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Derek Melton

Derek Melton (birth year unknown–present). Derek Melton is the senior pastor of Grace Life Church in Pryor, Oklahoma, which he founded in January 1999 with a vision to establish a biblically grounded congregation. A verse-by-verse expositor, he emphasizes the centrality and power of God’s Word in church life, delivering contextual and applicable sermons. Before ministry, Melton served 30 years in law enforcement, retiring in 2015 as Assistant Chief of Police for the Pryor Police Department. His preaching style reflects a deep conviction in scriptural authority, aiming to foster spiritual growth and community impact. He is married to Stacey, and they have two grown children, Cody and Lindey. Melton continues to lead Grace Life Church, focusing on doctrinal clarity and practical faith. He has said, “The Word of God is sufficient for all we need in life and godliness.”
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Derek Melton delivers a powerful sermon on the current state of chaos and moral decay in society, emphasizing how nature itself seems to be in revolt against the pandemonium of modern humanity. He highlights the interconnectedness of catastrophic natural events, societal degradation, and moral wickedness leading to a universe out of balance. Drawing from Romans 8:22, he explains how the groaning and travail of creation point to a deeper spiritual crisis caused by the church's spiritual decline and lack of authority on earth.
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The Church Needs a Revival
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. With every passing day we are witnessing a society that is writhing in absolute chaos and moral anarchy. It seems that even nature has become intertwined in spasmodic revolt against the pandemonium that is manifesting in our modern humanity. The conglomeration of these catastrophic events of nature mingled with the degradation of normality and the ascendancy of absolute moral wickedness within our society has thrown our universe out of balance and into a state of dysfunctional arrhythmia. Our world is in dyer trouble and the sound of its groaning and travail is being echoed throughout the fathomless distances of the universe. It may seem that things have gone too far for them to be rescued out of this state of spiritual oblivion but those of us who are of the Christian faith know better. The Apostle Paul stated: "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." Romans 8:19 Beloved, these groans and labor pains manifesting in our generation are simply symptoms identifying a much deeper spiritual crisis that has been birthed by a lack within the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul pinned this thought in his address to the church at Rome saying: "the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." Why was the creation waiting? Because the rhythmic balance of universal wholeness was thrown into moral revolt causing the whole of creation to groan and travail in absolute disruption! Beloved, when the church of the Lord Jesus Christ experiences declension in her spiritual stature, failing to exercise her dominion and exhibit her authority upon the earth, the wholeness of the universe begins to disfigure and contort! There has never been a time upon the earth since Adam's creation that the wholeness of our universe has been more maimed and dilapidated. Why? There has never been a time recorded in history when the corporate church has been more deficient and anemic than it is today. Never has there been a time when the purity of her doctrines has been more tainted and diseased than they are today. The creation or the environmental effects that are manifesting upon the earth today are in direct proportion to the depth and breadth of the churches declination and corruption. What is the answer to this universal and catastrophic moral convulsion? The absolute and only remedy for this dyer calamity is a Heaven sent, Holy Ghost revival of the church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. An outpouring of divine energy upon the Corporate Man! A blast of life from the nostrils of the Ancient of days upon His Son's beloved bride! The restoration and manifestation of the sons of God is the only and the absolute remedy diffusing the crisis and silencing the creature's groans. Precious people of God, not only does the heart of God await our repentance and restoration - but the very existence of creation awaits our awakening. Until the church repents - all of creation laments.
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Derek Melton (birth year unknown–present). Derek Melton is the senior pastor of Grace Life Church in Pryor, Oklahoma, which he founded in January 1999 with a vision to establish a biblically grounded congregation. A verse-by-verse expositor, he emphasizes the centrality and power of God’s Word in church life, delivering contextual and applicable sermons. Before ministry, Melton served 30 years in law enforcement, retiring in 2015 as Assistant Chief of Police for the Pryor Police Department. His preaching style reflects a deep conviction in scriptural authority, aiming to foster spiritual growth and community impact. He is married to Stacey, and they have two grown children, Cody and Lindey. Melton continues to lead Grace Life Church, focusing on doctrinal clarity and practical faith. He has said, “The Word of God is sufficient for all we need in life and godliness.”