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Hey, man, well look at your 
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say, boy, you look good. 
No lying, no lying, Amen. 

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Good to be in the House of the 
Lord today. 

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See each of you, Amen, here with
the different things coming up 

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in this month. 
Exciting, Amen. 

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If you'll stand for me this 
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those Old Testament minor 
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Habakkuk. 
Every time I hear that name, it 

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reminds me of the way that my 
grandma Grapple McGinn used to 

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say tobacco. 
There's Backer. 

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I don't know why, it just does. 
Habakkuk wasn't a smoker to my 

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knowledge, but nonetheless, 
that's what makes me think about

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every time I hear that he meant 
Habakkuk chapter #3 and I'm just

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going to read one verse verse #2
and I'll allow you to be seated 

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then and I'll be mindful of your
time today. 

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Habakkuk, the prophet says, O 
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and was afraid. 
O Lord, revive thy work in the 

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midst of the years, in the midst
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wrath. 
Remember, Mercy, and we'll give 

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a little bit more context to 
that here in just a moment. 

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I want to talk to you today 
about revival in uncertain 

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times, Revival in uncertain 
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us in the next few moments. 
Father, we love you today that 

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we're thankful, Lord, for your 
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in this place. 
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continue, Lord, through your 
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Word is already anointed. 
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to glean from it, learn from it 
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individual lives in the lovely 
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I pray we'll thank you for it in
Jesus name, Amen. 

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You may be seated today in Jesus
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Revival in uncertain times. 
There is a old novel that 

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Charles Dickens wrote many years
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Cities. 
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starts that novel and says it 
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the worst of times. 
Dickens was trying to convey and

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grab the reader's attention for 
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was writing about. 
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Revolution, and he was wanting 
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there were some contrast during 
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There was some duality of events
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It was a time of extreme 
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It was a time of progress, but 
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of hope and the time of despair.
And yet Dickens wasn't just 

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writing about an era in his 
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He was also really mirroring 
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of times. 
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now, we have used that phrase to
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history of the United States and
perhaps the history of our own 

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lives. 
Times, it would seem, when good 

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and evil share space, or 
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space, redemption and 
destruction. 

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Habakkuk is writing during the 
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equation. 
He knew what it was to be living

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in the worst of times. 
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three chapters here in the Bible
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about his times. 
It was a time of turmoil. 

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It was a time of instability 
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upheaval and there were threats 
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over the place where he lived. 
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decline. 
People were loosening their 

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morals and it was a time that 
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harder times of, of famine and 
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As a matter of fact, as Habakkuk
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talk to us. 
He says, I, I seem to observe 

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all of the violence in my 
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things that are not going, 
that's going on that that in my 

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estimation shouldn't be going 
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like God is setting idly by and 
he's doing nothing about my 

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time. 
He's, he's doing nothing about 

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the violence. 
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loosening of the morals of the 
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I want to talk to you about 
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living in. 
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this moment, God. 
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I'm looking to the day that I'm 
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living in because God, these are
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There's some trying events right
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All the ingredients that I see 
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worst of times. 
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saw. 
He he cannot somehow balance or 

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reconcile what he saw and what 
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But as I reflect on Habakkuk, I 
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about the world that I'm living 
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I'm not going red or blue right 
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OK, a democratic or Republic 
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November and America waits maybe
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there's others that's waiting 
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We're all looking at this. 
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upheaval of times, political 
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becoming more contentious than 
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People used to throw dirt, now 
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and it's just, we're just living
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It's reflected in our media. 
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It's reflected in social media. 
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Voters feel that the stakes are 
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before. 
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professional. 
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professional opinion of that. 
I could give you an opinion, but

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maybe not a professional 
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that this could be a very 
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Amen for defining our country's 
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But I'm talking to you about my 
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I'm living right now during the 
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I'm living during the time that 
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up and up. 
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store, my jaw drops down to the 
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little bit of goods for that 
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these things like abortion 
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plus and whatever else there is 
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religious freedom, whether or 
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way that we elect people to 
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There's the war that keeps going
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There's the war that's happening
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tensions with China, then 
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glaring as well. 
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All of these things. 
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I'm living in the time of the 
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anti woke culture backlash that 
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Then I have all these 
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We have more ways to get 
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time in the existence of 
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Yet those things then are giving
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These are the times that I'm 
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And so we're in a place right 
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I listen to? 
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Who's telling the truth, Who's 
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It's the time that I'm living 
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In nineteen, 9970% of Americans 
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synagogue, or a mosque. 
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dropped to 47%, according to a 
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I'm talking to you about my 
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The number of people that's 
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affiliation is on the prize. 
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religious nuns. 
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about 29% in 2021. 
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practicing Christians in 
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absolute moral truth. 
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UN quote, Christians believe 
that you should just live and 

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let live. 
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morality. 
I'm talking to you about my 

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world. 
I'm talking to you about our 

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times. 
According to the US Census 

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Bureau, Amen. 
The marriage rate in America is 

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at an all time low, Amen. 
It's not like it used to be. 

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There's been a redefinition of 
marriage that seems to have 

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eroded it, which I'm just 
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because in Scripture God used 
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Christ and his church, Amen. 
And so there's an eroding them 

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just even of a marriage in 
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The Gallup poll of 2021 found 
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identify as LGBTQ plus and 
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And that number had increased 
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That's my times, that's where 
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But there are more Americans. 
A Pew Research said there's more

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Americans that derive 
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than they do their faith, that 
they place more satisfaction on 

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their success and their material
wealth and their comfort above 

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their spiritual considerations. 
We live in an era where students

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are being educated by Babylon, 
so to speak, just like the three

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Hebrew boys were, and yet they 
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What are you talking about? 
My daughter's in college right 

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now. 
I told her when she entered 

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college, I said, Hun, I said, 
I'm just going to let you know 

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right up front that there's 
going to come some things down 

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the Pike that's going to 
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There's going to be some things 
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going to talk about. 
That's going to be very 

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persuasive. 
And it has happened, and we have

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had discussions on our couch at 
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things, Amen. 
That's come down the pipe. 

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Amen. 
But what about those that have 

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no biblical compass? 
What about those that believe 

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it's just live and let live? 
What about those that have no, 

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if you will, moorings that their
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And so there, as a result, 

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according to 2022, it revealed 
that there are fewer young 

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people who trust the church or a
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in any other time. 
There's a rise of progressive 

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Christianity that basically says
all of the traditions that our 

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forefathers have lived by, and 
might I say not just traditions,

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but biblical traditions that 
they have lived by are now just 

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deluded to the place that they 
almost no longer exist. 

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I'm telling you today, that's my
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And when I step back and look at
it, I could almost raise my 

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voice in harmony with Habakkuk 
and say, God, I'm living in some

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of the worst of times. 
But although Habakka lived in 

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such a time, Amen as those and 
our times may reflect even 

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equally his, I want you to 
notice Habakkuk did not cry out 

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to God and say God remove the 
turmoil. 

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He did not cry out to God and 
say God fix this mess. 

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He did not cry out to God and 
say God take care of the 

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political upheaval. 
Because Habakkuk understood 

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this, that, that, that basically
we're getting what we deserve. 

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Stay with me. 
We're getting what we deserve. 

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I understand, God, that this is 
judgment upon us in many ways, 

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like a nation that is declining.
I understand that we actually 

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have almost invited this into 
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And so if that is the case, 
Lord, I'm not asking you to 

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change what you're doing. 
I'm just asking in the middle of

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all of this mess, can you still 
bring a revival to those that 

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desire? 
Revival. 

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You don't have to take away 
Amen, The fallout. 

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You don't have to take away the 
immorality. 

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You don't have to take away all 
the other variables. 

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I'm just asking, can you give us
revival in the middle of all of 

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this? 
Hallelujah, someone say man, he 

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cries out and says, oh Lord, 
revive the work in the midst of 

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the years or these years are are
there pending threats? 

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Is Babylon trying to come 
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Habakkuk yes, but can we have 
revival? 

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God understand, There's some 
walking away, Lord, but can we 

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have revival? 
Understand, Lord, there's some 

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hardships that are to follow. 
But God, I'm asking for, if you 

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will, the best of times in the 
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back said there's violence, 
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uncertainty. 
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pleading for a revival. 
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he's asking this. 
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revival the day after Pentecost.
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It's not like the 120 is 
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suddenly there came a sound from
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noise that's been noised abroad 
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And the day after that it's like
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and saying God give us revival. 
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those type of time, Honey, when,
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going down. 
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happening, when things are going
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He asked for it during one of 
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history. 
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really asking for revival. 
Watch this now as much as he is 

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declaring Oh Lord revive, it 
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please revive it was Oh Lord 
revive. 

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Let him alone it be no big deal 
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Azusa St. revival that took 
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say hey, let let's get with it. 
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already broke out. 
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the time of Topeka, KS in the 
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man who founded a Bible college,
a Bethel Bible College and in 

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the founding of this he had some
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wrestling with the idea about 
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filled experience, what it all 
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says, I want you to study and 
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what what all comes along or 
what is evidenced by this 

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infilling of the spirit. 
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Scriptures, his students, they 
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says what we have seen in the 
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the infilling of the Spirit is 
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According to Acts chapter #2 Hey
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And when they they heard this, 
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O1, there was a woman, a girl by
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Parham. 
Parham had not experienced this,

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but he's searching for it. 
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for me that I might receive the 
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And when he prayed for her, the 
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speak in tongues. 
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experienced the same thing, even
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Habakkuk wasn't living in that 
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right there. 
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horrific, a horrible time of 
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Yet he still lifts up his voice 
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revival in this hour. 
I'm going to declare revival 

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during this season. 
Someone say, man, hey man, been 

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easy to ask for revival or 
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moments. 
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setting. 
And dare I say that's not our 

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setting. 
That's not where I'm living, 

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that's not my surroundings. 
That's not the situation around 

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me. 
But I wonder if there's a church

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at 1121 Cedar St. in Mount 
Carmel that during the times 

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that you live, during the 
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maybe the ingredients are not 
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Maybe everything is not. 
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can you raise your voice in this
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Lord, in these years someone 
say, Amen. 

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We're no less equipped now than 
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Amen Back at thought. 
He believed God could revive his

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works, said differently that God
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What history did Habakkuk have 
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He had the history of God 
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Egyptian bondage. 
He had history of water coming 

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from a rock. 
He had history of manna and 

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quail fallen from heaven. 
He had history of a tree being 

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thrown into bitter water and 
being made sweet. 

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He had history someone say man. 
He had history of the sun, which

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was more likely, as we know, the
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He had history of all these 
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You know what Habakkuk is 
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He says God, can you repeat some
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Can you repeat some deliverance?
Can you repeat some miracles in 

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my pay? 
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there for it, but will you 
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Someone say Amen, Amen, my day, 
your day. 

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Let's consider the day we're 
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The Bible describes it in 
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It says that the days before the
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already came. 
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said it would not happen, did 
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It happened. 
He's going to come back. 

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People will scoff, people will 
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But it says the time prior to 
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the flavor, if you will, of that
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Men will be lovers of 
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Matter of fact, just bring up 
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for me, Brother Reese, and we'll
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Know this also, that in the last
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for men shall be lovers of their
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Posters. 
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to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
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Truce Breakers, false accusers, 
incontinent fears, despisers of 

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those that are good, traitors, 
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pleasure more than lovers of 
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That's the time Isaiah even said
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would call good evil, and they 
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I'm talking to you a little bit 
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because iniquity shall abound, 
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wax cold. 
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unthankful and unholy. 
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false prophets and false Christs
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earthquakes in diverse places, 
that there will be wars and 

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rumors of wars. 
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attention whenever Jerusalem 
compassed about with armies, you

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need to lift up your head for 
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He said there will be 
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declarations of safety, but then
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I'm telling you about our times.
And I'm not going to throw a wet

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blanket on anything this 
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But I tell you this November 
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our world has. 
Whenever Election Day comes, you

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got to do your part and you 
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But we can't ignore the fact 
that some of the things that are

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going to happen are just 
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we are in prophetic history. 
Hey, man, we've had some 

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allowances, we've had some 
permission. 

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Some of these things ain't going
anywhere. 

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I'm sorry. 
Inflation might go down. 

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Your groceries might get a 
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these things are not going 
anywhere. 

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Some of them might even get a 
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But what I'm imploring you to do
is saying, God, will you please?

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I'm making a new declaration for
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Repeat what you did before in my
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Because there were some men and 
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lived in some gruesome days too,
that lived in some uncertain 

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times too. 
But they made it a day 

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declaration in the middle of all
this. 

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I'm going to hold on to that 
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Oh yes, repeat a pattern during 
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Here's the mindset of the 
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We think the changes have to 
happen in the world and afford 

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the change to happen in the 
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If we're going to be able to go 
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has to get better around us in 
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We're like, we're like the one 
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because XYZ duh, duh, duh. 
I don't have enough resources. 

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I don't have enough of this. 
That's really just excuses. 

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What I'm saying is the outside 
may not change but someones got 

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to have a declaration on their 
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Oh God. 
I'm not saying this being 

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ignorant about the times I'm 
living in her. 

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Back to quatin. 
I'm not saying this because of 

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ignorance. 
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faith. 
I'm saying this because I know 

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who you are and what you're 
capable of doing. 

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So I declare it today. 
I declare it now. 

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I declare it for my generation. 
I declare someone say yes, we 

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taken by, if you will, the sea 
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You know, they say it's always 
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the boat. 
Water in the boat, you get the 

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water of your surroundings in 
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sinking. 
It's always best to keep the 

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water out of the boat. 
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into a time of his own life and 
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He even came to a questioning 
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foundations be destroyed, what 
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Here he is. 
His knees are knocking a little 

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bit. 
He says I'm seeing it happen at 

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the foundations. 
If the very thing upon which 

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which society rest, if they're 
deteriorating, sister calls, if,

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if, if they're a whole lot less 
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grandparents before me knew, 
what are we going to do? 

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It's a cry of desperation. 
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It's kind of like this. 
If you don't conform, you just 

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ain't going to make it. 
What? 

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What is the righteous, What is 
the righteous to do? 

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But I want you to look at verse 
#4 that says David said, or the 

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psalmist said, the Lord is in 
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throne is in heaven. 
What are you saying? 

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David understood something. 
I know what's going on in my 

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earth. 
I know what's going on around 

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me. 
I can see it. 

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I'm not blind. 
He says I don't know what we're 

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going to do. 
But then he had a second 

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thought. 
That's what's going on down 

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here. 
But the Lord is still in his 

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temple and the Lord is still on 
His throne in heaven. 

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And although times may be 
certain on the earth, times are 

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not uncertain in the heavenlies.
I want to declare if I yes, you 

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live in uncertain times, but 
you're not of uncertain times. 

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It hasn't begotten you. 
That's not your source. 

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Someone say glory. 
So here they are. 

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Difficult times are coming. 
Difficult times are here. 

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There's a great fall in the way.
Think folks, you can start 

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running your your fingers from 
Genesis to Revelation and come 

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across all the episodes in 
Scripture where times are 

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difficult and hard and 
foreboding and blah blah blah, 

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blah. 
You can go to the book of Joe 

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and you can see a plague that 
decimated the land with locusts 

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and seemingly overtook them all 
and think, man, that's horrific.

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And as a result, as a result of 
it taking the fields, the 

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livestock are dying. 
It turned into a full blown 

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family. 
Members of family are dying. 

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People are looking at their 
children with eyes beholding 

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them as maybe tomorrow's a meal 
because of the desperation of 

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their times. 
Yet there's a scripture that's 

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so popular in Joe chapter #2 
that rings in my ears in such 

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times that says, in the last 
days, saith the Lord, I'll pour 

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out my spirit upon all flesh. 
Your sons and daughters shall 

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prophecy, your old man shall 
dream, dream, and your young men

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shall see visions On your 
handmaidens and thy servants 

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I'll put What is that? 
That's revival in desperate 

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times. 
That's revival happening where 

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it by all means it should not be
taking place. 

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But God hear me, your lines are 
proliferated of all the fake 

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news. 
Listen, there's no new sources. 

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It's hard to know what to listen
to. 

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I mean, there's some things that
some of us thought was, you 

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know, absolutely this is right. 
And come to find out it was 

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false. 
But while they're telling you 

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that this thing is imploding, 
it's probably going to. 

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There's still a segment that 
whenever I read missionary 

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reports and whenever I know 
what's going on in the prisons 

451
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,080
that I've walked inside, and 
when I hear about churches being

452
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,480
built where there was no church 
at before, and I hear about the 

453
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,360
miracles, and I see the wonders 
that in the middle of all this, 

454
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,480
I'm understanding God is still 
bringing revival and repeating 

455
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,840
what He has done before, even in
these times. 

456
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,920
Amen. 
Like what the psalmist said in 

457
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,800
Psalms 138 and seven. 
He says, though I walk in the 

458
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:48,960
midst of trouble about what 
revived, maybe it's a little 

459
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,040
closer for you. 
Maybe it's just isn't so much 

460
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,640
what's happening in the world, 
maybe it's what's happening in 

461
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:02,280
your life. 
Sometimes we might be able to be

462
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,560
able to shake what's going on 
around us in the world, but when

463
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,920
it gets up close and personal 
about what's happening in your 

464
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:15,600
life, it's like you're trying to
climb a ladder in darkness and 

465
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,000
your hand can't find the next 
room. 

466
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,520
So I want to speak to people 
that's not just dealing with 

467
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,040
your times, but you're dealing 
with your time within the time. 

468
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,680
And you're desperate. 
You're pleading. 

469
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,080
You're wondering if hope is 
gone. 

470
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,800
You're wondering if there's 
light at the end of the tunnel. 

471
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,640
You're wondering if there's any 
reprieve. 

472
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,800
You're wondering if your 
family's going to stay together.

473
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,520
You're wondering if your 
children are are going to 

474
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,120
continue in the path that you 
have taught and LED them your 

475
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,000
wall. 
You're just bombarded with all 

476
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,480
of these wanderings and you have
a hard time even making a 

477
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,920
declaration about revival 
because you've been brought up 

478
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,000
and you've been conditioned to 
believe that revival has to take

479
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000
this, this, and this in order 
for it to happen. 

480
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,400
The surrounding, the 
environment, everything's got to

481
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,240
be just right. 
But I tell you, if a solitary 

482
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:18,120
person has a determination, you 
might be an Elijah, a man in a 

483
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,360
will wilderness, but if God 
stirs something in your spirit, 

484
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:27,960
you can arise and still go do a 
work because God is in it. 

485
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,840
You're not the arrow that flyeth
by day, nor the terror would 

486
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,560
come by Monday night. 
The Scripture says because as I 

487
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,520
walk among the trouble here, 
David or the psalmist says I 

488
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:50,960
will, he will revive me. 
Foundations losing their hold. 

489
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,360
I feel the shaking, the movement
of the foundations and in my 

490
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,120
feet. 
What are the righteous going to 

491
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,280
do? 
Isaiah. 

492
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,240
Isaiah answered that and Isaiah 
28 and verse 16. 

493
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,600
He said therefore, thus saith 
the Lord God. 

494
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:18,040
He said, behold, I lay in Zion 
for a foundation, a stone, tried

495
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:26,000
stone, a precious cornerstone, a
sure foundation. 

496
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,000
He that believeth shall not make
haste. 

497
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,640
Hold it. 
Wait a minute, folks. 

498
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:33,880
We, we got something going on 
here. 

499
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,880
It's almost like the New 
Testament story of the man that 

500
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:43,200
built his house upon the sand 
and the man that built his house

501
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:48,320
on the rock. 
The storms came and the winds 

502
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:54,600
blew upon. 
There was not a different or 

503
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,320
particular happening to the one 
that was on the sand from the 

504
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:04,080
one who was on the rock. 
Circumstances set. 

505
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,520
Let me tell you something. 
I know where I'm living. 

506
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,240
I know what I'm experiencing, 
but I also know what I'm upon. 

507
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,360
Just because your blood bought 
and God's been made you new, it 

508
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,760
doesn't mean that you won't 
experience the same wind and you

509
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,520
won't experience the same wave. 
But the different lies in where 

510
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,160
your feet are planted. 
Are they on the sand? 

511
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,800
Are they on a foundation that's 
shifting with the wind, on the 

512
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,280
foundation that's been 
intimidated by the waves? 

513
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,000
Or are you on the rock of Zion 
that is sure and steadfast and 

514
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,040
unmovable? 
Go on and blow, wind, blow, go 

515
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,840
on, Rise, water, rise. 
I can't keep that from 

516
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,760
happening. 
But I can't stand firm upon what

517
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:56,840
I'm on and declare revival in. 
Years ago, we sang the So you 

518
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,000
know, old songs, they come and 
go or songs come and go in 

519
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,560
general. 
There's some, you know, when in 

520
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,640
my generation we stopped singing
some of mom and dad's songs, 

521
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,120
whatever, it just happens from 
generation, generation. 

522
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,200
New songs come, we'll revive 
them every once in a while. 

523
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,120
But when I was a kid, bro, 
growing up, this is the song we 

524
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:18,080
sing in church. 
We declare your glory in this 

525
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,800
place. 
We change out glory for 

526
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,960
everything under the sun. 
I mean, it's like going through 

527
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,400
the alphabet. 
We declare your victory, we 

528
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,640
declare your power, we declare 
your healing, right? 

529
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,840
I mean it all. 
We declare a sunny day. 

530
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:38,200
We didn't do that one, but 
right, Sometimes I always say I 

531
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:45,480
declare straight back, you know,
declare it, not ask for it, 

532
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Declare it. 
I think it's time to start 

533
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,440
moving from the asking posture 
to the declaration posture 

534
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,320
rather than the plea, plea, 
plea. 

535
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,040
I declare revival, I declare. 
I declare hope. 

536
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,280
I declare healing. 
I declare deliverance. 

537
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:09,480
I. 
Oh, yeah. 

538
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,440
Hey man, do you know whom you 
serve? 

539
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,440
The very one that created the 
world, spun galaxies into 

540
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,199
existence by his mere speech. 
I like to say often times 

541
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:28,760
spittle became stars. 
Some would say, man declare it. 

542
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,120
Sometimes you got to do that 
regardless what's going on 

543
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,800
around you. 
You'll remember our Old 

544
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,679
Testament story in the book of 
Ezra. 

545
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,840
God's people had went through 
Babylon. 70 years of just 

546
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,800
heartache, turmoil, everything. 
But they're going back home now.

547
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,760
Cyrus says he gives them the 
reprieve, the return back home 

548
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,920
to rebuild Jerusalem, rebuild 
the temple, do all these things.

549
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,920
And so there's like a second 
deportation of people that go 

550
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,719
back to Jerusalem. 
Honey, they're they're building,

551
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,440
they're constructed. 
No doubt it's a time of 

552
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,640
celebration. 
But there's another facet to 

553
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,600
that story. 
They're back home, but they're 

554
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,040
still under the rule in the 
reign of the Persian Empire, 

555
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,160
which means there's some 
dictates and laws that's coming 

556
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,480
from the top that's still making
life uncomfortable. 

557
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,000
They're trying to live their 
life of building gods. 

558
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,240
Ain't no progress all over 
again. 

559
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,280
But they're dealing with some 
stuff in their surroundings. 

560
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,160
And you know what? 
Those people cried out in their 

561
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,080
hour as they were contending 
with those things. 

562
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,320
They said something very similar
to Habakkuk. 

563
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:43,760
They said, Lord, give us a 
little reviving in our bondage. 

564
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,320
I know we've been given the goal
to rebuild and rebuild the altar

565
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,200
and get our temple back in 
order, but we're still under the

566
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,080
dictates of the Providence that 
we're living in. 

567
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,440
Give us a little bit of reviving
in our bondage. 

568
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,840
Can somebody understand today 
that in these last days we're 

569
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,200
going to have to live in the 
paradox of the best of times, in

570
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,800
the worst of times, in wonderful
times, in degradating times? 

571
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,840
It's just that's part of the 
recipe of the end times. 

572
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,160
You understand with me. 
He's sent to a close. 

573
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,800
Chapter 2. 
Chapter 2. 

574
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:34,840
Habakkuk is again, he's 
describing the the violence, 

575
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:42,360
he's describing the idolatry, 
he's describing the years very 

576
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,680
last verse of chapter 2. 
This is what he says. 

577
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,560
He's described all of the bad 
stuff. 

578
00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,240
He's described all of the horrid
stuff in great detail. 

579
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,080
I mean, he spent several verses 
doing it. 

580
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,320
I mean a guy start breaking him 
back and you don't get depressed

581
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,560
about it. 
And it's only three chapters. 

582
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:07,920
Good thing he didn't have 150 
like the song, the last verse of

583
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,480
chapter #2 he says he uses that,
that that conjunction, that 

584
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,960
contrast, just as even the 
psalmist did in some of his, he 

585
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,960
says, but he described all this 
horrific stuff and he says, but 

586
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:25,400
the Lord is in his holy temple. 
It's all about where you keep 

587
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,240
your perspective. 
It's all about where you keep 

588
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:34,200
your focus. 
Habakkuk to revive the work in 

589
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,760
the midst of the years he could 
declare because he knew the Lord

590
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:44,240
was still in his temple in by 
our heads today. 

591
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:49,040
It doesn't matter. 
And I know sometimes we're like 

592
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,800
like a boat upon water that has 
no ore or rudder or any means of

593
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,600
guiding our own ship. 
And it feels like that we're at 

594
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,520
the mercy of this vast body of 
ocean called the world that 

595
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,640
we're in. 
And as it drifts South or north,

596
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,360
it's just like we got to drift 
along with it. 

597
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,720
It's just like there's no 
chance. 

598
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,800
There's no opportunity. 
Maybe even your own life. 

599
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,960
It may feel like that. 
It may feel like that you're 

600
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,080
more times at the mercy of what 
is happening to you than 

601
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,760
anything else. 
And listen, there's stuff that 

602
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,240
happens to us all. 
It's not like someone becomes a 

603
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:28,200
Christian or something like that
and then everything just ceases 

604
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,120
to happen to them. 
No, it still happens. 

605
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,680
There are some days it almost 
feels like it's happening worse.

606
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,520
But I got to check my feet and I
got to, I got to course correct 

607
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:49,320
my focus. 
They sing the song earlier about

608
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:54,880
oceans. 
Peter was capable of walking on 

609
00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:00,800
the waters as long as his focus 
was stayed up on. 

610
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,400
The Lord Jesus was out there on 
the water. 

611
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,400
Peter having this gumption, he 
says bid me come. 

612
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,440
Side note, just be careful what 
you ask the Lord to bid you do. 

613
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,960
He'd probably go do it. 
He said Come Peter. 

614
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,480
I can't imagine that first leg 
over the edge of the boat 

615
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,760
slapping on that water knowing 
that has no body. 

616
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,000
Well, at least not for a while. 
He starts walking up on that 

617
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,520
water. 
His eyes are fixed upon the 

618
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,440
Lord. 
The Bible speaks that it's a 

619
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,640
tumultuous time. 
There's winds that are blowing. 

620
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:44,040
Whenever he shifted his focus 
from the Lord to what the 

621
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:48,160
environment was around him begin
to sink, the Bible says. 

622
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,080
And in that moment he cried out 
to God, said, Lord, save me 

623
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,800
because Christ was still 
standing on the waters. 

624
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:08,320
Please remember that when you're
sinking, He's not still on the 

625
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,320
waters. 
Lord helps him. 

626
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,840
Scripture says that he and Peter
walked back to the boat whenever

627
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:21,920
they got into the boat waters. 
Storm seized. 

628
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,040
Sir, remember what you can't 
walk on or in by yourself. 

629
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:34,200
You can walk on and end with the
Lord, and you can declare 

630
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:41,040
revival even in some of the most
intimidating times of your world

631
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,960
and even of your life. 
These altars are open today for 

632
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,800
anybody that might presently be 
finding themselves overwhelmed 

633
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:56,320
by life or the circumstances of 
life that you see that you're 

634
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,600
living in. 
Like Brother McGee, the 

635
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,760
foundations are being destroyed.
There's a shaking, there's a 

636
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:09,240
it's just like just a new day to
arrive to point something else 

637
00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,840
out that is just awry out of 
kilter. 

638
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,280
And it's it's intimidating. 
Even Habakkuk said, he said, 

639
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,080
Lord, I heard your speech and I 
was afraid. 

640
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,200
How would I heard about how you 
just sit in silence, silently, 

641
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,120
it seems like over there with 
all this stuff going on. 

642
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,880
So that scares me that that made
me afraid. 

643
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:35,760
And then he turns the corner. 
Oh, Lord, revive, revive. 

644
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,840
Somebody perhaps needs a revival
today. 

645
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,800
A revival in your heart, a 
revival in your life, A revival 

646
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:48,800
where you live, a hope amid the 
hopelessness, a chance among all

647
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,720
the options that point in a 
negative direction. 

648
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,800
You just might need a revival in
these uncertain times. 

649
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,560
I wish I could tell you 
everything's going to be well 

650
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,360
after November, but it's not. 
Some things might be made 

651
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,840
better, but what you need to 
find is placing your feet upon 

652
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,360
something that's sure, a sure 
foundation, something that's 

653
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,440
resolute, something that's 
unchanging. 

654
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,080
Something that has been tested 
by time and history has proven. 

655
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,080
You need to put your faith in 
the Lord. 

656
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,440
You need to put your confidence 
in the Lord. 

657
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,280
You need to go from my asking 
posture to a declaration 

658
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,440
posture. 
God, I declare. 

659
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,400
I declare Lord revival today. 
I declare hope. 

660
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,120
I declare hope, God. 
I've been doing very hopeless 

661
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,440
lately. 
I've been overcome by fear and 

662
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,320
anxiety Lord lately. 
But God, I declare hope today. 

663
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,640
I declare hope today. 
When I walked in trouble. 

664
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,800
The Lord will repive me. 
Oh, reach out to him this 

665
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,560
morning. 
He's there for you. 

666
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,200
He's there for you. 
Cast all your care upon the Lord

667
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,000
and he will care for you. 
That's what they said. 

668
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:56,960
That's more than just good words
making poetry. 

669
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,240
That's truth. 
In a world in which no one now 

670
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:02,640
seems to believe as much in 
absolute truth. 

671
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,400
That's the truth. 
They say there is no absolute 

672
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,720
truth, which is an absolute 
statement. 

673
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,200
So I don't really understand 
that all, but nonetheless, I do 

674
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,680
believe in whom I have believed.
I know the Bible says in whom I 

675
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,920
have believed. 
Hallelujah, God wants you. 

676
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,680
He's eager to help you. 
He's eager to be the wind, if 

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you will, beneath your wings. 
He's eager a man. 

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Just just clear the path, your 
feet. 

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It's not going to say that that 
stuff ain't still going to be 

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happening. 
But he said to aid. 

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He's there to help. 
He'll give revival in uncertain 

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times in uncertain times, 
Brother Mason in uncertain 

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times.