Greg Frizzell 2 - Broken Before the Throne 2010 — Greg Frizzell

All right, I'd like to ask you to please stand as we go to Lord in prayer for this afternoon session and the rest of this day and week. Continual prayer being offered up. And just for your information, that many, about 13 states, I think I counted, not counting the other countries that have logged in online, have been writing.

Got one this morning, one in the break, and said, just wanted you to know we're praying for you, holding you up. Al Whittinghill called right at 11 o 'clock when I walked out and he said, wouldn't know how things were going, we're praying for you, can't wait to be there.

So the opportunity is upon us and we don't wanna miss it. Joe, would you open us up in prayer, please? Thank you.

The Character and Sovereignty of God

You know that describes you, great and marked just. You are the way, the truth, and the light. Oh God, you are the alpha and the omega. You are our creator, sustainer, and redeemer. And God, we are so grateful to be your children.

And we thank you that you are the greatest reality there ever was or ever will be. And that you have invited us to come in to that relationship with you. Father, I wanna thank you for Dan and all of the others on the committee, the integrity, Lord, of what is happening here.

Father, I wanna thank you for the awesome people that you have sent us. Wanna thank you, Lord, that as you had the first word, you're going to have the last word. And God, that you're not going to cause any who love and trust you to be disappointed at the last day.

God, we understand that there are times that we don't understand. But Lord, we trust you. We trust you, oh God. And we love you and praise you and worship you. Have your way today and tomorrow, in every session, with every person.

God, transform our families. God, I pray for our families, that their wives, as Christ loved the church, and that wives would honor and respect their husbands as unto the Lord, and that our children would obey their parents.

For this is good. And I pray, Father, that we would go from strength to strength, because that's your plan, that we would be more like Jesus. Cover us, and we do pray for our leader's office, and the problems of this office will get so heavy upon him that he will fall on his face and cry out to you, oh God.

Help me. And Lord, we know that you would. We pray that you would raise up the Daniels and the Josephs in Senate and the House, oh God, and in the Supreme Court, and that they will not be moved. Lord, that they would have wisdom, that they would be sons of Issachar, and discern the times, and know what is good.

And Lord, that they would not be manipulated, intimidated, or dominated. But, oh God, that they would be led of your spirit. Have your way today, oh God, we pray. Amen.

Please remain standing. And with that last phrase that he said in his prayer, have thy way, turn to page 294 in your hymn book. And that is the hymn, have thy known way, Lord, have thy known way. Is that prophetic or what, Joe?

Amen, you may be seated.

That's not a song, that's a prayer. I love that song. So it is now, as a couple announcements, is that for most of you, it was here for our lunchtime, and there's food in the mornings that you can come and have time of fellowship if you're traveling in and you need to get here a little bit earlier before traffic or whatever.

Upstairs in the dining hall, they have fruit and pastries and things like that for a morning session. The meals for lunchtime are being provided so that we can stay here, save on expense of eating out and things like that.

Supper, you're on your own, though, sorry. I guess there might be some here that might say, hey, I'll take care of everybody, right? No hands on that, okay. But we had our fast yesterday, so to get back to eating and fellowship today, we're still many that they fasted for the first time.

And those that was fasting, that was eagerly seeking the Lord's face and so as we read those scriptures about the solemn assembly, it was that we would be directed exactly as God was leading us to do because of all the things that need to be taken care of in our families and in the church and in our nation today.

Blessed time of prayer this morning. I don't think that worship really, I didn't think that we was going to get out of worship, but it was a continual flow of that this morning and a couple prayers of worship and adoration and then somebody break out into song and it was a blessed time this morning in the fellowship of that, really enjoyed that.

The Seven-Day Call to Prayer and Revival

Now it is, is that just because we have sessions like this morning that was good and great and the Spirit moves and works, that does not mean that's going to carry us all the way through. The intensity of the work that is upon broken before the throne is that it is seven days and each day carries its own weight.

And the end result is, is that God would manifest Himself to us in a way of revival that we're longing and seeking for in the church and an awakening in the land. So that's our end result. A lot of times people say, well, really, people that don't have very sound prayer lives are like, how can you pray nine hours a day and those kinds of things?

There's much to be brought before the Lord. And so it's not like we're exhausting any of that that's before us with that. So I wanted to make you aware of a couple of those announcements and those things that'll be happening.

All right, I want to ask you to take your Bibles and turn to Hebrews chapter three. About 62 times in the Bible is this word, these two words put together and used in different various places throughout the scripture.

And that word is take heed. And I grew up reading the Bible. It challenged at a young age to read it through for the first time from Genesis to Revelation. And I began setting a discipline, setting a pattern that I would stay in the word of God and continue to read it.

About that same time, God put Mrs. Faisenbaker in my life. I love to talk about Mrs. Faisenbaker. She was the 76-year-old woman in the church that loved missions. And I mean, she loved missions. I don't care what it was, was that she had her hands in it and she wanted everybody else to have their hands in it.

And I'll never forget her because about the age of 11 or 12, young teenager coming up. And of course, we went to vacation Bible school and vacation Bible school was for, you know, playing volleyball and making crafts and having good snacks.

And, oh yeah, we'd learn about the Bible and things like that. That was Bible school. Wasn't a Mrs. Faisenbaker. If she had you two hours, you was gonna be there two hours to learn the Bible. There was none of this craft stuff.

There was none of this recreation stuff. So you can imagine a bunch of 11 and 12-year-old kids sitting there for two hours with Mrs. Faisenbaker. But she loved to do that. She was instrumental in my life because at the age of 15, walking through the dining hall at the church, she comes and she stops me.

Only time she ever stopped me was when I was in trouble. So I just assumed that I had done something again. They weren't too many occasions. Don't look at me like that. So she stops me and she puts her hands on my shoulders and she says, I wish I was young like you.

She said, because if I was, she said, I'd memorize scripture. She says, when you get to be my age, she says, you can memorize, but it will not come as easy. And I can't do it very well now. That's all she said.

Took her hands off my shoulders, went on. That was a divine moment for me because that's when I began to put scriptures in, memorizing. I began to read that same year. And so now after all these years of reading and memorizing, I love that God never, as Joe said, God never disappoints.

Still, read through the Bible. He reveals things. He shows things. He demonstrates things. And I come to this part is that I love word studies in the Bible. I did the sins of the fathers last night and 651 times that that's found in scripture.

Take heed, 60 sometimes in the Bible, 10 times in one of my favorite books, Deuteronomy. But I use this one here in Hebrews chapter three, verse 12, because it's where we're at with our prayer times and our prayer life today.

He says in this, he says, take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God. Take heed. There's that strong, stern warning. You know, my dad could speak a word to me and get my attention real quick.

He'd give me that look as a, you know, as a pastor and the pastor's kid, he could be up here and he could look back there and give me that look with the eyebrows pulled down. And that was, that was speaking to me.

Take heed, boy. You know, I knew, I knew what he was doing. I knew what he was saying. God is very instrumental in the same way of our life. What is it that is causing a lot of prayer lives to deteriorate?

What is it that's causing the churches to decline away from prayer and seeking God's face? An evil heart of unbelief. Isn't it an awful thing is that we come to the Lord God Almighty, who is a creator of heaven and earth and able to do magnificent things in our presence and our sight.

And yet somebody says, and I've heard this too many times, now, Lord, if you're not too busy, or Lord, I know that, you know, I'm asking a lot. An evil heart of unbelief. That's what has penetrated into God's own people.

Well, they've taken their eyes off of him and it's not on him anymore. It's on an arm of flesh. And their hearts and their minds are not crying out for him to say, Lord, we've read of that which you have done in the past.

And we know that you are the same yesterday, today and forever. And you're able to do it today. I still believe is that the promise that Jesus gave is to said the same things that I have done. So also shall you do in greater things because I'm going to my father.

I believe that. Yet you ask of most Christians today is to say, how have you proved the Lord? How have you set your standard there is to say, Lord, I want you to do this. They back off. It is the evil heart of unbelief.

Now, for you to come to a prayer conference on a Monday afternoon is unusual. For some of you that have taken vacation and time to be here, that's unusual. But in any of us, self-doubt, confusion can enter in to cause an evil heart of unbelief.

All of us should pay attention to this warning. Take care. Devil can come in in many ways, put a doubt, whisper a lie. And as quickly as you have confidence to say, I'm trusting and believing the Lord, as quickly as that happened, you can turn away.

Within the last month, I've had to deal with a woman with mental illness, racking away at her, scourgement. She stayed with us for a week and tried to work with her during that time period. And she would say, I know whom I have believed.

I am persuaded. She'd quote as many verses as what I have. She knew the Bible, but yet she could sit there for about 20 minutes. And as she let her mind go, it would quickly go to the lies of Satan. Oh, he doesn't love me.

My sin's too great. An evil heart of unbelief came in within a matter of 20 minutes. And we would go back and we would look at the scriptures and we would pronounce these things and we would cry out to the Lord and she would weep and confess and everything would be good.

And 30 minutes on down the road, we'd be right back to where we was. A continual cycle. Over and over. And it is that this is the battle that's waging right now, I believe, within most of the church and most hearts and lives.

There is unbelief found among us because God has said, and it used to be that was enough. God has said, that's it. Now it's God has said, but comma, and then it comes the excuse or the reasoning. Now he goes on with this last one.

A heart of unbelief and departing from the living God. As many as you can come see, come forward to the Lord and say, I believe, I believe. As quickly as they come, they go back out. Something's not right.

They did not take heed. They did not give place to the priority in the things of God. You and I, dear brothers and sisters, take heed. Satan doesn't want us to prevail in prayer. Maybe your flesh doesn't want to prevail in prayer, but God does.

Let's take heed. At this time, we're going to watch a few more moments of the Revival Hymn.

Revival Testimony and the Manifest Presence of God

But I know this, from Phileas and Hamlet, the people came. Were you to ask some of them today, what was it that moved you? They couldn't tell you. Only that they were moved by a power that they could not explain.

And the power was such as to give them to understand and see that they were hell-deserving sinners. And of course, the only place they could think of where they might find help was at the church. Now that is a fact that cannot be disputed.

God was everywhere. And because of this awareness of God, the churches were crowded. Crowded. Through the day, right on through the night, till five and six o 'clock in the morning. In Revival time does not exist.

Son of the mighty moment in the midst of this plague. You know that the drinking house was closed that night. Never been opened since. The men who used to drink there and spend the evenings there are now praying in our prayer meetings.

It is because they entered into the fullness. It is because the people of Jewish grasp that truth that we can say today, we know practically nothing of backsliding from that greatest moment of years ago.

My dear people, do your good folk understand what Revival means? Have you a conception of what it means to see God working? The God of miracles and supernatural moving in the midst of men and hundreds swept into the kingdom.

Oh, that we might see it. That we might see it.

Powerful testimony, isn't it? Oh, that we might see it. I want to divert away here for a moment from what we're used to normally. Time, testimony and sharing of things that materialize and things that happen while we're together.

And so what I'm going to do is that I'm going to ask for Tim to come and share his heart with us for a moment. And as he does, then we'll be led to a time of prayer. And then Greg has arrived, so he'll be coming to join us here in a moment.

Tim, would you come and share your heart? Yeah, I think this one's on.

Just in these past two days, yesterday, I would say, was a very powerful time in God's presence. The two times that I came forward, as I came from the back forward, the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit got stronger the closer I drew near to what I would call the altar.

And it was as if I was standing on holy ground. Now, I don't know if anyone else has sensed that already. I'm not saying warm, fuzzy feelings. I'm saying the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit. When I sensed His Holy Spirit, it was one of those moments where there was awe, there was fear.

You know, I wanted to be drawn to my knees, but I couldn't because I was shaking too much. But I don't know if any of you are in actual agreement here in that sensing as you have come forward these last few days, as you've come up and you've prayed, Lord, and prayed to Him.

This doesn't have to be our only altar. As I was talking with a few people, Dan, Gareth, Brian, we mentioned that instead we should ask the Lord to come and fill this place completely, that not just here would be the altar, but this whole room would be the altar.

As I was sitting over there, my legs are still weak because I just feel like the Lord is birthing something new. But as I was sitting there, something came very strongly to my mind. Joel 2 verse 17, I think we've read it before, but I just want to read it again.

Let the priests, the Lord's ministers, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O Lord, and do not make your inheritance a reproach. We are His inheritance because He has bought us by the blood of Jesus Christ.

And a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the people, Where is their God? What I'm asking you to do right now is, if you truly agree, that you would agree with me to ask the Lord to come and fill this place as He had done in ages past amongst His people Israel.

So if you would just bow your heads with me and just join with me. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. Lord, Your name is holy, and there is no one like You. Lord, we ask that this room, Lord, that this room would be filled with Your Holy Spirit, with Your power, with Your passion, that You would break us, that You would mend us, that You would fill us, Lord.

But Lord, I pray that we would truly know that we have met with You between porch and altar. Lord God, I pray that You would fill this place. And I ask this all in Jesus' name.

I just felt glad of the Lord that we need to lay our hands upon Tim at this moment and pray for him. Would you join with us as we pray for Tim? Father, thank You for our brother Tim. Thank You for the revelation to him of the word from Joel.

Thank You for the way that He has led us even this afternoon in this brief time as He has challenged us to enter into Your presence between the porch and the altar. And Father, I lay my hands upon Tim, and I ask You to put Your hand upon him in a very special anointing that far from this moment on he might become a man who is a leader of men in the church, that You might minister through him, lead him in a path, Lord, that knows Your anointing, that he might be a man of the future for the church here in America and in his hometown, in his home city.

Lay Your hand upon him in anointing, Father, I pray. Use him for Your glory as a heart has broken before You, as a man who desires Your will in his life. You've broken him from many of the bondages of the past, Father, to free him into the life that You have for him.

Direct his paths, use him as a leader of men, that he might be Your mouthpiece to speak to us, to speak to many of the good things of God. Anoint him by Your Spirit, Father, and use him for Your glory.

I ask you in Jesus' name.

Tim came and shared his heart, and I want to be ever so sensitive because things are not always as is in a time of prayer like this when we've been pouring ourselves out for days. And so I desire with all my heart that we be wise, discerning, and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit when God speaks to one.

So I thank Tim for coming and sharing that with us and directing us, and our prayers will continue. Manifest His presence completely. So it is, is that at this time I'm going to ask for Greg Frizzell, who has arrived, and bless the time to come now and to speak to us, to share his heart, and to lead us in our prayer time for this afternoon.

Come, brother. Yes. Are we on? Are we on? Okay. Give me a little more if you would. I've got a little voice damage. I need the help from that standpoint. Just got off an airplane, and excuse me for being a little casual, but I didn't want to travel in a suit today, and I didn't think you'd mind too bad.

A Prayer Movement That Returns to God

Folks, the reason I'm here is because of the hearts that you have, not bragging on you, it's not about you, but you're part of that remnant that is deepening, that is our hope that the prayer movement not can just get broader, but can finally deepen and be truly empowered by the manifest presence of God.

We can all say words. We all know how to say prayer words, and we all know how to do meetings, and the Old Testament, they certainly would fast, and they certainly would put on sackcloth and ashes, and they'd weep and all that stuff, but nothing much happened.

In some of our churches, we can relate to that, but thank God there's hope, and there is something happening in God's remnant, and so this afternoon, we really want to just ask the Lord the question, Lord, how can the prayer movement now become a genuine return to you in the biblical sense, the Holy Spirit sense, in which God can manifest His full glory, not just mercy drops, and I know that's your heart, and the reason I'm here is, number one, I think God told me to come and just pray.

That's what I love about this time. It's mostly we share the word, but it's a lot of prayer. Nobody's on platform. It's all on God. His face is the only one that needs to be seen. His voice is the only one that needs to be heard, so it is encouraging to see that something is happening in God's remnant, and I'm going to ask that we, I'm going to ask you to take your Bible, if you will, and turn to Isaiah chapter 1 and verse 12.

There's a lot of excitement in a tiny remnant, but revivals, as you know, start from a tiny remnant, never a great majority. It's not unusual for great awakenings to require like 15, 20 years of a small remnant praying.

It's kind of unusual for one to go 40 years, and that's kind of where we are right now. There's been a prayer movement in America that are really about 40 years old, and that's real unusual to have a 40-year prayer movement and at the same time the worst collapse in history.

So we're going to be seeing this afternoon to set our praying what a prayer movement looks like. They're passing out some things that will be regarding the Scriptures we're about to look at. We're going to be looking at what a prayer movement looks like that God's Spirit is really in and the kind of prayer that brings revival.

Probably it would be good before we get into this Scripture to just kind of again set a stage, and I know that you know this, but I want to stress this. You can probably tell me what's happened to baptisms in this country in the last 50 years.

Now that's a long time, and if I were to ask you what's happened to the population of this country in the last 50 years, you know as well as I it has more than doubled. So a lot of growth in population, and they're passing that out, so we almost have it.

But in the middle of a double population, baptisms have been going like this for 50 straight years. Baptism especially ratios. Numbers among Baptists about the same down a little, but that means our ratios have gone like this in terms of power ratios.

Now something else about that, we're also noticing that a lot more that we're actually baptizing, which the numbers are much fewer, six months later it can't be found. So evidently there's been an explosion of a lot of decisions that aren't conversions in our country.

So the Bible says we're to know the signs of the times. We're to discern where we really are. So in terms of power, something's really collapsed. We're not in a power decline. It really can only be called a collapse.

That's why we're here praying, and God can turn it around. But now what's happened to programs and strategies and evangelism tools in the last 50 years? Have they gone down like this? No. Our strategies and programs and innovative methods and new worship has all gone like this.

It's gone through the roof. Now what's happened to Christian education? Pastors that have seminary degrees now in the last 50 years, it's doubled and tripled. Oh, many even have doctorates now. So education, theological, gone through the roof.

Program strategies, gone through the roof. Innovative worship, gone through the roof. But baptisms have gone like this. And morals and family strength have not gone like this. They've gone like this. We're in a collapse.

Signs of judgment have gone like this. Based on the patterns of biblical judgment, folks, we are way down the scale. We could literally become cataclysmic in a heartbeat. We don't know God's timing. I don't claim to.

Some may. But it's urgent. We know that. Now here's the amazing thing now. I don't believe this has ever happened. There may be a little argument with that, but it's certainly very unusual. I don't know of a time in history that there's been a 40-year prayer movement.

You say, what do you mean prayer movement? Well, more books have been written on prayer, revival, awakening, and repentance in the last 30 years than the 300 before that. Everybody's cat's writing a book on prayer, and that's good.

We ought to have them. Prayer ministries, prayer strategies, prayer networks, and praise God, we'd be a lot worse off without them. No doubt we'd be a lot worse. But there's never in history, or very seldom, been a 40-year prayer movement.

This much noise, this many books, this much emphasis, and baptisms go like this for 40 years, and morals go like this, and signs of judgment go like this. And we're now facing an age bomb. If there's any idea that, well, we're just going to kind of float along, folks, if we don't have a great awakening, I mean, we're far past mercy drops.

If we don't have a historic, biblical, real thing, great awakening, we're going to have an enormous decline from where we even are now. We're about to hit an age bomb in this country. Now, many precious saints that have built our churches, that are now paying the bills, that are doing the attending, that are doing the teaching, they're about to go and be with the Lord over the next 10, 15, 20 years.

If next Sunday everybody in Baptist churches or even Evangelical churches, period, everybody 60 and up was suddenly never again in any of our churches, you know what would happen. 30 of our churches would be instantly gone.

There'd be another 40%. They'd still be there. They wouldn't be gone, but they'd be badly hurt in terms of money and giving. Now, that's not going to happen next Sunday, but it is going to happen over the next 10, 15 years as people get sick and can't come or go and be with the Lord.

So, folks, we're at an urgent, crucial moment. You know this. I'm not telling you anything you don't know. But it is vital that we ask the question, why have we had this massive prayer movement? It's astounding how many prayer networks are out there now.

And praise God for them. That's the hope. And there's hope. But is there a turning point that yet needs to happen? Why have we prayed and prayed and prayed in Solemn Assembly and everything else? And it's been a very disturbing pattern that in this generation, Solemn Assemblies, the vast majority, have not produced revivals.

I'm not saying we ought not to do them. We ought to do them. They're biblical. But something is stopping short of the true manifest power of God. And you know the Word of God says it's not about talk.

We can all talk about revival and do conferences on it and write books on it. But it's about the power, the manifest presence this brother God talked about. So these pastors we're going to look at try to answer three questions that can get us praying and believing.

And by the way, it's all the grace of God. It's not out of reach. It's not impossible. It's His power. It's His grace. So don't let any of this be discouraging. It's urgent, but God's not into beating us down but lifting us up.

So there's a lot of hope, but we've got to get it. We've got to let God take us this one step deeper. We're going to look at a lot of Scripture. And obviously that's the only thing that matters is the Word of God.

There's three questions we want to help set our praying. What does a true return to God really look like? What has to happen in the prayer movement for the break to finally come, the flood, the heavens to break open?

What has to happen? Second, what is the type of prayer that God has biblically and historically used by His Spirit to really release His manifest presence? What does that kind of prayer movement look like?

And third, what is the motive? It cannot be just, if we don't have revival we're going to get judged more. We're already under judgment. But the economy is going to get worse. That better not be our main motive.

It's got to be about the pure, passionate love of God and glory of His name and His kingdom and His pleasure. And so we're going to seek to answer those questions. Isaiah 1 -12 is where we'll begin to look at the Holy Word of God.

And I always try to pray before we read the Holy Word of God. Could we bow our heads and hearts before Him one more time? Father, we do confess You are God. There's none other. You're all there is. Your name's the only name that matters.

Jesus, Your kingdom's the only one that counts. Your name's the only one to be praised. And we understand, Lord, that we matter only because we matter to You and have been created in Your image. That, Lord, it is all about You, Your pleasure, Your glory, Your kingdom, Your name.

Oh, God, we're so good at doing meetings. We can put on shows. We don't mean to. But, oh, Father, today, help us hear Your Word. Help us hear Your heart. Lord, help us to let You fill us with Your heart.

Take us deeper. Father, guard us from the foolish pride of thinking we've just about arrived when maybe we really haven't yet. Oh, Father, save us from thinking we're beyond where we are. But, oh, Father, thank You for what You are doing, that You are at work.

Your remnant is stirring. Oh, I thank You for these people, Lord. But, God, most of all, we cry out now through Your Holy Word, You'd take us deeper. Deeper surrender, deeper faith, deeper yielding to the fullness and power of Your Spirit.

But, God, it may be of You, and You may get all the glory in the days and months ahead. Father, even if it takes great judgment to bring revival, oh, Father, we know we'd be far better off with Your judgment, Your chastisement, than to go on like we are.

Father, there's a special danger for us that come and pray to think, well, we're the spiritual ones. Oh, Father, banish from us any sense of pride or arrogance. Help us understand it's not about talking books.

It's about the power. Oh, Father, it's about You, the reality, the life, not just word. Oh, Father, take us there, deeper than we are. Thank You for what You're doing. But, Lord, take us to another place.

We ask it in Jesus' holy name. And for Your glory, we pray. Amen. I was asked to do something I've never been asked to do. I was asked to speak at a worship leaders' conference. And I can sing about like a, well, I don't know what.

I can't sing at all. So, of course, it's not about singing. But, I said, Lord, what in the world do You want me to say to a bunch of worship leaders? So, as I prayed about it, God led me to two passages.

Of course, it's really to prayer folks. It's not just worship leaders. But Isaiah chapter 1, verse 12. And reading this in the context of a 40-year prayer movement. All kinds of strategies, all kinds of prayers, all kinds of books, all kinds of meetings and conferences.

But here's what He said. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand to trample My courts? Boy, that's a strange way to talk about a worship time and a prayer meeting. And He said, you're trampling My courts.

And they didn't know they were, in a sense. He said, bring no more futile sacrifices. Incense is an abomination to Me. Well, that was their way of worship. That was their praise. He said, it's an abomination to Me.

What would make God call worship and prayer and even preaching abomination? He said, the new moons and Sabbaths and the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. That was their time of repentance, supposedly.

He said, in verse 14, the new moons and your appointed feasts, My soul hates. Those are strong words. He said, they're a trouble to Me. And the word littered in Hebrew. They're a burden. They're a weariness to Me.

I'm weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you, even though you make many prayers, I will not hear, because your hands are full of blood. Well, what was going on here?

Oh, they were praying. They were fasting. Sackcloth, ashes, all that. Going through supposed repentance, but kind of wasn't noticing the manifest presence of God wasn't really moving. There was a lack of total surrender.

There was a general confession. There was a surface confession. And it was more about trying to get God's blessing and get Him to protect them from problems than it was really seeking His face out of pure burning love for Him.

So there was a lack of depth. Could that be true of some of the prayer movement? And again, praise God, some of it is very genuine. And this is in no way trying to be negative about prayer. But we have to ask the question, when it's 40 years of this, and things have absolutely collapsed in terms of morals, and discipleship in churches has collapsed.

So there's some sense in which we're kind of here, at least as a society and many churches. Well, there was a lack of surrender. There was a lack of absolute seeking of God. If you will look in Ezekiel chapter 33 and verse 30, it was a similar thing.