In this sermon, Keith Daniel emphasizes the necessity of surrendering to God and the transformative power of prayer for personal and communal revival through the Holy Spirit.
This sermon emphasizes the importance of absolute surrender to God, inviting individuals to bow before God, confess their need for surrender, and pray for God's anointing in their lives. It encourages a deep commitment to prayer and seeking God's will, promising that the anointing received through surrender will have a powerful impact on the world. The speaker urges believers to pray for revival, both personally and in their communities, emphasizing the need for uncompromised dedication to God's Word and a separation from worldly influences.
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Me, the instrument of your Bible, anoint my life. I bow before God, I absolutely surrender, and I want thee, God, to fill me and anoint my life. And I will consume my life in prayer, God, that the anointing daily can stagger the world through the Holy Ghost connecting into my life.
I wonder how many of you need to say that desperately to God for what's left of life, and I know it might cost you, but imagine the cost if you say no through pride. I want those of you who need to say that to God to stand right now and say, God, it's me. All of you that are standing, all of you that are standing, will you bow your heads, please? Will you pray aloud these words of me, and remember God does not look at the words that proceed out the mouth.
God look at the heart from whence they come. It's not sin that I'm leading you in prayer, and though you're conscious you're following a man's words, so long as in your heart you say to God, these words are mine. He's looking at your heart.
Don't you dare believe God will turn His face and say no. God's wanting this more in your life than anyone standing here, and the devil is trembling to know what could be the result from the next step you take till the day you die. The anointing that will come in your life as you pray from now on, which is the greatest, greatest discipline of your life, you'll find God with you in a way that will stagger the powers of hell every step you take virtually, though you sometimes won't even know it.
Now, you trust God's holy obligation, and His integrity makes Him obligated to answer a soul that wants God to have His way and to be used of God. Don't doubt that. All of you pray aloud with me from your hearts as best as you can, but pray aloud, please, O God, forgive me for so much time I've wasted being saved, but not absolutely surrendered.
I absolutely surrender my life to Thee tonight, God. Wash me in the blood of Christ. From all my inconsistencies, create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me. Then shall I teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto Thee. But begin with me, God.
Make me the instrument of revival, the revival I've been praying for so many years. Begin it tonight in me. Anoint my life, God.
Sanctify me through and through with the blood of Christ, and fill me now with the Holy Spirit. I don't seek gifts. I want the fruit as the evidence that Thou art in control of my life, not by effort of my own, but just spontaneously, spontaneously, seen in every reaction, no matter how trying the circumstances.
Give me the discipline that nothing will keep me from prayer in the morning and in the night, that I may walk with God through the day, anointed to the degree that I soak my life in prayer, consume my life in prayer, God, and win the world to Thyself through me. I pray these things in Jesus Christ's name, and because I love Thee, God, please honor my prayer. Amen.
Can we all stand, please? Now, beloved, above that you have asked or thought that God would answer, I believe God is going to answer these prayers. I have no doubt. I have letters and phone calls from across the world, ministers, preachers who said, Sir, I never won one soul to Jesus in truth, though I've preached for 20 years, but since I stood up and prayed that prayer, my whole congregation has turned to Jesus Christ.
I have no doubt that if you prayed that from your heart, God is going to honor you, for He's the same God that honored them in their multitudes, all Church of Christ. The only reason I come to your land is not to tour, is not to impress. I have nothing to impress.
I come back because I believe God, God can bring revival here, and if I can just get you praying for it properly, let alone seeing it, I don't care who God uses in this land. It doesn't matter to me to bring you back to God, but your land needs the Church to get revived, and once the Church has come back to God in truth and becomes vitally real, that the world is uncomfortable in the Church, and the world is not comfortable in the Church, and the Church becomes uncomfortable in the world and not comfortable in the world, oh, that's revival. And when the Word of God comes back in the pulpit without books to try and undermine and explain away the standard, as God says it, in its uncompromised state from your lips, in your life, without any apology, but with always compassion, even if your harshest word is there, let it throb with love, but don't you compromise, then revival has come, sir, in your life and in your pulpit, when this book is held out uncompromised, and when the Church gets out of the world, and the world gets out of the Church unless it comes to Christ, that's revival.
Until then, don't stop praying, but now be the instruments of revival in your community, and I believe you will be. Mr. Corvall, please come here, sir. Forgive me asking you, but I want you to commit us to Christ now.
I'm going to be leaving, and I, forgive me for not shaking all of your hands, I'd love to, but I have to get very early up, and I'm getting old, I think. Pray for me. I'm coming back to your land three times next year, and God is very good to let me.
I'm bringing my whole family through, I believe, twice next year. Mr. Burgothard wants to bring my whole family over, and let me speak in some of his conferences, where they're going to video these things, and to send them across to all the preachers. I thank God for that.
He's a very good man. Pray for him. He's got a standard.
That's why you should pray for him. Pray for dear brother Denny Kenniston, working amongst the Mennonite Amish groups. Let the fruit there.
These people come out of legalism. Thank God for a high standard, but thank God when they don't put the cart before the horse. Thank God.
When God has to save us out of the world, you know, he has to save other people out of the church, out of...
Sermon Outline
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- The importance of surrendering to God
- The role of prayer in receiving the Holy Spirit
- The heart's intention in prayer
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- The consequences of pride in refusing God's call
- God's desire to fill and use us
- The power of prayer in spiritual warfare
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- The need for personal revival
- The evidence of the Holy Spirit in our lives
- The call to be instruments of revival in our communities
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- The uncompromised preaching of God's Word
- The relationship between the Church and the world
- The necessity of ongoing prayer for revival
Key Quotes
“I absolutely surrender my life to Thee tonight, God.” — Keith Daniel
“The anointing that will come in your life as you pray from now on, which is the greatest, greatest discipline of your life.” — Keith Daniel
“When the Word of God comes back in the pulpit without books to try and undermine and explain away the standard, that's revival.” — Keith Daniel
Application Points
- Commit to daily prayer as a means of inviting the Holy Spirit into your life.
- Seek to be an instrument of revival in your community by living out your faith authentically.
- Encourage uncompromised preaching of God's Word to foster true revival in the Church.
