Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of anointed intercession in the context of revival, drawing on historical examples from the First and Second Great Awakenings. He highlights the need for believers to engage in earnest prayer, which is essential for the outpouring of God's power in communities. Bickle encourages the congregation to seek a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit, stressing that true revival is marked by profound transformation rather than mere church growth. He calls for a collective commitment to prayer, believing that God is preparing to move powerfully in their city, resulting in a significant harvest of souls.

Thank you, Nathan. Turn to Acts chapter 2. We'll get there in a moment. We'll talk a little bit about prophetic history and some of the promises the Lord has spoken to us and then have a few others come up and make some comments. And we'll do this same sort of thing tomorrow night, but we'll look at very different subjects. The next weekend, the same. And then the weekend after is the prayer and prophetic conference, so we won't do these Friday and Saturday nights on that weekend. So this weekend, two times, tonight and tomorrow. Next weekend, two times, Friday and Saturday. So four total where we, as a group, we come and just talk about the prophetic history. And then the following weekend, because we have so many coming from out of town for the conference, we won't have room, we're just going to open the prayer room and go full blast in the prayer room on Friday and Saturday night. Which is a good thing. Father, I ask you in the name of Jesus, I ask you for just a spirit of impartation. I ask you for a spirit of revelation. Lord, we want to be plumb line to your heart. We want so much more than we have in the things of the Holy Spirit, but we say thank you. We are grateful, but we're desperate. We want more, but we're so grateful for what you've given us. We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Again, this 21 days of prayer and fasting, and I'm encouraging you to spend more time in the prayer room than you normally would. I certainly know our leadership team is doing that because we want to encounter the Lord. We want Him to talk to us. We want Him to shift the IHOP community to a new place in the Holy Spirit. What I'm going to talk about tonight is anointed intercession, the gift of anointed intercession. That is available to every single believer and there's a connection to anointed intercession. I'm talking about supernatural intercession. I'll explain that in a moment. And how it's connected to the release of power in the city, in the region, in the nation. Now, I've formed my picture of revival from the two great awakenings in America. In the mid-1700s, there was a great awakening. It's called the First Great Awakening. And the manifestation of power was so dramatic all through the East Coast in the mid-1700s. The personalities that were associated with that, Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd, John Wesley, who is acknowledged as the founder of the Methodist Church, George Whitefield, who preached at 20,000 and 30,000 at a time with no, obviously no microphones, but with great power. And the massive numbers of people that came to the Lord. It wasn't like evangelism today in stadium events. There was a manifestation of power that hit large groups of people that is, we've rarely seen in history. That kind of measure. We've seen it, I mean, I'm talking about in the Western world. We've seen it in various places, in China and other places in history certainly has emerged. But only a few times in the Western world has it happened in that way. So that's the First Great Awakening. Mid-1700s, then about the first 50 years of the 1800s is the Second Great Awakening. There's another wave that comes, and I mean, I'm not talking about church growth. I'm not talking about evangelistic meetings. I'm talking about the power of God hitting massive numbers of people and thousands coming to the Lord in an atmosphere of power. Where the conviction of the Holy Spirit was cutting their heart and towns, entire towns were coming to the Lord. Because the anointing of God was actually present in the society. People would just start weeping in factories. I mean, large numbers just crying and weeping and nobody's even preaching. And people say, what's happening? I don't know, I don't know, I've got to get right with God. And that would sweep whole regions. Second Great Awakening. Again, about the first 50 years of the 1800s, a little bit beyond that. The 1900s, there was not a Great Awakening. We had the Azusa Street Revival, which ended up in the Pentecostal Charismatic. A lot of people received the gift of tongues, and I totally appreciate that. And so we call it the, and then it moved from that Pentecostal outpouring to the Charismatic renewal in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s. And a lot more people received a touch of the Holy Spirit. But neither of those moves were what I would call, or most historians, they would not call that a Great Awakening. It was a large number of people saying yes to the Holy Spirit. But it was not the raw power of God invading cities and regions. So it's been about, you know, 100, 150 years longer than that since our nation has had a Great Awakening. And we're believing God for a Great Awakening in our nation. I mean like the first two awakenings. Now the reason I want to say that that clear is that we have to have the right picture in our mind so that we're aiming at the right thing. Because a lot of folks, when they're thinking of revival, they're thinking of church growth. I've heard it over the years, you know. That one church in that one town, revival hit. They grew from 5,000, they're 20,000. They're a mega church. There's not an ounce of a spirit of revival. It's church growth. They presented a good presentation, and a lot of people responded, and a lot of church transfer. And they said, hey, man, you're the best thing in town. Thank you. It's not revival. It's not bad, but it's not revival. A lot of groups, when they think of revival, they think of evangelistic meetings. You know, you'll hear at the church, they'll say, hey, we're having revival next week. And what they mean is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we have an evangelist coming in, we have revival. That's not revival, though I appreciate evangelistic meetings. The Jesus movement that I met the Lord in in the 70s where multitudes of people came to the Lord, but it wasn't revival like the two Great Awakenings. Many came to the Lord, but the conversions, though genuine, they were not a deep, transforming experience. Many of the people that said yes, within a short amount of years they were living in all kinds of compromise. But in those two first Great Awakenings, there was a profound fear of God. There was a deep, solemn, long-term commitment because the people were born in the fire, and they lived a whole different way. The charismatic renewal, and all the kind of the sub-renewal meetings or ministries that have kind of streamed out of the charismatic renewal, I appreciate some of what's happened because the Lord's really moved, but it's not revival. The idea of revival is not renewal meetings. It's not having people coming to get refreshed and fall over and laugh and that kind of stuff. And that's happening all over America the last 20 years. The Lord's touched some people with joy, and many people call that revival. No, no, no. There's a far bigger thing that God has on His heart than the renewal ministries of the last 20 years, of which I appreciate it. But again, when I look at the charismatic renewal, and I look at lots of renewal ministries, the lasting fruit is very minimal. Very few, I mean, there's a very small amount of deep, lasting, transformational change in thousands of people. It's kind of a little boost, and then a month or two later, they're kind of back where they were. I appreciate the boost. I like the boost. But I want more than a boost. So I want, as a community, for us to, again, as a plumb line moment, to say, Lord, what is it we're after? Far more than anything we've seen in America in 150 years. Not Azusa Street, way more than that. Not the Jesus movement. I love that Jesus movement. I was saved in it. Not the charismatic renewal. Not a series of renewal meetings. And not just people getting happy. I like happy. Happy is better than sad. But so much more. I'm desperate for it. You're desperate for it. And God called us as a community to contend for that and to not settle for anything less than the full measure of what He's given. He has shown Himself willing to give. It's that presence of God. And I mean the presence where the Spirit trembles and touches God in a profound way. That's Psalm 132, where David vowed that he would live his life in a way that God would have a dwelling place on the earth. He vowed. He said, God, I'm not going to quit laboring until in my city, which was Jerusalem, David's city, that your manifest presence is in an abiding way present in this city. I'm contending for a city that has the manifest glory of God in an abiding way where people are living in the fear of God, overflowing in affection and obedience to Jesus with gladness and sincerity of heart. I don't mean a morbid fear of God, but that bright, sparkling Spirit, that clean Spirit of the awe of God with affection. Oh, we love You, Jesus, with a spirit of sincerity and gladness, not glibness, not silliness. I'm not interested in silliness in the name of the joy of the Lord. I'm interested in a profound encounter that not for a night, not for a moment, but a Spirit of the fear of the Lord overflowing with gladness, with deep affection that, oh, we love You, the first commandment restored in the first place that results to 300,000 people in Kansas City coming to the Lord. The Lord spoke to us some years ago about He's going to give this city minimum, minimum, it's not the ceiling, this is the beginning, 300,000 new converts. I don't want 2,000. I don't want three weeks in a row with 2,000. I'll take it. I want to see 300,000 souls. I want to see the Spirit of God break into the city, shaking the denominations and the congregations that say yes to the Spirit. And I mean moving right through the city, the inner city of the midtown, among the rich and the poor, where men tremble. I mean tens of thousands of people flocking to the Lord. The reason I want that, because that's what we're called to. And I don't mean IHOP. I'm talking about as members of the body of Christ in our city, in our region here. Far bigger than our little ministry here, but that's our inheritance as a city. That's what we're going for. That is not going to happen without anointed intercession. I mean the type of intercession we can't produce. I'm not talking about kind of turning the music up. That's not what I mean. I'm not talking about jumping higher, shouting louder, you know, bouncing harder, no. Again, those things could be fun, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not putting that down at all, but I'm talking about a vision for more than that. I'm talking about a spirit of prayer that is supernatural. We cannot produce it. We can't talk people into it. We can't imitate it. We can't all get together and say, hey, for the next 10 days we're all going to do it. It doesn't work that way. It's not the power of suggestion. I'm talking about that breath of God from on high that our nation has rarely seen in 150 years. Little spots here and there. It's emerged in our nation. It's called the spirit of prayer. It's the spirit of power. It's as supernatural, what happens in the prayer room, as what happens on the street where 300,000 would come to the Lord and blind eyes are opening. It's the same level of supernatural power. We want to believe God for this. And I believe if we get the right vision, we go after it together, and again, we're not going to produce it by just human zeal, by just kind of whipping ourself up into it. No, this thing is way bigger than that. It's out of our reach, but we can line ourself up with vision, and we can say, we can gird our mind where when we pray, we give ourself to prayer in a more concerted way, and the spirit will see that, and he will answer it with supernatural help, even in the place of prayer, because there's a dynamic relationship between this gift of anointed prayer that you can't make happen, but it comes when it comes. But when that gift of anointed prayer hits a community, power breaks out soon after. And we're asking the Lord for that. We're asking, again, it's not about personality. It's not about stirring up ourself and just, hey, the power's with us, and everybody, oh, the power's with us. No, I'm talking about something far beyond that. You can't make it happen, but we can posture ourself in faith, and we can posture ourself with earnest prayer, and earnest prayer means that in our inner man, we're really talking to God, and though our mind wanders, we bring it back. In our mind wanders, we bring it back. Earnest prayer is not about volume. Earnest prayer is not about praying louder. Earnest prayer is not about having an emphatic tone, like I'm talking right now in a very emphatic tone. I talk louder in an emphatic tone because it's my personality. I like it. My wife doesn't always like it. My vocal cords go on strike, but I like it, but that's not power, and that's not authority. I'm talking about something far beyond that, something that everybody can touch, unrelated to what their personality is. I mean, the weakest little lady in her 90s can touch this power and never, ever offer more than a whisper of a moving power. I'm talking about that kind of thing. It's within the reach of everyone in this room. Well, there's a dynamic relationship between anointed prayer, which I'm going to describe in a minute, and the power of God breaking forth in the preaching and the singing of the Word, and I want to throw in the drama, the acting, and all the realm of media and arts, the Word going forth in many ways and power being manifest. I'm talking about hitting an entire city or region or entire neighborhood. John 16, verse 8. Jesus promised. Let's look at John 16, verse 8. He promised. He, the Spirit, will convict the world. That word, convict, it's a lot more than a little disturbance in the heart. Conviction of the Spirit is when the Spirit lays hold of, I'm talking about the full conviction, He lays hold of the mind and the conscience, and I mean, He, like, shakes that person like a rag doll can be shaken. I mean, He troubles that person, and that person is not walking with God, and I mean, they're apprehended by God, and nothing can get in their way. Talking about the unbelievers, and when the spirit of conviction hits a geographic area, as we've seen in history, I'm telling you, hundreds of thousands are shaken out of the place of lethargy, and they have to still exercise their own free will and say yes, but they say yes a whole lot easier to the grace of God. Jesus said, I'm telling you, supernatural help's coming. It's the conviction of the world, of the unbelievers, sin, righteousness, and judgment. He will press this into their mind and conscience far beyond what they are expecting, and it's impossible to press it just by, again, having an energetic sermon. An energetic sermon can't do it. We're talking about that invisible power of God that bears this thing down on the human heart and conscience, and it disturbs the person in the most severe way to where they say, yes, Lord, and they come to the Lord in hundreds of thousands. Look at Acts chapter 2. This is an example of the spirit of conviction. We need a revelation of the spirit of conviction. Again, not a little troubled conscience. I'm talking about laid hold of by God. It says in Acts chapter 2, verse 37, here's the 3,000. When they heard the sermon, I mean, you time the sermon in Acts chapter 2. It goes a minute or two. It wasn't eloquence. It wasn't personality. It wasn't that it was dramatic music. There was an invisible power. When God makes the word like a hammer that shatters rock, like fire that consumes the heart, like a sword that pierces and cuts asunder, look what they said, 3,000. Cut to the heart. 3,000. Now, these are 3,000 Jews in Jerusalem who were not for Jesus just a few weeks earlier. They're cut. I mean, they're pierced. They're screaming out, we want salvation in Jesus' name. We want him. I mean, this radical transformation takes place in a very short amount of time. Verse 43, look at this. The fear of God came on them. And the fear of God is this trembling sense of the awesomeness of God's involvement in our life, in His might, in His majesty. That's the person they came into contact with. And their spirits are trembling. We find out they're glad. They have joy, but it's joy with trembling, David said in Psalm chapter 2. They do have joy. They have gladness, but their spirit is in contact with the awe of God. Can't make that happen. Can't preach people into that. I mean, people can walk around and fake trembling, but that's not what I'm talking about. I don't want people doing that. I mean, they're trembling. No, don't do that either. I'm talking about God breathing on a city. Oh, Lord, that's what we want. Cut to the heart. Well, only 3,000. That's a large number. When Charles Finney was preaching, his testimony, 1857, Charles Finney is arguably the most influential evangelist in America in the 1800s. I mean, I don't know who would surpass. There's quite a few shining lights in the 1800s. You know, D.L. Moody and William Booth of Salvation Army and quite a few shining lights, but Charles Finney was this lawyer who got powerfully converted and a spirit of power came on him, and Charles Finney, when he would preach, I mean, the most dramatic numbers that he puts in his autobiography was in New York City. In a period of eight weeks, he is preaching. No microphone, no cars. I mean, my point is, how do the crowds get there? 60,000 people a week come to Jesus under his preaching. 500,000 in two months. 500,000 people. That's what we're talking about. We're not talking about an ad campaign on TV using Internet. I appreciate all that. I mean, I want to do that stuff, but like Leonard Ravenhill says, you don't ever have to advertise a fire. Never. You never have to advertise a fire. Well, we don't have a fire, so we use advertisement, and I'm happy to do so. That's how you got here. We used some advertisement, and then you came. Advertisement's not bad, but Jesus never called a meeting. Jesus never said, yeah, I'll be there Monday at 4 o'clock. Wherever Jesus went, runners were running everywhere. Just the fear of God was on the land. Jesus never called a meeting, never had a marketing team. We need a marketing team. Let the reader understand. I like our marketing team, but I'm looking for something that's bigger and better than anything we've ever seen. Fear of the Lord breaking into a community. Again, you can't feign the fear of the Lord. I'm talking about our spirits are bright, and we're encountering God. Look at Acts chapter 19. This is one of the most amazing testimonies of this power of conviction. I've got to get going because I've got to tell some stories here, and I'm preaching too much because I'm talking myself back into what I believe because I've believed this for years, but it's easy to lose a hold on it. And this plumb line, just as I've waited on the Lord, the Lord's plumb lining my heart again as well, saying, hey, what about you? Forget them for now. What about you? Lord, I've preached this for years. Yeah, but I want you to lay hold of it right now in October 2011. Not just to remember it, but look at what happens in Acts chapter 19. It says that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord. Both Jews and Gentiles. Now here's in verse 20. The word of the Lord prevailed in Asia. I mean, the word of the Lord conquered Ephesus, the third largest city of the earth, the New York City of the time. It conquered the city, prevailed on it. I mean, Paul has no microphones. He has no internet. He has no marketing team. He doesn't have transportation. He gets people. The entire city was confronted with the presence of God. Through the preaching of Paul and his apostolic team. Doesn't mean the whole city said yes, but the whole city either said yes or no. The city was confronted by the power of God, the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Wow. My paragraph here, you don't have notes. The preachers that have marked me, first and second great awakening, David Brainerd. I'd like you to get these names if they're new to you. These are well-known names in any students of revival. Because as you study these, what God did in the past, it gives you a vision for the future. And when I study what God did to these weak and broken men, it stirs me what God can do through us as weak and broken men and women. David Brainerd, 1700s. Edwards, Jonathan Edwards, 1700s. George Whitfield, John Wesley, 1700s. Great awakening, the first great awakening. Again, I would put it about 1730 to about 1750, 1755. About a 25-year period, the first great awakening. I mean the numbers. It's not just the numbers, it was the power. And I don't even mean healings. You add healings to conviction, it's a whole different arena. They didn't have healings. They just had the raw power of God on the word of God preached that would invade a community. Then again, in the second great awakening, Charles Finney, Dale Moody, William Booth in the Salvation Army, and many, many more. Now, I read David Brainerd's biography. Now David Brainerd, some of you know him, and you can get his biography on the internet for free in a number of places. This is one of the most impacting biographies in the Western world. I mean, ever written, in my opinion, in the Western world. David Brainerd's biography. David Brainerd only was in ministry from about age 22 to 29. He died of tuberculosis at age 29. For seven years, he went out and ministered, preached the gospel to the Native Americans. Went out through interpreters, went out to the woods and preached to one or two hundred people at a time. And often, one of the famous stories is that his interpreter, the only guy they could find in the region who knew English and those native languages, he was an interpreter. He was an alcoholic. He was drunk interpreting. I mean, that messes up the whole equation. I mean, David Brainerd's in earnest. In English, the guy's like, whatever. The power of God hits those Native Americans and the salvations in the stories that are quite amazing reality. Though the numbers were small, the power was quite amazing. Now, Jonathan Edwards, who is one of the most celebrated leaders in America's history, he was about 20 or 30 years older than David Brainerd. And he was one of the point leaders of the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards. He's the one that preached the famous message, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. He would have, you know, 500 people in a building. Remember, they didn't have big buildings back in those days and big auditoriums. He'd be at night. They didn't have electricity, obviously, by candlelight reading his sermon. And the power of God hit in so much force, people were just wailing and screaming, feeling like they were falling into hell itself. He preached on Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, one of the most famous messages in the last couple hundred years in America. Well, this very anointed, powerful theologian, 20, 30 years older than young David Brainerd, he said David Brainerd was the most saintly, pure man that he knew even in the world at that time or something like, some huge statement like that. I've read his, David Brainerd died and Jonathan Edwards got his biography because he lived in his house the last few months of his life. Brainerd lived in Jonathan Edwards' house and he observed him and they were close friends. And so Jonathan Edwards published his biography and, oh, I mean his diary, just his diary. And he called him one of the most saintly men that he ever met in his life. And I tell you, David Brainerd, this young man, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, he had a vision for prayer. And he gave himself, not just to fasting, his health was broken, he didn't do that much fasting, but he would pray with barrenness and nothing happening, but he would never let go. And he would stay with it, sometimes hours at a time and nothing would happen and then suddenly the power of God would descend upon him in his prayer and then he would go forth and the unction of God, the authority of God in his preaching, the Native Americans, again, they were worshiping false gods and demons and the power of God that would hit them and the amount of conversions and the number of people who followed the Lord wholeheartedly from his ministry, it's remarkable, the fruit of this man's life, David Brainerd. Well, David Brainerd wrote, anyway, I was told about his life back when I was in my early 20s, about 23 years old, and I thought, wow, you know, I'm 23, he's 22, 23, I thought, you know, my prayer life, I was praying on a regular basis, but my prayer life was really boring and I thought, ugh, so I read Brainerd and it tortured me in a good sense, meaning I saw what was possible for a weak person in their 20s. I mean, again, he's out in the wilderness by himself, he goes to these Native Americans, they don't know who he is, and threw an interpreter at him and says, hey, I want to preach to you, get out of here, and he started speaking and the power of God would touch these people. I mean, it's quite remarkable. I read his bio, not his biography, again, his diary, that after he died, Jonathan Edwards published, on a near daily basis for almost five years. It moved me, I tell you, it touched me so many times, it excited me, it tortured me in the good sense, it, ah, it comforted me because Brainerd was real barren and weak, I go, okay, good, even Brainerd was a mess, you know, and then, and Leonard Ravenhill, some of you know that name, who just went to be with the Lord a few years ago, one of the major voices of the last, you know, 50, 60, 70 years on prayer in America and England, and David, I mean, Leonard Ravenhill, he talked about David Brainerd all the time in his books, and he would say, young, saintly David Brainerd, and he gave, I remember one of his chapters of Leonard Ravenhill's books, he gave all of the, of the famous revivalists who were set on fire by David Brainerd's diary. All these men, one after the other, they read Brainerd, and they said, I'm going to have what Brainerd had, and a number of them broke through, some of them didn't, but many did. I want to recommend David Brainerd's autobiography, I mean, his diary, it is so moving as to what God can do through a man or a woman who refuses to live with a barren prayer life. Well, one of the most well-known stories that's, I've heard a number tell it, and I've read it in books, is that the time he, he has tuberculosis, he's about 27 years old now, he's out in New England area, and it's snowing, and it's freezing snow, and he begins to, because he doesn't have like a hotel room to go to, they didn't really have hotel rooms out on the front in those times, and so he went out, just out into the wild, and you know, just stayed there, and made his fire, and made a little place, shelter, and he would pray, and he'd go hours a day, and one time, the spirit of prayer hit him with groaning, I'm talking about the groaning travail, where just the spirit was praying through him, that he prayed for hours, coughing up blood because of his tuberculosis, but he was drenched in sweat because of the intensity of what happened, I mean, he was just lying there, just kind of, just groaning, wasn't hardly making any noise, travailing in the spirit, and travailing is synonymous with this Romans 8, 26, we'll look at it in a minute, where the spirit groans through us with utterance too deep for words, it's not about words, it's not about shouting, it's not about volume, it's not about articulation, it's not about apostolic prayers, it's just groans, and he did this for hours, and when he got up, the snow was melted all around him, because he was so gripped, and the power of God that hit that community soon after that, anyway, through that drunken interpreter, quite an amazing story. Well, there's George Whitfield, I'd love to talk about him, and John Wesley, maybe Alan, talk about John Wesley, because Alan grew up in the Methodist church, and John Wesley, I mean, but the spirit of prayer on these men, truly a miraculous deal. Well, here's the issue, I saw in Brainerd first, and then I've seen it in history in those great awakening preachers, the relationship, not between prayer and power, but between anointed prayer, which only comes when it comes. I mean, we pray like we pray, I mean, we create a context for the Lord to touch us, and the Lord still answers that prayer, I mean, He really answers the kind of prayer we've been praying for 12 years, He really does. But there's those moments where He lands, and He breaks in, in that groaning, travailing intercession, and I saw the relationship between this anointed intercession, when it hits, to power breaking forth. So I saw it in Brainerd's life, saw it in Finney's life. Matter of fact, well, I was going to read a story of Finney, I think I still will anyway, because I forgot, this is a Friday night, it's a fasting night, we're not going home for a while anyway, so I kind of for a moment thought it was Sunday morning, I was going fast, I'm going to slow down. We've kept you here till midnight for years here on Friday night, so that's not what I'm going to do though, tonight. Here's what, I'm going to read this out of Charles Finney, again, this is 1800s. He's the one that led the great New York City revival, but all over the East Coast, he led a revival for about 30, 40 years. This is his autobiography. He says, In reflecting upon what I've said over the years about revivals, I lay much stress upon the agency of the Holy Spirit, particularly the Holy Spirit's work in prayer in the intercessors, is what he's talking about. He said, When the spirit of prayer would be manifest, and again, it's this groaning, and again, I don't want people to start groaning now tomorrow. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to, you know, kind of give you power of suggestion so people start groaning out. Please don't do that. This is too holy, this is too awesome, I don't want any distraction from the real that we're after. He would talk about the spirit of prayer would come, and he says, And it was not uncommon for even the youngest converts to be touched by this spirit of prayer because a revival spirit was breaking out in the region. He says, Some of the converts, they were so constrained by the Holy Spirit, they would pray whole nights. The Holy Spirit wouldn't let go of them. Their bodily strength was quite exhausted, which is kind of like the brain nerd thing I just told you about. They were praying for the conversions of souls, of the people around them. There was such a great pressure of the Spirit upon their mind. They would not let go. They seemed to bear the burden of immortal souls. They manifest a great solemnity of mind. And when the spirit of prayer was not on them, they had great watchfulness in all of their words and all of their action. He said, These young people, when the spirit of prayer was on them, and this groaning would touch them, and when it lifted, they had such carefulness about all their words, all their actions. They were the lords the entire, all the time. Because the spirit of prayer gripped them in the prayer time, but it led them to a place of great solemnity with God, and this real focused abandonment to God that didn't let go. He said, When this would happen, this great solemnity in the meetings, in the prayer meetings, a mighty spirit of prayer also would touch them in their secret prayer life. They would spend great hours alone in private prayer before they came to the public prayer, and then the result was the increase of the gospel went forth in great power in those areas. Anyway, he talks, he gives so many knowledge, I mean, illustrations from his life in his book his autobiography. Again, you get this on the internet. You get it in our bookstore. The biography of Charles Finney, I mean, I read that when I was in my 20s. It absolutely wrecked me what I saw God could do through weak men speaking weak words. Well, I begin to see Brainerd when he, the spirit of prayer was on him, power showed up the next time. And when the spirit of prayer wasn't on him, he would fast and pray, he would pray for the spirit of prayer. He would pray for souls and say, Oh God, give me that unction from on high as he's groaning out in the woods by himself and laboring in prayer. Again, this is almost never mentioned today in the church. It's almost not on the minds of anybody in the church today. But this was the key to the first and second great awakening was this kind of dynamic in prayer. So I was so excited about this. I'm in St. Louis at the time. It's 1978 is when I first start reading Brainerd. It's 79 and 80 and I'm saying, I want this. And I remember that a day, I mean, Leonard Ravenhill, Leonard Ravenhill, again, just died a few years ago. Again, the man that for the last 50, 60 years, one of the premier voices in America on revival and prayer. And he talked about Brainerd all the time. And I would read his, Ravenhill's books about Brainerd. Then I'd read Brainerd. Then I'd read Ravenhill. Then I'd read Brainerd. And then I, it wouldn't work. And then I would just say, I'm not going to live without a spirit of power on my prayer life because I'm going for this thing. So I lived in St. Louis and I heard somebody said, Leonard Ravenhill is going to be in the area. I thought, oh my gosh, you know, Leonard Ravenhill. I'm like, oh, hear him. And I went and saw him and was surprised. He was a, just a little skinny man of, I'm guessing, about literally 90 pounds and just a, just a short little skinny guy with no natural strength at all. And I, I went to the church and, you know, drove some miles and got to the church and, Leonard Ravenhill, here he came. I go, oh man, you know, I was thinking of Charlton Heston or something, you know, a little touch of Tom Cruise or something. I didn't know. I had this huge kind of, he was this weak, frail man. I go, okay, that's fine. It took me a minute to shift over. I go, okay, it works. And, Leonard Ravenhill preached. There's a, it's a Baptist church. I'm guessing there's 500 people, maybe 300 to 500. I can't remember, you know, but a few hundred. And, he preaches on Revival in Prayer. He puts the microphone down, just, and sits down. I'm on the front row. Groaning starts hitting me. And I don't, I don't mean the groaning. I mean, nobody around me hears it. I'm not talking about, I'm going, oh, hey everybody, I'm groaning. I don't mean one of those. I mean, just, when he says, amen, and he sits down, I close my eyes. Then I kneel, and I'm on the ground, and I'm just, oh, Romans 8, 26, groaning to me for words I've never had an experience before. I wasn't thinking I was having experience. I didn't, I didn't think about anything like that. But, I'm just, all I'm doing is groaning. No words. I'm not saying help, Lord. I'm not saying mercy. I'm just, oh, oh, it's coming from my belly. I just wanted God. Oh. And, I'm, I'm, I'm a little bit distracted because I came with a few friends. We drove a couple hundred miles to see him. And I'm thinking, you know, it's, they're going to want to go out and talk, and, you know, eat something, and, and an hour goes by. And I'm just, I'm just on the, still kneeling. And, and lying down. And I look up, and an hour goes by. And I go, oh, I gotta, I gotta like, just out of, you know, just, sensibility to them. You know, consideration. So I, I get up and sit in the chair. I turn around. My friends, a few feet over, they're still on the ground. Oh. I don't even know. I don't even hear them because they don't hear me. I mean, it's just, it's just all me and the Lord. And I went, I looked around. The entire church, I didn't even know it, was on the floors, all over the aisle. And I went, oh my gosh, what is this? I mean, it's just, barely I heard a noise here and there. There's three to five hundred people groaning and laying down. It's an hour later. Nobody left. No ministry time. No music. No, come Holy Spirit. No nothing. Just a guy in Ravenhills up there, and just, up there praying privately. I got to know Leonard Ravenhills some years later, and got to have maybe 20 dinners with him over the, I know him quite well, some number of years later. And I said, man, the first time I heard you, I said, it rocked me. And with humility, he says, that's happened a lot of times. He says, well, you know what the key is? He goes, Brainerd. He goes, he'll find, tell you the key. He didn't know I was a Brainerd kind of fanatic. And even because of Leonard Ravenhills book, you know, and I didn't even have the nerve to tell him all that, you know, I was just looking at him. He goes, if you will see the spirit of prayer in private, it will be manifest in power in public. And so, I'm going, oh man. I said, how can I get this? He goes, only one way. Only one way. Not just long hours of prayer. Your whole life. Your whole life. Your words, your eyes. Your whole life. Give it to the Holy Spirit. Don't go to the prayer room, and then you live on your own. It costs you everything. If you want it, I'm going, oh man. Man, yeah, I want it, except for, I really want it, but the doing of it is a different issue. And so, anyway, so, I got this. So now, it's 1982. It's a few years after. I've only had that one experience where I felt the power of the Holy Spirit in prayer. And there's Romans 8.26. Let's put that verse up. Romans 8.26 on the PowerPoint, and you can look at it up in your own Bible. It says here, the Spirit helps our weakness. We don't know how to pray as we ought. The Spirit intercedes for us, and another translation says, through us, with groanings too deep for words. This is not tongues. I like tongues. This is not tongues. When you're in groaning travail, you don't want to kick into tongues. It will quench what's happening in you. You don't kick into tongues, and you don't, it's not, it's not, some people hear travail, so they think, ah! It's not that. That will quench it. It will go away if you do that. It's the opposite of tongues and screaming. It's the Spirit moving through you in power. And again, you don't want to talk. You don't want to preach. You don't want to yell. You don't want to do tongues. You don't want to pull out Ephesians 1 and say, Father of glory, release this. No! Shh! Just let it be. Just stay down there. The guy next to you won't even know it's happening to you. It's quite quiet. It's inside of you, coming out of you. You'll have tears flowing. But you won't be doing all the other things because if you get active and verbal, and you start doing everything, it will literally lift. I've had this thing touch me a number of times over the years. Well, the first time was Leonard Ravenhill. And I, it wasn't that it touched me. My point was, I didn't have any power afterwards. It just so riveted my inner man, that hour. And then I had the vision of what could happen. Then I was discontent with everything. Everything was ugly to me. Meaning, the biggest ministry in the world. Hey, the big ministry, the famous guy. Nothing satisfied me. Not really ugly in that sense, but nothing satisfied me. I go, I want Ravenhill stuff or nothing. Ravenhill or bust. It wasn't Ravenhill. I wanted that realm or forget it. I don't want anything else less than that. Well, a couple years go by. Again, that was maybe about 78 when I first ran to Ravenhill. Now it's 82. It's four years later. And I get to know him in about 1990. So it's some many years, eight or nine years later before I become friends with him. Which was a great privilege for me as a person to know him in that kind of way. But here it is. It's the last six months in St. Louis before I moved to Kansas City. Last six months. And I've had this groaning, travail, brainer kind of equation. The power of God hits me in prayer. The power of God will hit the public service like it did with brainer. I had this equation. I watched Ravenhill do it. And he talked about it. But I'd never personally had the anointing of prayer in that sense for souls. And so for four years I'm trying to get it. And I did the right thing. Going to prayer meetings. Bridling my eyes. Bridling my words. Reading the word of God. Lining up with the Holy Spirit. That's how you get ready for it. And then I'm just praying long hours. When my mind would wander I'd bring it back. And I'd wander it, bring it back. A lot of friends, hey let's go do this and that. No. I'm staying in prayer. I'm going to pray hours a day. And I'm going to position myself for this thing to hit me. And so one year, two, three, not that it takes four years because Finney's story is it happened to the young converts quickly because there was a spirit of revival taking place in that region where thousands were coming to the Lord. Well, here it is in March 1982. It's about six months before we moved to Kansas City. I'm on a Saturday night meeting. We always Saturday night prayer, about five of us. And, you know, our prayer meeting's five. We were excited when five came to a prayer meeting. I mean, that was huge. And we'd pray for a couple hours. And on Saturday night just pray the standard stuff. Lord break in the spirit of conviction. You know, touch them. And mostly it was pretty dull and dead all the time. But this one night there's five of us in the sanctuary. We don't pray on the microphone. Just kind of paste around up front and everybody's kind of kneeling. And this groaning hits me for the first time. The other four guys don't even know it. Again, I'm not making any noise they even hear. And I'm weeping. And I'm just, you know, I'm not trying to be quiet, but I'm not trying to be loud. It's just an internal thing. And I thought, ah. And I was praying for souls and the power of God was on my spirit. And I went, when it was over, I said, well, you know, being a bit of a student of this stuff and a, you know, an amateur kind of scientist experiment of holy things here. I go, I'm going to see if this works tomorrow. I didn't tell my friends. They didn't even know what was happening. I was just over on the ground. They could have seen me kind of heaving a little bit, but they didn't hear me say I didn't do anything. And again, the last thing you want to do is like, ah. Hey, guys, I'm groaning. It's on me. Look, I'm anointed. You don't want to do that kind of stuff. I didn't care about what they thought. I wanted to touch God and see if power would happen. So the thing, I don't even tell them. We go away, and my eyes are all, you know, I've been weeping for an hour. They go, wow, what happened to you over there? I said, ah, just, I don't know, just, you know, just touching my heart. They go, wow, you know, you look pretty like a wreck. I go, well, there you go, you know. But I didn't tell them. Next morning, I go to the church. I go, oh, Lord, is it possible that my holy equation is right from reading the guys in the first and second great awakening? And so I, I'm so excited. I get up and preach, and it is remarkable. For the first time ever, we had a church of about 500 people. I'm about 26, 27 years old. I guess I'm 27 at that time, and 26, and not that it matters, but I just like to get my story straight. And so I'm, our little church there, and I'm preaching. And first, I've never had this happen before, about 500 people present. One or 200 people in the congregation in the middle of my message. They're gently weeping, and I'm hearing sniffles everywhere. It's not dramatic. I'm not telling some story of some guy who died, and the hero rescued them, and the father showed up. Nothing like that. I'm just talking about the death and resurrection of Jesus. Nothing, I'm not being emotional at all. One or 200 people, I'm watching it. They're weeping throughout the congregation. This is like brainer stuff. I'm so excited. And I can hear them gently sobs and cries and sniffles through the congregation. And nobody's ever seen that happen in our congregation. And at the end, I am so encouraged because I can see it. I can feel it on me. I'm thinking, wow, I don't know what's happening. And so, I said, anybody wants to come to the Lord? And we did that every week. And normally, every single week, one or two people came to Jesus, every single week, out of a congregation of about 500 people. This time, 20 people. Never have we had a number like that. They come up and they're just weeping and they're standing up there. Unbelievers, not rededication. Unbelievers. And they're just up there, they're shaking and they're weeping. I'm going, oh my gosh, this is real. And again, I don't even tell anybody because nobody's tracking with me on this brainer thing. You know, a few friends were, but I didn't even want to make it a big point. I thought, oh, this is so, so for next Friday night. Nothing. Okay. It's just, it's, you know, sit like normal, which is good because the normal is the context for the unusual to hit. You got to keep the normal going and it's not what you do in the prayer room. It's what you do out of the prayer room matters intensely to what you do in the prayer room. But in the prayer room, it's not just kind of like checking out the music and kind of enjoying it. You're actually, you're taking the reins of your mind and you're talking to God when everything in you wants to be scattered and just unfocused. And that's the effort part right there and showing up and doing it and then living like that outside of the prayer room. Living in a way that's in unity outside the prayer room like you're in the prayer room. You can't have two different lives. You can't have your prayer room life and then your other life that isn't, I don't mean in scandalous sin, that's just frivolous. And then we have our prayer room life. It doesn't work that way because the Spirit doesn't move in and out like that. He touches the whole person. You know, E.M. Bounds who is one of the great, Ravenhill and E.M. Bounds are the two guys that have preached most on prayer in books. E.M. Bounds and Linda Ravenhill that I want to recommend. As a matter of fact, we're putting all of E.M. Bounds' works because they're public domain on our website tonight. E.M. Bounds is 1800s. Ravenhill's 1900s. Ravenhill talks about E.M. Bounds all the time. Ravenhill's best friend was A.W. Tozer just for some of you who might be able to put that together. So Ravenhill in his books is talking about E.M. Bounds and Brainerd and Wesley and Whitfield all these great revival guys that are my heroes. And so E.M. Bounds one of his main points because he's got eight little books about 100 pages apiece. Again, we've got them all up on our internet tonight if you want them. I highly recommend them because that's what said Ravenhill was E.M. Bounds. He said, that's where the light struck me. The fire I got from E.M. Bounds that saintly man in the 1800's. And I thought Ravenhill had everything E.M. Bounds had because I've read them both a lot and love it. But E.M. Bounds says this one of his favorite statements. It takes, the whole man has to be involved in prayer. Because he doesn't just drop in pray five minutes on the microphone do something else. The whole man and the whole life is involved in his prayer life. What he does all day radically matters with what he does in that room. And so E.M. Bounds said that's a very demanding statement. But E.M. Bounds would know. So I'm back in St. Louis. It happens March 82. I am so excited because I know it's real. Although I already know it's real, but it's personal. So about eight weeks go by and I do my daily prayer. We have prayer meetings every single day in St. Louis in those days. Five or ten people at them. Three people, whatever. And one Saturday night about eight weeks later it hits me again. I go, oh my goodness. I'm up there. Five, six people. I don't say a word to them. I'm groaning. I'm weeping. Tears are profuse. They don't even know it. Because again, they can see my body is kind of heaving a little bit. Weird over there, but leave him alone and see what happens. And afterwards, you know, my eyes are all swollen up again. And they go, what happened? I go, I don't know. You know, just kind of that, I don't know, you know. And because you don't want it to be an image. You don't want it to be a reputation. You don't want it to be your new calling card. You don't want it. That all gets in the way of the Holy Spirit. It really, really does. I'm just saying that just so you don't get excited and then do the shortcut version because the shortcut version isn't real. This thing needs to be real or it's not real. There you go. And so, that thing hits. So the next morning, I go, Lord, is it possible this is going to happen again? I don't want to tell any of the guys. They saw my eyes all puffed up but I didn't say a word. They said, oh, it's just a good prayer time. Okay. Next morning, I go, oh Lord, this is going to be awesome. And I preach. Same thing happened about one or two hundred people. They're weeping. And I don't mean openly just screaming in the congregation but I can hear sobbing and sniffling all the congregation. It's only happened twice. Both times the night after. That kind of powerful prayer. And I said, Brainerd was right. Finney was right. Leonard Ravenhill, you're right. It's real. This is how it works. So, I've got it down. I'm clear. I know what my life is about. I'm going to give myself to this. I'm not going to just be, it's like Ravenhill said, don't be an organizer. Be an agonizer with God in secret. Agonize for souls. Stay with it when your mind has a hundred other places to go. Bridle it and bring it back and cry out for souls and tell the power to hit your spirit. And so, I said, okay, got it. Six months later, we moved to Kansas City. Go to, start prayer meetings every night. You know, seven nights a week. Here we're going. You know, we're six months into it now. Now it's March 1983. It's a year later from when it hit me in St. Louis. We've been in Kansas City about six months. Our church is about three, four, five hundred people. Just young people there those first four, five months of the church. And Easter Sunday. Okay. First Easter Sunday, I wake up at six o'clock in the morning. Get ready for my Easter sermon. Of course, I worked on it the day before. Woke up at six. Alarm went off. Got up at six. I just sit there for a second and I just said, oh, God, give me souls. Because I figured Easter Sunday, new church, you know, bring unbelievers. I go, God, give me souls. Ten seconds into it. Ten seconds into it. Most amazing thing happens. That groaning that hit me in St. Louis twice a year earlier. Hits me. I start crying for souls. And I kneel down and I think, wow, you know, it's just this, Romans 8 26. This groaning, this travail. Again, it's not loud, but it's, it, I didn't make it up. It came just suddenly. And it goes one hour. And I'm weeping for souls. It goes two hours. Two hours straight. It's eight o'clock. I gotta, you know, I gotta start getting some notes together a little bit. I mean, I got a little bit ready the night before. And, again, it's the first Easter Sunday of this new church. I'm in a new town. I don't know most of the people in the church yet. It's only been here six months. So, I decided to go ahead and drive to the church building, which was over in Overland Park. So, I get there. I drive. I'm driving the car. And this thing just, I'm still weeping. Groaning. I'm going, man, this is, I mean, I would pay a million dollars for this. I don't want to stop it. I mean, this is what I, this is what I want. It's a gift of God. So, I get, no one's at the church yet. I think the church service is at ten. Yeah, it is. And, ten o'clock. So, I get there a little early. I go in the back of my office. I just kneel down. I say, Lord, give me souls. And this power, groaning too deep for words. And I'm weeping. Again, not making any noise. Nobody can hear me. And I just, it's just too deep for words. It's, it's the spirit was laboring through me. One hour goes by. The church service starts at one hour. You know, the three, four leaders knock on the door. Hey, are you making announcements today? Oh, come back later. Door's locked. They go, Mike, hey, are you ready? You in there? Yeah, yeah, later. Just go, go, go. Is everything okay? Yeah, go. Now it's 10. It won't lift. It's now 11. I mean, you know, you can only do Easter Sunday special four times in a row until the guy knocks on the door and says, hey, are you coming out? It's like, I mean, my eyes are swollen up. I've been weeping for four hours. You know, from six to eight and then nine to 11. He goes, what's wrong with you? You can't go out there like that. I go, who cares? I'm a happy man. I'm going out there. So I get up there, I comb my hair and, you know, is there anything wrong? No, no, nothing's wrong. Everything's great, excellent. I think this is going to be the most powerful day of my life. Those other St. Louis, they were an hour and I don't know how the time works and I saw this manifestation of power I'd never seen, only two times in my ministry. So this time, it's a year later, it's four hours, it's gripping, it's sovereign. And I go, oh, this is what I want. I get up there and I open my passage. It, you know, and da, da, da, da, you know, I'm about ten minutes in or whatever. It's horrible. It's not dead, it's double dead. I mean, real dead. It is oppressed. It's, I don't know what's happening. I stop. Again, this church of maybe 400 people at that time and I go, Easter Sunday morning, they don't know me. I don't really hardly know any of them yet. Only been in the city a few months. I go, in the name of Jesus, I take authority on this oppressing spirit. You know, you know, the visionaries are going, oh wow, this guy's a case. I mean, they're thinking, he's a weird. I don't care. I have the greatest prayer thing happening in my life and I'm about to see revival break out and I'm not going to let some little oppression get in the way. So, I said, in the name of Jesus, I bind it. There you go. Back to the passage. You know, Jesus rose from the dead. Nothing. It's bad. I go a few more minutes longer. I quit. I quit halfway into it. It's horrible. I said, amen. What's going to end with that? And, I am, I am in pain because of what happened that morning. I had such expectation. I'm in anguish and confusion. I'm up there and I'm going, oh, man, I said, you know, does anybody want to receive the Lord? Not a person. Because it's a, it's an oppressed atmosphere. It really is. And I said, well, okay. I waited. I didn't want to give anybody a chance. I actually said this, if you're willing to be willing. Nobody was willing to be willing. I thought, man, I waited. Lord, surely, I know there's a miracle happening right now, but I can't put it together. Well, dismissed everybody. Everybody's milling around about five minutes later. I'm just sitting up front and people coming up, hey, we're new at the church here. What's your name? You're Mike? Okay, we heard about you. I am so depressed. I'm meeting some new people that are coming around and there's about a hundred people, you know, a big front area like this and milling around. And I'm going, I am so confused, you know, meeting a few new people. And I look at the hundred people, kids running back and forth as the service has been over five minutes and there's this lady, there's these three, there's this guy. I'll just say it this way. The guy said it there. His eyes are closed. So he's obviously in prayer. So, okay. So I go up to him and I just put my hand on him. I said, Lord, touch him. I am so discouraged. I go, touch him. The guy goes, ah, he falls down. He says, God have mercy, forgive me, sobbing. And he goes, whoa, what was that? So I knelt down and I said, Lord, just touch him. He said, Lord, I've sinned. I need your salvation. I went, I mean, weeping. Wow, the area is about this big. So I walked down about 10 or 15 feet. Again, there's 100 people milling around at the end of the service. There's a lady. I whispered in her ear, did you want prayer? Her eyes were closed. She said, yes. I said, okay. I said, Lord, touch her. One finger on her. She fell down and screamed. Oh, God, forgive me. Oh, I need Jesus. I went, my goodness. I mean, there's still the people all running around. Nobody's even catching that, you know. There's one guy there, 10 or 15 feet later, this lady got screamed on her knees. Ah, crying, please forgive me. And I went, I mean, they're both brand new people here. You know, they're unbelievers brought. Third guy, I walked clear at the end. I already, I'm kind of getting on to what's happening. So I just, I didn't say anything to him. I just touched him. I go, Lord, touch him. Same thing. He fell on the ground and screamed out, God, save me. Jesus, I need you. Three first-time visitors. They did not know each other. I walk away. I go, I am so confused what just happened. I go back, and I'm bringing my story to an end here. And then I went, Alan is going to share just a few moments, and Brian, a couple moments, and Dwayne's going to say something. But, again, the church believes the church the church believes the church believes the church believes the church I said, actually, he did. He goes, oh, I know. He set you up to go fishing. You know, winning souls. And I said, he did. I mean, in a way you don't understand. He goes, oh no, he told me that you'd understand this vision that I'm going to give to you in a minute because he set you up for it because he's teaching you something. He said, you were in the fishing boat with the Lord and you went out to sea. You saw a net there. The net means This great mass harvest, you know, the net is large numbers of people coming in. He said, you grabbed the net. Of course, that's exactly what was happening in my heart. He goes, and the Lord was in the boat and He grabbed your hand. He said, no, no, no, the net's not ready, not yet. Not yet. It's in a point in time. He said, but I'll give you this, and He gave you a fish hook. He said, what am I supposed to do with this? And the Lord said, use it. He went to the side of the boat, and He says, and you swung it three times, and it pierced three people right through the heart. He goes, you pay attention, there's three people that are going to get saved today. Again, there's a hundred people running around up here, He's way back there, He doesn't see, nobody sees these people. I go, yeah, I believe it. I believe it. He said, it was a supernatural authority that's going to pierce three people today. He said, but here's what the Lord said. He said, it's not time to throw the net, but that time is coming. He said, God's raising up a youth movement, and you will throw the net. I don't mean just me. I'm talking about the net will be thrown by this youth movement. He said, and the Lord told me, He looked after He gave you that hook, He told me, He said, tell Him this, in the coming days, at the Lord's time, the conviction will be 1,000 times greater in that day than it was this morning. I mean, those three were pierced through in the most remarkable way. And He says, but tell Him, He must pray and persevere in prayer for this to happen. And so, I walked out of that experience and I said, Lord, I know that I know what this is about. And so, as we're going into the prayer room, I'm going to put up another verse here. It's the verse, Isaiah, well, let's put up Zechariah 12, verse 10. I'll just be real brief on these, because I know that I've talked long enough and I want these guys to share just a few moments. Zechariah 12, here's what it says. God says, I will pour out the spirit of grace and the spirit of supplication. The spirit of supplication is the spirit of prayer. Supplication and prayer is the same way, is the same idea. The Lord says, I'm going to pour out an anointing of prayer. Again, you can't contrive it, you can't make it, don't try to fake it, don't try to get 10 of you in the room and see if you can do it. I mean, let's all groan now and see if we can do it in a few days in a row and see if we got it. No, no, don't run with the kite to see if you can catch the air. This isn't the sort of thing you do with that. But I'm telling you, He has promised His church the spirit of prayer. It's a supernatural anointing and when that thing touches, it will break out. Now, this thing has hit me a number of times over the years, but it hasn't broken forth in power in the congregation, but it's hit me a number of times. I know it, I don't want to act like a pro, but I'm familiar with this. It's happened a number of times over the years and I watch the next week or two and always, always in the next week or two, there's an unusual activity of God that takes place and I don't know what I'm birthing when it happens, but it always releases something unusual every single time it happens. And there's a weeping, there's a groaning, it's giving of God, it comes and goes when it wills because it's the Holy Spirit who's doing it. You can't make it, you can't fake it, you don't contrive it, but we can do this. Isaiah 64, 7, Isaiah said, who is the man or woman that stirs themselves up in prayer? We can be in the prayer room, sitting on row 10, and when the singers are singing and the guys or gals on the microphone, we can be agreeing. And when they're not, we can be praying and engaging, and again, I'm talking about in our inner man, talking to God, and then when we leave the prayer room, we stay in the Spirit and we don't say, well, we're out of the prayer room, let's go, you know, let's just go quench the Spirit for a few hours and then come back to the prayer room and try to shake it off. And if we will live that way as a community, I'm telling you, God has an anointing of prayer, of groaning, of Romans 8, 26, it's not tongues, it's not yelling, it's not volume, it's not an emphatic tone, like, and the glory of God come, that is not that, it's not that. Those things are okay, but it's not that. It is a supernatural, impossible to imitate activity of the Spirit that always releases power every single time into the kingdom of God. And as a community, I'm saying, Lord, we are in a season, I believe, it is time to develop our private prayer lives outside the prayer room, it's time to pray in the prayer room to really give ourself and to maintain our composure in the Spirit, I mean, our life in God with the Spirit when we're not in the prayer room, and as a community, let's go for this together. Brian, come on up. Where's Brian? Yes, let's grab a mic. Alan, Dwayne, you guys come on up here too. Then we're going to pray for Act School, don't forget to pray for them before they leave. We were with Lorne Cunningham last week. Two weeks ago. Oh, two weeks ago, okay. In Colorado Springs, and he was, we stayed up one night late with him. Really late. Well, he's on Hawaii time, so we're dead at 10, it's 6 in the evening, hey, how you guys doing, you know? So he was telling us glory of God stories about Duncan Campbell. Yeah. And Duncan Campbell just went to be the Lord some years ago. He led the great Hebrides Revival, which is the islands off the coastline of Scotland. It was one of the great revivals of the 20th century, was the Hebrides Revival, and he knew the man well, Ravenhill knew him well too, because Ravenhill talked quite a bit about Duncan Campbell. Well, Lorne was saying that he and Ravenhill and Duncan would do meetings together, and they would just talk all night, and he called Duncan his spiritual father. Lorne did. That's what Lorne called Duncan Campbell, his spiritual father. Because Ravenhill would have called Tozer his spiritual father. It's a pretty good group. Pretty good group. And so they were sharing, he was sharing with us just stories that Duncan would tell, and we were talking about it earlier today, just how it stirred something in us when even Lorne was sharing it, just the stories. And one of the stories that he told, and Duncan Campbell is the key figure of the Hebrides Revival. Against the area of Scotland, in the islands. Right off the island of Scotland. And so what ends up happening is Duncan Campbell is preaching in a meeting, actually in Northern Ireland and not Scotland at the time. And in Northern Ireland, as he was about to get up to preach, the Lord speaks to him that he needs to go to an island called Bavari or Bavarni or something like that. Of the Hebrides. In the Hebrides Isles. And so he just gets a phrase, he looks at the guy next to him and says, I have to go right now to this place. Because the Lord just told him this phrase in this city. And so what ends up happening is Duncan goes, leaves that night, gets on a little plane, hops over to an island. But the island that he's supposed to go to is so small that there's no planes that will fly there. And so instead he gets a fisherman to take him on a boat over to this small island. That he's never been before, that he just hears by the Holy Spirit to go there. He's never been there once in his life. And he gets there and he says, there's a young boy standing on the dock as if he was waiting for Duncan Campbell. And as he gets off into the dock, he says, I'm, my name is Duncan Campbell. Go tell your pastor. The young boy says, there is no pastor in our church, but the elders are waiting for you up there. And remember, these guys, he had never even heard of the island. He had never gotten an invitation from them. He never told anybody. He never told anybody. He gets up and they prepared a meal for him as if they were already expecting him that day. So he gets up to the, to the, to the top of the hill where he meets with the elders, has dinner with them. And it says, the story goes that they had been praying for three days straight. And on the first of those three days, three days prior to that day, that there was a confidence in one of the elders that Duncan Campbell would show up to their island. And when he did that, God would visit that small island and then touch all the church meeting without telling Duncan Campbell saying he will be here on Wednesday night and Duncan Campbell actually made it, but he didn't get the announcement, but he didn't even get the invitation. The Lord had just spoken to his heart, go to this island right now. And he gets there, he gets there on time and he's a big, he begins to preach during the meeting, evening meeting services as he's preaching nothing. I mean, it sounds like kind of what Mike was sharing, oppressed. Nothing happening. You know, he was expecting some great big move of God. And so as he, so Lauren really stressed this, he goes, so he preaches and he's nothing, you know, one or 200 people are there, nothing. He dismisses the meeting. You're like, what did I come here for? He dismisses the meeting. And as he's walking out to others, and you have to remember, I guess, I mean, the way Duncan or Lauren told it to us is in those islands, it's kind of like Alaska at certain parts of the year, even at 11 PM at night, it's still bright outside. The sun is still shining. And as he was walking out of the meeting, he just looks at the elder and says, what was this about? Nothing happened. And as they're walking out, the elder says, but wait. And then the elder says, but wait, look. And as he's looking at me, a couple hundred people are shuffling out of the church auditorium, walking through the field, walking through the fields. At the same time, the couple hundred that had just walked out of the church meeting all fall on the ground under the power of the presence of the Holy Spirit. They all get slain in the Spirit simultaneously. Boom! The Spirit hits them as they're walking home, back to their farms and their fields. He says at 11 PM that night, that's when that happened, they all fell out under the power of God, under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and he says it was not until 4.30 the next morning that the first person got off the ground, and the way Duncan Campbell put it, and he was soundly converted. That every single one of the people who were unsaved, they fell to the ground walking home, and they hours later come to groaning, travailing, and every one of them were saved. But it happens on the way home, walking out, not in the meeting. But then the meetings went on for months and months, and thousands got saved. And you have to remember that there was a bathing of prayer on the island in the months and the weeks and the years beforehand. I mean, there's stories told of even two blind sisters in their 80s who had been praying for a revival for so many years, and they had a prophetic word in their own heart that revival would come to the island of the Hebrides. And they would say after those meetings began to happen, God's presence would be so manifested on the island. Apart from preaching, I mean, I remember hearing one story from those days, that a dance hall, I guess that's like a nightclub today, or a bar today, that a dance hall on the other side of town where the preaching meetings were happening, all of a sudden the fear of God would come into the dance hall, and the people would run out of the dance hall, and they don't know where else to go. So they would go into the police station saying, I don't know what to do, but I know there's something wrong with my life, almost as if they were turning themselves into the police station. I mean, thousands were getting saved this way just by the anointing in the atmosphere of the city on the farms and the bars and the dance halls. And it says that everything, what began to happen is bars began to shut down, crime began to cease, that they didn't even need to have police officers anymore in those islands anymore because the power of God had so touched that island. And it was all bathed in prayer during that time when you hear the stories of what God was doing, even preceding the outpouring of the Spirit. The real important story is what Ravenhill talked about these two sisters many times. He wrote it in his book several times, and in person, he called them the two blind sisters. They were blind for many years, they were both in their 80s when Ravenhill knows them, but they had been interceding daily for about 20 years, just these two ladies in their little cottage that the revival would come to the Hebrides 20 years later than the three days all the guys get together and they say it. But these ladies every day cried out and the power then hit 20 years later. And it was that prayer, the prayer meetings, that lead to kind of like what you were talking about earlier, Psalm 132 reality, where in the next stage, obviously in fullness, but in some measure, they were able to touch something of the presence of God in their generation. And even for us, even here in Kansas City, even here in America, I still have to believe that God is not finished with America yet, that God still wants to do something, even on our midst, that God wants to give to His people a spirit of prayer, that as we contend in the place of intercession, in the place of fasting, in that place of intercessory worship, that God would find a habitation in the midst of the praise of His people. And even here, what Mike was sharing earlier, that we can see in but a few moments, 300,000 people coming to the saving knowledge of Jesus. I mean, when Mike says that, I always think of the St. Patrick's Day parade that we're part of. And the St. Patrick's Day parade, I think with all of the procession and all the people surrounding it is 150,000 people. It's one of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in all of America. And I always think that number is massive. I've been down there, you know, doing the evangelism stuff. But it's two times that number that Mike was even sharing, about 300,000 people coming to Jesus. And I want to believe for that in Kansas City even. Obviously, we don't know the timing, but we know that night and day prayer, the irrefutable law of night and day prayer is that what goes up must come down. And at some point, God is going to answer the cry of His saints that have been prayed here for 12 years and beyond. I mean, even Mike was sharing with Wes Adams and different people have been holding prayer meetings for 30, 40 years for a revival in Kansas City. And we just want to... And that thing that Bob Jones, when the Lord was in that fishing boat and I grabbed the net and the Lord said, no, here's the hook. You get three today and you'll pierce them in a supernatural way. But the net is coming in the days ahead and it will be 1,000 times stronger than those three that were pierced. And it will touch this city. But he said, the Lord said, tell him they must pray. This thing will be released through prayer. Dwayne, do you like this? This stirs me. And I'm actually... The reason I asked him because he's the one that's stirring all of us up the last week. He's been set on fire and kind of troubling the rest of us. So we're all kind of waking up. So we so appreciate how the Lord's touching him. Well, I'm actually started the fast early because I've got to do some travel. So I'm on day 16. So I'm over all of the detox. I know you guys got headaches and pains. Mine are all gone. I feel great right now. Actually, just before I started the fast, Alan talked to me about reading Ian Bounds. And I want to highly recommend everybody read Ian Bounds. We put all eight books on the Internet today. They're eight 100 page books. That was the guy that Ravenhill was touched by most. And those books are causing me to reach for something I've never reached before in intercession. I've been here for 12 years. And the phrase that's been going through me is the effective fervent prayer of the righteous avails much. The effective fervent. We've been talking about this. That means engagement. And that does not mean the person on the microphone is the only one in the room engaged. It is we all of us sitting in that prayer room during intercession meetings. We are engaged. Now I've been practicing this for a couple weeks. It's hard work to stay focused. There's distraction in the room. There's great worship. It's hard to stay focused. But I am picturing myself standing and praying to God on behalf of somebody that I'm never maybe will ever, ever meet. I'm not praying for my own meetings. I'm not praying for the next conference we're going to do. I'm standing on behalf of somebody who's blind, who's going to hell, and who's crying out because they don't know Jesus. And I'm standing focused praying for them. I'm saying, Father, send your spirit to them. Give them the knowledge of Jesus for they have no hope without you. And then I start thinking about grandma. I bring myself back again and I stay focused. I prayed for Indonesia. I have no plans of going to Indonesia. But I've been asking God, send workers to Indonesia. Raise up the church. Go to the heart of Islam in Indonesia and tell them with anointing about your son. I've done it for 30 minutes one day. And about 15 minutes into it, an ease came. I did not get the gripping, but an ease came. And I was pacing for 30 minutes and I felt an ease and a grace. You mean just on the inside? On the inside to pray. And I'm in a Spanish prayer meeting, so I can't even understand what's being prayed. So you're in a Spanish prayer meeting down at the New International All Nations prayer room and you're praying for Indonesia, the Muslims to get saved. Yes. Wow. But I feel a grace and an ease. And I'm wanting to stir us up into engaged prayer. We have to not only think that intercession happens from the microphone, because we can't all get on the microphone in a prayer meeting. But me sitting in the room, never getting on the microphone, my prayers are rising before a God who hears every cry that goes forth. Every prayer. It's the two 80-year-old blind women that did for 20 years in the Hebrides revival camp. Absolutely. They never prayed on the mic. No, it's true. Never. We've got to get a definition in our midst of intercession that when I ask God sitting quietly, it thunders in the throne room. It thunders in the throne room. And He will not deny one of our prayers if we ask. The effective fervent prayer of the righteous. Holiness has to be the goal of this community. Purity has to be the cry of our hearts. And we must war against everything that comes on our way in regards to tainting our spirits. It's the E.M. Bounds thing. He said that the whole person prays, not just for the hour. It's the 23 hours before the hour. The whole person is involved in spiritual prayer. And I'm just buying into this concept. I'm just actually getting my head around the idea what I did last night matters when I get to the prayer room. It's not whether it's sin or not. Is it enriching my spirit? Is it feeding life to my spirit that I'm bright the next morning when I go to the prayer room? And I'm just actually just getting my head all around this going. My whole life is a prayer and intercession. Tomorrow morning's prayer meeting to the folks that go really started a day ago in terms of their spirit and what they're doing. It's just freshly coming to me, this concept in a new way. And I've been doing IHOP now for 12 years. And I'm feeling in 2002, Mike told the story he did tonight and I bought in. I'm believing for our inner city. I want to give you a vision for inner city. I think we're in, I know we're in the top 10 of the most of most murders in the city, in our city. We're only a small city compared to per capita. I think, I don't know if it's per capita, I think it's our city. We've got addictions out of control, alcoholism, crack, coke, everything. Our suburbias, they're in moral decay, families are split apart. This city needs that spirit of conviction. And that's what we as intercessors are committing to. And I want to remind you, Bob Jones called over the Midwest prophetic and intercession. The redemptive gift over the Midwest is intercession. And we must now embrace it at a greater level. I believe there's a plum lining, like Mike said, these fast plum liners. And one of the things he's highlighting is the redemptive gift of intercession that we must embrace. And I'm wanting to lay hold of this in a greater measure. And that our life is a cry of intercession. And for me, I want to embrace this at a greater level. And I feel like I am spoiled to be in that prayer room. Our worship has significantly matured. We have incredible worship. I believe it's a powerful tool of warfare when we stand and we agree with who the knowledge of God is. And in that, I'm wanting to dial up now intercession, sitting in that chair, thundering before the throne room. Every prayer, you must have confidence that every one of our prayers is thundering before that prayer room. Yeah, we get offered in weakness, but it ascends in power. I mean, just in our weak frames, you might just be there on row 10 just saying, Lord, break in on Indonesia. But it hits the throne in power. It really does. One more story. About four days ago, I am just incredibly weak and I'm dull. I just, I'm like, uh. So I'm just sitting in the chair. And probably about day 12, day 11, day 12. And I'm just like, oh my gosh, I feel horrible. And so I say, I got to at least get up and walk. And so I'm walking back and forth. And I'm asking, I'm, I'm, I have not, how do I say this? South America does not always answer emails when you want them to, I'll say that nicely. And so I'm just, I'm just, God, open up the doors and tell me what to do. And it was the weakest prayer. I'm telling you, it was so weak and it was just horrible. I just feel dead on the inside. I'm, you know, you just, I'm fasting. So you just feel, sometimes, not all the time. Most of the time. Two hours later, two hours later, doors open up. And I am telling you, I was shocked. I'm on the phone talking to somebody and I'm going, as I'm talking, I'm going, I just prayed this two hours ago. I've been waiting for months to get, I mean, two, it's been over two months and I prayed this two hours ago. And it was dull. My spirit was dull and it was answered in two hours. I'm telling you, what we're doing is the wisest, the most necessary thing that the earth needs right now is for the church to embrace the call to intercession. And I believe it is one of the things the Lord's plumb lining in our midst. So when we're sitting in the room, whether you're agreeing with the guy up there, but I think we want corporate agreement with the guy in the microphone. And if you've got another burger praying for Indonesia that go that direction, but don't just coast and do nothing, don't play video games or just be bop around, pray when you're there. I mean, actually it takes effort to stir yourself up to go there. I'm a, I'm a Twitter guy. I'm a text guy. Facebook? No, I'm not. I have a Facebook, but I never use it. I want to encourage you for a season in an intercession prayer meeting, take your phone, turn it off, take your computer and close it. Those are the two big distractions in our prayer room. And I, I'm a guy that sends texts in the prayer room. So, but I want to encourage you take the both of them and put them in your bag, get them out of your reach and then engage with the Lord. Give yourself 30 minutes. I'm going to focus and I'm not going to, I'm not going to look around. I'm going to focus, just try it. And I want to encourage you, stir yourself up in this and then get vision for it. Read these books, Mike's highlighted tonight, and then dream the dreams of God and buy in with your spirit going, that's what I'm reaching for. And I'm going to stir myself. I'm going to reach for this. If you're saying, I can't remember those guys that Mike said, go to our prophetic history that I gave a couple of years ago on the, on the website. On the mikebeckle.org, we have all the prophetic on the one on apostolic preaching and the gift of intercession. I have all the names of Brainerd and Wesley and Whitfield, all their little things about them. If you said, I can't remember any of those names, what are they? Just go to the website again under prophetic history and look under apostolic preaching and the gift of intercession. And I have all these stories written out for you. If you can't remember those names, because reading these revival stories, because you grew up in these things. I mean, these last 20 years, you've filled yourself with these revival stories. As a matter of fact, I came here in 1992, 93, my early twenties, and you recommended to us to read the diary of David Brainerd. And so I got it in that time and read it. And then I was also at Asbury Seminary right after that. And I was asked to raise up Asbury College. It had revivals that had hit five major revivals. The last one in 1970 that led to college teams going out all over the nation and wherever they would go, revival would hit. And they had become by the time it was 1996 when I was there, they had become quartets doing specials during the offering at churches. And so the guy who was anyway, they asked me, they said, would you raise up these teams again? And I said, yes. And Shelley was on that first team. And and so before it was January, before the summer of 1996, when I said, God, I don't know what I'm doing. I've got to get hold of your heart. And I consumed every revival book and every prayer book I could get my hands on. And so that summer, I was just as you said it. I was 27 years old in 1996 when the first time I'd ever experienced a gripping like that, I had I'd had a heart for souls and I cried, but I've never been laid hold of. And I remember we were we were at a very hard, dry Methodist church and my appendix burst. And so my appendix burst, I'm getting driven to the hospital to go into emergency surgery when all of a sudden I get gripped for souls. I'm weeping. I'm crying out for souls. I don't know what's going on. My brother-in-law is looking at me like, what in the world is happening? I don't know what's happening. I know I'm in pain and pain, and I know that it's not OK if everyone in the church doesn't get saved. And I just begin weeping and crying. And until they put the mask on, that's all I remember. I wake up that night at about a little bit after midnight to songs worshiping in our little in the little hospital room. I wake up and Shelly's standing over me. She's got a guitar and they're all worshiping. And as soon as my eyes open, she goes, it happened. It happened. And I don't know what's up, but I feel like the angel. I mean, I'm waking up. It just feels like heaven. I'm going, this is amazing. And Shelly begins to tell me the story of how the Lord just tell just one minute, just tell Shelly how the Lord saved everyone that night. I mean, everyone. And it was a very similar thing on the way to the hospital. And I'd always read about David Brainerd in the eight hour in the snow melting until blood was I mean, you read Brainerd and you're like. But and I've always asked for that to be apprehended, but it never happened, though I've wept for souls before. This was different. This wasn't a weeping for souls because I was asking, you know, in touch with her. It was a possession that I can't even describe. And so anyway, just say real quick and then it's strange because before Alan just came over and asked me about that, he's asking what year it was. I was actually just as Mike was sharing, I was remembering vividly this specific ministry trip that Alan is talking about. And so, you know, as I was not even 20, I was 19 at the time. I had just come to know the Lord during that year before. And as Alan said, he got hit with appendicitis and he had to be taken to the hospital. And our team, you know, was kind of we were very concerned for Alan and how he was doing. But we were also really concerned that we were going to have to do the whole meeting by ourselves without our team leader. And we were really young and hadn't even preached very much at that time. And I remember I just remember vividly seeing Alan being I just remember that when you were being take, you know, wheeled away on the hospital bed. The doctors are trying to figure out what's going on medically. But as there's a medical crisis, he is experiencing this groaning that Mike is talking about. And so he's you know, he's in the hospital. I go with the team to speak to this at this Methodist youth group. And they were this youth group was in horrible shape in terms of anyone that would have that had a really clear walk with the Lord. It was, you know, predominantly unsaved, but yet having to, you know, made to go to church kind of setting. And and I was the one that preached that night. And so as we were praying in the afternoon and then that evening, when Alan went into the hospital, the Lord gave, you know, just put a very basic message. It was really about it was had a couple targets of salvation and those that have known the Lord and have backslidden from him. And it was just kind of that kind of basic message. So I get up there to preach it. And I felt an anointing of the Lord as I was preaching it to this group of youth group. And our team was over there over on the side interceding. But I preach it and I finish a sermon and I feel like a weighty presence of the Lord that I had, you know, Alan had taught us to preach and to share our testimonies many times in many settings. And I'd done it in many settings, but I just felt something different. I finished the sermon and I gave an altar call for those that wanted to receive the Lord for the first time to come forward. And for those that knew the Lord but have have become backslidden to come forward. And I just feel the presence of the Lord just kind of hovering over us tonight. But and when I said that and because to Shelley, we I'm feeling it. There was. In my in my 20s, being gripped for souls like that, we went to place after place where God would grip us with prayer and we would see the breakthrough of souls. I mean, literally thousands of people say each summer because of prayer, because I'd come here in ninety two and ninety three and it hurt. Well, I'd heard you talk about Brainerd and I'd also taken Wes Adams on revival and I'd been struck. I'd read a Winky Pratt and his book on revival and every book I could read on revival. And I watched it work. And I'm being gripped now. I want to what I'm being hit with the last couple of weeks, I want to be gripped like that again, I don't want to. I just want it in my 20s, I experienced something that I want to in my 40s, I've done the marathon pace. I'm going to keep doing the marathon pace. I'm going to be a Simeon in the house of the Lord, but I need to be gripped now. I just feel the Lord's kindness, I just believe that the Lord's given us all little hints of what it is that he would give to us if we press in. And this was one of those hints for me and it marked our team and Alan during this time. So I finished the message and I give an altar call for those that want to know the Lord. And I give an altar call for those that are backslidden and I close my eyes and I feel the presence of the Lord and no one comes forward. And I was just, I was actually just, you know, like I couldn't believe it. I was like, this is, I can't believe nobody's coming forward. I've seen Alan groaning and heading into the surgery and our team is praying it. And I felt like I spoke clearly with the Lord put on my heart. And so I asked again, I don't know how many times I asked several times for people to come forward. Not one person came forward. And then finally, a young man sitting on the front row who is, I don't know, maybe 13 or 14 at the time. Sat on the front row and I heard him say, Shelly, Shelly. And I kind of took a few steps towards the front row and he just barely leaned over and he said, we can't get up. He said, we can't, we can't get up from our chairs. There's a weight, there's a weight on us, we can't get up. And so and so we just continued at the ministry time. I didn't even know what to do. So I was saying, Lord, you know, give them strength to come to stand. I mean, I didn't even know, you know, but the Lord, I don't know what you do to shake off the fear of the Lord. No, but I just, you know, I was a new believer and a new Alan Hood disciple. And so I just, you know, we've been told about ministry times. We weren't told about when the people can't get up out of their chairs and they're groaning. And so, you know, we just continued. I actually literally did not say like remove the fear of the Lord. I said, God, just give us strength to respond to you right now. And as I did, some came forward, some stayed in their chairs. But it was literally that that night, one hundred percent of the ones that were in that room got right with God. It was like that Leonard Ravenhill when we were all in that room and I didn't know anybody was on the floor. I didn't know one person was. I thought I was the only one everybody's waiting on me. The whole room was there. Never seen anything like that before. And then that led to the little guy, weak preacher, just kind of muttering some words. It was amazing. And then that led to the next day or two that we were there. The next night they brought their their friends, their unsaved. And it just went on for two or three days straight. But that was that's the moment that Alan, you need to share that dream. He is a very short dream. He had it last week. It's two weeks ago. I just sometime, you know, week, two weeks ago, the I had a dream where I was in the back of the prayer room. And I was by the sound booth and I was looking up at the worship team and looking up at our prayer room. And I knew that we it was unengaged. It just unengaged. It was unengaged. It just was not operating at the place where the Lord was wanting it to go. I knew that there was a place of the spirit of prayer that we needed. And and as I was looking specifically at the worship teams and the intercessors, I suddenly knew that our private prayer lives did not match. Our private prayer lives were not lending itself to help us in the prayer room, that God was inviting us to private prayer. And I looked over at Corey Russell and I knew he represented what we had cut our teeth on in our younger days, what we had read to to ignite us into a lifestyle of prayer privately. And I knew it was the inbound. So I looked at him and I knew the antidote. The answer was inbounds. And we had to get back to those books, those resources that taught us how to pray back in rock pile prayer days. Because I always hear Corey tell a style. His story is testimony and he tells about how he prayed with two widows, you know, every day in rock pile prayer. And he cut his teeth on prayer to those people like Ian Bounds and Leonard Ravenhill and the David Brainards and stuff. And I knew right away it was the Matthew six. Pray to the father who is in secret and the father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And I knew that there was an invitation for us to pray in the secret place that would then escort us when we met corporately, that God would reward us openly with the spirit of prayer in our prayer room. So Ian Bounds, again, he's the eighteen hundreds when the most prolific teachers and writers on prayer, Ravenhill, the nineteen hundreds was set on fire by him and talked about him all the time. He was born here in Missouri, born in Missouri, right? He was a Methodist preacher, a chaplain in the Civil War, but a man of prayer for 50 years, whatever the number was. He's got eight little books, about 100 pages. They're all on our Internet, our website, I mean. And so get those and I just download them and start reading them. I have that big, thick one from our bookstore and I have been reading it. And I'm telling you, it has caused longing in my heart, longing in my heart. And and and I went to New Jersey and I'm in this large holiness campground just last week. The building's huge. Billy Graham's preached in it. Presidents have come and preached in it. And as I'm ready to I mean, you're in awe of the building. It's like, oh, and as I'm sitting there, the Lord says to me, buildings are all that's left to a generation once they stop praying. He said it's a shell, Alan. You know what he spoke to me? He said this building is a shell. When a generation stops praying, that's all they have left to give our buildings. And he spoke to me about a building now, actually, that. One of the buildings we laud in America is being sold in our day, we leave these buildings, but woe to the generation who does not leave their sons and daughters prayers. Woe to the generation who does that. And he spoke to me, said, Alan, I don't even see this building, but you know what I do see? You know what is lasting in this place? It undid me. He said all those holiness people that gave them all the prayers at the altar of the people who sanctified themselves to live holy before 1870. He said their prayers. He said their prayers are still here. But this building means nothing to me. And it just hit me. And I said, oh, God, I want to leave my sons and daughters prayers. And I'm getting grip. I just want to invite you re imbalance. It's laid hold of me. It stirred something in me. We got the all eight are in one big thick in the bookstore, one big thick book, or you can get them separate on the website on the website. It's free at the bookstore. You got to buy the thing. And I feel like there's one one last thing is I feel like there's an invitation that right before you go to bed that God is inviting you. God is inviting you in this media day. We calm ourselves by checking the news one last time, even Christian news, even this, I felt like God was saying, Alan, the book ends of prayer again. The book ends of prayer. Remember when you were in your 20s and how before you would go to bed, you would ask one last time that day. Would you, Lord, would you come on me in prayer? And it would end with being gripped in the night and prayer. And I just feel like a bookends just a little time. God will show up and grant you something because we all have our storylines. We all got a part to play. We need every person on the wall, the one talent, the two talent, the five talent, 10 talent. We need everyone to engage for spirit of prayer, to do what God's called us to do in these final days. He wants an equally yoked bride. He wants all of us in the game. He wants not one missing. So I want you to, I just felt like that to encourage you. Just one more sentence. I just think it's neat as you were talking about Jonathan Edwards and all that, just reminding me again that in the awakening, I had that encounter on December 3rd, just a couple of weeks into it. And the Lord showed me that chord of revivals that was moving forward. And the only face I saw in it was Jonathan Edwards. That was the one face that I saw that it's almost like that, that level of trembling and that type of awakening is going to run through the church again before we get to the next part, which was the radical anointing for healing. It was almost the trembling and that whole aspect. And the beginning of it was me praying for people. Great healings with full conviction. The two married together. I don't know if that's ever happened in history where the two extremes happened in one vein. And it has, I don't know. And I was just, I was just reading it again and looking at how the Lord said he had not yet awakened us. And Isaiah 52 was how the whole encounter started, awake, awake. But it's just that promise that the Lord says that as he touches us in these different ways, his heart is to give us this type of a trembling awakening of the Lord in the body of Christ worldwide that added to that with that healing anointing that's coming. Good. Wes just told me just real briefly that Wes Adams, our own Wes Adams, who's a Ph.D. and he studied church history, wrote a book on the Hebrides revival. It's the whole story of the Hebrides revival. And recently, it was written by someone else, right? And some of you don't know, 52 years, 50 something years in a wheelchair with an auto accident 52 years ago, quadriplegic. But when he was about 17 years old, he heard the story about the Hebrides revival and it sent him on a lifelong course of intercession to see that kind of awakening happen. And so Alan just mentioned that revival course that he taught. He came over to England and taught that course when I was probably 21, 22, something like that. And that was where the Lord. Is he teaching on revival? And I hope he is teaching on revival. And I hope that would be good. And so it would be good. And I read that book then. And that book, that story of the Hebrides revival, you know, another one I want to throw in there is the Welsh revival, because that was another one. But these that what is possible in a short amount of time and those stories just set you. And there's that there are so many here. You've heard those stories in the past and you've forgotten it. And I just felt as I was all I came up to share was about that book, get that book and read it. But there are some of you here. You have a vocation in this place of prayer. And the vocation, since you've been here, has turned into an occupation. And the difference between a vocation and occupation is an occupation. You do nine to five and you turn it off. A vocation is who you are all the rest of the time. And I just felt like there were so many here. The Lord is challenging you again, saying you're not called to do prayer as an occupation. Yes, it is an occupation. But you came here because it is your vocation in life. That's who you are when you wake up, when you eat, when you train your kids. When you go to school, when you go to the store, that's who you are. It's not just what you do in that prayer room as an occupation. So let's have the worship team come in here. Come on up and let's respond to the Lord. But let's West to stay here. The school, how long has the school been going? Three months, right? Three months. And they're going out for three months, three months to three nations to Uganda. So we want the school to all come on up. Just come and stand up at the front. They're going to Uganda, Thailand. And Kenya, Uganda, Kenya and Thailand. And they're all leaving this weekend. But Uganda, Kenya and Thailand, how did that sneak in? Just to stand on these lines, we're going to have others pray for you. And so they're going to be doing all kinds of stuff. They're going to be you know, we had that Muslim Islam seminar symposium. They're going to be actually doing evangelism in Muslim villages in Uganda, some of them. And just, yeah, praise God. I mean, they're going to be going into the thick of it, helping build houses of prayer, strengthening houses of prayer and preaching the gospel. So some of our best intercessors. Yeah, they're really going to be doing it. Some of these guys, I like this. And but let's do this. We're going to pray for them. But I want the word that that West just said. Let's everybody in the room stand, if you would, just so others can come up. If they want. If you are one of those and you know in your heart, you're saying, you know, my vocation, using that terminology, I'm an intercessor in a huge way. I came here and I just kind of departmentalized it. And I do it a little bit in the prayer room, but I don't do it like I used to. Yeah. If that's you and you're saying, I want to get, I want to lay hold of it again in a new way. What happened? I don't know. Somehow I lost a hold of it. I want you to come on up and stand on these lines as well. That's you in this room, whether you're at IHOP or you're just visiting for the weekend. It doesn't matter. Come on up. So the worship team begins to worship. I would like about 20, 30 of you to join us. And we're going to pray for each one of these at the school and all of these that are just saying yes to the Lord. They're giving themselves back to the Lord in intercession outside of the prayer room as well as in the prayer room. It's really easy to do that. Yeah, that's happened to me a handful of times, like recently. Right. I was just like I'm one of those guys. I was reminded when I came here and someone said, when are you going to take a day off? I'm going, oh, I didn't. This is what I came to do. What do you mean day off? And I mean, we need to, you know, take rest and all the rest of it. But the point is, I came with my mind. I'm going to just stay in that prayer room until Jesus comes back. Like no days off, no nothing. And that's not necessarily the application. But that was my heart. This is who I am. That's the only reason I came to Kansas City. But you're not taking time off from the Holy Spirit. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Lord, we ask you right now. Just to touch the school, even now, I'm going to invite different ones. If about 50 of you would come up, just pray for two or three of them for a few moments. Lord, I ask you to release your power right now. I ask you for the spirit of glory. To come and touch those in the school, even now, Lord. I ask you for those that are saying yes to the grace of intercession in a new way, at a whole nother level. Lord, I ask you to reignite them, to give them a fresh commissioning of your spirit. So Lord, release your glory. Release the heart of Jesus by the Holy Spirit. I ask that they would go with supernatural anointed help in prayer in the inner man. The spirit of prayer in the inner man. The spirit would be released in them and through them. Those that are going and those intercessors that are saying yes to their calling in a new way. We bless you in the name of Jesus. Now, we're going to pray for them for a little while, but this room here is the prayer room. We're going to go till midnight here. Tomorrow night.