A Revival in Hearing the Heart of God

Brother Zach for the beautiful music and I would like to welcome you on this internet site on YouTube. I'd like to welcome family and sisters and brothers and friends and it's a joy and an honor that you would join tonight. The message is a revival in hearing the heart of God. Now based on the message title you might ask what is meant by revival and who is this God. If I may I give a brief explanation of revival first. Revival in Christian terms is the return to the one and only true God and turning from sin being near to him. It is the restoration of the church to a vital and fervent relationship with God after a period of decline. The people of God are restored in spiritual renewal. They have renewed faith and the faith is so great that they do the will of God. They will do what the Word of God says. True revivals include the awesome presence of God and true revival start with prayer and repentance. To give you an example of that I'd like to refer to the revival in England in Wales in 1904 and 1905. There was much prayer by many. There were beginnings of revival and the young man by the name of Evan Roberts cried out, bend me Lord, bend me Lord. Evan Roberts became a preacher and he shared four steps for revival. Number one we must confess before God every sin in our past life that has not been confessed and repented. We must remove anything that is doubtful in our lives. There must be total surrender to God. We must sing and do all that God's Spirit tells us and number four we must make a public confession of Christ. The Lord honored these messages and the Spirit of God took over and was overwhelming in the meetings. All of a sudden people wanted to come back to church where the churches had previously been largely empty. Evan Roberts spoke in a church called Moriah Chapel with 800 seats. The church was soon filled to overflowing with people standing outside. This also occurred in many other churches in Wales during this revival where hundreds and thousands were saved. Many miracles followed. To give a few examples, the many miners in the area that were saved, they changed their speech and their conduct. The horses and the mules and the mines did not know how to respond to the new language. Cursing and kicking had stopped. The horses could not understand kindness and kind language. The men who had been cursing and kicking them to work were changed by God. Then a legitimate birth rates dropped 44% just in two counties there within one year. Crime diminished so much that the judges had no work and they were all given white gloves. The police had no work as crime stopped. The police formed quartets to sing in the various churches. Many churches had overnight many people that wanted a new life. They wanted to be right with God. They wanted to be saved. It was a new start and they surrendered to God. According to the revival historian, J. Edwin Orr, there were 70,000 new believers in two months. I love it, in two months. Now sisters and brothers, this is possible in Toronto, Canada. This is possible in any major city in Canada or the USA. It is possible in your city. You see, my God is real. He does miracles. He's alive and well on planet Earth. The miracles he did in Wales, he wants to do again in our time. He wants revival more than we do, for he says to you and to me, draw near to me and I'll draw near to you. He will do if you want to. It will take Christians that want to be totally committed to him, that want to pray, that will be humble and not proud, that will seek the face of God, meaning they will come near to God and speak with him and love him with a soft heart and then turn from wicked ways, from anything doubtful, from any sin. Now Job in the Bible talked about the heart of God and he said, God is wise in heart and mighty in strength, but who has hardened himself against him God and prospered. Now the God that I'm speaking about is the one and only true God, the same God that Job talked about, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He's the true God of the Bible. He's love, but he's also just. That means he has to deal with evil. He has to deal with sin. God said in the Bible, can a woman forget her baby, her nursing child? Will she not have compassion on her baby, the son of the womb? Yet a mother may forget her child, but I, God the Father, I will not forget you. Praise God. On the other extreme, it is terrible to hear today via the news of thousands of people dying and hundreds of thousands sick, including some Christians. It is terrible to hear people losing their jobs. It is terrible to hear about much suffering and grief and turmoil. In the midst of this crisis, God says, I love and I do have a plan. He has good in mind. He has a redemptive plan. It is imperative that we get God's divine perspective on the current crisis. So where is the disconnect? Why won't he act to stop the coronavirus? What is the problem? He wants to help us to turn around from sin, you see. We have a sin problem. Men and women and children have in their blood that virus called sin, and we choose ways contrary to God, beloved. In the Bible, it says that God is the rock. His work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. He is a God of faithfulness and without iniquity. Just and upright is he. Deuteronomy 32, 4. God is without iniquity. That means there's no evil in him. There is nothing that he will do wrong. He does no wrong, but God has a problem. If he wants to create a new heaven and a new earth without sin, he has no choice. Sooner or later, he has to deal with sin and evil. He cannot allow sin and evil into heaven, because then he has to start all over again. Now, this is a difficult thing for us humans, because we want to overlook things. We want to say, well, God somehow ought to overlook all of these things, but then there is no end to it, beloved. And how much sin will you accept? There are certain things where you want even people killed because of the evil they do. So if God is who he says he is, and if there is any justice in the world, sins and evil must be eliminated. It is therefore not strange that God visits with judgment on people when the time is running out. Sometimes he has enough. It is strange that he often waits so long, sometimes a lifetime. But that is his mercy. He waits patiently for us to turn around from sin. God is internally consistent in his mercy. There's no contradiction here. Why do most of the wicked not get punished for their deeds right away? Because God is patient and merciful. Why do some people die early or suffer much? Because God allows it. Why do some good and righteous people get taken out of this world sooner than we might expect? Because God loves them, and heaven is a much better place to be for them than is earth. And this is where our understanding is not correct, because if and when we do go to heaven through his Son Jesus Christ, there is a wonderful place, a wonderful place without tears, without sorrow, without death, without war. And so you see, when God takes someone out of this earth, it may not be at all for the reasons that you and I look at it. Then there's another question. Why does God allow good Christians to be killed, immortaled? It is a testimony for wolves and for evil people still to have a chance to see true love and faith in action and having a chance to believe in God and be saved through Christ Jesus. I've done research on the persecuted church, and this is an example from North Korea. North Korean soldiers were rebuilding a street, and they were demolishing a vacated house during road construction. In the basement between two bricks, they found a Bible and a small notebook that contained 25 names. The soldiers turned the Bible and notebook over to the military police, and 25 people were brought to that road construction site near the house where the Bible was found. The pastor, two assistant pastors, and two elders were bound hand and foot and made to lie down in front of a steamroller used for the road. The other 20 persons, the Christians, were held on the side to watch. The condemned were accused of being Protestant Christian spies, and they were told, if you don't worship Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, you will be killed. You will be killed. But you see, these were Christians. They had no choice. They worshiped the true God. Some of the fellow parishioners assembled, watched the execution as the steamroller drove over these five pastors. When their skulls made a popping sound, they screamed, they fainted. They died as a witness of their faith that there is a true God of love. There is someone greater than evil on this earth. And one of the soldiers later on became a Christian. He's told and recorded this story. You see, this one and only true God has a son called Jesus. God sent him to allow him to die for us. You see, he sent his son that we might be saved by repenting of our sins. I believe in Jesus and following him. Some believe that God wept in heaven when his son died because he turned off the lights in heaven for three hours. God at this time point cannot be seen with physical eyes, but we can see his works and miracles. He sent his son Jesus to give us eternal life by faith and to prove that he loves us. So let me further describe the heart of God and who he is. The Bible says God is spirit. However, he can also be seen as a person because he walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. The prophet Daniel describes God as the ancient of days in the vision. He said, and the ancient of days was seeded. His garment was white as snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame in Daniel 9, 7. You see, our true God is infinite in power. He is what we call omnipotent. He's powerful in truth and does not lie, says the Bible. He's holy, holy, holy. He is love, but he's also just. He's omniscient, which means he's all-knowing. He is omnipresent, which means he's present everywhere and he knows everything. He is a sovereign, the supreme ruler of this universe. He's the only true God and allows no other gods of wood and stone. He's just and exercises justice. He's righteous. He's merciful. He's faithful. We find God's full character throughout the Bible, which also includes his emotions. The Bible says that we are made in his image. So all of the emotions we have, God also has. He laughs. He loves. He feels joy. He feels happiness. He feels sadness. He feels anger. He feels wrath. He grieves and he sheds tears. His emotions are pure while our emotions are infected by inherited sin. Where did a baby learn to say no? It's in the blood. But God's emotions are pure and perfect. So please understand, you want to be loved, but God wants to be loved too. You want to succeed, and so God wants to succeed. For instance, he said he's not willing that any should perish, but that all come to repentance. He desires for all to be saved, and he said this in 1st Timothy 2.4. He loves. He wants all to find the right way and make it to heaven. He said it's his will. Now he could have easily enforced this, but he does not want puppets in heaven. He wants to have people that love him, and so he's given a choice. He gave a choice to Adam and Eve in the garden. He's giving you and I a choice. We can follow him in love, and we can ask the Son Jesus to save us and to help us with the way back to God the Father through the Son Jesus Christ. He won't force anyone. Now God wants to help us and has given us rules that would keep us from trouble, but most people don't want these rules. God also has emotions of jealousies when his creation, us, wants nothing to do with him. God has emotions of feeling being rejected. God has emotions of anger. He's angry with the wicked every day. God has emotions of wrath. Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay. He says one day he will, in his justice, clean up the world, beloved. He will do it to the full extent, and if you want to know more about that, take a Bible. Read the book of Revelation. It tells you, it foretells you what God must do to create a new, clean heaven and a new earth. God has also emotions of loneliness. He has emotions of sadness. He has emotions of sorrow and tears. He has emotions of mourning. God grieves when people die. He grieved when he had to destroy mankind in the flood. When you read Genesis 6, it says it grieved God. Grieving includes tears. Grieving includes pain. He did not want to do it, but what can he do when people won't turn from their sins, when they won't repent? Almost half of American people now believe the coronavirus pandemic is a wake-up call from God, asking us to turn back to him and to faith. One-third see it as a sign of the coming judgment of God where we are in the last days, as foretold in the Bible. And this is according to a new national poll just conducted a few days ago between March 23rd and March 26th by McLaughlin and Associates. Forty-three percent say it's a wake-up call from God. Thirty-three percent see it as a starting judgment from God, and 21 percent are responding, trying to return to God. They now read the Bible. I mentioned that God mourns and sheds tears at times the same way as humans weep at times. We shed tears. We shed tears when we are rejected, when we're not loved, when we're heartbroken, or when we fall, or when we are sick. When sadness comes, when we lose a loved one, a family member, or a friend, we shed tears. When the pain gets too great, we weep and shed tears. Shedding tears is part of the process of grieving. The process of grieving may include great despair, loss of hope, and even physical pain. When we grieve, we may experience joint pain, heart pain, an upset stomach, headaches, high blood pressure. We refuse food. We may incur blood clots, even leading to heart attacks. The risk of a heart attack is 21 times greater when grieving and weeping. Now may I ask you, when is it that you have wept the last time? Emotions including joy, but also sadness and tears were given to us by God. He himself says that he weeps. And so if you want to return to scripture again in Jeremiah 13 verse 14, we read, therefore you shall say this word to them. And this is God speaking to the prophet Jeremiah. Let my, that's God's eyes, flow with tears night and day. Let them not cease for the virgin daughter of my people has been broken with a mighty stroke. Here God tells Jeremiah to tell the people I weep for you, but turn from your evil. If you do not turn from your evil, then judgment will come. They did not listen. God drew the Babylonians to overthrow Judah and the city of Jerusalem. And in the book of Lamentations, the prophet Jeremiah tells to us what happened. And he said this in Lamentations chapter two, 20 to 22. This is part of what physically happened, beloved. See your Lord and consider to whom you have done these things. Should the woman eat their offspring? You see they were so hungry. The children they have cuddled. Should the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered and not pitied. You have invited us to a feast. The terrors that surround me in the day of the Lord's anger, there was no refugee or survivor. Those who I have born and brought up, my enemies have destroyed. Forgive me for that interruption. I forgot to turn off my phone. So sorry about that. Now God had spoken about his tears first. He had given warnings. You see, this was not done without a great warning to the nation of Israel. He is a God of love. He loves you and me very much. But the nation of Israel, Judah, Benjamin, and Jerusalem would not listen to God. And then judgment came. This verse and other verses in the Bible teach us that God the Father also weeps. God has announced judgment on his children, but he says he will weep for them. He says, I love you. I don't want to hurt you. All of God's emotions are pure. Now here is a repeat of the warnings he had given to them. And he had said to them in many chapters early in Jeremiah chapter 13 verses 15 to 27, he said to them, listen, pay attention. Don't be arrogant for the Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord of God before it's too late. Acknowledge him before he brings darkness upon you. He will cause you to stumble and fall on the darkening mountains. When you look for light, you will find only darkness and gloom. And if you still refuse to listen, I will weep alone because of your pride. Your pride says you can manage. God is greater than you. It's God who is in charge of this world. And then God said, my eyes will overflow with tears because the Lord's flock will be led away into exile. And this is very interesting because we feel we are the remnant. And here it says specifically in verse 17, because the Lord's flock will be led away into exile. So all of the people that were killed were really the most evil people. And then God allowed the remnant people that believed in him. He allowed them to go into exile into Babylon. We know from history that good people had to go into exile. They never spoke up, you see, because in verse 18, God told them what to do. And God specifically referred to his people, to his flock. And he said, speak up, say something. I will judge. Speak up, speak to your leaders. And here in verse 18, he said, say to the king and his mother, come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns will soon be snatched from your heads. God said, I warn you, I warn you. The towns of the Negev will close their gates and no one will be able to open them. The people of Judah will be taken away as captives and all will be carried into exile. Open up your eyes and see the armies marching down from the North. Where is your flock now, your beautiful flock that he gave you to care for? What will you say when the Lord takes the allies you have cultivated and appoints them over U.S. rulers? Pangs of anguish will grip you like those of a woman in labor. You may ask yourself, and here's the reason, why is all of this happening? Why is, it is because of your many sins. That is why you have been stripped and raped by invading armies. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots? So these were the remnant. They were not killed, yet they also had to suffer. They had to walk in to Babylon from Jerusalem, 900 miles or 1,448 kilometers. They had to go in a circle from the Holy Land and then into what today is Syria. And they had to walk to Babylon. They could not go straight across because there's desert there. But many died with no water and no food on the way. May I ask you, are you the Lord's flock today? Are you the remnant? Are you the people of God? In North America, the USA, and Canada, we have neglected God and over 95% have not really stood up for righteousness. Perhaps less than 3% are now sharing that there is a future and a hope with others. God says he wept for his remnant. Will he weep over you and me? But there's hope, beloved. In Leviticus chapter 26, verse 44, it says, but despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of the enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the Lord their God. Now you might say to me, Brother Edgar, you have all shared from the Old Testament that is not the God that we know. He's a loving God. I only go to the New Testament. Do you remember when Jesus was weeping, the Son of God? He came to the city of Jerusalem, and before he entered the city of Jerusalem, he wept over Jerusalem. Why did he weep? Did he weep because he had to give his life in the city of Jerusalem? Why did he weep? He wept over the people of Jerusalem because they did not know their time of his visitation, the Messiah, the Son of God, the Son of the living God who had brought them eternal life. And he said, this city is going to be destroyed. Every stone is going to be removed and broken down. That's the New Testament, beloved. That's the New Testament. And if you read the book of Revelation, you know and you will see that God is not mocked. He loves us incredibly. He will weep over you and me, but let us not be proud. Let us not be stubborn in our viewpoints because he is greater than us. And so Jesus wept and he gave a prophecy for 70 years later, and that is what actually happened. And you can read about that in Wikipedia and the historian Josephus. Jerusalem and Israel rejected the Christ, the Son of God. For God spared North America, the USA, and Canada. When we reject his love, when we reject his peace that he gave us through Christ, he will weep, but he has no choice. There must be justice and there must be judgment. You say, well, I don't think I need to repent. I'm pretty good. I'm not doing any of these things. May I ask you, do you have any tears left for North America or your family or your friends that don't believe? Do you have any tears left for the many Christians that have been crucified and beheaded in the Middle East? When have you and I wept last for our families? God weeps, so why don't we weep? Could it be a stony heart in us? Could it be self that is more important than anyone else? You see, we have 327 million Americans and 38 million Canadians. We have 44 millions in the island and 129 million people in Mexico, for a total of 538 million in North America. In Canada, those affiliated with the evangelical churches have dropped down to 6% of the population. It used to be 67% after the First World War. Beloved, Christianity is dying in Canada. Does that not bring tears to you? Would that not cause you to pray and cry out? Would that not cause you and me to examine our lives? Have we been tainted by the world? In America, only about 20% go to church and it's less here in Canada, but if we assume that 20% or 100 million people are safe, that would leave 400 million people in North America going to an eternal hell. I think it ought to be a wake-up call for you and for me. God loves you, yes. God loves us all so much that he will not let sin continue forever, but God made it clear in the Bible that there are two places to go to in eternity. One is heaven and the other is a horrible place called hell. Heaven can be reached through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Do you have any tears left? There's a great sin called lukewarmness. There's a great sin called unbelief. There's a great sin not sharing the incredible good news that God has given us to share. So God says there is a way back to him and I mentioned the cry of Evan Roberts where he said, turn around from such sins and he cried out, bend me Lord, and then he gave four steps, four steps. Confess before God every sin in your life that has not been confessed. Repent perhaps of a hard heart or lukewarmness. Number two, remove anything that is doubtful in your life. Number three, totally surrender to God. We must say and do all that God's Spirit tells us. Number four, we must make a public confession of Christ and you do this via a loving testimony with someone that you know, that you are a Christian, that you love Christ, that there is a future and a hope in the midst of the coronavirus. Yes, there is a God that loves. I want you to have happiness and to experience heaven. I will pray for you. I will love you. I will help you. I will be near to you. You see, when we do those four steps, there is personal revival. You will see miracles in your life. Now, when Jesus came to my life and saved me, I was born again. I also realized that believing in Jesus Christ is doing and following him. I have to follow him. I have to do what the Bible says. So the question is, what are fruits worthy of repentance? So I asked my former wife for forgiveness. I asked my daughters, I had hurt so much, for forgiveness. I paid back what I had taken wrongly that did not belong to me. I forgave the person that had caused me to lose 52 years of my life because of misuse. I made good where I could. I'm now following Jesus, doing what he called me to do. I'm not perfect, but I have a new life. I am following Jesus. And so beloved, we can all do that and Christ will get me to heaven. The things I did won't get me into heaven. No, it is Christ Jesus himself himself who shed his blood on a cross. So the question is, will God weep over the remnant not doing anything because judgment starts at the house of God? The followers of Jesus in the book of Acts turned the world upside down. They were ordinary people with their love, with their lives and their testimony. You know, they had higher help. They received it from God through the Holy Spirit. But you and I can ask God anew to fill us with his Holy Spirit. In Luke chapter 11, verse 13, it says, how much more will the heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask, and that's Holy Spirit, to do work after being cleansed? Because you cannot be filled again by his Holy Spirit with things in your life. You must repent. You must ask for forgiveness and then be filled by him and then go out and attempt great things for God and expect great things from God. Now, there might be some watching here who are not yet Christians. May I say to you that you are in great danger. God will weep over you, but he cannot let you into heaven unless you're cleansed by his son Jesus from your sins. And so you need to repent. You need to ask the Lord Jesus to come into your life and to save you. This is the final story of our service today. A young pastor started his church service. He saw an old pastor walking into the church service. He asked him to come to the front and to share a word with the congregation. And the old pastor said, no, no, no, you go ahead. You speak to them. But the young pastor insisted. And so the old pastor came to the front and he started to tell a story. And he said there was once a man who had a son about 10 years old. He took his son and a neighbor's son sailing in a small sailboat. It was in the days when no life jackets were taken onto a boat. A bad storm had come up very quickly. The boat capsized. None of them could swim. The man held onto the boat and there was only one rope. One rope to save one of the boys. Both of the boys were drowning. To whom should the man throw the rope? The lifeline. Should the lifeline be thrown to his own son or to the neighbor's boy? The man thought about his wife. Then he threw the lifeline. He threw it to the neighbor's boy to save him. The man's boy was struggling in the waves and he saw his face slowly disappearing under the waves. That boy drowned. He drowned. Maybe you have family that is drowning when you throw a lifeline. The old preacher wiped a tear from his eye. Then he said, this is what God did for you and for me. God let his own boy drown so that you and I can have eternal life. Believe on God's boy, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will have eternal life. With that, the old preacher sat down. It seemed that the young preacher was very moved and could not do much the rest of the service. The young preacher also had tears in his eyes. And then he had to close the service early. There were two teenage boys sitting in the front and they came over to the old pastor after the service. And one of them said, we understand, pastor, the example you gave us to understand that God gave his son to have eternal life. But you shouldn't use stories like this where you use humans because no human being would give his son for neighbor's boy. The old pastor smiled gently. Again, a tear came to his eyes. He answered, sons, you can believe it for I am that man. My boy knew the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior and would go to heaven. But my neighbor's boy did not know Jesus and did not have eternal life. I threw the lifeline to the neighbor's boy that he might find Jesus. And by the way, your new young pastor is that boy who received the lifeline. This is what God did. He allowed his son to die so that he could give a lifeline to us because his son, through his blood, made propitiation for our sin. He covered our sins. He cleansed us. He made us new. When God's son was nailed to the cross, dying for us, God threw a lifeline to us. Boys, the old preacher said, boys, did you ever take that lifeline from God and believe in Jesus yourself? He will save you and he will give you eternal life. Perhaps you are a non-Christian watching this podcast. If the Lord has spoken to you, would you be willing to bow your head before God and confess your sins and then ask Christ to save you? Would you say a prayer like that? Now you might answer, I don't know how. I don't know how to do that. But you could do that in your home right now, and I'd be glad to help. And so I will say a prayer slowly and in your own home before God, if you wanted to repeat that prayer, if you agree. But don't pray it if you don't want to follow Jesus. Because I don't believe the people that just pray and walk away and do the same things they have done all of their lives, live evil. I don't think they're saved because there must be evidence of your faith. Because a faith without evidence is dead. So if you say you believe, then you would also have to follow Christ. And so you can repeat this prayer after me. Lord, I am a sinner and I have fallen short of your glory. I have done many wrong things. I tell them to you now. I would ask your son Jesus to have mercy on me. I repent. Forgive me my sins. I want to follow you. I believe you died on a cross to cover my sins with your blood. I believe it. I believe you rose again and will come to this earth again. Please forgive me. Please save me. Please make me new again. I will follow you. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you. If you have done that, you now need to grow in the Lord. Please talk to the Father. That is called prayer. And please read a Bible. I hope you have a Bible. And also please contact Pastor Roy of Queensway Baptist Church if you have made that decision, because he will help you and he can also give you further materials for growth. And now, if the Lord has spoken to you Christians, to the remnant, would you bow your head before God and his son Jesus? Some of you want to do that with me right now and pray those four steps that I spoke of. Lord, I confess again any shortcomings. Lord, I mention to you my weakness. Please, please set me free through Christ. Help me, Jesus. Help me, Lord. And then, Lord, there are some things where I'm not too sure, but they are doubtful, Lord. I watch too much television, perhaps. I do too much social media. I watch too much news, Lord. It's not wrong outright, but it's sort of doubtful because I don't take time with you. Lord, please, please forgive me for that. Please take it away. And then, Lord, I want to totally surrender my life to you anew. I want to do what you tell me to do in your word. I want to do the things that the Holy Spirit emphasizes for me in my life. And then, Lord, I'm not too good in sharing my testimony. Lord, will you help me to say that Jesus is my Lord, Jesus is my Savior? Please help me, Lord. I thank you so much. I believe that you have heard this prayer and that you will answer and that you will help me and that there will be changes in my life. Lord, I want to be, I want to be like a person in the book of Acts. I want to be used mightily by you and for you. And I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for being with me on the service tonight. And I'd just like to thank God for a moment. And then after that, Brother Zach will lead us in the final song. But I also wanted to invite you again for next Wednesday, if your time permits it, we will speak on future things to come, the revival in truth. And it will be all based on prophecies that God has given. And they are true. They're unchanging. And we can rely on that. So thank you so much for watching. Now, Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for the message that you have given us. Lord, we are reminded that you have torn us and you will heal us when we repent. You have smitten us and you will bind us up when we leave wicked ways behind. Lord, we thank you for this time in the word where you remind us that you're God and you are in control. And so now, Lord, please save those that have prayed for salvation. Lord, answer all the prayers of any Christian that pray to reach out, to touch your heart for a change, for joy, for excitement in their lives. Please answer us. Please answer and help us Christians to repent where we are not following you the way we should. Please bring revival and please revive us. And we pray all of this in Jesus' name. Amen.