1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,040 If you have your Bible, we're going to be in the book of 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:11,120 Daniel, Daniel Chapter 9 during the week. 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:14,760 I was thinking about last week Sunday and the the best way I 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,640 could describe it was surreal. I don't know how many of you 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,840 were here last week Sunday, you were here. 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,600 Thanks, Seth. But it was it was pretty 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,800 unprecedented, you know, And before we started, Rory actually 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,960 showed like we did now, showed a clip and some photos of what was 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,560 going on in, in our cube and in our foyer area. 10 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,120 And I thought, well, maybe I should show it again. 11 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,320 But if you want to see what's what's going on, you can 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:43,960 literally just stick your head out there. 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,360 Car park is full, the auditorium is full. 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:53,640 There's people sitting on the stairs and surreal, right? 15 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:04,040 We've even got wine with us. But I was wondering during the 16 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,600 week, I wondered what what happened last week and maybe 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,720 this morning as well. And I was wondering like where 18 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,280 our life group leaders going like, oh, we'll be new people. 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:13,880 I'm going to invite you, going to befriend you. 20 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,440 You're going to be in my home pretty soon. 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,400 I was wondering if our volunteers noticed the influx of 22 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,600 of new people and visitors and came in because our volunteers 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,240 were here 1st and they get all the good seats. 24 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,000 I was wondering if the volunteers came in last week, 25 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,240 sort of took their jerseys and blankets out and decided now I'm 26 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,200 going to sit in the cube so that our visitors can be in here. 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,360 I was wondering if some of our elders were thinking, Lord, is 28 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,320 it time for me to plant? No Amen from you, Eugene. 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,000 I was wondering of those who, you know, come in early and save 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,880 their seats and they sit there all the time, gave up those 31 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,120 seats so that our visitors wouldn't have to sit on the 32 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,680 stairs and said we sat on the stairs. 33 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,200 I was wondering if it was just an inconvenience. 34 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,560 You know how long it took to get in here and I didn't get coffee 35 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,200 because by the time my coffee was made, I was already inside. 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,200 It was like 9:10. Although the kids men 37 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:21,720 registration really Did she not bring her card or phone or and 38 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,800 I'm going to stand in this queue and I'm missing the good stuff 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,880 happening in the auditorium and you know how hot it is in the 40 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,200 cube. You know what I was thinking 41 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,840 after last week Sunday, it's not going to last. 42 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,080 But then during the week I was really challenged. 43 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,680 I was reminded of a prophetic word that I had preached on 44 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,480 Sunday and we had a pastor was visiting from not only out of 45 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,920 town, but out of the country. He'd come to South Africa for 46 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,320 some other reason and at the end of the meeting came up to me and 47 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,280 said, hey, listen, I've just got a real sense of what God is 48 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,000 wanting to do. And he laid it out. 49 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,800 But one of the things that he said was he said, and this was a 50 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,240 few years ago, he said, I really feel like God is going to bring 51 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:08,600 the city to the doors of three CR and I'm saying probably won't 52 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,880 last. And then I was sitting and 53 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,160 thinking back on the weekend and I suddenly realized, you know, 54 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,600 I've been, we've been in three CR nearly 25 of the 30 years 55 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,960 that it's existed. And I have never felt the 56 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,320 leaning in of God the way I'm feeling it right now. 57 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,600 And I began to wonder, Lord, what is it that you're up to? 58 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,200 I don't know if you know the name Reinard Bunker. 59 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,120 He's an evangelist. I went on those websites. 60 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,520 He's subsequently passed away, but I went on his website and 61 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:47,600 they say that there were 86 million documented salvations 62 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,680 through his his ministry. There were times and you can see 63 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,200 the photos where there are 1.6 million people in the audience 64 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,800 as he preaches the gospel. And This is why I tell you about 65 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,560 Ronald Bonkers because he often used to remind his team that 66 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,400 they weren't God's first choice. He tells a story of how when God 67 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,240 began to lean in over him and, and his ministry and what he was 68 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,120 doing, it kind of caught in fear and trepidation. 69 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,160 One sense of like, yes, Lord, you can do anything. 70 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,079 Absolutely. And then also it's like, and I 71 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:20,360 think you've come to the right guy. 72 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,760 And he felt God say as clear as day, you weren't my first 73 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,880 choice, not even my second or third or fourth, but he felt God 74 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,240 say that. He had been to a few ministers 75 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,880 and a few ministries, and they were so preoccupied with profile 76 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,080 and programs that he went looking elsewhere. 77 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:46,440 And I wonder if God hasn't come to us, not as his first choice. 78 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,320 I wonder if God hasn't been going through our city, going 79 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,720 from church to church, door to door, minister to minister, home 80 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,560 to home. I wonder if God hasn't been 81 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,320 going through our city. Greater things are yet to come. 82 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,960 Greater things are still to be done in the city. 83 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,600 Can I do it through you? And they've been profiled and 84 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,760 programs and busy schedule. Sorry, I can't help you. 85 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,160 And he's moved on to the next. What if God is here and he's 86 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:16,880 saying like it says in Ezekiel 22. 87 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,160 I looked for someone who would stand in the gap for me on 88 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,360 behalf of the land, but I couldn't find anyone. 89 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:27,400 Yesterday morning I went cycling and about 5:45, half past five, 90 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,160 quarter to six, I rode past the NHS church in the Lardis Park, 91 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:35,160 and the parking lot was full and there was this little outside 92 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,520 room that was full and people were praying for our city, for 93 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,520 greater things down the streets. And I passed the lady who was 94 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,240 walking and praying, but she had headphones in and I was 95 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,560 wondering if she wasn't maybe walking down the street praying 96 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,200 for her neighborhood. But she's on the phone with a 97 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,400 friend who's walking down her St. praying for her 98 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,040 neighborhood. The greater things would come 99 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,280 that God would do what he'd done in days of old again in and 100 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:02,320 through us. And then I got to the very top 101 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,320 of Copicorp and there was this ring of burly men and they 102 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,880 leather jackets and their motorbikes parked, and they were 103 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,520 praying for you and for our city. 104 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,840 The greater things would happen that God would move in our 105 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:16,920 midst. So with all of this sort of 106 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,160 dribbling through my mind and troubling my heart and my lovely 107 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:26,040 it's not going to last comment, I decided to turn to Daniel 108 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,240 Chapter 9 and say, Lord, is there something here that we 109 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,120 need to see? And I want to bring it to you 110 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,360 this morning In Daniel Chapter 9. 111 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,360 It begins in verse one in the first year of Darius son of 112 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,240 Xerxes. A Mede by descent was made ruler 113 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,960 over the Babylonian Kingdom in the first year of his reign. 114 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,320 I, Daniel, understood from the scriptures, according to the 115 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,720 word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the 116 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,400 desolation of Jerusalem would last 70 years. 117 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,600 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and 118 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,280 petitioning, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. 119 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,640 I just want to pause there and unpack just those 3 verses so 120 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,400 you know what's going on. It begins by saying in the first 121 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,960 year of Darius son of Xerxes. So Daniel gives us a date and I 122 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,120 went and looked it up and you can you can actually Google it. 123 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,880 On that date, Daniel and the nation of Israel had been in 124 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:23,800 exile for 67 years. Verse two, in the first year of 125 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,600 his reign, after 60-7 years in exile, I understood from the 126 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,560 scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to 127 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would 128 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,440 last 70 years. So they've been there 67 years 129 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,240 and he sees this prophetic word given by Jeremiah that they 130 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,360 would only be there for 70 years. 131 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,640 And then take a look at his response. 132 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,920 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in pray and 133 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,160 petitioning. I don't know if I would have put 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,680 those peas in there if I've been in exile for 67 years under the 135 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,360 harsh rulership of the Babylonian Kingdom and the 136 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,040 Persians and God said three more years. 137 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,800 The the piece I would use is is definitely praise, maybe even 138 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,960 parte. You know, it's like here we go 139 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,560 baby. But instead it says so I turned 140 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,200 to the Lord God and pleaded with him in pray and petitioning. 141 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,720 And just to make sure that I was understanding it correctly. 142 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,080 I looked it up. These words to plead, to pray, 143 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,520 to petition. It means to cry out, to call 144 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,360 aloud, to shout with deep desire. 145 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,520 It conveys a sense of urgency, strong emotion, deep desperation 146 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,360 to the point of demand. And I say that with all 147 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,480 reverence to the point of demanding of God that He 148 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,440 fulfilled His promise. And that comes from Isaiah 62 149 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:43,159 that says give God no rest when you pray for your city. 150 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,600 That is not what I was expecting from Daniel when he gets his 151 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,440 beautiful promise. Three more years and you're out 152 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,960 of here. You imagine you spend the whole 153 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,400 of January looking for a job and God says three more months and 154 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,040 you've got a job. I don't think I would have 155 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,800 turned to pleading and praying and petitioning, but take a look 156 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,360 at what he says here. Verse 17 says now our God, hear 157 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,200 the prayers and petitions of your servants for your sake, 158 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,280 Lord, look with favour on your desolate sanctuary. 159 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,120 Give ear our God and here open your eyes. 160 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,280 I mean, this is the God that gave the promise, but he's 161 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,240 saying open your eyes. See the desolation of the city 162 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,400 that bears your name. We do not make requests of You 163 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,880 because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. 164 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,240 Lord, listen, Lord, forgive. Lord, hear and act for your 165 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,520 sake. My God, do not delay because 166 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,880 your city and your people bear your name. 167 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:43,200 Do not delay. Oh, I pray that this grace would 168 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:49,800 come upon us as three CR. But we look and see God is doing 169 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,520 something. Now I don't claim to be a 170 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,920 prophet. That's not my gifting. 171 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,960 I don't leave this church. I'm just a member like you, but 172 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:01,200 every now and then I get to preach. 173 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,480 So I'm not claiming some ownership of the God has spoken. 174 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,600 But I look at this and I look at you and I look at the images of 175 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,640 the cube out there and I FOIA this overflowing and the parking 176 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,400 and it's down the street and into the neighboring estates. 177 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,800 And I'm saying if there's a ghost of a shadow of a whisper 178 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,960 of a possibility that God is wanting to use us to bring about 179 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,720 revival in our city, then surely our response should be like 180 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:37,480 David respond Daniel responsive to plead to pray and petition. 181 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,200 Surely we shouldn't go. You know, kids, men, there was 182 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,000 such a drag getting my children out of. 183 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,440 Surely our immediate response shouldn't be the problem with 184 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,160 parking and how long it got us to get through the four way 185 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,000 stop. Instead, I want to call you to 186 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,720 plead, to pray, to petition. Greater things are yet to come. 187 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,400 Greater things are still to be done in our city. 188 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,440 I can hear the mountains tremble. 189 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,840 So I want to put some bones to this, paint a picture for you so 190 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,720 you can get a better handle on what Daniel was on about. 191 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,760 And, and now there's two portions of scripture that I 192 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,520 just want to sink your teeth into. 193 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,920 The 1st is in Psalm 132. Welcome to turn there. 194 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,880 This is an account written of of David and he had been king just 195 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:25,600 for a couple months. And the first thing that David 196 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,240 wanted to do was David wanted to bring the ark of the covenants, 197 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,280 the presence of God back to the city. 198 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,360 So this is what's on his heart and this is what is written in 199 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,920 Psalm 132. Verse 3 says I will not enter my 200 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,480 house or go to my bed. David said I will allow no sleep 201 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,560 to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids till I find a place for 202 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:47,640 the Lord, a dwelling for the mighty one of Jacob. 203 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,600 And he hear his heart. There's a pleading, there's a 204 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,000 prayer, there's a petitioning. He's longing for the presence of 205 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,600 God to come to his city. I don't know if you know the 206 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,240 name John Tyson. He's a preacher in New York in 207 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,280 the US and he had the same yearning and he talks about it 208 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,120 in one of the sermons where he did, He called it a revival 209 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,160 tour. So he went all across the world 210 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,720 to places where there had been revivals or great awakenings. 211 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,440 And he thought like, I need to find what's the secret sauce? 212 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,240 New York needs Jesus. He was longing for the presence 213 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,200 of God like David did. And he came back with this after 214 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,840 all the Voyager miles he clocked up and all the money he spends 215 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:30,600 and all the questions he asked, he came up with this. 216 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,000 He simply said God comes where he is wanted. 217 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:39,520 That comes where he is wanted. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 4, 218 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,160 it says you will seek me and you will find me when you seek me 219 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,040 with all your heart. And this is what David is doing, 220 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,960 this longing in David's heart. Essentially he's saying it's not 221 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:57,320 OK that I live my comfortable, carefree life until revival 222 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,680 comes in my city. And he's longing on this side. 223 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:02,200 And God is longing on this side too. 224 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,080 God is longing for David's and Daniel's to awaken, to bang on 225 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,240 his door, to plead, to pray, to petition. 226 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,440 Say, Father, our city needs you. Lord, my family needs you. 227 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,960 The campus that I study on needs you. 228 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:24,000 The people I work with need you. Praying, petitioning, pleading, 229 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,520 calling out, crying out, shouting aloud with a deep sense 230 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,040 of urgency and desperation. Lord, it's not OK for me to live 231 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,600 a safe and comfortable life until you dwell fully in 232 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,160 Ireland, in Rio, in Cairo, in Pretoria, in the Lardis Park. 233 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,080 I don't know if you know, but I write. 234 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,160 People often ask me, is that a new tattoo? 235 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,960 No, it's just a list of people that I pray for by name every 236 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,800 single day. I put it there because I come 237 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,800 from the bluff and I forget things very quickly. 238 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,760 And unless I have a constant reminder, days go by and I 239 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,280 haven't thought of what if you put a name on your hand. 240 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,320 If I had to say plead, pray, petition, is there a name that 241 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,520 comes to mind? That name might be Tux. 242 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,840 It might be the estate you stay in, might be your father's name. 243 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,240 But you know, the problem is, it's wonderful. 244 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:29,480 We have a lot of faith for Lisbon and Cairo and Pretoria, 245 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,200 but for Pitt, oh, that's a whole new story. 246 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,160 Because Pitt's got issues, and Pitt is prickly and Pitt has a 247 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,520 past. I put his name, I'm like, oh, 248 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,160 Lord, I don't know if you can. Have you met Pitt? 249 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,800 Pretoria. Yes, absolutely. 250 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Great. So things are yet to come. 251 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,320 But Peter, do you know the name Francis Chan? 252 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,920 OK, Minister in the US. Amazing guy. 253 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,480 Actually, we had the privilege of sitting under his ministry a 254 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,520 while back. Francis Chan tells his story. 255 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,480 I didn't know this, but his mother died giving birth to him. 256 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,680 And because of that, the family hated this newborn child. 257 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,280 His dad thought, you know what? Because of what you did to my 258 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,400 wife, I don't want you either. Get him up for adoption. 259 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,040 One of the aunts found out and she said, no, no, no, not 260 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,160 adoption, not in this city. We've got to send him to his 261 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,680 grandmother in Hong Kong, get this problem away from us. 262 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,840 And he's he was basically raised by his grandmother in Hong Kong 263 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,360 until she couldn't anymore. And she said, no, you know it. 264 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,080 I don't want him either. Send him back home to dad. 265 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,760 So he arrives back with his father, who doesn't want him, 266 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,520 who's angry at him. And his father's had another 267 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,440 child. So now he's got another little 268 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,440 precious. Now you're more than an 269 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,720 inconvenience. And he tells at the moment where 270 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,200 he was tied to a tree and his dad had broken off a bronze and 271 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,160 was just beating him, just beating him for existing. 272 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,640 And he said once his father had eventually given up and and he 273 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,680 had lost his voice from screaming and crying and no one 274 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,120 else says how he sat there in the dark tied to a tree 275 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,080 wondering like, what do I do now? 276 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,960 Is it OK to to wriggle out of this? 277 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,560 Can I go back into the house and I'll tell you that story to 278 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,160 reveal a heart. Because he says this, you tell 279 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:26,440 me how you reach that young boy's heart with the good news 280 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,880 of the gospel. How do you convince him that God 281 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,880 is good? How do you convince him that God 282 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:35,680 has a purpose and a plan for his life? 283 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,960 And he says something had to happen in that space, just like 284 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,560 something has to happen with Pete and with Pretoria. 285 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,000 And then he turns to Romans 5, verse 5, which says hope does 286 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,440 not put us to shame because God's love has been poured out 287 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,320 into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. 288 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:00,360 That is our only hope when we're praying for Pretoria, that God 289 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,480 will pour out his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. 290 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,680 Because when he does, he gets behind those defenses and behind 291 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,560 those offenses and behind that rejection and that darkness and 292 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:16,400 that cynicism, and he grabs a hold of young Francis Chan's 293 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,760 heart at 15. He pours out his love into his 294 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,200 heart through the Holy Spirit, and that same love is beating in 295 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:29,560 his chest now at the age of 57. So I want to call you through CR 296 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,200 to pray, to plead, to petition for your city, for your 297 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,360 departments, for your business, for your family, for your 298 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:42,160 children or your parents, and ask God, would you pour your 299 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,560 love out into their hearts through your Holy Spirit. 300 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,080 This is our only hope, but it's all we need. 301 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,880 And that is what we find David doing. 302 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:57,640 If I can just get the presence of God into the city, it'll 303 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,840 change. So that's the first portion of 304 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,680 Scripture. Here's the second, Luke 11. 305 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,920 So in Luke 11, that's Jesus has just answered the age-old 306 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,440 question that the disciples have asked, teach us to pray. 307 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,200 And so he gives them the Lord's Prayer. 308 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,960 I'm sure you know it's our Father who art in heaven, 309 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,240 hallowed be your name. We used to back in the day, we 310 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,000 used to pray it in school assembly. 311 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,840 Father, your name hallowed be your name, but it gives him the 312 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,600 prayer, and then he gives these little footnotes that we often 313 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,920 overlook because this Lord's Prayer is so captivating. 314 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,480 But he adds, it's almost as if he gives his own commentary on 315 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,920 that portion of Scripture. And this is Luke 11, verse 5. 316 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,240 Then Jesus said to them, suppose you have a friend, and you go to 317 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,080 him at midnight and say, friend, lend ME3 loaves of bread. 318 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,000 A friend of mine on a journey has come to me and I have no 319 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,560 food to offer him. And suppose the one inside 320 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,080 answers don't bother me. The door's already locked and my 321 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,400 children are now in bed. I can't get up and give you 322 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,360 anything. I tell you, even though he'll 323 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:06,040 not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet 324 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,120 remember, he's talking about prayer. 325 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,880 Because of your shameless audacity, he will surely get up 326 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,080 and give you as much as you need. 327 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,960 And then the biggest so in the order of scripture. 328 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:22,840 So in other words, he's spoken about shameless audacity, and 329 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:28,400 now he's saying so do likewise. Ask and it will be given to you. 330 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,720 Seek and you'll find knock and the door will be open to you. 331 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,440 For everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks finds them. 332 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,680 To the one who knocks. The door will be opened. 333 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,800 The door to the city will be opened. 334 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,200 The door to their hearts will be open. 335 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,800 But he says he calls of us for shameless audacity. 336 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,840 Now, when you look that up in the Bible dictionary, it sort of 337 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,880 gives one or two very anemic definitions. 338 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,160 I'd rather prefer to offer my own interpretation of that. 339 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:03,200 It's like you look at the city, you look at your family, you 340 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,480 look at your business, you look at your campus. 341 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:10,520 Shameless audacity is to plead, to pray, to petition, to call 342 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,080 out loud. With deep desire and deep 343 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,480 dissatisfaction with the situation before you. 344 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:20,000 But the God who can answer that prayer, The God who can bring 345 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,520 his love and get it behind the defenses and behind the 346 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,440 darkness, behind the disappointment. 347 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,800 Shameless audacity. It actually, it's in the when it 348 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:34,240 says ask and you'll receive. It's in the present continuous 349 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,200 tense, which means ask and keep on asking. 350 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,040 Seek and keep on seeking. Knock and keep on knocking. 351 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,920 Greater things are yet to come. Greater things are still to be 352 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,080 done in our city. But what if it's through you? 353 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,920 What if he's waiting for you simply to take that name and 354 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:57,600 bring it into his presence? Done. 355 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,720 If you know Duncan Campbell, he's a man who lived about 100 356 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,720 years ago. Duncan Campbell was one of those 357 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,400 young men. Deep darkness. 358 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,120 He was so wild that we dropped out of school and he played bag 359 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:18,960 puffs in a bar doc scandal. No family wants a son who plays 360 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,360 bag puffs in a bar, but he didn't want his family either. 361 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,800 You know, I've got it. I'm good. 362 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,200 And he tells in his biography how he's playing bag puffs in a 363 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,600 bar one night and right in the middle of a set, the Spirit of 364 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,320 God comes upon him and he doesn't know what to do. 365 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:42,120 He is so weighed down this conviction and it's it's creepy 366 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,400 because like, I'm in a bar, you know, God, you shouldn't be 367 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,120 here, that he actually asks one of the guys if he can just go 368 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:48,760 get some air. So he steps out and he goes 369 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,920 walking down the street. He's like, I don't know what to 370 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,360 do with this. That's late at night because you 371 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:56,240 only play bag puffs in the bar late at night. 372 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,000 And he's walking through the city and he goes past the church 373 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,080 that he remembers going to as a young, young boy. 374 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,800 And the lights are still on. So he walks up to the window, 375 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,200 but he can't quite see anything, goes around the side and, and he 376 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,280 looks through the keyhole and inside there's a couple of men 377 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,480 praying. And the one that he sees first 378 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,760 is his father. And he can hear from outside of 379 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,360 the door his dad pleading and praying and petitioning our 380 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,640 Heavenly Father for his son's salvation. 381 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,560 And he's so shaken by it. He opens the door, walks in so 382 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,000 it's right down next to his dad. And his dad just keeps on 383 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,760 carrying, praying. And he looks to his son and he 384 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,840 says, as if he expected me to be there. 385 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,680 Look to his son. Good to have you here. 386 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,800 My boy carried on praying for other people's children. 387 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,720 Fast forward a few years and Duncan's now on the battlefield. 388 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,800 It's World War One and he gets fatally wounded. 389 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,760 They're basically dragging him off to the medic center to die. 390 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,760 And while that's happening in sort of semi comatose state, he 391 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,240 cries out to God. He says, surely this, this isn't 392 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,280 it. I'm still a young man. 393 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,040 You know, you did all of that to now end like this. 394 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,000 And right there, apparently on the back of a horse, you know, 395 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,640 like you see in the cowboy movies, right there, the Spirit 396 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,800 of God comes on in in such power. 397 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:21,320 Not only does he survive, but he was lying in his hospital bed 398 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,000 praying and random strangers would come up to him and ask 399 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,720 him, tell us how to be saved. I don't know what it is, but 400 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,640 while you're singing in Gaelic and while you're praying in I'm 401 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,000 Canadian, I don't even know what you're saying, but I do know 402 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,000 that you have the answers. I want to know how to be saved 403 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,720 and that power on him stayed with him. 404 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,960 He would share his testimony at church and it was like the 405 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,080 Spirit of God would come in such power. 406 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,640 People were getting healed, radically saved. 407 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,480 It was like almost they couldn't get off their chairs. 408 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,560 But he Fast forward a few years and he settles down and he gets 409 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,600 married and the fire in his heart also settles. 410 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,600 Then one morning he's waking up on his way to work and his 411 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,880 daughter's 15 year old daughter has been having a quiet time. 412 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,720 She comes out of her room. She says the following, says, 413 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:09,400 Daddy, when you were young you saw revival. 414 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,600 How is it, Daddy, that you're not seeing revival now? 415 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,680 Three CR when you were young you saw revival. 416 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,880 How is it that you're not seeing revival now? 417 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,120 Many are joining the church, she says. 418 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,320 But Daddy, when last did you kneel beside a person and lead 419 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:32,480 him to Jesus? At the same time, in the land 420 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,920 far, far away place called the Hebrides, there's two elderly 421 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,680 ladies, Peggy and Christine Smith, the one's 82, the other 422 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,720 84 sisters. And they've been praying for the 423 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,560 Hebrides because the Hebrides was a very affluent area. 424 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,240 Everyone was well educated, skilled in their craft, but 425 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:56,000 godless, kind of like LA. And they're saying, Father, this 426 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,280 church needs revival. The young people don't want 427 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,120 anything to do with church. We're all getting old. 428 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,840 We're all about to die. And that's going to be an empty 429 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,160 building. And while they're praying, God 430 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,960 gave them this verse. Isaiah 44 three says, for I will 431 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,920 pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. 432 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,760 I will pour out my spirit on your offspring and my blessing 433 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,720 on your descendants. And they're like God has spoken. 434 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,880 And so they started praying this verse over and over again. 435 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,360 Not only that, meets twice a week from 8:00 PM to like 3:00 436 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,200 AM and just pray. And the pastor got 1 of this. 437 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,160 And so he gathered a couple men together and they started 438 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,640 praying as well. And then there was a moment 439 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,440 where one of the sisters felt like God dropped a name or face 440 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,720 and she described this person to the pastor, said, listen, I 441 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,440 don't know if you know anyone, if there's anyone in the city or 442 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,000 neighboring cities. And he's like, that sounds just 443 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,160 like Duncan Campbell. And so they invited him. 444 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,240 So what do you come and minister? 445 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,800 We've been praying and we feel you're the guy. 446 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,800 Would you come now, Austin? Three times before he came. 447 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,800 Maybe it was his comment from his daughter that eventually got 448 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,040 him over there. And so Duncan comes and he 449 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,720 arrives at the the harbour and they go and they fetch him. 450 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,960 They say, listen, Supper's ready. 451 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:12,720 It's 8:00 at night. Your room is ready if you want 452 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,880 to go unpack. But there's actually a few 453 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,280 people waiting in the church already. 454 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,440 There's about 200 people in the church because they've heard 455 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,880 he's coming. So he's like, hmm, let me, 456 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,840 let's, let's go to church. I'd love to meet them. 457 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,320 And he goes there and he ministers until about 11:00 at 458 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,920 night, but nothing happens. He's hungry for a long journey. 459 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,840 All day long, he's sort of thinking, OK. 460 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,800 And he's busy winding down. Thank you for coming. 461 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,760 You know, don't forget to fetch your children and free coffee in 462 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,640 the foyer. And one of the men who had been 463 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,440 praying with the pastors gets on his knees and he begins to pray. 464 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,440 Lord, you said you would pour water on the thirsty land and 465 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,360 streams on dry ground. You said you would pour out your 466 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,840 spirits on your offspring and your blessing on your 467 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,480 descendants. Father, we plead, we pray, we 468 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,560 petition you to do this. And suddenly the back doors 469 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,760 burst open. Apparently a blacksmith comes 470 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,640 storming in the city. Blacksmith comes storming and 471 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,520 saying God has done it, God has done it, God has done it and 472 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,680 behind him there are two or three hundred people coming to 473 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,360 the church. God had woken them up in their 474 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,920 sleep. The presence of God was so heavy 475 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,880 on that area. They had woken up and they 476 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,280 didn't know what else to do but just like Duncan maybe try 477 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,360 church and they come peeling in and so he just invites them all 478 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,080 in and said, OK, we start from the beginning again so as to 479 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,600 pray and so as to minister and so as to preach and the Spirit 480 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,320 of God comes on that place with a cannot get off the ground and 481 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,080 it's 1:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the morning and around 3:00 482 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,080 in the morning, this guy comes through the the door on the side 483 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,680 there makes his way over people who prostate before God waves 484 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,400 through the presence of God up to Duncan Campbell says, listen, 485 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,280 I'm the chief of police. I need your help. 486 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,120 People have surrounded the police station. 487 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,920 They're on their knees telling us and confessing their sins, 488 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,640 telling us all the things that they've done. 489 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,120 They they're so convicted. It's like, I just now need to, 490 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,800 so please, will you come? There are 400 people around the 491 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,520 police station on their knees as the presence of Godfell. 492 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,080 And I tell you all of that to tell you this, there's one line 493 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,920 in this story that has gotten behind all my defenses. 494 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,320 It says this. It says the next three. 495 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,920 Over the course of the next three years, there wasn't a 496 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,400 single household in the Hebrides that was unaffected by the 497 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,240 revival. Over the next three years, 498 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,080 there's also accounts of these family members having family 499 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,880 overseas. And at the same time the God is 500 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,440 pouring out his presence and people are surrounding the 501 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:45,920 police station in the UK and and Ireland tells of family just 502 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,720 walking down the street. And like, I've got to, I've got 503 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,560 to get right with God pulling aside into an alley, getting on 504 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,240 their knees. They have accounts of fishermen 505 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,680 just off the Hebridean coast. The presence of God hit them and 506 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,520 they come to shore. These are rough, raw, tattooed 507 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,640 beasts of men on their knees saying, father, I need to ask 508 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,320 your forgiveness. Because the next Over the next 509 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,000 three years, there wasn't a single household in the Hebrides 510 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,120 that was unaffected by the revival. 511 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,600 What if God wants to do this in our city over the next three 512 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:29,320 years? We've got nothing to offer. 513 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,760 It's not because our climate control is just right and where 514 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:41,760 everyone else has HD screens, hours of 4K, it has to be by the 515 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,240 grace of God. It has to be that God is 516 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:50,080 whispering something to you and I and along with it a call to 517 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,560 respond. And so this is the prayer that 518 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,120 I've been praying over the last while. 519 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,520 It's in Habakkuk chapter 3 and verse 2. 520 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,280 It says this, Lord, we have heard of your fame. 521 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,280 We stand in awe of your deeds now, Lord, repeat them in our 522 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,840 day, in our time. Make them known. 523 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,320 And I want to pray this as we close. 524 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,520 Lord, we've heard of your fame, Father. 525 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,480 We've heard of great awakenings in the US, the UK. 526 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,200 We've heard how you swept across Europe and how you planted your 527 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,400 feet in the Hebrides. We stand in awe of your deeds, 528 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,400 Father. We stand in awe of the fact that 529 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,040 we can look across this room and it is filled to capacity and 530 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,880 then some. We stand in awe that you have 531 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,440 considered us and allowed hearts to be turned to you in this 532 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:49,400 space. But this morning, Father, my 533 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,240 cry, Lord, repeat them in our day. 534 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,440 Repeat them in our day. Father, repeat them in our day. 535 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,760 Lord God, we ask that you would move upon our city. 536 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,720 Lord, I pray that in three years time that it will be written. 537 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,880 Now, the next. Over those three years there 538 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,040 wasn't a single household in the Hebrides. 539 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,120 There wasn't a single household in Pretoria. 540 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,240 It was in a single household that was unaffected by the 541 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,960 revival and that there won't be a single household, not a not a 542 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,320 heart, not a home father that is not affected but what you do in 543 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,800 and through US. Lord, I don't know what you 544 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,440 require of us, but we want to say yes and Amen to it. 545 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,200 I don't know what you want of us to give and and how you're 546 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,440 calling us to open our homes or what it is you're wanting to do 547 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,960 in the workplace as we petition and cry out to you. 548 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,520 But we ask Heavenly Father, repeat them in our day, in our 549 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:40,720 time. Make them known. 550 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,000 Speak to every single one of us here, from those in the 551 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,360 auditorium to those in the overflow, to those in reception 552 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,040 and the foyer, to those in Milky Lane and Smallville. 553 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,560 Lord Jesus, take a hold of the hearts of our children. 554 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,600 Take a hold of the hearts of each home. 555 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,840 Father, what could you do through a community that opens 556 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,080 themselves up to you over the next three years as best as we 557 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,080 know how? Father, we say yes and Amen. 558 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,280 Here we are. Father use us Jesus name.