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Thundering in Nashville
Andrew Strom

Andrew Strom (1967 – N/A) is a New Zealand preacher, author, and revivalist whose ministry has focused on calling the church to repentance and authentic biblical faith for over three decades. Born in New Zealand, specific details about his early life, including his parents and upbringing, are not widely documented, though his writings suggest a conversion experience that ignited a passion for revival. His education appears informal, centered on self-directed biblical study rather than formal theological training, aligning with his emphasis on apostolic simplicity. Strom’s preaching career began in the late 1980s, gaining prominence through founding RevivalSchool.com and the international Revival List in the 1990s, platforms amplifying his fiery sermons on repentance, the cross, and true revival—echoing figures like Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson. Initially involved in the prophetic movement for 11 years, he publicly left in 2008, critiquing its excesses in books like Kundalini Warning and True & False Revival, and instead pursued street preaching and house church advocacy. His ministry, marked by warnings against false spirits and calls for a return to New Testament patterns, has taken him across New Zealand, the U.S., and beyond. Married to Jacqui since around 1987, with whom he has six children, he continues to preach and write.
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In this sermon, the preacher discusses the decline of American TV and the need for God's people to take Him seriously and repent. He emphasizes the cultural sins that people may not even realize they are committing and the importance of true prophets who will bring conviction and repentance. The preacher calls for a John the Baptist-like figure to rise up and deliver a searing message that exposes the emptiness of material possessions and challenges the church's allegiance to money. He references biblical figures like John the Baptist and Charles Finney to illustrate the kind of preaching that is needed in today's society.
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My whole design in my ministry really is to shock Christianity out of its slumber because we live in a day where absolutely everything we see in Christendom is almost sick to the core. It grieves my heart so terribly to come to a nation that has for 200 years had revivals every 50 years and see what a state of lukewarmness it lives in. It shocks me to see the lack of discernment I see on every hand amongst every prophetic ministry so called that I come across. It shocks me to the core to come to Nashville which is the center of Christian music and all we have here is pretense and shallowness and lukewarmness to a degree which I've seen nowhere else. What is God going to do to you America? What has God got to do to Nashville to wake her up? See, I'm a bit upset and angry tonight and I'm afraid I'm just going to have to preach the whole message that way because I don't know any other way, okay? I believe God's heart is grieved by this nation to such a degree you have no idea and revival will come in the midst of judgments the like of which you've never seen and God is touch your economy and many of you sitting here who eat fast food every night are going to be riding bicycles to work. I've had a prophetic ministry on the internet for about the last six years now has 5,000 people on it. I published an email a short time ago which was called the Out of Church Christians. It was the biggest email I'd ever published because Christians are leaving the church in their groves. Most of the responses came from Americans. They are leaving. They are leaving because the church is sick. I got so many replies I couldn't read them. It took me weeks, literally. I had to go on holiday away from my computer and come back. That's how many hundreds of emails I got from people who had left the church because it's sick and I said, please write to me. Why are you leaving? I got hundreds of replies along the same lines from people who are desperately tired of playing the game. Desperately tired of playing the game. We are playing the game today. We still play it. The people who are interested in revival and pray for revival in this nation, they play the game every day too. The whole of this flaming nation is playing the game. When is religion going to stop? When will the Pharisees be dethroned? When will the true prophets arise and preach repentance in this land? I've been preaching everywhere that the prophetic ministry has three legs. It's something God showed me just before I came here. The prophetic ministry has three legs. One leg, it's like a stool. One leg is revelation. We have it in abundance. We have preachers going everywhere saying revival is coming. So and so, I went to heaven and had a dream. I had a vision. I had this, that. Everybody goes, wow, praise God. The other leg is this, personal prophecy. Because we have many, many guys in this land and around the world who can go down a prayer line and pray accurate words of knowledge over people. They're accurate, man. They're good at it. These two things, the two legs of the stool are what the prophetic movement has majored on because they are popular things. The third leg and the huge one that is the anchor is the word of repentance that the prophets must preach, and they have neglected it completely. They have completely neglected that word. Now, you know what happens to a two-legged stool that falls straight over? And man, it has. Do you know what America's blessed with? A lukewarm church and a lukewarm prophetic movement to go with the lukewarm church. False prophets who tickle your ears. You have to pay hundreds of dollars to get your ears tickled real good. When you go to their conferences, they take your money, they jump on a plane, and they go to another five-star hotel where they live in luxury. I'm telling you, there are guys who get picked up in limos from the airport who claim to be prophets and stand in the place in our modern day of Elijah the prophet. And if he could see them, he'd spin in his grave. We have so many people saying the Elijahs of God are coming. Oh, the Elijah ministries are coming. What on earth do you think he will do with the circus when he arrives? What will he do? What will he do? Will he join it? Will he get his camel hair and his honey and the locusts that he's been eating, chuck it all aside and go and join the big swank fat cats sitting in their hotels? Can you imagine him doing that? No, he'll blister the walls with his words. He will cry out to America, repent, or you shall all likewise perish. I'm telling you, the day is coming. It is so near. America stands on a precipice. I've been saying it everywhere I go. America stands on a precipice unless the people of God do something different to what they're doing now. It's all gone. It's over. Your children are not attending church. I'm talking about the youth of this nation. Your children ain't attending church. They despise it. You know what the most well-known Christian in my country is? It's Ned Flanders off The Simpsons, the most mocked character on television. You ever watch The Simpsons? In my country, nobody hardly knows the Pope. Almost nobody knows Billy Graham. They all know who Ned Flanders is. They see him mocked on television continuously. Simpsons is on every night. They run all the back episodes. They run everything. Will not God hold accountable the nation that has allowed its television to get out of its hands and preach that kind of garbage all around the world? Do you know that America is the leading nation in the world? Do you know in my country, all the kids wear their baseball caps backwards on their heads because they see it on American TV? Do you know they all watch Sex and the City, Spin City, all the reality shows that have people having sex after a couple of days on some island somewhere? They watch all of that, and all of our TV guys have to compete with it. American TV is all over New Zealand television, and so our guys, when they make a TV show, they go, let's make it like the Americans. We just had one made in New Zealand. It's called Strip. I think it's called The Strip. It's about a gang of male strippers and the wonderful laughs that can be got from the scenario that they paint. They did that to compete with American TV because I believe in the last 15 years, it has dug down to the bottom of the toilet in its bid for ratings, and we get all those shows. We have only three, four networks, so we get them all. All the ones that are scattered across all the cable and everything, our producers go there and choose them all and bring them back to play to our kids. I've not preached this way in America yet. I'm preaching differently tonight. I want you to know that there's a calling over your city. I believe the calling can be lost. I believe there's a calling over America. I believe the calling can be lost. Unless I see differently from Americans, I believe the calling can be lost, and do you know for 200 years, you've had revivals every 50 years. You are the most blessed nation on the planet earth, and everywhere I go, I see Christians who do not know their heritage. They think it came from the Constitution. No. America is amazingly blessed because every 50 years since 1743, you have had a revival, a massive revival, and most of the rest of the world did not. One other nation had revival that often. It's a little nation called Wales. Do you know what? They missed one revival, and it was all gone. Between the years 1979 and 1999, in the UK, the church attendance went from 12 percent down to 7.5 percent. That means only 7.5 percent. This is in a revival nation's people who missed one revival. Wales, of all of them, is the worst. Wales is part of the UK. It has the worst figures of any nation. It's even worse than New Zealand, and we've never had a revival. We have 10 percent church attendance. America has 40 percent. Let me put this question before you. How many of them are Christians? People, I want to put another shocking question to you. How many charismatic Pentecostal people are Christians? To me, in the Bible, it says, repent and be baptized and receive the Holy Spirit. We send our guys out when they can speak in tongues, and we think, praise God, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit has come upon that person. Man, I've seen guys go through that little mill, which it is, without repenting one time. They maybe repented just enough to speak in tongues. They got some kind of touch from the Holy Spirit. They could speak in tongues, and they walk out that door, and they have hardly repented. They've gone forward and asked Jesus into their heart, which is absolutely found nowhere in the entire Bible. We have made up doctrines. We've made it convenient and easy for people, and we wonder why they fall away or why they are token Christians sitting on our pews. Is there a part of America, let me ask you this, that's going to change this? Because we're looking to you. Do you know all the big preachers who come over my way? They're all Americans. We listen to Americans, because as soon as we hear that accent, we're so attuned to it. You can go all around the world, and if they can get an American preacher into town, it doesn't matter how bad he is, just that accent alone will gather a crowd. Did you know that? Do you know that you're the leaders of the world? What will God do to the leaders of the world if they do not repent and seek the first things? Go back to the original things. You cannot keep having revivals every 50 years if you've fallen away from it. You cannot. The last great revival was 50 years ago. In the 1950s, there was a massive move of God. Suddenly, out of nowhere, 200 evangelists arose. A. A. Allen, T. L. Osborne, William Branham, Oral Roberts were amongst them. William Branham went pretty strange in his latter years, but in his early days, he was the most incredible evangelist you have ever seen in your life. He would say, the first 10 deaf mute people up here will be healed. They were all healed. He would call people out of the audience and whisper to them without the microphone, like that. He'd say, the woman that you have been committing adultery with, if you will repent, God will heal you. That was William Branham in his early days. We're talking 1948 to 1955. That was the end of the healing revival. It lasted seven years, which isn't too bad for a revival. Many have lasted less. Greed and corruption came in. William Branham's story goes like this. He owed $50,000 to the inland revenue. He was a humble guy. He was from the back blocks of Indiana. He had no idea what he was doing with money. The other guys all went into a tent ministry. He couldn't afford to do it. He started to want to become a teacher. He was the most humble Hicksville guy you've ever met. He couldn't teach to save himself. He came out with some awful, terrible doctrines. His followers started to call him Elijah because they'd never seen such miracles. It was all gone. God allowed a drunken driver in 1965 to hit his car head on and he was killed. It had been prophesied, literally, by two of his closest friends that it was about to happen. By then, he was surrounded by yes men. It was all over. Oral Roberts, we know, is still around today. So many fell to greed. Some fell into drinking. Some fell to adultery. That revival, which lasted seven years, ended disastrously. Now, you know what happened in the last Welsh revival? It ended disastrously too. It ended after one year and it was an absolute mess. I believe what happened there was a generation later when the window opened again, 1947 to 1955. See, that had this huge revival in 1904. The next window came along and for whatever reason, man, they missed it. They've never had a revival since. Their entire nation has gone down the toilet. I want you to listen to this. This is written by a guy from Wales this year. He's in the Rhonda Valleys, which used to be a stronghold of revival. He writes this, Rhonda was really touched by the Welsh revival of 1904, but in a hundred years since has turned its back on Jesus to become a place where, for the vast majority, the church, Christianity, and Jesus himself have become totally irrelevant. Drug abuse is rife, crime is soaring, one-parent families have become the norm, the economy is totally impoverished, and Rhonda has the smallest percentage of population in the UK regularly attending church. In 2002 alone, get this, they lost one percent of their male population to drugs and suicide. Between 15 and 30 years old, they lost one percent of their male population in one year to drugs and suicide. America, what will happen to you if you miss your revival? Do you know when the window opens? Roughly 50 years after. It's open now. Travelling America, do I see signs of revival? No. Do I see signs of the necessary John the Baptist that must arise and preach repentance to this nation? No, I see them nowhere. A searing message of the type I'm talking about, I just want to give you an example of these kind of guys. This country has had them in abundance. Their names were people like Charles Finney and Frank Bartleman. You know, we look internationally, Savonarola, John Wesley, Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, who was an American. Jonathan Edwards was around in the first revival. He's famous for preaching this sermon. It's called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. People who were in that room at the time were hanging onto the pillars to try and stop themselves falling into hell. That's the effect of that sermon on them. We've never heard preaching like that. It's not hellfire preaching. It's conviction of sin preaching. Charles Finney used to preach on this kind of stuff. Let me give you an example. He actually preached on this place near Antwerp, New York. You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? That was his opening sentence. Here's another one. Charles Finney, one of the greatest revivalists America has ever seen. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. And then he proved the entire sermon he spent proving that they weren't holy, that they had no holiness. He would not accept it to have an audience that could still look him in the eye at the end of his sermon. If they were still able to look him in the eye, he had failed in his point of view. They had to be looking down and couldn't look him in the eye before he was happy. This is from Charles Finney's autobiography. This happened many times, this kind of thing. I had not spoken to them in this strain of direct application more than a quarter of an hour when all at once an awful solemnity seemed to settle down upon them. The congregation began to fall from their seats in every direction and cry for mercy. If I had had a sword in each hand, I could not have cut them off their seats as fast as they fell. For a generation, America has not heard preaching like that, and that is why the church is in the state it's in now. For year after year after year, you did have those preachers. Every 50 years when revival broke out, it was usually associated with one of these guys. 1904, Welsh revival, it was Evan Roberts, a guy who would stand in the pulpit with tears streaming down his face saying, God, bend the church, and preaching a deep repentance that said, if you have any cloud in your heart between you and God, it must be gone. He was 27 years old. They published his sermons all around the world. The 1904 Welsh revival lasted only one year. 110,000 non-Christians were saved. This is a tiny country, but if you add in all the Christians who went to church, so-called Christians, it's 225,000 because a lot of them had never repented in their lives. What does God have to do to bring a revival of repentance to America? Because I'm telling you, there's no other revival that will do. We'll follow you into it. There's a great revival that started here. See, revivals jump continents. 1857, 1858, a revival hit America. It was the great prayer revival. People convicted so much in prayer meetings. Two million saved in two years in America alone. It jumped the Atlantic into England. 1859, 1860, massive revival through Wales and England, right through it. Started in America, jumped to another continent because they got hungry and said, God, if it's happening over there, what stops it happening over here? Can't we pray, God? Aren't you our God too? Won't you answer our cries, God? Look at our nation, how it's dropped and fallen. Look at the church, how it's fallen. How lukewarm do we have to get people? How disastrous do things have to be before America repents, before the church repents? Judgment begins at the house of God. The 1857 revival in America, which is one of its greatest, started with a share market crash. If it hadn't been for the financial panic, I believe the revival would not have taken place. Because a little guy in New York, his name was Jeremiah Lamphere, he started a little prayer meeting at noon every day and nobody was coming to it. A few, a few scattered souls in New York. But as soon as the panic hit, it was only, I think, two weeks after he'd started the prayer meeting, as soon as the panic hit, all these businessmen suddenly stopped worshipping mammon and started rushing into his prayer meetings. He had to start having them every day. Soon, all the churches of New York were opening at noon and in the morning for the flocks of crowds of people coming in to pray. It's called the Great Prayer Revival. You can read about it in your history books. The history of America is revival, 50 years of slowly backsliding from it, revival, 50 years of slowly backsliding from it. I fear for this country that we can't make it into the next one. I came over here with a warning and a message of hope. I'm not joking. If you don't make it into your next revival, your next generation will be a disaster in this country. Those kids, they already aren't interested in church. When I was in Kansas City, the pastor got up and he said, God's led me to start a youth church because he said, 96% of the very young aren't coming to our churches. They're opting out when they get the chance. When mum and dad stopped forcing them to go, 96% take it 30 years forward and see what kind of church you got left. We know what it's like because in the 1960s, we had about 30 or 40% church attendance and now we've got 10. You want to find out what it's like to lose an entire generation, go ask England. Same pattern, exactly the same. It's just that you guys had a revival in the 1950s and those guys didn't. You know that, eh? You know that if you don't keep having the revivals, your country goes down the toilet. Do you know that? If you don't have revival every 50 years, America would not be the spiritual powerhouse she is. You know, while I was driving into Nashville, I really got from God that he wants to start a street revival in Nashville, the most unlikely place that I can imagine. Because you know, in my country, what we think of Nashville, we go, oh yeah, that's that kind of, it's like the tinsel town of Christianity as far as music goes. The industry's there, it owns it all. In order to become a good Christian artist or a popular Christian artist, it seems like you have to sell out. It seems like you have to sell out and here's where you come to do it. It seems like there's a tremendous amount of shallowness. Seems like the music's shallow and insipid. That's how we feel about it, I'm just being honest. You know, you guys feel the same? Good on you. Amen. Praise God. What's going to change that? See, 50 years ago, the music was vibrant all of a sudden. 100 years ago, the music was vibrant all of a sudden. It wasn't this compromising garbage. Because God had just swept through this place with a revival. God wants to bring revival on the streets out where the people are. Because they ain't in here. They're just not here. In my nation, on my way to church, I pass tens of thousands of houses. They're all sitting in there. We get more people going to the local market day at the same time as church. I don't know if you have that problem yet here. I think it's too religious. People are religiously still going to church. But you know what happens in the next generation? I'm telling you. I'm just forecasting it for you. Unless you come into your revival, you're going to lose it all. America, seriously. I'm not joking. 200 years of revivals is the longest any nation has ever had. I believe America is God's favorite stomping ground. I've been preaching everywhere and saying, you know, you guys think you've got a hard shell to crack through? The soil is so fertile underneath. All you need is some flaming John the Baptist to go through and break up the fallow ground. And underneath that is soft, beautiful soil that God has been fertilizing and pouring rain on for 200 years, longer than any other nation. Wales is gone. We have, in the Western nations, one land of revivals left. That one land of revivals is America. And I fear in my heart, lest we lose her. I fear in my heart, lest we lose her. You know, another thing God has spoken to me? That you cannot prophesy it into being. This is what he said to me. You know, they have a saying in the SAS in Britain. The SAS is like Delta Force. You know what Delta Force is? The commando unit in America. America, I mean, in England, they're saying is this. Who dares, wins. In other words, if you're daring enough, you'll win the game. If you're daring enough, your side will take the enemy camp. If you're daring enough. But I want to tell you what the kind of daring is that God was talking to me about. Because he said to me, you know what, Andrew? It's not who prophesies wins. Because otherwise we could talk it into being, man. We could just hype it up and say revival is coming. And it would actually happen. Unfortunately, everybody's going around and saying that. And by the day we're getting, I don't think any closer at all. So it's not who prophesies wins. God even said to me, it's not even necessarily who prays wins. Because we have plenty of guys praying for revival. And I believe in prayer. I spent most of today praying. I pray in tongues all the time. I prayed before. Man, I believe in prayer. Prayer is essential to revival. But God said to me, it's not even necessarily who prays wins. Who dares wins. And do you know what he's talking about? The daring that will open your mouth in the face of an entire nation that hates to hear what you're saying. That does not want to hear what you're saying. Because you know what the idol of America is? It's Mammon. You know what some of the junior idols are? They're things like television and sport. Same in my nation. We just copy you guys. We see these beautiful ads made in Americas quite often. You know, big trucks, big four-wheel drives. Cost about 60,000 New Zealand dollars. And everybody looks at those ads on TV and they go, wow. If only I had a nice house, a nice car. Nice successful business. Boy, wouldn't I be made? Is that the American dream or is it the American lie? Isn't that the lie of the devil, what those people are thinking? Why does that get called the American dream? Isn't that the same thing? Didn't I just spell out then the American dream? If only I own that, own that, and own that, I'll be happy. If only I can marry the beautiful girl like we see on TV, I'll be happy. I think that's the lie of the devil. But it's culturally so ingrained here. It really is. It is so ingrained. People marry up money and religion together all the time. People think if you can build a big church building, man, you got it made. People think if only thousands will come and hear my ministry and pay hundreds of dollars to get into my conferences, boy, I must be the best preacher in the world. Nah, mate, you're just the best at tickling their ears. Best at tickling their ears. America, what will God do with you if you do not have revival? How deep will the judgments be? For the leading nation in the world, the richest nation in the world, the nation blessed with revival for 200 years, I ask you this, what will the judgments be if you miss your next revival? Even as we speak, I believe it is pretty much too late to avoid judgment. If we are so fortunate, praise God, let it be so, that we get into revival, I believe it will be concurrent with judgment. Concurrent with judgment. By that, I mean it's happening at the same time. Can America avoid that? I believe not. I believe not. I believe it's all in place. God flicks a little switch and it's gone. So much that you take for granted and so much that we take for granted is gone. Will America live through it? Yes, if God brings revival. In fact, I believe America will emerge from it incredibly powerful, strong like she was at the start. You've grown fat. You've grown fat, America. Spiritually, terribly, terribly fat. We are rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. But we do not know that we are poor and blind and miserable and naked. Jesus said to the lukewarm church, repent, put eyesalve on your eyes so you can see your miserable state before me. Put on white raiment so you're actually clothed in holiness, not this cheap garbage that you're preached from the pulpit by preachers who tell you that you've got the grace of God when you're 500 million miles away from it. America, what will it take? John Wesley used to preach sermons like this. He would say, here's what the inside of a born again person is like. And he would basically have an entire sermon of scriptures about what it's the holiness and purity of heart that is absolutely normal and is the possession of every true born again person. By the time he'd finished preaching, most of the people in his audience almost always had concluded, I'm not born again. By the description that that man has just given of a born again person, the interior of me does not look like that. America, God is going to raise up guys to preach that message. Believe me, if you want proof of what I'm saying, you go read Marks of the New Birth by John Wesley. Preached in around 1740 odd, something like that. And how America needs preachers like that. How America needs John the Baptist today. John the Baptists. Do you know what? He may send them from overseas. I was speaking in Kansas City. I said to them, the mandate, I don't know if you guys know anything about Kansas City. Kansas City, 20 years ago, had the massive prophetic movement start there. And it had a train wreck about eight years into it. And all the prophets scattered and the whole thing fell to pieces. They've got IHOP still left there, praise God. Something came out of it. 24 hour a day prayer. That's pretty good. Most of the prophetic mandate over that place hangs over it still. It's like God's mandate for music over Nashville and street revival over Nashville. But can I believe going away from this place that you're going to enter into that? You see, I preached in Kansas City and I said, the mandate remains. Those things God wanted to do to birth a great prophetic movement to preach to the Laodicean church that she must repent. I told them in Kansas City, I was fearful before I got up. Because I knew the weight of the message that was in me for Kansas City, man. It was fearful to me. And they loved it. Because the place is a barren wilderness prophetically now. And all the pastors keep the prophetic arms reach because they've seen the disaster that occurred. Hanging over that city is a prophetic mandate to proclaim to this nation, repent. For the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And I believe God wants to raise up John the Baptist throughout this nation, who will dig up the fellow ground and find underneath that God's been preparing revival. But if the John the Baptist don't come through with the piercing message, with their unpopular message, we're all dreaming. We're all dreaming. And all the guys who go around prophesying revival are completely wasting your and my time. When I get the chance, I do tell them that. I am a controversial figure in the prophetic movement because I say, revelation ain't good enough. Sorry, pal. You can go down a prayer line full of people and pray accurate prophecies over them. Wow, I'm so amazed by that. Actually, witches can do that. I'm so sick of the prophetic movement, and I'm part of it. I'm so sick of the church, and I'm part of it. So many people are sick of the church that they've been opting out in their hundreds and thousands. We hardly know they're gone. We're too busy having a party. Praise God. I believe that God's grace extends to America in this hour. The windows that typically open are seven years long. So between now and the next seven years, we have got to see. We have got to see John the Baptist rise up, who will preach the most searing message you have heard in your lives. John the Baptist, who will tear from you in your hearts, your cars and your houses and your beautiful things, and show you that they are baubles and they're worth nothing. Who will take from you the American dream and say, isn't this garbage? Do we live for these things, Christians? Do we even indulge in these things? Are we serving mammon or God? Because Jesus said, you cannot serve both. Is the church serving mammon? Is the church serving mammon? No, really? I want to ask again. Is the church in America serving mammon to a very large degree? Let me hear you. Good. First step of repentance has been gained. Are you serving mammon or God? You know, I had no idea I was going to preach this today. I was actually going to preach on the coming street revival. I have an entire message. I've gone right through New Zealand preaching it. I really believe in this hour, God is extending his hand of mercy to this nation. It is so clear to me coming here that a land of revivals. See, before I came here, I said to God, you know, I do not want to go to that nation preaching judgment only. If you're not prepared, God, to pour your spirit out on America, I don't even want to go. Because I don't want to go around that nation just saying, judgment's coming, judgment's coming. And I don't believe God sent me here to do that. He sent me here to say, America, the window is opening. America, you are in no fit state, American church, to enter into it. But you've got seven years, maybe less, maybe more. I'm not actually sure. And the urgency is just so, so desperate. Urgent prayer. John the Baptist ministers who will preach a searing word. And all of the ministers in their town will come to them and say, I'm sorry, we don't want you in our ministerial fellowship anymore. Can you imagine them including Jesus or John the Baptist in the ministerial fellowship? Would the Apostle Paul have been welcomed in? To the Pharisees, Sadducees, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Paul the Apostle. I don't think so, actually. I really doubt it. Peter and John, they whipped and said, do not speak in this name again. They went straight out and spoke in that name. The John the Baptist that are coming will be of that nature. They'll be of that order. People, some of the people around you are going to hate their guts. And there'll be a great dividing. And it will be a dividing simply along lines of righteousness and heart. Do we go with these guys? Or do we stay with the lukewarm religion that we have? Charismatic and Pentecostal, just as bad as everybody else. So we've got to decide, people, whether we go from this place and erect more monuments to ourselves and compete with one another on Sundays to get people along to our church. Or are we going to play the games? Or are we going to go out there and preach an incredible message that will save America? That's it. The dividing will come. The shaking started. You know what God does with me? He sends all the nice people through, and then he sends me through. I'm like the tank at the end if the rifles, uzis, and bazookas didn't work. But I actually don't really... I don't actually... I'm not very happy about that. No, no, I'm happy to preach the message. I'm just not happy that we're at the end of the road. You know, because my fear is maybe the next thing might be a nuclear warhead. And the physical. You know what I'm saying? I'm not joking. You know, what happens in the line of judgment when the rifles, bazookas, and tank... You know, there ain't much more behind that. God's people have got to start taking him seriously and repenting. And the things that you've got to repent of, some of them are cultural things which you are so used to, you do not even see them because the eye salve is not yet on your eyes. And when the prophets come... I'm talking the true prophets, not these flaky idiots. When the true prophets come, they'll stick the eye salve on your eyes and suddenly it will hurt. Suddenly you'll see your state, and man, it'll start to hurt. It'll start to sting. And then they'll say, repent, repent. And everybody will go, right, we want that guy's head on a plate. John the Baptist last six years. Savonarola, who had a revival in Florence, lasted eight years. Here's a description of his preaching. I'm going to finish along these lines. Savonarola, his preaching caused such terror and alarm, such sobbing and tears, that people passed through the streets without speaking, more dead than alive. Will God raise up such preachers in America today? If he doesn't, all is lost. All is lost. Father God, I know you love America so much. Father God, you've been to this territory so many times and you're just so familiar, so familiar with this wonderful nation that you've outpoured your spirit on more than any other. And yet here we are today, the Laodicean things are true of us. The things you spoke about the lukewarm church, they're true of us, God, and my nation as well. And here we are in America, just about in Christian city itself, and you want to do a new thing. God, I pray. God, I pray for humility. I pray for humble people that will get on their faces and repent and weep before you. I pray for a people that will truly humble themselves and absolutely cry from the depths of their being for revival in this nation. I pray for repentance preachers who will cry aloud and spare not, who will speak the truth in love, but the truth appears and cry. I pray it would be true of these next few years. Father God, we have but a small window and it will close again. It will close again. I pray by then we'll be seeing revival sweep America. Father, I pray that with all my heart. God, outpour your spirit upon us. God, outpour your spirit upon us.
Thundering in Nashville
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Andrew Strom (1967 – N/A) is a New Zealand preacher, author, and revivalist whose ministry has focused on calling the church to repentance and authentic biblical faith for over three decades. Born in New Zealand, specific details about his early life, including his parents and upbringing, are not widely documented, though his writings suggest a conversion experience that ignited a passion for revival. His education appears informal, centered on self-directed biblical study rather than formal theological training, aligning with his emphasis on apostolic simplicity. Strom’s preaching career began in the late 1980s, gaining prominence through founding RevivalSchool.com and the international Revival List in the 1990s, platforms amplifying his fiery sermons on repentance, the cross, and true revival—echoing figures like Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson. Initially involved in the prophetic movement for 11 years, he publicly left in 2008, critiquing its excesses in books like Kundalini Warning and True & False Revival, and instead pursued street preaching and house church advocacy. His ministry, marked by warnings against false spirits and calls for a return to New Testament patterns, has taken him across New Zealand, the U.S., and beyond. Married to Jacqui since around 1987, with whom he has six children, he continues to preach and write.