Revival Conference 2007 - Don Courville - Part 3 — Don Courville

Unity Through Shared Sacrifice

That's, let's go on down all the way. And then the other brother, he moved down with me because his church refused to go on with the Holy Spirit. So he moved down with me, and we had a ball. We just literally had a ball.

Neither one of us got a salary. God taught me 32 years ago to get my money from Him. So we didn't get a salary. And so we'd go out and work on people's roofs, fix their this and that. And we'd be up on the roof praying, having a prayer meeting, having a revival on the roof, and watch what God would do down below.

We just had a wonderful time of God working in the community, in the area. So we had unity, and we learned you had to guard. We had to guard our spirit of unity. We had to guard, check with people that come in, find out what was there.

Changed Lives Through Revival

And then we had a change of lives. People quit their jobs because it sold liquor here. One young man in the area sold his ranch and went off to seminary and just things like that. And he's in the ministry now.

Revival Returns to Western Nebraska

Let me share with this, see how much time we've got here. About six years later, God came back into the area of western Nebraska again and used a different evangelist, moved into a railroad town. I wasn't involved on that one.

The pastor there, he was the one that sold his ranch, ended up pastoring over there. He's on the phone every week. You've got to get back up here. God's come back again. And they went 10 and a half weeks out in Lyons, Nebraska.

And at that time, I'd moved down to Missouri to take some time off. Three years later, God came back and told me, drop everything. Just drop it. Put it on the altar. And we did. We went down to Missouri, and that's another whole story.

So God worked there in Lyons, 10 and a half weeks. A thousand people prayed to receive Christ, understand how many got saved. Only God knows. But here's an interesting thing that happened through that revival.

Revival Transforms the Burlington Railroad

It's a railroad town, Burlington. These guys are hauling their junk back. They stole to Burlington. Burlington's ended up with thousands of dollars on their doorstep. These railroaders are bringing back stolen material.

It doesn't look too good in the books. You've got all these thieves working for you. They wrote a special bulletin out. Anybody bringing anything back in the next 30 days, just bring it back. No questions asked.

Revival affected Burlington Railroad out there. We can have it. Well, let me just say a couple things about some things I learned on it. The cost. It won't cost you much. It'll just cost you everything you have.

The Cost of Giving Everything to God

You have to be willing to give God everything. Just a couple years ago, three years ago, I went through something, a tremendous thing. Oh, wow. It's just something. God was taking me to the cross, and I was mumbling about it one day.

It was a horrible thing happening, you know, how those things happen. And He said, what are you grumbling about? He said, you've been praying for years to be crucified with Christ. You know the power of His resurrection, the fellowship of His suffering.

Learning Quiet Confidence Through Trials

That's all that's happening. Oh, I see. You know, if we ever get it figured out, that God wants us to walk in quietness and confidence in Him. He's letting these things happen. Matter of fact, He came back later.

He said, you know all the problems you've got and everything? He said, I did it. I let the devil come in. Oh, He said, by the way, I did it because I wasn't getting the glory anymore. And if you ever experience God coming in, He likes to undo all our stuff so He can rebuild it back.

And we're usually complaining, moaning and grumbling. When we get through revival, we get in step with God. And this is what God did in this time. He got me in step. 22 years ago, it's just been wonderful.

Revival as a Life of Adventure

Has it been easy? No. It's sure not been boring, a little too exciting sometimes. But walking with God is one adventure. And revival would be the gateway to get you through there. So it's going to cost you a lot.

Choosing the Price of Revival

The only question I have, are you willing to pay the price to have revival? Are you willing to pay the price not to have revival? Guess which one costs more? You better believe it. Whatever it takes. Pray.

Believe God to do it. Believe God to do it. I was praying, God, it's revival or... I had no other thing to put there. When I wrote this little booklet, I put down, it's revival or ruin, which is basically what it is.

Guarding the Church Against Spiritual Deception

Since then, God has really taught me some tremendous lessons on how Satan gets into our lives. And that's why these men are here to help us. The disciples are going to come, and they're going to keep sharing things with us.

But the enemy has amazing ability to deceive us and to penetrate and invest into our churches and lives. I'm just sharing these things for your encouragement. How can I help you? How can I help you? Brother Sickly would help you.

Brother Vaughn, Brother Kern, Brother Denny, how can we help you? Don't go away discouraged. Go away believing God to do it. You can have it. It may not be a national revival or an awakening, what we'd like, but we can have God come.

There are some keys. God taught me several keys.