didn't feel right. And I heard a sermon by somebody I consider a hero to me, a guy by the name of Mike Bickle. Mike Bickle leads, most of you know Mike or heard of Mike, but leads the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.

And I heard a message he preached a few months before the International House of Prayer started, which for those of you, the three of you that may not know what I'm referring to, it's not pancakes, okay?

It is a place on the earth where night and day prayer and worship has existed nonstop for the last 24 years. And let's give the Lord an applause for that. And every year at the One Thing Conference, you'd have 20 ,000 young adults descend upon Kansas City for a young adult conference.

And every year, Mike would give this 15-minute challenge called the Anna Call or the Anna Anointing. And it was a message that Mike Bickle preached a few months before IHOP started that when I heard it, immediately I knew, that's me.

You see, Mike told a story that when he was 20, 21, 22, 23 years old, he felt the call to a life of prayer and a life of fasting more than being a pastor, more than being a preacher, being an intercessor.

And Mike made a decision on that and that day that that was going to be the primary vocation of his life to minister to the Lord day and night, night and day in the place of prayer. And he said this, he said, when you know who you are, you can say no to 1 ,000 other things.

When your identity is clear, nothing else matters. And I heard that sermon just at the right time and I knew that for the rest of my life, I wasn't going to try to build a big church, nothing wrong with big churches.

And there are some things wrong with big churches and small churches and house churches, everything. But I decided then, that's what I want to give my life to. And I will stand before God someday. God is my witness.

As everybody watching right now, my main call is to give my life in the secret place to prayer and fasting. And I believe for some of you tonight, you feel a little out of place. You feel like, I sense a call but I don't know what it is and I think it's deliverance or I think it's ministry, I don't know what it is.

The call I want to give you tonight, that I want some of you to respond to, and I want every one of you teenagers and young adults to think about, is a life given to ministry unto the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's it. That's it. And so we see this obscure lady in the Bible. Now just fun fact, God uses women powerfully in ministry. Amen? All right. Be careful for anybody that tells you otherwise. And the Bible says in Luke 2 verse 36, now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher.

She was of a great age and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity. Many people believe she got married at 14 years old, some a little older, believe that her husband died when she was 21 years old.

Then the Bible says, and this woman was a widow of about 84 years. Now you need to pay very close attention to the text right now, because this might be something that provokes some of you to a whole different kind of life.

And the Bible says, 84 years comma, she did not depart from the temple, but served God with prayers and fastings night and day. I mean, her ministry was ministry unto the Lord himself. You know, maybe one of the greatest things you could get delivered from is feeling like that all you, you always have just to minister to people.

The greatest ministry in the history of all mankind is ministry unto the Lord. The Bible actually talks about that we're prophets, priests. And what else is there? Third one? Kings. We got the king one down.

That's we think that's leadership. And we got the prophet one down. We think that could be deliverance. That could be being bold. But I'm telling you what the body of Christ has been missing for years.

And the Lord wants to bring it back to is this Levitical priestly call unto the Lord. In the old Testament, the Levites, they did not have an inheritance. They had the Lord himself and the entire Levitical tribe, their main ministry and calling and job was to minister unto the Lord.

And their job and vocation was to keep the fires burning forever on the altar and keep the sacrifices going. And in the, in the generation of the Lord's return, the Lord is releasing an Anna call and Anna anointing for people that want to give their life, not to other people, but unto the Lord who say, God, I'll serve you in the secret place.

I'll serve you in the quiet place. I don't care if anyone else shows up prayer and fasting matters. It matters a lot. It matters greatly. May God deliver us from a desire to be great and give us a calling to make him great, to make him great, to make him famous.

It's not about who gets on a platform. It's about who gets under the platform in the place of prayer, seeking the face of God. Where are the Anna's on the earth? Where are the men and women who will give their life burning forever for the Lord?

And I say to every young person in this room, let your desire for greatness burn and let a hunger for Jesus burn brighter than ever. If deliverance is the children's bread and it is, then that bread is baked in the oven of prayer and fasting and is delivered on a plate of humility.

Anna’s Crisis and Consecration

Let's just look at Anna. A few things. I will tell some stories and I'll make a lot of mention about Jesus. If you love him, say amen. First I want you guys just to see that first and foremost, Anna had an unspeakable crisis in her life.

An unspeakable crisis. I mean, she's in love. She's in love and she gets married and maybe has these dreams of a family and growing old with her husband and everything that you would think that this young woman would want.

But tragically, where we don't know how, but seven years later, her husband dies. And we were not given all the details, but instead of letting that crisis stop her, she let it propel her into his presence, into his presence.

I wish some of you would let the crisis affecting the next generation drive you into the presence of almighty God. I wish some of you would let the fact that there is a generation that 70 of most, not all, most young people are smoking weed or doing some sort of drugs in all schools.

And you say, yeah, yeah, yeah. But where are the people that will not let the crisis catalytically propel them to be in God's presence? You see, she wasn't alone. The Lord became her husband. The Lord became her husband.

The Lord became her exceedingly great reward. Some of you are in this room and you feel bound by your crisis. You feel bound by your trauma. You feel bound by those things that have happened to you in your life.

I'm here to tell you, stop focusing on that. Let that become the oil of intimacy that causes you to burn before the Lord Jesus. Come on, can we give the Lord a shout of praise? Crisis. Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a crisis like none other on the planet.

We are the generation of the Lord's return. And the Lord is looking for men and women, young men and young women that won't let the crisis overwhelm them because they know the one who's greater than the crisis.

Amen? I wonder if anybody in the tent out here believes that God is greater than the crisis. Does anybody out here believe that? Yes, absolutely. Every crisis. Suicide, he's greater. Depression, he's greater.

Addiction, he's greater. Abandonment, he's greater. Not feeling like you matter, he's greater. Feeling like no one sees me. If he does, it doesn't matter who sees you. Jesus is greater than the crisis.

And listen, the revival that is coming is not taking us back to Mayberry, all right? You listen, we pray for revival and we want the mathematics of revival work a little differently than we think they do.

I mean, what's going on here is absolutely phenomenal, but before they saw the addition and the multiplication, guess what they saw? The subtraction and the division. That's the real mathematics of revival.

Before your church will experience a move of God, you might lose some of your best friends, some of your staff members, some of your people that said, we're with you to the end, but they got a little nervous when you started talking about prayer and fasting and deliverance.

Like, I don't want that. I want my one hour service. Revival will never come to a church that is satisfied with 70 minute services. It's time for God to work. We need people that are not relying on the slickest marketing strategy to build a church or realize, man, where's the town moving?

I mean, if Pastor Greg and Pastor Ty were trying to help be a part of what God's in global vision, okay, where is, where is Mount Juliet moving towards? This would not be the property that they picked, but how many of you guys know that God does his greatest works in the hardest of places, so he gets all the glory, amen, amen, crisis, but let me, let me show you something.

Let me, let me, let me, let me go a little further here because I'm going to get to a lot. I'm going to tell you a lot about Jesus because there's something so beautiful about what prayer and fasting did in her life.

Let me tell you this. If you want deliverance more than you want Jesus, you're prostituting God. If you want healing more than you want the healer, you're prostituting God. And last time I checked, my God's not for sale.

Listen, God told Moses, I'll let you go, have the land, have the victory. I'll let you go. I just won't go with you, and Moses said, uh-uh, uh-uh, I'm not going, I'm not going. I wonder how many of you, if, if, if you were given the option to have 2 ,000 in church or a million in your bank account with the stipulation that God wouldn't be with you, I wouldn't have to go, well, I mean, it's okay.

No, God's looking for people to say that's not okay. The reason why the church in America is in trouble today is because we've had, we've had people who have been content without the manifest presence of Jesus, the God who is everywhere wants to dwell somewhere, and he's looking for a people who aren't concerned about personalities or not concerned about the slickest marketing campaigns in the world or having Disney World for Jesus, okay, or having potluck after potluck after potluck after potluck or looking to have the greatest softball team or the softball ministry.

What God wants to do is to find a church that says, we're just going to minister to the Lord. That's our ministry. That's our ministry. That's our ministry. That's our ministry, but she had a revelation.

She was young. She was young. There's a video I want to show you calling forth the next generation. Why do I bring this up now? We're just a partially through the sermon because she was young when God called her and I believe God is calling some of you who are really young and if any of you feel left out compared to the Lord, you're really young.

And God might be calling you, but the vision of the call must be Jesus dangerously undeniably Obsessively Jesus, that's the vision. That's the vision. I want you to watch this video called the vision.

It's a really cool video. If you want to watch the video give it a round of applause. I don't have to have a video I'm not using a video. Oh, wait. Wait, here we go. I hear it. Just hear that. Here we go.

Watch this.

The Vision of a Jesus-Centered Generation

So this guy comes up to me and says what's the vision. What's the big idea? I? Opened my mouth and words come out like this. The vision. The vision is Jesus obsessively dangerously undeniably Jesus. The vision is an army of young people.

You see bones. I see an army and they are free from materialism. They laugh at nine-to-five little prisons. They could eat caviar on Monday and cross on Tuesday, they wouldn't even notice. They are mobile like the wind that they belong to the nations.

They need no passport. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence. They are free yet. They are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying. What's the vision? The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes.

It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure light flickers from every secret motive every private Conversation.

It loves people away from their suicide leaps their Satan games. This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause a million times a day. It's soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great well done of faithful sons and daughters.

Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night. They do not need fame from names instead. They grin Quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again Come on. And this is the sound of the underground the whisper of history in the making foundations shaking Revolutionaries dreaming once again mystery is scheming in whispers.

Conspiracy is breathing. This is the sound of the underground and the army is disciplined young people Who beat their bodies into submission? Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.

The tattoo on their back votes for me to live is Christ and to Die is gain. Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. Winners. Martyrs who can stop them. Can hormones hold them back. Can fail you succeed.

Can fear scare them or death kill them. And the Generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking with warrior cries. Sulfuric tears and with great barrel loads of laughter waiting watching 24 7 3 6 5.

Whatever it takes they will give breaking the rules shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs laughing at labels fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mold them.

Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late-night parties before Corporal cries. They are incredibly cool. Dangerously attractive inside and on the outside. They hardly care.

They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide. Would they surrender their image or their popularity they would lay down their very lives. Swap seats with the man on death row.

Guilty as hell a throne for an electric chair with blood and sweat and many tears with Sleepless nights and fruitless days. They praise if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them. Their DNA Chooses Jesus.

He breathes out and they breathe in their subconscious sins. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus their words. Big demons screaming shopping centers. Don't you hear them coming? Widows summon the losers and the freaks.

Here comes the frightened and the forgotten with fire in their eyes. They walk tall and trees abroad. Skyscrapers bow mountains of the walls by these children of another Dimension. Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.

And this Vision will be it will come to pass. It will come easily and it will come soon. How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself. The groaning of the spirit the very dream of God.

My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3d and my feeble whispered faithless prayer Invokes a thunderous resounding bone-shaking great Man from countless angels from heroes of the faith from Christ him Self and he is the original dreamer the ultimate winner guaranteed.

The Lord is calling a generation of young people to be like that a Generation of Anna's that say you know what? I may be young and may people may have written off my generation, but my God is gonna use my generation to send revival.

Pastor Greg and myself both went to Asbury University this year when the revival broke out and I'm gonna tell you what I saw It as very was. I saw one of the greatest moves of God ever in the history of mankind.

I saw young people didn't care about popular preachers or famous singers. They wanted to minister day and night night and day unto the Lord. They wanted their nameless and faceless and that's what they want a nameless and faceless revival.

They don't care about our most famous preachers. They don't care about how big our YouTube channels are. They don't care how many follow us on social media. They want to see adults and leaders who burn with fire.

That'll provoke them to burn with fire and Was that in the Bible and I'm gonna. I want to get to prayer and fasting. But let me tell you what the result of her prayer and fasting was so that you want this too.

So let me skip over here into verse number 28 and it says here. She's first 38 and in coming Jesus is coming. I as a baby. He's coming to the temple and in coming in that instant. All right, they bring Jesus.

Mary and Joseph bring Jesus to the temple. They run into Simeon first if you know the story, but secondly it says this and coming in that instant she gave thanks to the Lord and spoke of him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

She Wasn't searching for God at that moment because she'd been seeking him the last 60 plus years of her life. And it wasn't a mere coincidence that she ran into the Christ child. For 60 plus years after her crisis.

She was seeking God so no wonder she found him in the temple and what the Bible tells us is this is first she worshiped when she saw him. A Generation that's going to be used by God is going to worship Jesus more than they worship man.

Worship Jesus more than they worship money worship Jesus more than they worship popularity. Worship Jesus where they have one friend or ten friends or a million friends. They want Jesus and Jesus only and the Bible says and she gave thanks because guess what you all of you know.

You can't get into his courts without Thanksgiving and praise. She saw him she saw him and all she can do is say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you because for the first time in a long time there was real worship in that temple.

Because I promise you for those 60 years that she was there day and night. There was not real worship in that temple. There were priests going through the motions. How do we know that. I'll just look at the life of Jesus.

That's all it was the scribes and the Pharisees and the priests going through the motions. She recognized Jesus when he came to church when the religious leaders did not. I Wonder how many of you will recognize Jesus when he comes to church even even even when the religious leaders do not.

She saw him. I and I promise you there's probably days that she was discouraged they don't see him. They don't want him. They're going through the motions of worship. We go through the motions. But she said I'm gonna seek him.

I'm gonna seek him. I'm gonna seek him till I find him and she found him and it says she told all about the redemption of Jerusalem. The mark of somebody who's encountered Jesus is you want to tell other people about Jesus?

You want people to be saved and then delivered not delivered and hopefully saved. God wants to raise up a people that aren't afraid of what everyone says. I'm gonna tell people about Jesus all the time.

He's done everything for me. I'm looking for a people at the National Deliverance Conference whose eyes burn with fire. Tell other people about Jesus Christ and she said she had a revelation that Jesus was the redemption of Israel.

Let me she hadn't read the Gospels yet. You know how I know that it's not because I spent more money I should have on seminary education. Because the Gospels weren't even written yet. She had a revelation who Jesus was.

Because she had spent years in the secret place alone with God. The revelation that you desire will not come with with just a little meek mild tender devotional life. You need more than a Jesus calling.

You need time alone with God time. Alone in the secret place with God Almighty. And she understood him as the Redeemer the Deliverer the rock and the fortress. I'm looking for a people that are so in love with Jesus.

He consumes their every being. He was the Redeemer. She I promise you. She saw him as the one that would go to the cross. She saw Jesus as the lamb that was slain when she saw him. She saw him as that cute little lamb that one day would have its throat slit on a cross.

She saw Jesus. She saw him. Let me take you through the alphabet. I think I know that. She saw him as the Alpha Alpha, he was the beginning. He was the beginning. She saw him as the bread of life. She saw him as the Christ.

She saw him as the Deliverer. She saw him as the everlasting one. The faithful one the great I am. The one who is justice. The one who is infinite and mercy. I'm getting my letters out of order. The one who is king of kings and lord of lords and Magnificent and never-ending and on my present and the high priest of heaven.

She saw him as that she saw Jesus as the resurrection. The one who would arise three days later. She saw a little baby who would rise from the grave someday. And that's why she could praise him. That's why she could worship it.

That's why she was excited and that made sixty years alone all worth it. The deliverance that you need and you want is a deliverance from present-list Christianity. You say well, come on. I want something exciting if Jesus doesn't excite you you have issues.

Well, well, I Want something deep. There is nothing deeper than Jesus. I Can do this because I'm not gonna break the chairs and I can do this because if I fall it's gonna make a great YouTube video. Watch out Isaiah.

Here I come. All right. She saw him as the Savior as the true vine. The unique God of every gods the very king of very kings. She saw him. I don't know all the letters as exceptional and Yahweh and Zion.

She saw him. I Want every one of you in this room to give your life to know Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the father's only sermon. This is my son this is my son and any theology that takes Jesus down a notch is dangerous shaky theology and Jesus is coming back through a pure and spotless bride that want to sing to Jesus and love on Jesus 24 -7 365.

They don't care when church starts and they don't care when church is over cuz they see Jesus. And I just wonder are there some young people in this room? You'll say you know what? I thought I was gonna go to college and do this.

I thought I was gonna go to medical school and do this and nothing wrong with that. But I want to give the rest of my life burning unto the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what I want. That's what I gotta have.

Jesus the Redeemer of Israel. I wonder if she saw Jesus in her mind's eye that one day. One day would be in a garden and one day in that garden the treasurer of the church would come up and He would kiss the door to heaven and go to hell.

And he would offer fake intimacy to Jesus. Fake intimacy to Jesus is the beginning of the demonic in your life. Judas offered fake fire strange fire here. I'm gonna be very clear on this statement. Strange fire is fake intimacy to God.

It's not the things you don't like in the spirit. That's what fake fire is that's what strange fire is and that is what God is purifying his bride of. And I wonder if she saw that baby there as a grown man and one day saw that baby would have his beard plucked out of his face and his face began to swell up and all of a sudden that swollen face that the beard is Pulling out and then seeing the the soldiers punch him and punch him again and punch him again to where the eyes Who's always seen for our all eternity those eyes that have love and compassion are now swollen.

And I wonder. I wonder if she saw them strip the king of glory naked and Mock him and spit in his face and mock him. I wonder if she saw that. But more than I wonder if she saw that I wonder if we see that you say I'm just bored with Christianity.

Well, you're just boring because if you understand what Jesus has done, you cannot be bored. I wonder. I Wonder if she saw him when they took him and they tied him up. They tied him up put his hands out as high as they could and they began to beat him with a cat of nine tails.

One on the right side one on the left side, and I wonder if she saw his flesh being ripped from his body. And let me tell you something. They beat him all over his naked body, I wonder if she saw that and I wonder if her heart begin to realize he loves he loves he loves.

Listen the key to deliverance is found on the cross of Jesus Christ. Demons are not afraid of my words and they're definitely not afraid of my deep voice. They are afraid of the voice of the great I am and I wonder if she saw This man not any normal man because what Jesus went through would have killed any man.

But Jesus got up and I wonder if she saw them put that robe on him and began to laugh at him and Then that blood began to dry and then they ripped it off his body. He's tired. He hasn't slept. He hasn't ate.

The emotional pain is unbearable. The physical pain is Unbearable and the spiritual pain is unbearable. I wonder if she saw that. I Wonder why the church doesn't weep anymore. We think about the cross.

We think we're gonna have lights and sound. I'm all for all those things, but I want the blood of Jesus to stir me not the lights. That's the vision and If that's not a vision worth following we don't have a vision.

Jesus obsessively. Jesus dangerously. Jesus undeniably. And I wonder if she saw Jesus try to carry this Roman cross on his back. Down the Via Della Rosa all the way to where that cross would be on the hill by the way.

The same place that Isaac carried the wood on his back when his father Abraham said for three days Carry this wood on your back because we're going to Mount Moriah same place. Same analogy and there in the book of Genesis when Abraham and Isaac finally said father father father.

Will God himself? Where's the lamb and Abraham said in faith God himself will provide a lamb? But in that day in Abraham's day pastor Greg God provided a ram because the lamb was coming years later and that lamb was Jesus Christ and That lamb would be the one that Abraham wouldn't have to slay his son.

The father of glory would have to slay his one and only son so that we can know Jesus Christ. It's because of that demons flee. It's because of that we worship. It's because of that we pray. It's because of that we do church.

It's because of that and I want a church to get fired up for the risen Savior. I'm telling you what I believe with all of my heart. America will be saved and it'll be saved because the church gets a vision of Jesus the real Jesus the real Jesus.

Jesus is not Thor and Jesus is not Captain America. Jesus is Jesus. Jesus. He's Jesus. The reason why the angels can't stop singing is because they see him. The reason why the church has stopped singing is because I don't see him.

That is why. How did she get this revelation? I? Wish I had two more hours to share this with you. She got it through the place of prayer and fasting. That's where she got it. I Can barely open water much better.

Presbyterian baptism just took place right there. Let's talk about prayer and fasting ministry unto the Lord in 1994 Bill Bright the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ was on a three-week fast when God gave him a vision for America to return to Jesus Christ.

And Bill Bright in 1994 did something that no one had done in decades and he called two million believers to 40 days of prayer and fasting. 40 days of prayer and fasting for revival in America and believers who are now famous.

Heaven help us of ever seeking that. That's idolatry. The only reason we have famous people is because we want to be adored like we adore them. That's why we have idols. That's another sermon for another day.

That's next year. No, yeah. But here's I want to tell you a lot of believers took up the mantle. John Piper took up the mantle. My dear mentor and pastor Ronnie Floyd took up the mantle. Steve Gaines took up the mantle in 1995.

Lou Giglio took up the mantle in 1995. There was two million believers that fasted and prayed from the beginning of Advent to Easter there in 1995 and you know what God did after that on Father's Day in Brownsville, Florida.

Some of you know where I'm going with this. My Baptist friends have no idea where I'm going with this. Revival came. The Brownsville revival took place a few weeks after millions of believers Ended their time of prayer and fasting.

And two years later. They say 200 ,000 people came to Jesus Christ as a result of the of the Brownsville revival. The Brownwood, Texas revival took place. That was the Baptist revival that spread fire on college campuses all across America.

That revival was a word-centered Repentance based revival. The Brownsville were. Florida revival was an experience centered Jesus based revival and America was touched. But it was touched because believers first fasted and prayed another one of my mentors Jensen Franklin.