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  (SERMON CLIP) BOWING OF THE KNEE FOR REVIVAL
  by Al Whittinghill
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of not being deceived in
our hearts and the need to turn back to God. It discusses the signs that
indicate when we need to humble ourselves, pray, seek God's face, and
make a deliberate turn towards Him. The message highlights the
consequences of spiritual neglect and the call to repentance to
experience an open heaven and revival in our lives and churches.

Topics: "Repentance", "Spiritual Awakening"
Scripture References: Deuteronomy 28:23, 2 Chronicles 7:14, James 4:8, Psalm 95:6

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of not being deceived in our
hearts and the need to turn back to God. It discusses the signs that
indicate when we need to humble ourselves, pray, seek God's face, and
make a deliberate turn towards Him. The message highlights the
consequences of spiritual neglect and the call to repentance to
experience an open heaven and revival in our lives and churches.

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CONTENT
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Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not deceived, that you turn
not aside. Something has happened. See, this is the whole sense of the
sign that you have out front.

If my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves and
pray, we're gonna look at this, and seek my face and turn, the word is
shove, but you'll see shove, we get our word shove from it. God gives
you a shove to turn from and turn to. And so, before that, he says,
listen, if I shut up heaven so there is no rain, and the locusts come,
and he gives this list of things that can happen in Deuteronomy 28, he
says, listen, if you don't love me, the heavens will become like brass,
and instead of rain coming down, dust will come down on you.

Not gold dust, oh no, no, no, but dust. Nonsense. No, sorry.

I'm the Lord your God who brought you out. So when God built a built-in
barometer for Israel here, for being right with him, and we have this
barometer in the church, in every country where the church is, when, you
see, when God's people are not experiencing an open heaven, it means
there's a spiritual reason, and we have to go to our knees to find out
why, you see, bow the knee. So the contrast here is between man's way,
pumping the foot, work it up, plan more, do more, study more, think
more, do all these things, an earthly resource, that man's way versus
revival, God's way, which is the bowing of the knee.

Which word would explain your life, or my life, or my church's life, the
pumping of the foot, or the bowing of the knee? When there are no
Pentecostal-type outpourings, no visitations by divine grace of the
Mighty One. You see, only repentance can deal with it, nothing else,
nothing else. You can try every other remedy, you can be like in Jonah's
day, you can throw everything else off the boat.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/ca7QwIXHvOQ.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/al-whittinghill/sermon-clip-bowing-of-the-knee-for-revival/
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