The Next Wave: A Revival Revolution — Michael L. Brown

Preparing Hearts to Hear From God

I was supposed to deliver this message last week, we switched it to this week, and some of you know that we have a school of ministry that's about a year and a half old in New York City, and I spend at least every Monday in New York City, teaching all day, then with night classes Monday night.

And the nice thing is now, living in Charlotte, not only being in close physical proximity to New York, but also having an airport that's not a regional airport, like we had in Pensacola. We learned in Pensacola, one of the things that we learned there was that if you were Christian and you died in Pensacola, you went to heaven by way of Atlanta.

So it doesn't matter which way you're going, if I was heading elsewhere to Florida, south in Florida, I first had to fly north to Atlanta to get there. If we were going west to California, we first had to go east to Atlanta to get there.

But now we can just hop on a plane and an hour and a half later be in New York, which means that I'm able a number of Sundays to be with everyone on Sunday nights, of course we're always here on Thursdays and through the week, and then also to be back for our school for our Tuesday chapel service.

So anyway, that's a delight. We were hardly able to do that together in Pensacola, but glad to be with all of you and those that might have been coming for a few weeks, but we don't know each other. Glad that you're here, welcome, and be wonderful to see what the Lord wants to do in the coming days and months, amen?

To walk closely with the Lord and be depressed and discouraged all the time. You may have a suffering dying world. You may struggle sometimes because you see the inadequacies of your own life, but if you're walking in harmony with God and the presence of God is fullness of joy, and our God is a God full of hope and vision and vitality.

So I want to encourage you tonight to open your ears and to really ask God to speak to you. I don't bring messages like the one I'm going to bring tonight lightly. I don't bring this in any kind of cavalier way and hit or miss and let's just see what happens.

God's really impressed these things on my heart and this is our first opportunity to share them with the community here. And I do want to reiterate what my good old friend Tom Barry mentioned with our visiting friends that are here, the Simonettis and the Ashers, some of whom we haven't seen for something like, how long, 18 years, a few years for the others.

So it's wonderful to see you guys. We do have a lot of history together and it's amazing to be here together tonight. Well let's pray. Father, we love you and we honor you. We pray for the ears and eyes and understanding of our spirit to be enlightened.

We pray for truth to rise in our hearts. We pray that which is your voice, that which you are saying would be deposited deep within us, change us, speak to us, move on us so that we can make an impact in this world for your honor and glory, that your kingdom to be advanced, that your great commission can move towards fulfillment.

Use us, O God. Make us fully usable, we pray through your word. In Jesus' name, amen. Turn with me to Numbers, the 20th chapter. Numbers chapter 20. Those of you who know me know that I normally teach and speak, preach without notes.

Often I'll go through a whole semester or trimester in our school without notes and generally when I speak, I don't know until the moment before I speak which way God wants me to go. That's not good or bad, that's just the way he's worked with me through the years.

Every so often he lays something on my heart in such a dramatic and clear way that I need to write it down. And I've got a few pages of notes as I speak to you tonight about the next wave, the coming wave of revival.

A few weeks ago I was headed out to California twice a year. I meet together with Che Ann and Lou Engel and other brothers and sisters that are part of the apostolic leadership team of HIM, Harvest International Ministries.

Nancy and I are part of that, representing FIRE and other ministry that we do. And right before I was going, I got word that Che wanted me to speak Sunday night for his congregation in Pasadena and God started to stir my heart and I felt I really needed to seek his face and find out what he wanted me to bring that night.

Even though this was days in advance, I felt I needed to hear from heaven and there was something specific he wanted to say and he began to deal with me about the next wave, the characteristics of the next wave and how we as God's people need to prepare our hearts.

I didn't want to be presumptuous about this though. Some years back, about ten years ago, as God was stirring my heart and the hearts of many in the early days of a refreshing and renewal and speaking to us that a wave of revival was coming, I began to write out some things, some of the current needs, some of the problems and the refreshing that was taking place nine, ten years ago and what it would take to move from refreshing to revival and what was coming next and put it out in book form.

And then some years later, when we were in the midst of the revival in Pensacola, people read those things and thought I had written them. Once I had come to Pensacola, I said, no, these were written before.

These were things we were preaching before and God had prepared our hearts. And I felt the same thing again now, but I didn't want to be presumptuous. I didn't just want to assume because God spoke certain things to me before that I was hearing again.

And like everybody else, we don't hear the voice of God in some supernatural, dramatic way every day. Plenty of times you think, is this God, is this not God? We learn as we go on. But there are other things he really nails you with, he really speaks to you with.

And they stay with you for years and years and you can't shake them. And I really felt he was moving on me and wanted me to speak on this. Then I got a call from Che, just one of the touch base before I came out, Che Ann and Lou Engel putting together these call events that many of you know about around the country and around the world that have drawn hundreds of thousands for prayer and fasting.

And Che said, Mike, did you get my memo with the topic we want you to speak on Sunday night? I preach for Che a number of times and he's never given me a topic. We have guest speakers coming all the time.

We don't give them a topic. I preach constantly around the world and nobody gives me a topic. He said, did you get the topic that we want you to address Sunday night? I said, no, he said, we want you to speak on the next wave of revival, the coming wave of revival.

Well, we started to laugh. I said, man, God laid this on my heart several days ago. And that was all the confirmation I needed, just that call from Che asking me to speak on the same thing. And we compared notes and I said, God doesn't give me messages days in advance.

He said, well, we never assign topics. It was just one of those God things. Where are we right now? What in the world is going on? We're going to read scripture in a moment. But I want to say this plainly.

Testing Prophetic Claims by Scripture

We as God's people have no time for prophetic speculation and end times fantasy. The reason that God speaks things in his word is not just to titillate our interest. So we want to get all excited about what's going to be happening in Jerusalem nine million years from now.

God's word is practical. If God speaks something to a generation, it's so that generation will respond properly and be ready for the things that he is going to do. I remember when I was saved in 1971, as the years went on, I heard a lot of teaching about end time prophecy and the return of Jesus.

And a lot of speculation. And I remember joking about it. I said, someone is going to write a book in the 70s and the book is going to be about why we know Jesus is coming in the 70s. And after a few more years, they're going to come out with a second revised and improved edition.

How we know Jesus is coming in the 80s. I used to joke about that. And then sure enough, a dear brother, Little Rock, Arkansas, puts out a book in 1988 on 88 reasons why Jesus is coming in 88. And people, listen to me, people quit their jobs over this.

They racked up all kinds of debt because, quote, they were going to leave it for the Antichrist. There were even churches that had rapture practice. I kid you not. They may have done it a lighthearted way, but that was the mentality.

We're out of here. Now, there may have been a lot of sincerity in it. And these people may have truly believed these things. Nonetheless, it was folly and a reproach that even the day of his return was predicted.

The thing that was all the more tragic was not that the book went out in hundreds of thousands of copies. And I'm sure a few people genuinely met the Lord through it. But what was not tragic was not just the gullibility of the body.

One dear Dutch friend of ours living in Israel said that the greatest sin of the American church is gullibility. It wasn't just the gullibility of the thing and the sensationalism of it. But tragically, the next year, he came out with a revised and improved edition.

Eighty-nine reasons why Jesus is coming in 89. Thankfully, there was no third edition. Why am I saying that? I'm saying that because the things that I want to address tonight are not just, ooh, ah, isn't that interesting, wow, wild.

It's so that we will understand. And I encourage you to prayerfully test all of these things and to watch in the coming months and years and see what God actually does and how it lines up with what we're saying.

It all needs to be prayerfully tested and weighed before the Lord. But this is spoken to both encourage us and to challenge us. It's spoken so that our hearts would be prepared. It's spoken so that when God does move, we will not stand against it and reject it and resist it and misunderstand it.

We will not be like some of my forefathers who waited for the coming of the Messiah and then when he came, rejected him because he didn't come the way they were expecting him to come. Numbers chapter 20.

In the first month, the whole Israelite community arrived at the desert of Zin. And they stayed at Kadesh. There, Miriam died and was buried. This is the 40th year of the wilderness wanderings. And all those 20 years old and more, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, were going to die in the wilderness.

Those who were 20 years old and more when Israel came out of Egypt, they were all going to die in the wilderness. And a new generation, some of them just little children, some of them in their late 50s, a new generation would go in and take the promised land.

And Miriam was part of the leadership of the first generation. So to mark a major season of transition, there are significant deaths. The first one being Miriam who dies in the first month of that 40th year.

Then if you go down to verse 22, the whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Malchor. At Malchor near the border of Eden, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Aaron will be gathered to his people.

He will not enter the land I give the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah. Get Aaron and his son Elazar and take them up Malchor. Remove Aaron's garments and put them on his son Elazar.

For Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will die there. Moses did as the Lord commanded. They went up Malchor in the sight of the whole community. Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Elazar.

Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Elazar came down from the mountain. When the whole community learned that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him 30 days.

This takes place in the fifth month. And look at the clear transition. Aaron's priestly garments are taken off of him and put on his son. Moses, Aaron and Aaron's son Elazar all go up the mountain together.

And then the two of them come down without Aaron. And now the son is wearing the priestly garments. It is a very clear sign of a generational transition. And then, of course, the last one who has to go is Moses.

And according to Deuteronomy 34, Joshua had a spirit of wisdom on him because Moses had laid his hands on him. I remember being in England in 1994 with a man who's become a dear friend of ours, known to many here, Derek Brown.

And Derek was ministering. He was just preaching, teaching. And in the midst of his message, he just made a simple point that many times a sign of major transition is people dying. Well, people die all the time.

People are born all the time. People die all the time. But he was talking about significant deaths, deaths that get your attention, marking a transition. And it dawned on me, wait a second. We had some major deaths right around that time.

This is around May of 1994. And in April of 1994, Richard Nixon had died. And then a month later in the same hospital in New York City, Jackie Kennedy Onassis died, JFK's widow. That got my attention.

And then in June, there was a death in the Jewish community that many wouldn't have known about, but he was probably the most influential leader among the Jewish people worldwide, the grand rabbi of the Lubavitchers.

These are ultra-Orthodox Jews based in Brooklyn who have their missionaries out all over the world. Massive Jewish educational movement all over the world. They believed that he was the Messiah. They were waiting for him to reveal himself as Messiah at the age of 92 after having had a stroke that paralyzed him for two years.

They wore their beepers around the world just so that they would get beeped the moment he revealed himself. They had the Messiah hotline. I'm talking about real stuff. And he said he dies in June. And that got my attention.

I realized major transition. We are in a season that is going to move us from renewal to bonafide revival. I don't mean the whole of the country. I don't mean the whole of the world, but there was something God was doing that was going to deepen and intensify.

And then in September of that year, Leonard Ravenhill, who was a great champion of revival in our generation, the author of Why Revival Carries, prayer warrior, man that became a very dear friend the last five years of his life.

He had a stroke in September of 94. And I knew he's done. He's finished his labors. He's prayed with tears for revival probably for 60 years. He's done. He's ready to move on to his reward. He'll be gone before the year is out.

And, of course, we prayed often for him. But sure enough, around Thanksgiving of 94, he went to be with the Lord. And then 95, something that's touched many of the people here, revival broke out at one church in Pensacola.

The fire from there literally spread around the world. It was a time of transition. I just want to say one other thing, though, personally, and I don't often speak like this, and I don't get caught up on dates and times and ooh, ah, look at this, but certain things you just can't help but notice.

So I want to give you a context for everything I'm about to say. I want to stand here as a witness. I would say 11 years, it was actually the 11th month of that year, that some of the folks that are here today just visiting, we were all in an outpouring of the spirit together.

That was in 1982. And from that point on, there was a promise that burned in me that God was going to pour out a spirit, that we'd be part of a revival that would touch the world. I couldn't shake this thing.

Even when you question yourself and you say you're crazy and you lay it down, you say it can't be God, he keeps bringing the thing back. It was seven years from that point, 1982 to 1989, before God released me to start writing on revival.

And then 1989, connecting me with Leonard Ravenhill. That was also the connection with Steve Hill. That's how we knew each other, through St. Leo Land. Seven years, 1982 to 1989. And then it was seven years from first getting released to write on revival and the connection with Leonard Ravenhill, that God called me to be in the midst of the revival in Pensacola, to serve in the leadership there.

And then it was seven years from that point until he called us to leave, and we came here, from 1996 to 2003. And certain things, it was a little bit too much in terms of overkill, how can you miss the message?

Our last graduation of our school of ministry in Pensacola was seven years to the week of my first visit there. There was a sense of completion. It was also our tenth graduation, five at our first campus and five at our second campus.

Not only that, our last week there, in terms of all together as a body having a public service, there's a church plant there, Pensacola Fire, going after God that's been planted. But our last week for the community that was there together, we finished up at a building that was owned by a group called New Dimensions, and that was their first Sunday in the building that used to be our school campus that was purchased by them, which was also the first Sunday that Brownsville Assembly got back into their old building that had been hit with lightning.

It's almost like you ever play the shell game and you can't quite figure out where someone puts money under a shell and they start switching, you can't find it. I mean, everything just switching and then kind of back to the way it was with a few major changes and it was like God was saying, you're done, move on, time for something new.

A season's completed, time for something new. And it struck me just as we were driving here with a moving truck, our house in Alabama is still for sale, but we moved into an apartment here in Charlotte.

As we were moving, it just struck me, isn't this interesting? In the years in Pensacola, there was spiritual warfare and attack and intensity and we looked at it more as a battle than anything in the midst of all the wonderful things God did, just very intense front lines.

But Nancy and I were talking, I said, it's kind of an amazing thing. We went down there, just the two of us, and seven years later, here we are in Charlotte with this extraordinarily devoted, godly leadership team, with a tremendous staff, faculty for our school of ministry, with a community of several hundred believers that have moved here just in the last few months, with a school, with young people, older people on fire going after God, with missionaries that came out of the work we were involved with, and about 25 different nations preaching the gospel full time, with the early stages of a stirring Jesus revolution.

It's kind of wild to see. In other words, not just speaking into the air. Look, we are all here. Here we are in the greater Charlotte area. Have you noticed that? With fresh marching orders and a fresh hunger that God is ready to do something.

There are things that burned in me for years I couldn't shake. I've shared some of this with some of you, but just for all of you, there was a promise of revival, being part of an outpouring that would touch the whole world.

We got the first deposit of that in Brownsville. And then there was this thing that was unshakeable. We'd be part of a school, raise up a school that would send out thousands of radicals preaching the gospel all around the world.

And then, boom, suddenly out of the blue, something's birthed. And it's ongoing now, with laborers preaching Jesus all over the place, with bearing fruit. Those of you that greeted Joe Woolen were glad to see him.

I was glad to see him too. The last report I got, he was looking out for landmines in Afghanistan. The pastor was taking him out on a ride across some field there, talking about one of the last groups they had out that hit a landmine.

And Joe just casually asked, was the guy hurt? And he said, he was killed. Get in the car. You notice when Joe sits down, he's a little shaky, a little nervous. There's a reason for it. I noticed him walking outside, and he just kind of moved like this every so often.

What I'm saying is our guys are out there on the front lines. Do you understand? Doers of the word. These things burned in me for years and years and years. And then, boom, we begin to see them happen.

And then from the late 90s, I've been unable to shake this thing of a coming Jesus revolution, of a radical movement, especially among young people, but something that will literally have a generational impact, something that will literally take back moral ground that was stolen out from under our feet in recent decades, actually have an impact on a generation.

And the amazing thing is you hear people preaching the same thing. They haven't read what I wrote. They heard from the same God I heard from. Carrying the same burden. Running the same race. Something is going on.

And then I'd be in New York. And for those of you who don't understand it, New York is a challenging place for the extension of the gospel. You understand you've got millions and millions of people there, but it's a war zone spiritually.

A lot of people go there briefly with a great vision, great excitement, and they run after just a few months because the pressure is too intense. Every time I'd go to the city, I'd walk the streets late at night and pray.

God would start visiting my heart, visiting my heart, about a wave of revival that was going to come and touch New York. I can't shake it to this moment. The same way he moved on the things before Pensacola, before our schools, when Derrick Brown spoke at our graduation in Pensacola the end of May, he then stayed around and spoke on a Sunday night, which was basically our concluding fire service there with our group.

And I called Scott from New York City. And I said, hey, bro, how did the service go with Derrick? And he said, you've got to listen. He was out in the parking lot. How many of you were there for that night?

Many of you. Awesome. And he felt just to open the door. There's an open door set before us and to walk out, right? And you guys walked out, and many were touched by the Spirit. The Spirit fell on many in the parking lot.

All I know is Scott's got the phone there, and I hear people weeping and crying out in the background. And I got stirred by God that night. I was in this little apartment that Jews for Jesus lets me use in New York City, and I was alone in that apartment, and I got stirred with this reality.

And the reason I said everything up to now is just to say I'm not speaking empty words. I got stirred with the reality of Alporn that was going to come to this region here. I mean, it was so real to me.

And I know so many others have heard it and so many others have prayed. I'm not saying because we've come, it's happening. I'm saying because we're here, we get to be part of it. Praise God. I was so stirred by it.

It was one of the most sacred times I've had. Late night seeking the face of God, and I saw being in the thick of a move of God here and going into the city and taking the fire from here and bringing it there.

I mean, it was overwhelming. And then a number of things happened in recent months that got my attention. So let me step back, look in the past for a moment, and then talk about now. You know, in 1 Chronicles 12 .32, it's a passage I've preached out of often in the last couple of years.

It talks about the sons of Issachar. They were part of the mighty men of David's army. But it doesn't mention that they were skilled with shields or swords or weaponry or that they were well-trained and armed men.

It simply says that they understood the times and knew what Israel should do. The reason it's important to understand what's happening, I don't mean every last detail of prophetic stuff. I don't mean every news event and what's happening.

I remember people telling me years ago that Gorbachev was the Antichrist because, look, he's got that birthmark, he's got the mark of the beast. I remember talking to one woman years ago, and she said, Have you figured it out?

This is when Reagan was president. Have you figured it out? Ronald, Wilson, Reagan. Count the letters. Six, six, six. She said, You're telling me that Ronald Reagan is the Antichrist. I'm not talking about trying to speculate.

I'm talking about when God's doing something in a generation, when he's giving loud and clear signs, when it's clear that something's happening in society, when it's clear that the devil is doing something, we as God's people should understand it.

As parents, you would want to understand it. If something major was going on with your kids, they were under severe spiritual attack, they were getting pulled by their peers, something was going on, you'd want to know it.

As pastors, leaders, you'd want to know it with a flock of believers if something is going on. Well, we as God's people in this earth, as his prophetic people, all of us, his body, should understand what's happening so that we know what to do, so that we know how to live, so we know how to respond, so we know how to pray, so we know how to prepare.

That's one reason God gave prophecies about the coming of the Messiah to the Jewish people. It was not only so they would recognize him when he came, but so their hearts would be ready and they would be praying and preparing.

Cultural Upheaval and the Jesus People Movement

Let me just go back to the past for a moment. We talked about Miriam, Aaron, Moses, dying and a sign of major transition for Israel. And then the new generation, called the Joshua generation by many, raised up to take the land, which was a mixture of older and younger together.

I look back in the 60s when there was a counterculture movement, a counterculture revolution that swept through America and changed our society, aside from advances in civil rights and a few other things, basically changed our society for the worse and brought us into a situation where we are today.

There were certain significant deaths towards the end of that period of the 60s. 1968, two major assassinations. Five years after the assassination of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in 1968.

Riots erupting in cities all over America. And then shortly after that, Robert F. Kennedy assassinated. It was a sign of the chaos of the era. I have books in my library just focused on the year 1968, which was such a major transitional year, but it's marked by these significant, major deaths in our country.

And then by 1969, what do you have? Woodstock. By 1969, you have the beginning of the gay liberation movement in New York City, and so on and so forth. Well, something also happens. This was the day of all of the dreams of the young people, the whole hippie movement.

There are probably some former hippies here. Sometimes I'll ask, just out of curiosity, I'll ask, hey, any guys here, you were the first one to grow your hair out when you were in high school, you know, you were the first one to grow your hair long, and some totally straight guy in a suit and tie who's bald, you know, he'll stand up.

And I always point him out to the young people and say, that's what's coming. Stick around long enough. But there was this dream, you know, we're going to make the world a better place, and, you know, Woodstock, peace, man.

You know, no more war and strife and make love, not war. But that dream was so filled with sin. That dream was so filled with flesh. There were some significant deaths for that whole culture in 1970 and 71.

The two kings and the queen of rock and roll, again, two men and a woman, all die at the same age. I mean, these things get your attention. First, Jimi Hendrix in September of 71, of 70 rather, at the age of 27.

Then Janis Joplin, about a month later, at the age of 27. And then August the next year. So all within 12 months, Jim Morrison at the age of 27. It was almost an exposing of the death of that whole culture, of the fact that sin, you just give yourself over to sin and immorality and drugs and alcohol, that's going to bring a premature death.

But what happened to that very culture, to that very group of people, the Jesus people movement gets full blown around 1971. Right on the heels of these deaths, God is raising something up. We have a dear friend, missionary friend, Clark Sloan, who will be in town this week visiting us.

He's written a book about the journeys of their missions team in Italy and around the world. Christ is the answer. They live in tents and trailers, some of the most amazing wild stuff you could ever imagine.

I hope we can help get the book published at some point. The book is called The Circus of God. And he sent me a CD with a lot of pictures of the teams that they had in the 70s that were going preaching around the world.

And it looks basically like a hippie gathering. I mean, you're talking about people all came out of the hippie movement, but all radically saved and now missionaries, and some have been on the field over 30 years.

God did something very deep and real and extraordinary. And it was marked by those major deaths. Well, many of you were suddenly awakened to a major transition we are in right now. Some of you were recently awakened to it because it was broadcast so loudly by the Lord, it seems.

You know, there are some major deaths in the entertainment industry. I mean, people die every year, but we're talking about prominent, something major that gets your attention. Bob Hope turned 100 and died.

It got everyone's attention because he was 100 and then died, but didn't really think much about it. Katherine Hepburn, one of the greatest female actresses that Hollywood ever saw. She died, I think, in her 90s.

You don't really put these things together because there are always people dying and things happening. And then on the Christian ministry side, a few months back, Larry Burkett, who was just probably the best-known teacher in the body on finance and dealing with debt and so on.

He goes to be with the Lord, and then Bill Bright goes to be with the Lord. A man that was involved in planning of hundreds of thousands of churches around the world and sharing the gospel message with several billion people around the world.

He goes to be with the Lord at the age of 81, but none of this really caught my attention. And then Johnny Cash died, another significant entertainment death. But what got my attention on that was the same day there was a lesser-known actor, TV actor, he died the same day, and it got my attention.

I thought, that's interesting. Another major entertainment death. What I didn't realize, because I do not follow Australian country music, well, let me phrase it like this. To the extent that I do not follow American country music, just my own preference and background, much, much, much, much less do I follow Australian country music.

But do you know that the Johnny Cash of Australia, a man widely hailed in his country, I'm talking about known as the Johnny Cash of Australia, he died seven days after Johnny Cash. How interesting. When Kenneth Hagen went to be with the Lord at the age of 86, and I thought Kenneth Hagen, Bill Bright, the lights started to go on.

Then these other ones, I realized something is going on. First I have this thing in my heart for months, another wave's coming, another wave's coming, a fresh wave. Something greater than what we've seen.

Something larger scale than what we've seen. Something not contained to one group here or there or there. Something more intense. And now these deaths begin to happen. We had dinner with Rick Joyner a few weeks back and he was talking about September 24th that he was reading in Haggai, God speaking on the 24th day of the ninth month, and it got his attention.

It was just a word for Israel, but it got his attention and he began to think, September 24th something's going to happen. Something's going to happen. I was sitting with Nancy September 23rd. We were having dinner and we were talking about these deaths, these passing.

I said, there's more to come. There are more that are going to go be with the Lord. Who's next? Just sitting over dinner. Who's next? And the next day comes September 24th and I was about to go to a leadership meeting and I saw an email that came in and it just said subject, Derrick Prince.

I didn't have to read the email. I knew and understood. Derrick Prince is going to be with the Lord at the age of 88. And then just so interesting, the next morning I get an email. Did you hear that Steve Hill's mom, Evangelist Steve Hill, his mom went to be with the Lord yesterday, September 24th.

And then later that day I get an email from India. Have you heard Dr. Titus just went to be with the Lord September 24th? He was one of the great pioneers in India, one of the best known Indian leaders around the world.

Dear man, we got to know. Suddenly my insides started to shake and it was leading right into the Jewish holidays, the biblical calendar, the feast of trumpets, the wake up time, the days of awe leading to the day of atonement.

And my insides were shaking with the reality God's trying to get our attention. Major transition is coming. Major transition is coming. I went out to speak in California. By the way, the Johnny Cash of Australia was known as Slim Dusty.

Just for your records. I get out to California. Before I get there, it's a Friday. How interesting. Rock singer Robert Palmer and sports writer, other things, George Clinton, both dead the same day. Just boom, two together.

I get out to California on a Saturday. I get in the car, renting a car. I'm stuck in L .A. traffic. Put the radio on, see if there's news or something. The first item that comes on, actor, I think Donald O 'Connor, dead in Los Angeles at the age of 72.