Seize the Moment - Revival

Abba, Father, give us ears to hear what your spirit is saying. Write the truth of your word on our hearts and lives. Take us deeper. Touch us so we can go and touch this world. In Jesus' name, amen. Turn with me to Habakkuk chapter 3. Habakkuk chapter 3, one of what we call the minor prophets, Habakkuk, a contemporary of Jeremiah. I asked Pastor Lee, is there anything that you want me to lean into, speak on? Last time I was here, he asked me to speak on a particular topic. I said, anything you want me to lean into? And he said, Dr. Brown, if you could speak on something related to revival. Of course, that's always burning in my heart. So I'm going to teach a little, and then I'm going to tell you some stories, things I've seen and witnessed with my own eyes, and then tell you what is happening today. And that'll tie in with this book we put up, Seize the Moment. So you understand what is happening, what the spirit is doing, getting a bigger picture so we can be part of everything the spirit of God is doing today. So if you're familiar at all with the times of Jeremiah, they were dark times in Judah's history. There were times of national backsliding, idolatry, immorality, injustice. The most heinous sin of all was that the children of Israel were doing what the pagans did, sacrificing their own children to idols, extraordinary evil. And as Jeremiah preached repentance over a 40-year period, the people rejected his message and wanted instead the message of the false prophets and the major leadership. They were corrupt. After one godly king, Josiah, sought to bring the nation to repent, the nation did not repent. And his sons were corrupt. The priests were corrupt. The prophets were corrupt. The princes were corrupt. Jeremiah was a lonely prophet through much of this. Through part of this time, Habakkuk was a contemporary. And in the first chapter of Habakkuk, he cries out to God because of the wickedness, the sin of his people. If you ever feel grieved because there's just so much sin and wickedness in the world, you're not alone. This has been the pattern through history that God's people get grieved and broken over these things. So he cries out to God and God shows him, I'm going to bring judgment. I'm going to send the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, and they're going to bring judgment on Judah. And when he sees in vision what's coming, he's shocked because the judgment is going to be intense. It's almost like the cure is worse than the disease. So he's struggling to sort this out. And God tells him in the second chapter to wait and to trust. And in the third chapter, he prays a prayer. I'm just going to read two verses, Habakkuk 3, verse 1, the prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet on Shigyonot. We don't know exactly what some of these Hebrew terms mean, probably some type of musical term. Just this verse now, verse 2. Lord, I've heard of your fame. Literally in Hebrew, I heard the report about you. I've heard about what you did in the past, which implies it's not happening today. I heard about the great works of God in the past, but where are they today? Lord, I've heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds. When I hear of the things you did, I'm staggered. I'm overwhelmed. I can just worship. But there's a problem. We're in crisis today, and we don't see your hand at work. We're in a life and death situation today. Where is the God of the Exodus? Where is the God who delivered Hezekiah from the Assyrians? Where is the God who sent down fire from heaven in the days of Elijah? What does he say? Renew them in our day, in our time, make them known. Some translations say revive them in the midst of the years. Do in the past, do today what you did in the past. Repeat these things, O God, and wrath, remember mercy. That last clause is telling us we understand we deserve judgment. We understand your wrath should be falling on us, but even in your wrath, remember mercy. Now it's interesting, this verse kind of in an obscure book, many will struggle to find Habakkuk, you know, flipping through a Bible or not familiar where it is. Many will not be familiar with the contents of Habakkuk, understandably. And yet Habakkuk 3:2 has been a well-known verse in revival preaching. In fact, in Charles Finney's classic book, Lectures on the Revival of Religion, that's the very first verse that's cited. When I was teaching in a ministry school on Long Island many years ago, a couple that we were friendly with, Nancy and I knew them, they were a bit older than us, and the wife got a real burden to go on a long fast for me and for one of the students in the school. And at the end of the fast, she said, Mike, I feel like I got nothing for you. I said, what do you mean? She said, I didn't hear anything from God. I just got this one verse. I have no idea what it means. I said, what's the verse? She said, Habakkuk 3:2. I said, that's all I needed to hear. It's God confirming to me a promise that he made years ago about revival, and that I'd see it and be part of it. Revive, bring back to life. That's what revival is in its essence. You can't revive the floor. The floor was never alive. And if you got a two-year-old kid running, sprinting all over the building, you know, wearing the family out, that kid does not need reviving. His parents might, but the kid does not need reviving. Revival is something that was once alive. It's become dead. It's become dormant. It comes back to life. And this is not just something in the Old Testament, that you have these seasons of revival, where the nation has been apostate, the nation has been away from God, and a great move comes, and there's repentance, and the temple is restored and cleansed, and the people go back to worship, and they burn and destroy their idols. It's a New Testament concept as well, because we have the outpouring in the book of Acts and the pattern of the moving of the Spirit in the book of Acts. And it's not there just as a tease. It's there as a template. It's there to tell us what happens when the Holy Spirit falls, and this is what happens over a period of decades. But when you get to the end of the New Testament period, when you get to the book of Revelation and read Revelation 2 and 3, you find that five of the seven churches in Asia Minor get a strong message of repentance from the Lord. And he says, repent or else. But if you repent, I'll bless. If you repent, I'll restore. It's a picture of revival again. American history has been shaped by revival, and I have no question without some of the awakenings we had, the first and second great awakening, and other outpourings we had, without those we would have been destroyed as a nation, or we would have fallen apart and broken into many different countries. Revival is absolutely essential. It comes at times of crisis. It comes not just as an add-on. It is not just another blessing. It comes at critical times. And as I taught on revival over the years, I used to use other people's definitions on it. You know, it's God stepping down from heaven and things like that. But I decided in the midst of the Brownsville revival that I should come up with my own definition. So just imagine Pastor Lee with his whiteboard here. And I'll just write this out for you. Revival is a season of unusual divine visitation. Revival is a season of unusual divine visitation. That's what it is at its heart essence. Does the Holy Spirit live in us as God's people? Yes. Does the Holy Spirit meet us as we gather corporately? Yes. In a certain way, does God's presence fill the whole universe? The word would say yes. Revival is a season of unusual divine visitation. God coming in exceptional ways. God coming in exceptional power. God coming in ways that you can mark. This is when it began. This is when it ended. You've had meetings like that. You've had many outpourings. You've had it this year where God breaks in and the services go for hours. And instead of five people coming to repentance, there are 300 people coming to repent. Something unusual. It's a season of unusual divine visitation. What has it resulted? The first thing, generally speaking, you're going to see is deep repentance. So a season of unusual divine visitation resulting in deep repentance. Why deep repentance? Because revival comes when something's wrong. Jesus said he didn't come for the healthy, but for the sick. And of course, everyone's sick just meant he didn't know it. He didn't come for the healthy, but for the sick. So when revival comes, it comes because something's wrong and God's presence comes deeply and it begins to reveal what's wrong in us. I can't tell you how many pastors I met who told me they came to the Brownsville revival in Pensacola between 95 and 2000. And they came, they come on buses from all over the country. And of course, by plane from all over the world. And they bring their congregants with them. Why? Because their church needed a fresh touch. The people needed a touch from God and the pastor to their surprise. They were the first ones to respond to the altar call to repent and get right with God. Now think of that. You're the pastor of the church and here's an altar call. And this altar call is for, you know, you could be a serial rapist. You can be an adulterer. You can be a thief. You could be anything, or you could just be someone that God's convicting of being lukewarm or prayerless. But the altar call, everybody's coming up together. And think of the conviction you have to be under as a senior leader of a ministry to be one of the first ones running to the altar, weeping and repentance. I mean, your people are thinking, what, what did he do? Who did he kill? And these pastors would tell me, I brought my people because they needed a touch. I'm the one that got touched. And they tell me these words. I feel like I got saved all over again. That's what happens. The refiners fire comes Malachi three, and it brings up to the surface, all the junk that you didn't know was there. That's why many people reject the move of God. They pray for God to come so he can add something to us so he can bless us so he can make us bigger and better and stronger and happier. First, he comes to deal with the corruption and the sin and the junk. Many times we don't want that. Remember what happens when Jesus ministers to this man, this demonized man and sets him free in the gatherings and drives thousands of demons out of him into the pigs and pigs just run down an embankment and drown. And now this man who was crazy and extreme and naked and cutting himself and living in the graveyard and he's now clothed and in his right mind and the townspeople come and hear everything that happened. And you know what they do? They beg Jesus to leave. They beg Jesus to leave. I've seen it with my own eyes. I've seen people pray for God to come. And when he comes, it's too much. It's too intense. Please leave. I even wrote a sarcastic prayer for revival many years ago. Think of it, me writing something sarcastic. Who can think of that? For those who don't know you, know me. I'm a New York Jew. Sarcasm runs in my veins. Sometimes in the spirit it's sanctified sarcasm. So I wrote this prayer for a nice revival. Maybe I've recited a stanza or two here in the past when speaking on a similar theme. Oh Lord, send your glory, send your power, but please oh Lord keep it to an hour. Oh Lord come and quench this longing of our soul, but please oh Lord leave us in control. God comes as a refiner's fire. So a season of unusual divine visitation resulting in deep repentance, supernatural renewal. Oh because people get set free and people are getting radically saved. And just like the lame man in Acts 3 who's healed walks into the temple leaping and jumping and praising God. So also people are getting set free. There's joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. You've never seen joy like you've seen the joy that follows repentance. You've never seen joy like you've seen in the midst of a revival because repentance is so deep. The joy is so glorious and people are being set free and people are being transformed. So it results in deep repentance, supernatural renewal, and sweeping reformation in the church. So repentance, renewal, reformation, they all come out of the outpouring of the spirit because you begin to adjust things. You begin to fix things. You begin to realize okay this is why things are wrong. This is why we need to do things differently. We need to go back to prayer. We need to go back to the basics. We need to fix this up. And along with that a real revival will bring radical conversion of sinners in the world. So a season of unusual divine visitation resulting in deep repentance, supernatural renewal, and sweeping reformation in the church along with the radical conversion of sinners in the world. If it just stays within the church building it's not real revival. One reason is if it stays within the church building then the people are not really being revived because when you're revived you live differently outside. When you live differently outside sinners start getting saved. When you live differently outside and people see the change in your life and you're now a more passionate witness and the love of God is pouring through you and the Holy Spirit's working through you, people will come to the Lord. It's just an automatic thing. Not only so but the Holy Spirit can be poured out regionally and suddenly you're just talking to people. They were resistant. They didn't want to hear. Now they want to hear. They had it with the gospel. They had it with dead religion. They had it with church. Now their ears are open. What happened? God came. God came. You know just look at it. The ground is dry and the crops aren't growing and the cattle is sick and dying and the people are sick and dying. The rain comes and everything begins to change and the dry ground absorbs it. That's why revival comes to those who are hungry and thirsty spiritually. Revival comes according to our capacity to receive God because there are many places he would gladly go but he's not welcome. You say he's God. He can do what he wants. Yeah and he chooses to go where he's welcome. This is how he works. He works relationally. He can do whatever he wants to do however he wants to do it at any time because he's God and this is how he chooses to work and we are accountable. During the Jesus people movement from around 67 to the mid-1970s there were more Jewish people saved during that time period than probably 25 years before and 25 years after. God just swept down in our midst. One brother a bit older than me was at I think Berkeley University at that time and he said there was a season of a couple of years where virtually every Jewish person he talked to about Jesus came to faith. He said to them one day it stopped. He went to talk to someone they wouldn't listen another wouldn't listen. Something changed in the atmosphere. It's been documented through history. I'm an eyewitness to it with living through it myself and seeing God move and you say well I was just interacting with it with a dear brother and we were having some conversation about revival and it wasn't part of his own background and he said look we can't wait for revival. We have to make disciples day by day and what about after revival? It's day by day. Well it's always day by day. That never changes. We always live for God day by day. There's always daily discipleship in the midst of the Brownsville revival in our ministry school. That was a big emphasis daily discipleship and teaching that and training people in that to multiply and reproduce. That never goes away but here's the issue. If you've seen the church in the same state for 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years something has to change. What's going to change it? Revival. Outpouring. When you see a nation in steady moral and spiritual decline and it's clear which way it's going something has to shift. How does it shift? Revival. Put another way more of the same only produces more of the same. There's a code sentence that Nancy and I have and it goes back to a dialogue that we had about 20 years ago when we lived in Pensacola Florida. Nancy looked at me one day by God's grace I'm thin now but I was not then and she said hon I think you put a little weight on recently. I said actually I did. I did and it wasn't about vanity it was about health and I said I did but I've got a plan. She goes oh okay. Right six months later she says hon I don't think you lost any weight. I said no you're absolutely right I haven't but I have a plan and she said oh okay. Six months or a year goes by she says hon I think you've actually gained weight and I said to her uh no you're right but I have a plan and she said said to me your plan is not working. She's also a New York Jew by the way. Your plan is not working. That has become code for us over the years and and August 23rd of 2014 when I was the heaviest I'd been in my life high blood pressure and all this. I mean I love the Lord. I was passionate. Everyone's dealt with weight issues. It's challenging. You know food's challenging. You got to eat every day. Food addictions are it was much harder for me to get set free from chocolate and pizza than it was to get set free from heroin. I'm telling you the truth. I got instantly set free from drugs and all that junk in 1971. I went through three miserable days of withdrawal when I got rid of these food addictions but I sat down with Nancy August 23rd 2014 and I said to her my plan is not working. That was the code my plan is not working and she said okay I'm taking control of your diet. No food passes your lips without my approval. When it comes to preaching the gospel I'm fearless. You put me in front of a hostile crowd that may want to kill me. I'm fearless. I've lived it out. God's my witness. I'll go for it. I'll preach. I don't care what the consequences are. I'm gonna obey God. Put new food on my plates like no I don't like that. I don't eat that. I was an ultimate food wimp. Say Dr. Brown you're not going to talk about food now are you? No I'm not that's not the emphasis but hear me I knew something radical had to happen and God intervened in my life. It's nine years and my life was radically changed. I'm not going to get a whole story but it's nine years of healthy eating saved my life changed my life transformed my life. Praise God. The bottom line is that you have to look around sometimes at the church of America. I say okay if we got the new strategy and the new conference and the new this and the news and every year our numbers are dropping and every year more and more young people are dropping out of church and sin and addiction is spreading through the body. Our plan is not working. I don't mean in every church. Thank God for what's happening in healthy growing churches like Radiant. I'm not just saying that because I'm here. I'm here because of that because I'm drawn to what you're doing but you come to that realization our plan is not working and I'm not going to take time here to talk about the moral crises in America and the craziness we're living because you live in it right here and you live in a city that I understand is not the most conservative city in America. Is that true? In a state that is not the most conservative state in America our plan church as a whole in America is not working. We need a visitation. We need revival. So let me tell you stories for a few minutes and then tell you where we are today. God promised me in the spring of 83 that I would serve as a leader in a revival that would touch the whole world. Remember at this point I'm unknown. I'm finishing my PhD work at New York University. Passionate for the Lord but nobody knows me. It was outlandish when God spoke that to me but I knew it was him. Initially I thought I was crazy but he confirmed it over and over and then of course called me to serve as a leader in the Brownsville revival and friends that I had talked to and my old friends from Long Island in those days as they would get to visit Brownsville they'd say Mike you told us this was going to happen you'd be part of it. It was stunning. It was like living out a dream. So what are some of the things that you saw? Well I mean there was the phenomenon of week in week out for several years most days of the week as the services would be most days of the week the lines would form outside the church building. They'd start to form at six in the morning. In fact if you got there at certain times of the year by the time you arrived at six the line was already a block and a half long. Six in the morning. You said what time did the doors open? Six in the evening. There's no advertising and some of the people standing online weren't even saved. I mean I'm thinking of one young lady came down as a maybe 18 year old teenager with her mom and her mom said you want to go to Pensacola you got great beaches there we got break you know. Sure mom let's go and then mom wakes her up like five in the morning come on we got to go. What do you mean we got five in the morning? Where are you going? We're going to church. We're going to church. I came here to go to the beach. Well we're going to church first. What time does the service start? Seven in the evening. Why are we getting up at five in the morning? I mean what kind of attitude would you have as a teenager thinking you're going down to the beach you're not going to stand online in front of a church building for 12 hours. And this happened a cumulative millions of people did this over a period of years. What time does the service start? Seven. So you get in an hour before you wait on 12 hours. Now an hour before the service starts. How long does service go? On average five or six hours. Night in night out night in night out. You say what happened to that young lady? She got saved and became a missionary to Tanzania. And that's what happens in Revival. One of my colleagues was telling me a story he knew personally. A young man son of an assembly of God pastor furious with the Revival. He was a gay man in a gay relationship and perceived that the church hated him and and that this God they preached hated him. So he walks into the church building angry angry. But obviously his family had been praying for him and God knows what's going on in the heart behind the anger. He walks in the vestibule gets that far and the power of God hits him. He hasn't heard preaching hasn't heard worshiping singing. He gets in the vestibule the power of God hits him. He's laid out. What do you do? Well the ushers picked him up and laid him at the altar where he spent the entire service and got up gloriously born again changed went back out broke up the relationship with the other guy that he was with. The other guy now comes in. I don't know the the rest of the that story. I know the first guy through a colleague worked walked with the Lord was a solid convert changed by the power of God. But the identical thing happened when his friend came in walked in the building the power of God hit him in the vestibule. He was laid out and carried to the front. I just don't know the rest of the story for sure. I think he came to the Lord. I don't know that for sure. The first one I know I mean it's crazy kind of stories. One woman driving by the building comes under deep conviction of sin. She's not thinking of God at all. She's just driving by the building comes under deep conviction of sin. Next thing she's weeping in her car and crying out to Jesus to save her. How do we find out her story? Because she becomes a member of the church and we hear her testimony. And this is the kind of thing you hear week in week out. And I was talking to Pastor Garrett yesterday. The thing that was the the neatest of all the best of all was was what happened when people left the building. People would be in the services they were expecting more. The good services but they were expecting more and as they left the spirit would fall. Spirit would fall on them in the car on the plane or when they got in front of their church. You know they didn't know what to expect. A pastor would stand up. He thought he was he didn't know what he experienced and he gets up to speak on Sunday. He can't. He breaks out weeping. The whole church breaks out weeping. The spirit falls dramatically. They go through a deep period of cleansing. You can't orchestrate that. One of my favorite stories I heard from the pastors involved. They were in New Jersey when I ministered for them. They're about two years into a powerful move of the spirit and and they said it's been steady since they went to Brownsville. What happened? Well he went down with four other pastors so five pastoral staff and they enjoyed the meetings. Praise God good meetings. Good preaching. Good worship. Good prayer. They went to the altars. They responded. They repented of any sin in their lives and and and trust me with Steve Hill preaching everybody's going to repent of something. I mean the sword of the spirit was convicting. They get prayer for every every night people laying hands to them for fresh importation. It was good but they were expecting more. Well Pensacola was a regional airport still is so you have to fly into another airport to get there. So they were flying by way of Atlanta and then Atlanta back to New Jersey and they had five tickets all together. All of them together. Somehow when they get on the plane they didn't know what happened but when they get on they're all separated. Five different parts of the plane and it's a really short flight. It's maybe a half hour flight to Atlanta. Probably not even that much time in the year. As the plane takes off to the senior pastor's shock the spirit falls on him. Didn't happen in the meetings and the worship and the shouting and the and the weeping. Didn't happen there. With all the glory all the crowds it didn't happen there. It happened to his shock the spirit falls on him on the plane and he weeps the entire flight. He can't wait to get off the plane to tell the other four guys what happened only to find out it happened to all five of them simultaneously and other parts separate and they realized this was God showing them. It wasn't the crowds. It wasn't the emotion. It wasn't the hype. It was the spirit and then they went from there into the service that Sunday night service the spirit felt they had been in a steady move for two years. I've seen this with my own eyes and I witnessed to it. I traveled to countries I'd been to many times before. We had powerful meetings but I came from the midst of Brownsville and we had visitation. I mean it takes me weeks and weeks to share the details of so many of the things that I saw and lived through. I just met with a pastor an executive pastor of one of the leading churches in our county. He wanted to spend some time and talk with me and he said Dr. Brown you know I was there. I was a sophomore in high school when the spirit fell. He said this is my first exposure to Brownsville. His dad was a Methodist pastor open to the things of the spirit but very critical skeptical. This fellow Nathan is in high school one day walks into the school and he sees a girl by the locker and she's unable to open the locker because she's shaking so violently. Her hair is springing everywhere. He said what's what happened to this girl? This is school you don't you don't want to stand out be noticed like this. What happened? So he says to a friend is she okay? He goes oh yeah she she goes to that church that never ended. What do you mean never ended? Well they start service they just keep going. Why is she shaking like that? Well then he starts hearing reports you know this guy in class just in the middle of class falls out of his out of his chair falls to the ground shaking they bring him to the nurse's office no one knows what's the matter. They call his parents no one knows what's the matter. He can't talk. This is scary stuff. Then finally you can only get one word out Brownsville. They begin to put two and two together because this is happening in different schools. They call the youth pastor of the church because he was known in the schools had good relations with all they call the youth pastor. Brother Richard what's going on here? He says oh these kids are coming to the church and God's touching them. Well the school initially was upset until they saw these kids transformed. Until they saw the kids who were the worst troublemakers and the most obnoxious and bound by drugs into gangs and violence sleeping around and they become class leaders. They become exemplary students. The power of God just touching that's the way it happens sometimes. God comes in overwhelming ways and we would tell people in Pensacola every week we don't care if you fall or shake that's not the issue. The issue is how do you live a year from now? How do you live five years from now? How do you live when you walk out of this? But that's all we care about lasting fruit. I was sitting here looking out one of one of our grads touched in the same environment been a missionary in the Philippines. Some of the people touch there and what we've seen there on the on the mission field 25 years. One of the leaders of our Philippines team came as a youth leader had to step down. He was struggling with porn struggled with it for years. He gets instantly set free in the revival goes to our ministry school with his family in the Philippines almost 25 years now. Daughter just won as a missionary to Japan. This is what we're talking about long-term fruit. So where do we stand today? It's going to close in a couple of minutes. Where do we stand today? That was then. Those were great stories. I tell you those stories to build your faith. I tell you those stories to tell you what can happen and to encourage you to dream dreams. I don't mean to to live in a world of fantasy but to pray big prayers. I mean who are we praying to mighty master God? If we could do it then why are we praying? We're praying to him to do what we can't do. I mean I've had a deep assurance in my heart for probably going on 25 years now or at least 20 that the the this next Jesus revolution is going to have a massive harvest of those from the LGBTQ community. Some of your your your worst opposers here in Kalamazoo are going to be at this altar weeping getting right with God. I believe that just like all these hippies radicals rebels God say this is going to happen and we're going to have to be full of love like we've never had before to greet people from every walk of life. Beginning in late 2019 I sensed that that that something was rising. I started to see more hunger more thirst more desperation in the body because that that's what we have to have. Revival does not come to the complacent. Revival comes to the desperate and God knows what he's doing. If he sent revival to the complacent they'd reject it. I sensed this hunger rising. I sensed the beginning of of God starting to to break out and and move and then it's like all hell broke loose. COVID hit and and then we had the difficult race situations and race riots and and and then we had the election fever. We had scandals with leader after leader falling in the church and and then all the false prophecies about Trump serving eight consecutive years and then the January 6th events. It was it was a period of incredible shaking. I realized in retrospect the refiners fire had begun to come and shake us especially in the church all the junk was starting to come up to the surface. Oh and then as I was traveling last year some place after place after place where God was moving something something's going on something's going on something's going on something's rising. I knew it and I began to speak what I'd seen for years that I see thousands of holy fires coming. Not just one place where God's moving like Brownsville or Toronto but thousands of places where the Holy Spirit's moving and falling. Thousands. Then early this year late January I thought I need to speak what I know. I need to say it publicly. I got on the radio and I said listen I want to make it clear the beginning of the first wave of the next revival has already hit America. I just want to make that clear. It has already begun. It's in its early stages but it is here and it has already begun and about eight days after that revival hit Asbury. What do you know? And that was a divine exclamation point. It was God bringing attention to that and I told I told you it's here. It's here. Your church the outpouring you have on Super Bowl Sunday and lasted for some weeks after that. Do you know that you were one of many churches around America that had an outpouring that same day? You know I was getting texts from pastors like Pastor Lee leading pastors that same day Dr. Brown you won't believe what happened. What do we do? The Holy Spirit fell. The meeting went on for hours. Hundreds repenting. The Holy Spirit breaking out. One pastor in Colorado heard what happened in Asbury. He'd been in a growing move at his church and he said Lord what about us? What about us? Went to church that next Sunday the second Sunday service the spirit fell. It ended eight o'clock the next morning. The service literally through the night uninterrupted till eight o'clock the next morning and they've had since then only about 1,200 people they've had since then 24-7 prayer and 24-7 worship. So the QR code I put at the beginning seize the moment. I wrote this book. I started it in the Brownsville Revival. What happens when when God comes? What happens when revival breaks out? What do you do? What do you do? Here are the things not to do. Here are the things to do to sustain a move of God in your own life and in the church. I never finished it. Last year I thought I got it. I got to finish this book. I got to get this done in a hurry and get it out or early this year. We finished it got it out and and we'll release it in November and then it'll come out to the general public in January. Get the book. It'll bless you. It'll stir you. It'll build your faith and and remind me that we want to send a copy to each of the radiant churches. Okay but this is what I want to say here. Something is happening. Something is happening in America that has not happened for many years. We're seeing glimpses of it. You've had little drizzles of it. You've got to seize the moment. This is the time. Hear me. I'm not just speaking empty words. I've been around. I'm a witness. I'm an elder. Seize the moment and as you feel the stirring in your own heart go after God like you never went after him before. As you feel a to fast to turn away from something do it. This could be the moment that your life is revolutionized on all the campuses. This could be the moment when everything turns. This could be the moment when the shift happens. Stand to your feet with me and Pastor Tim why don't you come up. I want to encourage you to go before God today when you get home or tonight before you go to sleep and just say Lord what are you saying to me? What are you saying to me? Is there a fresh hunger? Is there a fresh thirst? Is there a desire for change? Is there is it the recognition my plan is not working? Whatever it is, whatever it is respond to him. Draw near to God. He'll draw near to you. This is a season we have been praying for and waiting for for many years. It is upon us. Father in the name of Jesus help us to seize the moment. Help us to take hold of this sacred season that we might see an outpouring of historic proportions that will rock and change America. Pour out your spirit in Kalamazoo these other campuses. Do something we've never seen before in Jesus name. Amen. God bless you. Thank you.