Preparation & Price For Revival - Part 1 — Joy Dawson

As the responsibility at this point in this meeting is on me, I tell you I can't do a thing, not a single thing for that plan to be fulfilled other than to totally submit to you, and I do. You can do anything you want through me.

I'll shout, lie on the floor, laugh, weep, be silent, speak, I don't care. Just you do your thing, your way, because it's the only way you can get the glory, and I have a passion for you to be glorified, and that's not, I can't even take credit for that, that's the work of the Holy Spirit.

The yearning of my heart is that you three in the Trinity will be able to say, when my part is finished here, my will in Tauranga at the Faith Bible College was done on earth as it was intended in heaven, and you've said you fulfill our desires as we delight ourselves in you, so I thank you, you're going to do your thing so you can get your glory, so that this nation can be absolutely changed, not challenged, changed, changed.

I'm believing for a mighty upheaval in the Holy Spirit so that this nation's destiny can be fulfilled. Thank you that you are the one who instigated all this, therefore you will fulfill what you have started.

In Jesus' name, amen. Dear June Dooney, the coordinator for the Lydia Movement in New Zealand, my dear friend, precious woman of God, she pointed out to me this incredible statement that is on the wall, this is a copy of it, over there, just in front of those cameras.

I don't know how many of you are aware of this, I was deeply moved and impacted by it, I'm going to read it to you. This was Captain Pedro Fernandez de Queiroz, a Portuguese navigator who became the first recorded European explorer to actually lay claim to the lands of Australia and New Zealand.

This was the prayer he prayed. He recalled, first of all, how his countryman, Christopher Columbus, had found the new land of North America. Now it was his turn to find, claim, and name the South Land of the Holy Spirit, that's what he named his name, and this is the prayer he prayed.

Let the heavens and the earth, the waters and all those here present, witness that I, Captain Pedro Fernandez de Queiroz, in the name of Jesus Christ, hoist this emblem of the Holy Cross on which his person was crucified and whereon he gave his life for the ransom and remedy of all the human race on this day of Pentecost, 14 May, 1606.

I take possession of all this part of the South as far as the pole in the name of Jesus, which from now on shall be called the Southern Land of the Holy Ghost, and this always and forever and to the end that all natives in all the said lands, the holy and sacred evangel may be preached zealously and openly.

That's our heritage. That's what this message is all about this afternoon, that man prayed that. It was a prayer given by the Holy Spirit and God has yet to fulfill it. There are millions don't even know his name in these islands, let alone the fulfillment of that, but this is what revival's all about and spiritual awakening.

This afternoon, we're going to go right into part two. If you are here this afternoon and were not here last night, then do yourself not a favor. It is absolutely essential that you hear last night's message because I have come to give one message and it's in two parts.

And it's like saying I've read the Bible and you've only read the New Testament. You must, in order to fulfill the purpose of being in this room this afternoon, get the tape and hear part one of the message, which was the vision and purpose for revival and spiritual awakening in New Zealand.

This afternoon, it's the preparation and price for revival and spiritual awakening. One, to understand and the points are going up at my, as my sharp friend up in the balcony is doing his thing up there and you will see he's got point one.

To understand the vision and purposes for revival and spiritual awakening by studying, this is the first preparation, by studying the revivals in the word of God and from reading the historical accounts of subsequent revivals.

By studying the revivals in the word and reading the historical accounts of subsequent revivals. I've been studying the word of God since I was converted. I was converted at the age of five. I was reading pretty soon after that.

And I've been studying revival from the word, reading the word but studying from revival for 46 years. The second thing is to, because that's where it comes from. It's all founded in the word of God. Second is to commit ourselves to God to be used of him to bring it about at any cost.

You can be full of all the knowledge of the history of revivals in the word and out of the word and just be a reporter or encyclopedia. It's another thing to commit ourselves to be used of God to bring about what we study at any cost.

That's the second thing. The third is to realize our total dependence on the Holy Spirit to conceive the burden for revival in us. It is totally, it's a totally supernatural thing that can't be received any other way.

You will never have a burden for revival unless it is conceived in you by the Holy Spirit. The only way Mary could conceive and then carry the burden of having Jesus, God's son in her womb for nine months, was for her to submit to the Holy Spirit in faith.

And she declared that, be it unto me according to your word. And God is waiting for us to say, be it unto me according to your word. I want this conception for this burden. So we may be saying today, as Mary did, well, how can this thing be?

How can I become an effective intercessor for revival on a sustained basis? I hope you're asking that question. The answer isn't complicated. It's the same as what happened to Mary. The answer was, the Holy Spirit will come upon you.

Terribly simple. Little children can understand it. And they get the message much quicker than adults. You can teach intercession for revival to children, or he'll catch it like this, because they're uncomplicated.

That means they're humble, they're not proud. He will impregnate your spirit with a burden for revival. And right now in this room, you have either been impregnated by it or you haven't. And only God knows the answer to that.

Every time we go again to God in prayer for revival, which is every time, asking for the Holy Spirit to come upon us to either impregnate and then cause the baby that grows from the conception. Every time you pray more, the baby grows bigger.

The burden becomes greater until you're full-blown with it and you live with this full-blown burden. And if I didn't understand that there is one thing greater in importance and priority than carrying a full-blown burden for revival, I would say you're consumed by it.

But you're not, because we're not meant to be consumed by anything less than a longing to be like Jesus. That's what we're destined for. To know him, to be like him. We're destined to be conformed to his image.

And that's got to be the consuming passion as the first and foremost, because that's what we're destined for. And then secondly, out of that comes this all-encompassing burden that affects all our choices in relation to what God wants to do.

Revival is not the end. It is the means getting us ready for the end. That's why last night's message is totally essential to understand today's message, because we were looking at purpose. He will increase that burden in us until it causes a paradigm shift in our thinking, in our way we intercede.

Listen, spiritual leaders, in the way we plan our services, in the way we preach, in the way we prioritize our ministries. I said to my darling son-in-love, not-in-law, this morning, well, J .B., what was your take on last night?

He gave exactly the answer that I wanted from him. He said, my mind was going like crazy on how this could affect, was going to affect my life and my ministry and all that comes through me as a leader.

That was the right response, which means he'd already received that it is the word of the Lord and I'm going to do something about it. And his mind was going on, like I call, like a tin of worms, you know?

And it affects all our thinking and the way we lead and speak. Because, as we learned last night, revival is the greatest thing and the greatest need for the church to meet the greatest need for the world, which is a spiritual awakening, so that Jesus can come back sooner.

Fourthly, our praying for revival must be with the understanding of our desperate need for it and there is no substitute. Revival is the greatest means of meeting our needs in the body of Christ because the spirit of the world has so invaded the church, it is almost unrecognizable from the world in lifestyle, values, and conversation.

Isn't that, it's true. This motivates us to cry out to God like young Jeremiah in Jeremiah 14, verse seven. Oh Lord, though our iniquities testify against it, do it for your namesake, for our backslidings are many.

We have sinned against you. This is not in my notes, but it's in my heart and I'm being prompted by the spirit to say it. I carry it in my heart all the time. When you really study the word of God, you will see that so many times it was youth that God used to spearhead some of the greatest moves of God's spirit.

Never, ever underestimate a child or youth. As I have studied the history of revivals, I have found that at least twice, at minimum twice, mighty outpourings of the Holy Ghost started with children, not youths, children.

One was in Ireland in a classroom, in a school, a public school in a classroom where one little boy came under conviction of sin and he was so troubled in his soul and it was in such distress that the kind teacher saw, got another elder boy in the classroom who was responsible and she assigned him to take the little boy home because he was in such distress and on the way home, the older boy was a Christian and led the younger boy to Christ.

The young boy, they both turned around, went back into the classroom and the little boy, new convert, just said when he got inside the room, he looked at the teacher and he said, oh, I am so happy I have Jesus in my heart and the Holy Ghost moved in mighty power that affected the whole district.

The whole district was turned upside down. The boys in the classroom automatically under the Holy Spirit bypassed anything of the teacher, sovereignly walked outside the classroom and went around the courtyard apart from one another with their faces to the wall in the courtyard, wailing and weeping and groaning under conviction of sin.

No man had said anything. The kid had testified. The girls' classroom upstairs heard this, came under the same conviction and there were wailings and weepings up there. All the teachers came under conviction of sin and there was such a horrendous upheaval and move of the Holy Spirit that somebody contacted, there weren't telephones, so somebody must have gone and got the word out to the parents and the friends who were responsible for the children.

Some would be guardians while others were working and then as soon as the parents and the friends who were responsible for the children hit the place in the schoolroom, they came under the same convicting power of the Holy Spirit and the place was a mess.

Revival's messy. When you pray for rain, expect mud. That's not all, that's not all. They're all screaming out because they're all getting converted and they're all under conviction and they needed help.

Help me and there's weeping and wailings going on. And then they realized they needed ministers and so somebody got out and went to, and about six ministers around the place came in and they were counseling the people till 2 a .m. in the morning.

A child, a child. No wonder the word of God says a little child should lead them. So that's just a school. And then on another occasion, a Sunday school teacher who had been doing his homework and praying like mad for his class of children, small class of children, was about to leave at the call of God and go to somewhere else.

And he was praying a tremendously impassioned prayer of blessing over these children that he had taught every week. And as the school teacher was praying, the Spirit of God fell upon the children. And again, there isn't time because there's so much to give you this afternoon.

There are, we could be here literally, literally easy all afternoon and into night just on this half of the message. I don't know how to discharge what God has put in my heart in the timeframe I'm given.

I've just handed it over to Holy Spirit, he knows. But the, and what happened in that Sunday school classroom again happened, started the whole revival in a district, in a city. Are you a Sunday school teacher?

Are you a day school teacher? If you've got a passion and burden for revival, he can start it right with you if you will pay the price and if you will not limit the Holy One of Israel in children. As parents, you should be praying, use my children in revival.

I haven't the slightest doubt that my six grandchildren are all going to be mightily used by God in revival. How do I know? I'm praying for it, believing. And they're going to have to resist incredible pressure from the Holy Ghost in answer to my prayers, not to.

John says that's cool because he's got four of them. Spiritual awakening. Think of the, before I say the sentence, think of the hardest hardened sinner you know. The one you've been praying for the most.

The most or the most unlikely person you could think of ever to be converted. You think of somebody in the government circles, you two guys. Yeah, these two darling men. Do you know why they're in government?

These two darling guys that I love to death, X, Y, O, M leaders, I've been praying them into it. For decades and decades and decades I've been praying, God put, God fearing men and women of your choosing into the government in New Zealand.

Put them there, put them there. So I nearly did double the amount of cockwheels when I heard that these two guys had responded to the call of God. Good for you. Good on you, mate. In Isaiah 59 verse 19, God tells us that when the enemy comes in, comma, like a flood, the Lord will raise up a standard against him.

The enemy has come in with such an unprecedented, inconceivable, horrendous flood of filth that it's going to take the standard of a titanic tidal wave of gigantic Holy Spirit proportion, I guess that's a tsunami, to knock him down and drown him out.

We need to be desperate in prayer for the millions of so-called born-again Christians who've never won a soul to Christ. We were born to reproduce. Normally, mostly in the natural. God has his exceptions with those he wants to use, who he can only use by being single.

But the majority are born to reproduce. And we're born again to reproduce. There are millions more who seldom, if ever, witness to non-Christians. Millions more who've never done a thing about being obedient to the Great Commission in Matthew 28.

I remember sitting in the back seat of a car. What nation was I in? Canada, I think. And I was being driven to speak at a conference. Lady was in the front seat here, and then there was a lady on the driver's side.

And the lady in the front seat started to share how God had called her to be a missionary, where was it, in the South Sea Islands or something. And she kept saying, why me? Just imagine God calling me to leave Canada and go to the South Sea Islands.

And she was sort of overcome by the wonder of this sort of amazing phenomena. That was, everything was coming from her. This is an amazing phenomena that I should be called. My response in the back seat is, what in the world are you freaking out about when God tells us all that we are to go?

Go means a change of location in the English language, as I understand it. And she's freaking out because all he's done is given her where. We should all be expecting to go. We should all have a story of divine guidance to stay.

Our response is to keep praying, Psalm 85, verse six. Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? And Lamentations 5, 21. Turn us back to you, O Lord, and we will be restored. That's why being conformed to his image is the greatest thing.

Turn back to you. The more you're with him, the more you'll be like him. The more you love him, the more you praise him, the more you worship him, the more you study the word about him, the more you have a passion for him, the more you study his ways as a leader and as a man and as a friend and as a person, the more you get like him.

I've had YWAM leaders say to me affectionately, not critically, Joy, you are so radical. But it was said with affection and a tinge of, but we do receive grace to cope with you. And my response is, would to God, I was a thousand times more like Jesus and so much more radical.

If Jesus was in the flesh here, that's radical with a capital R. Full-blown, quadraphonic sound, amplified. Radically real. That's my definition of Jesus. That's what I want to be. God has shaped, yes, history around the church.

Think about it. God has shaped history around the church, never the governments, the church. And he expects the church to shape the history of the nations, never the governments. Therefore, all revival praying should start with a burdened heart for the body of Christ in every nation and continue until our prayers become desperate before God.

In my book on intercession, oh, it's not here. Where, please. Thank you. In my book on intercession, thrilling and fulfilling here, chapter eight is devoted entirely to one of the most important messages I have ever given in my life, second to the series I'm giving last night and today.

And it's how to pray effectively for every nation of the world. You can be a history maker in your bedroom and never go outside the door and shape the nations of the world. Under God, by his Holy Spirit and by his grace, that's what I've been doing.

That's been the most powerful part of my ministry is hidden away, praying, chapter eight in that book. And there's not a single one of you in here who has any excuse than to do exactly the same thing.

How do I know? Because as a very young woman, young wife, young mother, I remember going to, walking down out from my little home to my little post box and as I walked back, it's as vivid today as it was decades ago.

It's as vivid, I can remember it just as though it was a moment ago. As I walked back to the front door of that little house, I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, you are called, you are called automatically as every other Christian is, to intercede for the nations of the world, every nation of the world, because as a Christian, I have put you in the world and the world consists of the nations of the world.

Therefore, you as a Christian are responsible to pray for every nation. No man told me that. The Holy Spirit said that to me. And people who I respect greatly and love dearly say that I have an unusual call upon my life and the ministry of intercession has been imparted to me as a special gift.

Baloney, it's hogwash. It isn't true. I prove it by my call, which is you are a Christian, not I am calling you apart as a special intercessor. It wasn't that. It was you're a Christian. Are you a Christian?

Do you belong to this world? Are you part of the world? Yes, therefore we as Christians, as part of the world, have an automatic responsibility. That's what he said to me. You're just a Christian and you're part and therefore you've got a responsibility.

It was a totally new concept to me. I'd never heard it before. I said, you're right, of course. What did I do? Got inside the door as soon as I could possibly do so at the right moment, dropped on my knees and said, which nation?

And he said, Afghanistan. I found that exciting. Wasn't sure where it was. Had to get a map and find out. Who cares? God knew. You see, as far as I'm concerned in relation to the ministry of intercession and to the nations of the world, God only sees two categories.

Thank you. Who was that who helped me? I always knew I knewed in you, Jill, my darling little daughter there. Two categories, the obedient and the disobedient. Which category are you in? I love the way, I love the way God has trained me.

It's so opposite from all the ways of men. You know, you don't hear that stuff in Bible colleges or seminaries. I wish to God you did. I'm praying that it will come. I remember as a young wife and mother in my late 20s, being on the phone and a Bible school from this nation, student in his second year at a Bible college, a Bible college like this, desperately needing counsel on the phone.

And I said, you know, what you need to do is to wait on God. And he said, well, what on earth does that mean? It was totally foreign to him. I said, you mean in my naivety, I said, you mean you don't have a course in your college, your Bible college on waiting on God?

It's one of the absolute basics essentials for the Christian life to operate. He said, no, I've never heard of it. So that immediately gave me a burden for the Bible colleges of the world, right there.

I became accountable because I learned they weren't basing their, thank you, darling, thank you. What would I do without my family? And on the word, it's not based on the ways of God, Bible college, without a course on the waiting on God.

Later on, later on in my life, let this one blow you out of your tree. God had by now sent me around the world teaching the character and the ways of God in the nations of the earth, mostly to spiritual leaders.

And word got out in the 70s in Southern California that this little lady from New Zealand was always talking about knowing God. And apparently in the testimony that they were given, a lot of lives were radically changed.

So I was approached by the heads of a seminary. Now here's all the ones that are all getting their degrees. I don't have any degrees. Only because God saw that it was better for me to just keep being himself in me without them, that's all.

If you've got them, well, God bless you. And as long as you just keep being like Jesus, he'll use them. So, but it's probably harder for you than for me. That's why it's easier for God to work with children.

And so I had this invitation from this seminary of higher learning where they were from the seminary, they were all going to be, they'd all have their doctorates. They're all there to get their doctorates in whatever.

And they brought the little lady in who didn't have any letters after a name at all to teach on knowing God because they didn't have it in their curriculum. A theological seminary, Theo, the knowledge of God and not in the curriculum, unreal.

No more comment. I went, God, this is your thing and I don't know where I am in the notes so you're going to have to help me. Oh yes, Isaiah 64, seven, and there is no one who calls on your name who stirs himself to take hold of you.

Now that's desperate praying. When I first read that verse decades ago in my life, I said, oh, so you're challenging me and you're saying there's no, you're looking down on the earth and you're saying there's nobody who calls on your name who stirs themselves up to take hold of you.

Well, I'm going to make history right now. I said that to God. So you'll never be able to have that verse as you can't say there's nobody. So I stirred myself up and laid hold on God and started to cry out in desperation for the nation he'd put upon my heart.

Ezra is one of the classic examples in scripture of a desperate intercessor. He obviously took that challenge in Isaiah 64, seven and responded to it in Identificational Repentance, which is what the ministry that God has raised John up around the earth, International Reconciliation Coalition.

It's all about Identificational Repentance, the most marvelous, marvelous thing that God has done, an essential movement that had to take place before ever revival can come is International Reconciliation.

And it is one of the greatest thrills and fulfillments of my life to have a child who is bringing unity wherever there is disunity. Ezra 9, verses five through six, at the evening sacrifice, now this guy's desperate.

I arose from my fasting as if that wasn't enough and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God and I said, oh my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to you.

My God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads and how guilt has grown up to the heavens. I know what it's like often in intercession for a nation to have my head down like this. Jim is my marvelous, marvelous prayer partner, the best partner I've ever, ever had.

We pray together all the time. Most nights, like I mean nearly every night in our home is a serious prayer meeting. And he's here to verify as I name out the pride, the unbelief, the divisions, the jealousies in the body of Christ and my head goes down lower and lower and I put my hand over, I'm embarrassed about our sins in the body of Christ.

I'm embarrassed to be an American citizen and to have to name the sins before you God. I understand that it's part of desperate praying. You can't even lift your face because you are identifying. You're seeing it as God sees it fractionally.

Is there ever, was there ever time, if ever there was a time in the history of this nation of New Zealand when we need to cry out as David did in Psalm 119, verse 126, it is now. That verse will be on the screen and this is it.

It is time for you to act, O Lord, for we have regarded your law, your word as void. Every major problem we are facing in this nation of New Zealand comes from our blatant rejection of the standard of God's holy word, the Bible.

You may say amen. Amen. I was deeply grieved to learn recently from one of my darling grandchildren, J .B. and Jill's daughter, Jenny, and her beautiful fiance, Raphael, who's come from Switzerland and who is in Youth of the Mission.

I'll be married on March the 5th in Kona, Hawaii. And as Raphael was in my home, he had been telling me how he had been sent as a leader from Kona, Hawaii, where he and Jenny are stationed on staff there.

Raphael had been assigned to lead a team right here in Auckland. And he was telling me how most of their witnessing on the outreach team was to the prostitutes up in Karangahape Road in Auckland. And I was utterly fascinated at the method that God had shown them.

Raphael's 22, but what I'm going to, I should tell you this, I was deeply grieved to learn recently that prostitution has been legalized in this country, as well as same-sex marriages have also been legalized.

Horrendous, horrific things to take place. Things that we would never have dreamed of and our wildest dreams when we lived here 34 years ago would take place. And Raphael told me that they used to go out in the night when the prostitutes would be walking the streets, often in the early hours of the morning, and they would take them hot coffee and something to drink and hot tea, and they would minister to their physical needs because the girls didn't have much on and sometimes it would be cold out there.

And the teens would go and just minister the love of God and speak to them, give them a hot drink. And Raphael said, I couldn't get over the response of one girl to me when Raph said, and you know, not only does God love you and accept you, but we do too unconditionally.

And God hasn't given up on you and he has a wonderful plan for your life. And we're going to pray for you. Give us your name because we're going to continue to pray for you. And this prostitute said, oh my, I sure need prayer.

She said, I haven't got, my grandma died recently and I don't have anyone now to stand in the gap for me. What does that tell you? She has a background. Only a girl with a background of Christianity knows the word standing in the gap for me.

And she was so grateful that someone from Switzerland who had been sent by God to Hawaii and then sent by God to Auckland, New Zealand, speaking with an accent, would come and say, Jesus loves you and here's hot coffee and something to eat.

And I'm going to pray for you ongoingly. We need desperate intercessors like young Jeremiah who said in Lamentations 2 verse 11, my eyes are spent with, see a young man, get it? Raphael 22, Jeremiah, young, young prophet.

One of the greatest intercessors in the Bible is Jeremiah, a young man weeping for prostitutes. Listen to it. My eyes are spent with weeping. My soul is in torment. My heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

That was an impassioned prayer from a young man who was a seasoned, desperate intercessor. Have you noticed that desperate people are never self-conscious? Have you ever heard a drowning person say, it would be nice if I could have some help now.

I mustn't get radical. That help would be, you know, it would be nice just now. It's help, I'm drowning. If we ask God to give us his heart for prostitutes and pray desperate, I'm talking about the prostitutes in this nation because it's legalized, and pray desperate prayers for their salvation, for their healing and their total deliverance, in time, God would answer our prayers if everyone in this room did it.

I've been doing this from the moment Raphael told me some weeks ago or months, a couple of months ago that this was happening. I've been praying for the prostitutes in New Zealand, for God to deliver them, save them, heal them.

And I thought if I could just get those bods down in Taronga to join me. Do you know what would happen? Prostitution would go out of business. The girls would find Christ and they wouldn't want all the rest of the junk.

Think about it. That's exactly God's strategy. How do I know? He gave it to me. Will you take the challenge? If I in America can have a burden for the prostitutes in New Zealand, can you have a burden for the prostitutes in your country?

What are you going to do about this challenge? Regularly? You're gonna take it on? June Dooney is. Anybody else gonna join her? Put your hand up. You're gonna pray for the prostitution? Do you want, those of you with your hands down, thank you for the relatively few who responded, quarter of you.

What the heck goes wrong with the rest of you? Don't you care about their desperation? Do you say, therefore, when you hear it has been legalized from the government, the highest authority in the land, that it has been legalized, do you say, oh, isn't it awful?

Or do you say, God, that's a challenge, you have an answer. Show me your answer. A crisis gives us unique opportunity for radical action. Do you know that in the Chinese language, the word crisis and opportunity are exactly the same word?

I love that. They're really clued up there. Crisis, opportunity, same word. When the enemy gains a victory in society, and he has gained an enormous victory in society, and has two incredible strongholds in here through prostitution being legalized and same-sex marriages, the Christians should seek God for a strategy to prove that greater is he who is in us than he that is in the world.

James chapter four, verse seven. God, I pray. My obviously preaching didn't get all these people to commit themselves to the prostitute, but my praying can do more than my preaching. So I pray that there will not be one person at the sound of my voice who you will let go, and you will be like the hound of heaven, and you will burden them and bug them in the spirit until they receive the burden to pray for the prostitutes of this land until there are no prostitutes, and therefore they can put what language they like out, but there's nobody in business.

Do it. I pray asking you to do it, because I believe talking to you about men is obviously more powerful than talking to you about men. Talking to men about you, I mean. So I just trust you. I trust you to burden everyone in this room until they become committed, and until these laws become obsolete in Jesus' name, and I ask that the same thing you'll show us a strategy in the body of Christ in New Zealand to outwit the strategy of the enemy on this legalized same-sex marriage, ruining the families.

You have a plan. You are greater. We seek your face for it until we find it in Jesus' name.

Yes, of course. I am believing that you as a nation prostitutes us. I'm believing for that. I'm standing up and I'm declaring, Lord, that you will begin to take hold of some of these young women, Lord, that have been trapped in this life, Lord, and you will move in power, and you will move in authority, Father, and you will have your way, Lord.

I am believing, Lord, that Hay Road there in Auckland will be transformed, Father, and you will begin a church, Lord. Amen. I'm asking the partnership of this land, Father, and this that seems to have betrayed the enemy will be turned around as a triumph.

Amen.

Thank you, Lord. Yes, amen, amen. Now that was worth coming to Tower on the Port. Thank you, darling June. Thank you, thank you. Thank you for your obedience to God. You can interrupt any meeting I give anywhere at any time.

Because you've got it. The fifth point in today's message. The fifth price for revival is to pray for it with diligence and determination while ever there's breath in our body and until God answers. You can see it up on the screen.

Isaiah 62, verses six through seven. I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent. I'm going to illustrate from the life of Marie Monson who was a single Norwegian woman sent by God to be a missionary in China.

And I am quoting from a book called The Awakening which recounts the revival in China from 1927 to 1937. An amazing little woman of God. You see, there is no age group that cannot be vitally involved in revival and who cannot be used of God to start revival.

Be it a child or an elderly person, a single woman, an older man, it doesn't matter. As you study the history of revivals, you see God takes always the unusual in our thinking to start praying. Remember, it was Seth Joshua who prayed for a lad from the coal mines or a boy out in the fields.