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In the sermon 'O Saint, Pray,' the preacher emphasizes the urgent need for revival through fervent prayer, recounting stories of individuals who dedicated their lives to intercession amidst societal struggles. He highlights the power of earnest prayer, illustrating how a blind man and two young girls prayed desperately for the salvation of their loved ones, leading to miraculous outcomes. The preacher warns that without a collective return to prayer and humility, America faces dire consequences, urging Christians to confess their sins and seek God earnestly. He stresses that true revival is essential for spiritual survival, and that God is waiting for His people to respond with desperation and commitment to prayer.
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I can't live without this. And you see, why we had revival in that town, it was a time of poverty, unemployment, all the difficulties you could imagine, that people for 40 years had been waiting day and night in a certain place, praying and making intercession. We can't live unless revival comes. The other man with us was blind, totally blind. He'd been dead just a week or two and his wife wrote to us and she said, well, dear Lennon Martha, you know, you know, I miss it so much when I pass his room. He used to pray seven or eight hours a day. I could hear his groanings and tears and sobs and pleading with God to move over the nation. You can have your PhDs and DDs and all you've got. If a man can't pray as far as I'm concerned, he's an unentity in the kingdom of God. Do you honestly believe that every born-again Christian in America who's truly born again got right with God and started praying earnestly every born-again believer on their knees like an army against the devil who's brought such darkness to these people? If you do honestly believe, is there one of you sitting here that doesn't honestly believe that within three months millions of Muslims would turn to Christ? If we were all crying for God to do it, do you honestly believe God would turn His face and say, no, I'll tell you something, wait for politicians to deal with the problem and you won't have a country left and further field, you won't have a world left just now, Christians. You'd better get to war with the weapons God's given you. While you have a moment left to do it, you'd better do it and God will honor you. There's a pall of judgment hanging over America and nobody's going to stop it except interceding people, except people who'd rather die than live like this. And then he said John Hyde began to pray. And he said when he prayed, I didn't open my eyes. I thought God was at the side of us. And he said he'd just poured out his soul for India. And then there was a knock on the door. And he said, I said to myself, listen, nobody's stopping this prayer meeting with me. This is once in a lifetime, I'm not going to the door. A little while after, a knock at the door, a little while after, a knock at the door, that's where he went. He was going to the door, somebody, a man put his head round the door and he said, Brother Hyde, you're speaking at three o'clock and it's a quarter of three now. The man said, what? I came in this room at a quarter of nine, to a quarter to ten, to a quarter to eleven, to a quarter to twelve, to a quarter to one, to a quarter to two, to a quarter to three, six hours? You see, when you get lost in the presence of God, whether it's the ecstasy or whether it's the grief, there's only one, there's only one fear in my heart. Only one. That Christians are too proud to admit we need to see God first, and confess their sins, and their compromises, and their liberalism, and their worldliness, and their methods. They'll be too proud to say we need to get down in desperation and get right first, and confess our sins and turn from our wicked ways, so that God can forgive us first, and then heal the land through us, on our knees in prayer for the land. That's the only fear I have for America. That's the only danger America is in, is if the church is too proud to get down before God in desperation to get right with God. Your history is in your hands, Christians. And this Bible tells me that. God is waiting. God is seeking. God is longing. It's not God's fault. When what you eat doesn't matter too much, when how you sleep doesn't matter too much. When it comes to this, God give us revival or we die. God give us revival or we die. I would make one suggestion. See to it that your knees are bleeding. I was hoping for one thing, and I was working with a team of men. I've never worked with a better team of men who were intercessors. There was one man, totally blind. He would pray for three hours at a stretch in a side room, or five hours. We go to pray after midnight. These two guys would take off their coats. We'd been out in the street at midday, 12 o'clock. We'd had street meetings at midnight. We'd come in and they'd say, I've got a burden. Okay, that meant we prayed. So we get down to pray. And those fellows would pray till two or three in the morning, take their coats off, until their shirts were sticking to their backs. And they really prayed. And I thought, well, if she says to one of you to pray, boy, I'm going to say him or him, not me for sure. Instead of that, she'd pray. She knelt at the side of a table. It had no cloth on it. It wasn't polished. It wasn't worth a buck. And she knelt. And I looked at this woman with horrible features, very rough skin, and as I say, always shallow complexioned and always looked sad. But boy, once she opened her mouth, the glory of God filled that room. I'd never forgotten it. I didn't pray after that. I'd prayed with many men around the world. But that woman's so moving. I knew she wasn't a joke. She wasn't putting little phrases together. She wasn't painting stained glass windows. She was praying out of travail for those who are lost, those without God, those without hope. The wrath of God abides over them. It's not just the danger they have of going to hell. The wrath of God is on them. And if life snaps, they're going to a lost eternity. I would make one suggestion. See to it that your knees are bleeding. He said, well, how could God help you? She'd never seen him in her life, and he'd never seen her. She said, Mr., you cannot help me. She said, over the mountains. She said, over the mountains there's a man by the name of Duncan Campbell. And God has been saving people. And I want Duncan Campbell to come down here to the village. My father is lost. My brother is lost. And my uncle is lost. And I want God to come. And I've been praying that Duncan Campbell will change his program and come to our little village. And he said, you've been praying. Who's we? Oh, me and Jenny. How old are you? Seventeen. How old is Jenny? Sixteen. How long did you pray? She said, we prayed the whole night through. Two girls prayed all night? She said, yes. My daddy's deeing. My brother's deeing. My uncle's deeing. You see, she got the hang of the thing. They weren't just lost. They were dying without God, without hope. They're going to fall forever and ever and never reach the bottom. They're going to burn forever and never be consumed. We don't preach about hell anymore. It's not fashionable. But God hasn't changed it. I'll tell you what. Men have changed their opinion about God, but God hasn't changed His opinion about men. And he held his girl, wept. And Duncan said, I stood there so embarrassed. He said, I pulled my scarf down and said, lassie, look. And he pulled the scarf down. And he said, look. And he had his clerical collar. He said, look, I am Duncan Campbell. And all she did, she put her hand up and began to weep. She said, oh, you're a... And remember, there's no audience there. All she said was, oh, you're a covenant-keeping God. You're a covenant-keeping God. So Duncan went down to the village and he preached. Her uncle got saved. Her father got saved. And the two brothers got saved. All in one place. He was down in that little place. But you see, he brought them to birth. This woman had done the travelling. And she didn't understand why other people could just not be moved. When what you eat doesn't matter too much. When how you sleep doesn't matter too much. When it comes to this, God give us revival or we die. There's a pall of judgment hanging over America and nobody's going to stop it except interceding people. Except people who'd rather die than live like this.