Revival Fire - Part 1 (Compilation) — Compilations

Praying for Revival Fire

I've built the altar, Lord, to send the flame. I'll be the sacrifice unto your name. Come, holy fire, consume me now. That's how it's been our prayer. Lord, in your presence I make this vow. Nothing but you, Lord, do I desire.

Your glory only and one desire. Wonderful. Thanks, Dave. And I believe God is holding back until, like that thing David wrote this morning, Lord, I can't live another day without the fire of God. You need the fire of God to pray.

You need the fire of God to see visions. You need the fire of God to recognize. There's no help for us. I don't want to cry as I've done so long. Like David in Psalm 80, O thou that dwellest between the cherubims, Lord, don't stay there.

Come down here. We need God here. Does it matter if it breaks your heart today? You're going to have millenniums of eternity. There'll be no sorrow there. You can't patch up your prayer life when you get to the judgment seat.

You can't sacrifice when you get to the judgment seat. You can't weep when you get to the judgment seat. It's all between here and there. This period we're in now is a dressing room for eternity. That's all it is.

Hunger for a Fresh Move of God

You see, when these songs were written, people were desperate for a move of God because society had come so bad and so far from God. People were lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. They were people who were far away from God.

And a move of God had been a distant thing of the past. Churches had begun to talk about what God used to do. Churches had begun to talk about how God used to save back in the old days. And there was a generation that raised up and said, let me tell you something.

If He's still God, He can still do it. They said there's nothing wrong with God. He still desires to pour His Spirit up on hungry people. The problem is, is we're not hungry anymore. And a generation rose up, Steve, and said, I'm hungry for something from God.

And it doesn't have to come through my church denomination in order for me to accept it. It doesn't necessarily have to come the way I want it to come. I just want it to come. Today we claim. On this stage, I ask you right now, Lord, to make this verse apply to them, Lord.

To make our weak hearts strong and brave. To live a dying world to save.

Guarding the Holy Fire

Bringing a hymn together. O thou who camest from above the pure celestial fire to impart. Kindle a flame of sacred love on the mean heart of my heart. There let it for thy glory burn with inextinguishable grace.

And trembling to its source return with constant prayer and fervent praise. Jesus, confirm my heart's desire to work and speak and think for thee. Still let me guard the holy fire. He's got a new baptism of fire.

And if you don't keep fire going, it goes out. He says, still let me guard the holy fire. And still stir up thy gift in me. Ready for all thy glorious will. Thine acts of faith and love repeat. Till death, thine endless mercy seal.

And make the sacrifice complete. Then he says, this awesome thing enlarge. Inflame and fill my heart with boundless charity divine. So shall I all my strength exert. And love them with a zeal like thine.

And turn them to a pardoning God. You see, he's not asking for a theological definition. He says, I want a fire. Listen, if our God is a consuming fire, and he is, if he takes up residence in you, you'll burn till you die.

God won't die in you. And all he's asking you this morning is to let the walls down, let the fire in. Isn't that awesome? That a man with such a colossal intellect but background, he said day by day, enlarge.

And fill my heart with boundless charity divine. I can't live in coldness anymore. I can't live in blindness anymore. I can't be indifferent to a dying world. Every preacher who has lost the fire, you should be on your face down here.

You used to burn, but you got so busy with organizing, the fire has gone out, come on. Believe God's gonna breathe on us this morning. I believe you're going from this place. I believe you're gonna have to say, I'm in the valley of decision.

Entering the Holy of Holies

So take me in to the holy of holies. Take me in.

Pass the outer courts. Lord, I want to see your face. Pass me by the crowds of people. And the priests who sing their prayers. For your righteousness.

Take us there. Take us there, Lord. Take us there, Jesus. Take us there, oh Lord.

Pass me by your face. Pass me by the crowds of people. And the priests who sing their prayers. For your righteousness. And it's only found.

In the name of God, holy place. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, to have not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully, he is nothing of the Lord.

Travail for Souls and Revival

Some of the great soul winners who've ever lived have prayed, give me souls or I die. What does it mean? It means you don't want to live unless you can see people saved. Lord, move on your church. Break our hearts with the things that break your heart.

Shatter our indifference. Strip away our complacency. Lord, we receive your burden. For a dying world. We receive your burden, oh God, for this generation of young people. Give us America, Father. Give us our souls.

Where we die. His books. It's what it's going to take, friends. People in agony. People whose hearts are bursting. I've never read a book about childbirth. How much fun it is to have a baby. Jesus. There's pain, there's travail.

But that's what it takes to produce life. That's what it takes to produce life. It's alright, just let the Holy Spirit move. Just let the Holy Spirit move. Jesus. Souls. Souls. Souls. Jesus. Whatever it takes.

Whatever it takes, oh God. Birth of this generation. Birth of this generation. The righteous cry out. And the Lord hears. The Lord Jesus himself in Hebrews 5 -7 prayed with loud crying and tears.

What revival means. So natural. In the midst of man. And humbled and swept into the kingdom. Oh, that we may see. That we might see.

We can just see your face.

The Failure of the Hebridean Revival

Research the history of the. And he finished out amazingly. He booked in at a guest house. Which is run by an elderly couple. And the guy who was the father of the house was actually one of the fathers of the revival.

And so he found himself without trying sitting right at the feet of someone who could tell him a lot of information. This guy said to him, you know, with tears in his eyes, he said, there's six of us who were likely fathers of the revival who's still alive.

He said, we meet together occasionally when our wives are in bed. He said, we sit down, we talk about those days. And he said, we can't stop crying. And he said this, he said, the reason that the Hebridean revival failed because the leadership didn't know what to do with it.

They didn't know how to structure. They didn't know how to prepare a wineskin for what God was doing. And it faltered and it failed. And this old man got hold of my friend who's probably about 30 years of age, grabbed him by the collar, looked at him in his eyes, his piercing eyes looking at him.

He said, son, when you get it, whatever you do, don't let go of it.

Desiring Revival Above Everything

Nothing other than his personal walk.

If you are not going to bring another revival, take me home. And then I tried to rebuke myself because I have three little kids, I have my wife, and the ministry was not going so well. Why should I pray this way?

And then again the next day, I found myself praying and I realized the Holy Spirit was put in a corner to see revival. John Knox used to say, Lord give me Scotland. And I pray that importation from the Holy Spirit will come to this room right now.

That you will desire revival more than your own life. That you will desire to see this nation, entire nation shaken under the power of God. More than to be alive, you will desire that.

Persevering in the Secret Place

This church,.

There was times I came down to this church and I would lay on the front row something deep, to the deep of God. And I said, Lord, there's got to be more. I would walk these floors and I would cry out loud.

I knew nobody was around and I knew nobody could hear. And I left my voice sometimes and I would be hoarse and I'd say, God! I'd feel quiet in a fetal position on that front row. And then I would hear the Lord say, keep going after me, son.

You'll find me.

Preparing Leaders to Steward Revival

There'll be more demand with us than anything we have. Let's get ready. Let's be the kind of leaders who don't find the thing overtakes us. But we have a godly sense. We're prepared, we're ready. But when the bridegroom comes in that way, we're not then going out to look for the oil.