Revival Conference 2007 - Don Courville - Part 4

And one of the keys was brokenness. Let God break you. Just let him break you. A lot of it doesn't feel good to go through the process. You see, there's the preparation for revival, and then there's the process of revival, and then there's the product. We'll never get the product if we don't go through the preparation and the process. Well, yeah, revival, I'd love to have it. Oh, no, I don't want to humble myself and go out there and tell these people I've been a hypocrite. We've seen pastors that say, pastors wise, it just doesn't matter who you are. It's not going to do you any good to keep pretending. Charlie Orr has a message, professing Christians in hell. Wouldn't that be a great place to spend eternity? Oh, it's not worth it. Who is the Lord of the church? I'm going to just close up here with a couple of things. I better quit, because I've got a whole list. I just keep going. But one of the things that happened in my life, at that time I began traveling around the country. And because the evangelist was getting these calls, what's going on out there, come to our church. And he said, I won't go to your church unless you get Don Corville to come in. And I'd go in and I would meet with the pastors and I would share my testimony with them, and how God had dealt with me and broken me and my pride and all this other garbage that was there. We've got to do that to have revival. One pastor in Harrisburg who came up to me, tears just flowing down his cheeks. He said, thank you, brother. He had a thousand people in his church. I don't know what God did. But if God can break us, we'll be broken bread that can feed others. But he's got a...we're hard nuts, though. I think I'm just going to close up with this little thing. I've got a thing in my Bible in the front. And then the other brother's doing it. This is the most deadly thing, and that's spiritual pride. Jonathan Edwards lists it, number one. He said, the first and worst cause of errors that abound in our day and age is spiritual pride. This is the main door by which the devil comes into the hearts of those who are zealous for the advance of the Christ. It is the chief inlet of smoke from the bottom of the pit to darken the mind and mislead the judgment. We're very good at pretending. There wasn't a revival. Back to the door, smiling, everybody going down to the prayer room. I was the biggest sinner there. I was in more need than anybody. And we really are not of any practical use to the Lord until we have experienced a working of God in our lives. That's why I was desperate for God to do it no matter what. It was revival or ruin. And it was a gateway. It's a gateway into a whole new life. It's a gateway into the life that Christ bought for us at Calvary. He never intended us to be struggling around, groping around in the dust. He intended us to be walking in the power of the Spirit in victory. We're too soft. God's sending some things along to help us out, I think. We'd better be ready, because when God moves in, and we know he's shutting down on our countries, are we going to be ready to reach out to others? Will we be revived and walking in the Spirit and listening to God and able? Suppose there's another 9-1-1 that covers a huge area. Can we as a church minister? I don't know. It all depends on us. Let's pray. Thank you, Lord, for this little time. And now, Father, we ask you to guide us the rest of our time. Oh, Lord, may you be glorified. May you receive all the glory. There's a rascal that lives inside my heart. Call him the old man. He's saturated with pride. He'd like to get out any time he can. Oh, Lord, we all got in there. So you do have mercy on us to learn that we were given the victory over him, and also the enemy that likes to use him. Thanks be to God that gives us the victory. Lord, I pray that your blessing would fall on this place. We're inviting you to come. I just thank you, Father, that I could just even be here. And I pray that you'd just use this little short testimony to encourage others.