The Word of God — Paul Ravenhill

Field for 15 years, and we start our meetings down there, and we never have a time to finish, and I'm just not used to reducing things, and I get carried away. But this morning, I just want to praise the Lord.

There are some things, I was just thinking in this whole process, Tony didn't mention, but it was kidney stones, and you've been through it. You know, it's kind of a difficult situation, and even the doctors, there's not much they can do.

If it's going to go away, it goes away, or else they've got to go all the way and try and get that thing out of there. And it's just a big question mark that hangs over that whole treatment. It's not just a cut and dried kind of thing.

There's a lot of possibilities. The doctor said there's 10 ,000 kinds of kidney stones, and there's just about 10 ,000 different kind of ways you can treat it. But, praise the Lord, without going into any details, it's gone.

I'm better, I'm just praising God. Sometimes he leads us out of tribulation, sometimes he leads us through it, sometimes he takes us partway through it, and then he takes it away. So anyway, just praise the Lord this morning.

The Inheritance and Power of God’s People

I was just thinking, just before coming to the meeting, how great is our inheritance. I was just thinking as we were singing, Sonny was singing about praising the Lord. I was just thinking, here we are standing in the midst of eternity, the eternity all behind us, the eternity extending in front of us, in front of God and all the hosts in heaven, in front of all the satanic, demonic powers.

Maybe you don't feel it much in this place, because there's the presence of God in this place, but I tell you, you get out some places, some countries, some cultures, there's just a sense of built-up darkness, oppression, trying to crush every power of light, and yet with it all, in the children of God, something that rises up and says, in the midst of all this I have within me the power to raise up, glorify the name of him who reigns forever and ever and ever.

The name of him will draw all things, all nations, all people, and will one day present to himself a glorious work in this earth where darkness is reigned. I just thrill, just like I say, get carried away.

God is, God is. I remember I'd been out of Argentina, we'd been working in Argentina and Paraguay, and I came back after about four years out of the country, and it was those four years when they were going through guerrilla warfare, the economy had just gone completely haywire, inflation was rampant, the church was going through a rough time, and as I came back the Lord spoke, he said, I am God, I change not.

I am God. My work never stops. The government can't stop it, the guerrilla warfare can't stop it, the oppression can't stop it, need, necessity, affliction, tribulation, none of this can stop it. I am God, I change not.

Christ Crucified as the Power and Wisdom of God

And I just, well, I was just reading this morning there in 1 Corinthians. I'm going to stop, I'm going to stop. Okay, he says go on. You can argue with Tony afterward. Let me read to you. Paul, 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 20.

We could start before, but, well, let's start. Verse 17. For Christ sent me, not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

But the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For the Jews require a sign. The Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified. Unto the Jews a stumbling block, unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and Christ, the wisdom of God.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and the things which, and the base things of the world and the things which are despised of God chosen and the things which are not to bring to naught the things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence, but of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

That according as it is written, he that gloryeth, let him glory in God. I could just see this morning, looking at this again, it's always a blessing to me, this chapter, Paul bringing into focus for this church, this church there in Corinth, bringing into focus the purposes of God, bringing into focus the operation of God, bringing into focus with all the power of his mind, his intellect, with all the illumination of the spirit, bringing into focus what it is that God is doing.

And on the other hand, looking at the world and, and, and analyzing and saying, this is what the world is seeking, but this is our calling. And I, I remember verse 20 there, where is the wise? Where's the scribe?

I remember reading about it, a missionary who'd been caught by the communist in China, when the communist, he was in Tibet, really the communist came into Tibet, apparently there, they got hold of him and they took him to China.

He was in prison there for two years. And he told how on his release, he came to Hong Kong. And after two years, took in his hand, hands again, the word of God. And he told how sitting there in that little room in Hong Kong, he opened up to this passage and he said his mind had been listening to the brainwashing techniques, listening to man's wisdoms, man's disputing for two years till he was just completely almost overwhelmed by it.

And then he came back to the word of God. The spirit of God was there in that room. And he said, he just felt like getting up and running and shouting through the halls of learning of this world. Where is the scribe?

Where is the dispute of this world? God has made foolish these things. And I think, think of Paul there looking around and Paul after traveling, knowing intimately the religion of the Jews, having studied there in Jerusalem, knowing, knowing all the interpretations of the law, knowing all the ways of forecasting the fulfillments of prophecy and so on and so forth, knowing intimately the teaching of the Greeks, having traveled all over the, the, the, that part of the Roman empire where the Greek culture was, was reigning.

And he comes and he, he looks at them and he said, the Jews require a sign. And I just think of that, that Jewish nation, it's representing really the religious world, the whole religious world. Paul says there is a religious world which has revelation, which has a framework of law to hold the word of God, which was committed to it, which has the prophecies and the promises, which has all the indications of what God's going to do.

And yet to them, although they see it, although they know the reality, although they, they sense it above them, they cannot, they cannot distinguish it. And the only way they can reach through is say, God, God, somehow break through the darkness and give us a sign.

God come to us and show us with all our revelation, with all our knowledge, with all this letter that we have, it's dead. Lord, we can't reach through. They'd lost reality. They'd lost life. It was dead.

It was for me, crucified the Lord of glory. When he came, Paul says that world, and I've seen it, I've seen it there on the mission field, Catholics, Protestants here in this country, even in the church, Christians ever seeking, seeking, seeking.

And although they don't express it, maybe they don't even know how to put it into words, what they're saying, Lord, somehow break through to me, give me a sign. Then he says, there's another world, world of the Greeks, said they have to reduce God and pass him through their mind.

They can't believe anything that they can understand. They can't believe anything which which goes beyond what humanity, poor little puny, limited man can understand poor people. He said they're, they're looking for, for wisdom.

And I like his declaration, but we preach Christ. You know what this word preach means? It doesn't mean we, we teach. There's a lot of emphasis in the States. Excuse me. No, there's a lot of emphasis on, on quote teaching and a lot of it isn't teaching.

It's just kind of explaining somebody's pet theories. But Paul says we preach and the word means we declare, we proclaim, we've got something, we have reality. We know the living Christ of God, the anointing, the reality, not the promises, not the darkness of a religion that hangs over me in terror, in judgment and waiting and hoping and not knowing what's going to happen.

Not something that I got to reduce to my mind and say, Lord, I'll take the steps. If you just show me how, but we have the Christ, the anointed. He is ours. We preach Christ crucified. I like that. That is our Christ.

Not in the world of men, not in Jerusalem with the Jews, not there with the learning of the Greeks, Christ led without the city out beyond the bounds of human habitation out there in the, in the countryside, in the desert, lifted up on a hill, lifted up on a cross.

And that is where his own find him. That is where his own go to him. They always have. They always will throughout the ages. This is our Christ. This is our hope. This is our life. And I was just thinking this morning, how different, how different we're not bound up in this like the Jews.

We're not like so many, even within the church, seeking and crying and saying, Lord, I want to understand. I want to know. Show me how I got to do. Show me what my relationship should be. Show me how I should behave in this situation and that and that.

And we try and get God and apply him to each situation. There's something greater. There's a life in the spirit. We preach Christ. He doesn't say we preach Jesus. He doesn't say we preach to save you.

We preach the Christ. We preach the anointed one. This is our portion. This is our inheritance. Unto them which are called who are the what called the foolish, the weak unto them which are called Christ, the power of God.

The Anointing and the Authority of Christ

I remember one day in a meeting in Argentina, the spirit of the Lord was moving. For years, I've been fighting in prayer for churches, for situations, for for a people, spiritual battles. And in that meeting, I remember so clearly the Lord said to me, there is no barrier in human personality.

If you can come to me, all things are possible. Everything that Christ, he is the one who rules over this earth. There is no second cause. There is no other power. Christ, the son of God, Christ, Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

I like the revelation they're given to John. The angel came to me, said, worship God. And John said, and as I worshiped, I saw the heavens open. And as I saw the heavens open, I saw one whose name was faithful and true.

The first revelation, whose name was the word of God, the second revelation, whose name was Lord of Lords and King of Kings. But look a minute of that second revelation, the word of God. And he said, and behind him marched all the armies of heaven.

Faithful and true is the revelation of Christ in me. Christ that will never leave me, never forsake me. Christ that will carry me through in my personal Christian life. Christ, King of Kings is his revelation over and beyond and above me.

But Christ, the word of God is the revelation of Christ operating through me. I give you an illustration. When Jesus came into Jerusalem two or three days before he was crucified, all the city bowed and worshiped and praised him.

Why? Because hundreds of years before somebody had prophesied. And because of the power of the word of God in that prophecy for a moment, the veil of opposition, the veil of darkness was taken from off that whole city and they recognized him as the Lord and they recognized him as the King.

What I'm trying to say is that the word of God in us, when God gave us his word, he gave us the greatest thing that he could give us. He gave us his own creative power, the power that formed all things, the power that sustains all things, the power that will lead all things to their final culmination.

And that is the power which is given us. We have as much as we will take from God. We can speak the word and it will be. It will be. Of course, we like to speak it now and have it in five minutes. It might not be in five minutes, but it will be.

Be it over a nation, be it over a church, be it over a life. If it is the word of God, the word of God cannot fail. He said, heaven and earth shall pass away. This substance, the solid things will pass away, but that word, that spoken word will not pass away.

I just wish I could transmit it as I feel it. But Peter says, if any man minister, let him minister as the oracle of God. An oracle in, in, in olden days was a priest of whatever religion it was. Even the heathen religions, they had their oracles and it was a person that was supposed to, as he spoke, God spoke through him.

It was a channel through which the voice of God spoke. Peter says, as we minister, we're not trying to get our points across. We're not, we're not trying to explain that brother, sister, it seems to me that what Paul means.

No, we're in a different realm. We're in a different sphere. We preach, we proclaim, we proclaim the Christ. We proclaim the savior. We proclaim the one who is able the Jews, poor, poor Jews, the Greeks, poor people, but we're separate.

We're different. We've got a glorious heritage, Christ, the power, Christ, the glory, the foolishness of man. I like that. The, the, the wisdom of man, he said in the foolishness of God is wiser than, than the, the, excuse me.

The foolishness of God is greater than the wisdom of man. The weakness of God is stronger than men. You know, I think there are a lot of people that, excuse me, and I just kind of put in this right here, but there are a lot of people waiting, uh, for some kind of mystic touch from God and that someday God will do something for them.

And all of a sudden there'll be ministry. Uh, there'll be a missionary. They'll get a call. They'll get an anointing. They'll be able to do what they've never been able to do before, but it doesn't work that way.

You know how it works. We get a vision of God. We start crying out to God and he works it within us. Um, maybe it seems like I'm taking it out of context, but you remember that verse once again, when Jesus came into Jerusalem, the Pharisees and the religious leaders came and said, Lord, rebuke these people, tell them that this isn't the way he said, if these should hold their silence, even the stone should cry out.

I tell you, we're in a day of such need in the world and in the church that if God can't reach through to some of his people and get them to come in to the anointing of God and get them to take, not their ability and not their mental capacity and not their education, but take hold of God and get the words of God and give it forth.

Even the stones are going to have to cry out. There is a tremendous crying need. I look around me. I look at the nations. I think of South America where I've been. Think of Paraguay, a country never had a moving of the spirit of God.

See the people passing day after day. See the suffering, see the darkness. There comes a time when it reaches through and touches your spirit. There comes a time when God gets all of you and says, child, you're nothing but a stone, but you've got to start crying out because I want to reach that need.

You've got to do something about it because I'm with you. If you don't do it, you're crying out I don't believe you. God, I can't take hold of your word. God, your promises are in vain. God says, I don't care what you are.

I don't care what your capacity is. Look at me. I am God. I change not. I live and I reign. For many years, I've heard people speaking about what God's going to do, speaking about the manifestation of the sons of God and a lot of other stuff.

And I don't have much argument with them, but I tell you, we don't have to wait for dispensations. We don't have to wait till God releases. And hopefully it'll be this year or next year, next year. For 20 years, I've been hearing that God's going to move and God's going to do a new thing.

I remember 1958, I went into Bible school. They were all talking about God's going to manifest his sons. I know God's done a work in these 20 years, but I also know there's something far greater. There's something God wants to bring us into.

And we don't have to wait. There's enough right here of power and promise and authority for us to get out and change the face of the world. There's enough there to go and release nations right now. There's enough here to get hold of God and let that compassion and mercy of God break your own heart till it flows forth like a river.

I'll tell you, there's a tremendous place God leads you to till finally you recognize that I speak. But beyond what I'm saying, the river of God is flowing with me. I like Jonathan in the Old Testament.

I like the words of Paul in the New Testament. Jonathan, he wrought with God. Paul says, we are laborers together with him. It's not my puny word, that word which I speak, that word which you speak. It is the living word of God.

It can never fail. Heaven and not heaven, I mean, hell and all the powers of hell, all the opposition of men, all the anger of the nations cannot prevail against that word. God hath chosen, you know, he's chosen us.

We don't have to wait for some kind of mystical thing. I've worked for years there on the mission field with young people and I know that in all of us there's a tendency to wait for something and wait for something.

We get to be 22 and we get to be 25 and we get to be 30 and we get married and the children come along. I never get into what we really want. I just feel like it's time in which God is calling a people to start weighing things in the light of eternity.

Eternal Priorities and the Calling of Believers

You know, when we get to be 70 years old or a little older, I guess my dad's more than that now, when we look back on life, what is important? What is important? What we had in natural commodities? What we did in the things of this world?

Or our life in God, the fruit that we've brought forth. I'm sure one day we get into heaven, get there before the presence of God. We're going to have a far different viewpoint. Tozer, A .W. Tozer once said, when we get to the God, when we find ourselves standing before God, we will be there in heaven standing before God just what we wanted to be while we were on earth.

Is that true or isn't it true? It sounds like you're always saying, well, I just wish that I was more. No, God will give us the desires of our hearts. It is a law. It is a principle. It is something which cannot be broken.

There is no limit to God in us. We're not all the same. Some ministers or teachers, some have got a word of faith, a prophetic word, which can just lift us up in faith. Some have got gifts of healing.

And when it's in God, it is beautiful teaching, whatever, exhortation. We are different, but one spirit and different gifts, different different administrations, but one spirit, that same spirit, that same impact on each one that hears that same reality flowing for something so great, so vast.

You know, these last 12 months, this last year after years there on the mission field and many times seeing the blessing of God, it seems like God just started taking me and building again. He says there's something far greater.

There's something far greater. Paul, you got to look at it different. You can't look at it that way. We can go on. We can have blessing. We can compare ourselves among ourselves and say, well, honestly, I know that all those people can't do what I'm doing because I got the anointing of God and there's some other people that are beyond me.

But God says, don't look at them. Don't look at them. Look to me. Look at what I'm promising. Look what I'm giving. Look who I am. Look at my yearning. I tell you once again, I don't know why it is on the mission field, maybe because the presence of of opposition, the presence of the enemy is so real sometimes.

But at other times, the presence of the Lord is so real and it's just a sense of a yearning of God, an urgency of the spirit. I remember one time we were praying a bunch of workers and the word of the Lord coming forth there said, suffer the little ones to come to me.

Not just the little children, those those the little ones, the people in their suffering, the people in their darkness. And as the word came, just a tremendous sense of God reaching for saying, child, if you let them, if you will let them come, if you'll open your life for a I'll bring them.

I'll bring them in. I'll bring them in. You don't have to go out and shout and try and persuade them. And then, you know, it's got its place. But beyond that, like I said, there's a working of God with us.

He wants to bring us into faith. He wants to bring us into faith. That is our connection. That is our lifeline faith, which comes through the word of faith, which comes through reading of the Christ of God.

We're not like the Jews. We know whom we believe. We've got an experience. We got a reality. He wants to open that flow. He wants to open our praise. He wants to open our prayer. He wants to open our testimony.

He wants to increase. He wants that that that river of God to flow forth and broaden and deepen more and more and more. I like how Paul repeats, emphasizes and underlines it in these last verses. Verse 27, God hath chosen.

How many times the enemy tries to put the doubt there? How many times he tries to to sow fears there, fears of our incapacity, fears that our faith can't reach it, fears that we don't know how to pray and we get down.

We know we're not getting through. The Lord says, child, get down and pour out your emptiness before you before me and I'll lead you through. The enemy says you can't. Don't you see you're doing it? We pour it out, pour it out.

Lord is nothing but taking God. He'll take you through. There'll come a time when faith will come pouring in and nothing can stand before it. But we've got to pay the price. We've just to be able to to to to to kind of move in a world where everybody is is wiser than we are.

A lot of Christians got a kind of minority complex. Here we are and don't look too hard at me because I believe in Jesus. Well, I believe in him. No, they're the poor ones, not us. He has chosen us to confound those people.

I could give you illustration. I remember reading about the daughter of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, going into Switzerland, being closed, closed in prison, the government against her.

It said when she spoke, they said, how are you doing this, you young ladies? It's not right. It's not seemly. And she got talking about what they were trying to do, about the word of God coming to release and how dare they stand against it.

Said that guy just about collapsed on his chair. Yeah. Not only he shut his mouth, he just about collapsed. He said for a moment he was given to see eternal things. That is what is given to us. We are persons with power, persons with authority.

The Word of God Working Through Anointed Ministry

The Christ is the anointed. And we are how can I say that is that is our ministry. Here we are, verse 24, Christ, the power of God and Christ, the wisdom of God. It is that anointing which is power and it is that anointing which is wisdom.

It is that anointing which, which, which, which adapts, which, which, which applies the word to each situation. It is that anointing which, which carries through and creates the impact in the spirit where nothing else will do it.

That is our portion. That should be the end of all our seeking. Nothing else, nothing less. Please. Please turn the tape over for the remainder of this message. And bang! Hmm? Right over the congregation.

People weeping and crying out to God wanting to get right with God. Why? The Lord works with it. I remember a meeting I was in. Somebody got up and said a few words. The meeting was hard. It was closed.

The, the message had ended. The people hadn't responded. Somebody else came and said, I just want to say a few words. They got up. The whole congregation mellowed down. Everybody was down on their face with just a sense of, I want to seek God in that meeting.

Over, over the whole meeting. Why? Because God was with the word. It doesn't matter what the word is. It can be foolishness. It said it pleased him by the foolishness of preaching. The foolishness of proclamation.

Something that they don't, that the one, one group doesn't understand and the other group finds a stumbling block. He said, and we proclaim the stumbling block and we proclaim the foolishness and through that day comes and all the reality of God, the reality of life.

We're chosen. We're chosen. There's no room for pride here. The foolish things, the base things, the things which are despised have God chosen. The things which are not, the things which do not even exist, God has chosen to bring to naught the things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence.

I believe that's the biggest hindrance to the work of God when we get in the way. But if we could just see, I just let go. If I can just let go, God will do his work. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us.

Us who have nothing. Made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in God. That is our life, in the meeting, in the streets, in our prayer time, to glory in God.

I remember one meeting I was in, like the meeting this morning. They sang, they praised, and at the end they said, let's praise God. And the person that was up front just started singing, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory.

I tell you, the glory of God was there. The glory of God was there. They just let go with what they felt. The glory of God just filled up. Let us glory in God. We're not poor. We're not needy. If I have nothing, that doesn't matter, I got everything.

There are things that nothing can take away from me. There are things inside that God has given. Those callings of God, those gifts of God which are without repentance, never, never can the enemy take them away.

You know for your life, I know for my life. Come to a place after time of seeking, the Lord says, okay child, now this is yours. This relationship is yours. And then another time, maybe a year later, maybe two years later, maybe months later, and the Lord said, this is yours.

You know you can go down, you can go up and down, you can have trials, but you can never sink below that point anymore. And then He lifts you up higher and your faith can never go beyond that. And the enemy might beat you down against it, but he'll never get you down there again.

And the Lord lifts us up from faith to faith, from glory to glory, unto Himself. He's going to have a people. You can call them the sons of God, you can talk about, I don't know, it doesn't matter what you call them so much, just so you are one of them.

Let us glory in God. Let us give place to God. Let it flow. I don't know, there's a simplicity in Christ. Paul speaks to the church and says, please, please, don't let anything remove you from that. We're so complicated as human beings, and as we get into the realm of the interior of ourselves, the mind and so on, and we listen to psychologists and people psychoanalyzing and all that stuff, oh, it's terrible.

But in Christ, it's not difficult. It might be found in Him. Nothing else is important. Forget everything else. If He leads you to prepare yourself, well, prepare yourself. If He leads you to go, well, go, but look at Him.

Beholding Him, we are transformed from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Once again, it's a law. Once again, it's a principle. Looking, we are transformed. Happens in heathen religions.

You've got those people there in India, followers of the religions there, of the Hindu religions. They try to deny everything that's human. They try not to feel joy or be touched by pain. They isolate themselves.

They do their fasting and their pilgrimages and so on and so forth. You know what the end of those person is? They come to a place where they do not feel pain, they do not feel joy. They are made in the image of the demon which they're following.

Humanity is annihilated within them. They're just an empty shell. But there's a reality that God wants in His own. Looking to Him, He doesn't empty us. He fills us more and more and more. Beholding, we are kings.

It doesn't depend, once again, on trying to figure something out and trying to work something out, trying to go through a process and trying to get spiritual and doing so much of this and so much of that.

No, it's not that. It's looking, looking, looking, looking, looking, looking unto Jesus. Looking unto Jesus. Some of the simplest people being most use of God. The first news of God there, an African person brought in the revival in Congo years ago.

Tremendous ministry. Came in answer to a prophetic word that he was born into this world. No missionary that was almost killed by the natives and gave the prophetic word, a child shall be born and God will use him.

And called his name Simon. He was called Simon and his followers were known as the Simonites. He went through a terrible time of persecution. But afterward, finally God came down and the revival broke out through that whole area of Africa, through this mass.

It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is who God is. What matters is our capacity to believe even in me. Even in me. Lord, I'm foolish. Lord, I'm weak. Lord, I'm nothing. But Lord, you don't depend on me.

You don't want me. You just want somebody to stand up and say, Jesus is real. Lord, if they do it with your anointing, everybody will know. Because your spirit will testify to each heart. Let us glory in God.

Let us glory in God. Leaving behind the things of this world. Leaving behind all the negative things. Doubts, fears. All the negative. All those things the enemy would try to build up day after day after day after day.

Things he'd bring to attack time after time after time. I like Brother Lawrence. He said, Lord, I've fallen. Help me get up or else I'm going to fall again. It's that easy. You know, we don't have to go around a ring of condemnation, round and round and round.

Oh Lord, again. Next day, oh Lord, again, again, again. That destroys faith. Lord, I recognize it. Forgive me, Lord, and help me. I want to go on with you. It's that easy. Turn around and get going again.

Persevering After Falling

The just shall fall seven times. Lord, if he falls once, he isn't just. Oh yes, he is. Just so he gets up. Lord, if he falls twice, surely he isn't just. Yes, he is. He shall fall seven times, it says.

Seven is, you know how seven is in the Bible, the perfect number. It means, as they say in Spanish, any number of times. He'll fall, he'll keep on falling. That doesn't matter. What matters is that he keep on getting up, that he keep his eyes on Jesus.

He'll get there. God will lead each child there. Once again, I leave you with the words of souls, that when we get there, that before the presence of God, we're going to be all we wanted to be. And I think we could extend that too for those of you who are students and those of you who are looking to the ministry or those who are in the ministry.

I think when we get there too, we look back on our ministry, we will have been as effective and we will have had as big a ministry as we wanted to have. We will have done all we really wanted to do. Lord, I want to see revival.

How deep is that desire? If it's the desire of the heart, God will give it. And he'll lead you through. You can't pray through for revival. I look at a nation once again. I can't bear the anguish, the suffering of one's soul.

I can't bear the hurt before God that the life of one sinner represents. I can't do it. It's too much. There are dimensions there of suffering. I can't carry it. But God can work in me that capacity. I can't quite explain it, put it in words, but God can carry it through me for one, for another, for a church, for a district, for a nation, if that's what he puts in my heart.

God can do it. We are the children of the kingdom. We are the army. Huh? You remember Tony's song, We Are. Not others. Maybe we don't feel like it. Maybe we say, Lord, there are other persons far better than us.

I'm sure there are. I'm sure we've got people down there in Argentina. Think of one guy. Came from the Baptist church, charismatic. He had more preparation, I guess, than all of us put together. He had a capacity to speak than all of us.