All right. Beautiful people. How are we doing?
Hope you guys are doing amazing right now.
I'm doing the classic and just checking that
the tech is working the way that it should be.
But it is fantastic to have you joining in.
And whether you're joining in with the live
or whether you're joining the replay,
it is such an honor to have you here.
And I want to really honor you for your amazing hunger.
And who feels like their hunger is being stirred for a move of God?
And not just any old move of God, but a move of God
that will release an unprecedented outpouring of the spirit of God
and raise up sons and release effortless union with the divine nature.
A move of God that will swallow people up in the divine dance
like never before.
A move of God that will see a participation in the divine life
that our generation has never known.
A move of God that will come with nation discipling signs
and wonders on a scale that we just have no comprehension for.
Let me know if that sets your heart ablaze,
if that's stirring you up,
if that gets you burning, gets your heart boiling.
For me, it does.
And for me, that's exactly why we are here right now
in this adventure together,
just to be a part of the process of allowing God to stir us,
to grip us like never before,
to spark a fresh fire in us
that goes after the plans and purposes that God has for us
in a completely radicalized, phenomenal, outrageous way
like never before.
Who believes that God has got something phenomenal
for this generation?
For me, that's why I'm here.
That's what I'm doing.
That's exactly what I stand for.
I'm standing for an unprecedented move of God.
But that move of God has to start somewhere.
And by the end of this session,
I believe that you're going to be able
to come into agreement with me.
Because I believe that that move of God,
that can start with you, right?
An unprecedented move of God is at hand.
And that move of God, it can start with you.
It has to start somewhere.
It has to start with someone.
And I just want to tell you that it's not just starting.
It's already unfolding.
It's already got massive momentum.
But God wants to spark something in you
that produces awakening all around you,
produces atmospheric shift all around you,
all around the lives of the people around you.
He wants to cause you to be raised up
as someone who releases an awakening,
releases an open heaven, releases an atmospheric shift
that changes lives forever
and becomes a part of this, like a stream,
if you want, as a part of this massive river
that God is releasing right now.
So much momentum building up
in this massive river of outpouring.
And God's calling you to be a significant part of that.
So let's pray.
Let's get God, let's just get stirred up.
Let's see what God's going to do.
It's going to be wild.
And you pray with me.
Just put your declarations down there.
Put in the comments the things
that you'll believe in God for,
the things that you're trusting God for,
the things that you're excited about,
what has been stewed up in you.
What do you want to see?
Let's start making declarations for those things right now.
Whoa, Papa, Jesus, Yeshua, Holy Spirit.
We thank you that it's in you.
It's in your, whoa, thick, rich, beautiful glory
that we live and we move and we have our being
in the wonder of, in the wonder of your glory.
We thank you so much that you have infused us
with the divine light.
We thank you for effortless bliss.
We thank you for radical signs and wonders and miracles.
We thank you for the wonder, whoa, of who you are.
Whoa.
We thank you that you have fixed in your heart
to take us beyond where we've ever been before.
We thank you that the hunger that we have
is because you're stirring it.
And we thank you right now
that you are stirring such a hunger in us
that's beyond any hunger we've ever known.
So we welcome your Holy Spirit to breathe on the fire.
Release fresh hunger, kindle a fresh flame in us.
May there be an increase in the temperature.
May there be an increase in the intensity.
May we burn like we've never burnt before.
If our hearts know what it is to burn,
then Papa, we ask that you baptize every part of our body,
not just our hearts, but every part of our being.
but our feet and our hands, our fingers and our toes,
We thank you for that.
We thank you for the power of your love.
our hair and our eyeballs, that we would be consumed,
that we would be ablaze with a hunger and a desire
and a ravenous pursuit for you
that is beyond, beyond, beyond
what we've ever walked in before.
I thank you for fresh fire.
And Papa, I declare right now
to these people that are here,
to those that are hearing my voice,
and over this generation,
I declare that you are catalysts
of an unprecedented move of God.
And Papa, I thank you for breaking open the heavens
over their lives like never before.
And I declare it has to start somewhere.
It has to start with someone,
and God wants to spark it in you.
So Papa, release your desire, release your fire,
release your anointing, your grace, your mantles.
Break open the heavens over our lives.
I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate
a spirit of awakening gripping you
to the core of your being in Jesus' name.
A spirit of awakening coming upon this generation
like never before in Jesus' name.
I release it on you in Jesus' name.
May that be ignited in Jesus' name.
I see fires being sparked in hearts right now.
Fresh fire in Jesus' name being sparked, a desire.
I just see it welling up, bubbling up,
burning up on the inside of you,
taking new territory in your own heart,
unprecedented hunger, new dimensions of faith,
new dimensions of desire.
Whoa.
And may you smother people who've never been smothered
in the sweet kisses of heaven.
May they be invalid.
May they be snuggled.
May they be smothered.
May they be marinated.
May they be baptized in heaven's kisses.
May they know the richness of your love and your goodness.
May the kindness and the supernatural tangible presence
of your glory and the supernatural outpouring
of your love flood through them.
May bodies be healed and restored right now.
May hearts be healed and restored right now.
May minds be healed and restored right now.
May the heavens break open over lives right now.
I decree over you a spirit of wisdom and revelation
taking you to where you've never been in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Beautiful.
Wow.
Is that getting you stirred up?
Is that getting some fire happening in you?
I know that is causing some fire in me to burn.
Just say this with me.
Say this with me.
It has to start somewhere.
It has to start with someone.
And by the end of this session,
I believe that you're gonna believe
that it can start with you in an unprecedented way.
It can happen right where you are right now.
And I'm so excited about sharing with you
how awakening has shaped the world that we live in.
It is wild.
Now, I gotta say a few things about awakening, right?
Is that an awakening will produce an open heaven.
And what's an open heaven, right?
It's easy access to revelation, right?
Easy access to revelation.
That's what an open heaven produces.
And a closed heaven makes revelation,
makes truth very, very difficult to access.
So it produces a defiled mind.
It produces a corrupt mind, a futile mind.
Whereas an open heaven opens the doorway
for us to step into a renewed mind.
Yes.
And when we, this is the thing for me
that changed my world completely
to going from never knowing what it was
to even experience the manifest presence of God
to being able to live effortlessly.
I just lean in.
There's effortless union, effortless oneness,
effortlessness in the divine nature
just to experience the divine life so effortlessly.
And it all came out of a renewed mind
that has produced an open heaven right here.
It's a world I never knew could exist.
It's a world I never knew, never believed I could walk into.
But you know what?
It's a world that God took me beyond
what I'd ever experienced or imagined.
Oh, into this world of signs and wonders
and glory and outpourings and miracles
and lives transformed in the divine life
and effortless union with the divine nature
and oneness with the Trinity
and being swallowed up in the divine dance.
Whoa, it's so glorious, right?
So awakening, awakening opens up the heavens
and gives us easy access to truth, right?
That's what an awakening does.
It cracks open the heavens,
gives new access to truth
that we couldn't have received before.
And a really good awakening
will always be followed by a reformation, okay?
Like if you actually implement that truth,
it will always change your life.
Whoa, that's what happened for me
from never growing up in church and religious,
in a religious world,
not even knowing that the manifest presence of God
was a thing to, whoa,
being swallowed up in a world of effortless union
with the divine nature.
Wow, how does that happen?
The renewed mind is an open.
heaven. And open heaven is a participation with the divine
life being consumed in the divine. It's so immersed in
divine love that it consumes every part of your being. Wow.
But man, still got a radical journey ahead. Still want to go
like God into a realm of beyond what I've ever known. Beyond,
beyond, beyond. Like Paul wrote, you know, not that I have
achieved all this, but I set my heart, my sights to go after
that for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Right? Oh, so let's get into it. And we're going to talk about
awakening, reformation, outpourings, all of these things
that you would expect. Okay, so we're gonna start with a
scripture, John 3.3, when Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, and he
said, we must be born again. All right, you know, that
terminology, be born again. Nicodemus was real confused.
He's like, well, Jesus, you tripping. He's like, what? What
do you mean be born again? I can't climb back into my mum
like this is weird. And Jesus is like, no, no, no, you must be
born again. But when we read that in English, and we read it
as born again, we actually do ourselves a major disservice that
should be translated as born from above. Sorry, born from
above. The Greek word is anothan. All right, anothan means
to be born from above. It means to be born from a heavenly
dimension. It means to access a whole new realm in the heavens,
like access new revelation from the heavens. How awesome is that
to be born again. So awakening is actually this, you know,
anothan is actually a great word for awakening as well, in a
sense, you know, like, when we have this born from above
experience or born again, what's happening is we're experiencing
a whole new awakening to a whole new level of truth. But I want
to say that that is a progressive revelation. Okay,
it's not just a one time thing. That's why you hear people
saying things like, wow, I feel like I've been born again,
again. Well, that's because you can be now let me ask you a
slightly interesting question. Can you be unborn again? Right?
Like, what do you call it when someone, you know, in church
circles would say when someone backslides, or someone walks
away from Jesus, do they get unborn again? No, you don't get
unborn again. It's what happened with Solomon's kingdom, right?
They walked away from the open heaven, and they walked into
their lostness and their blindness, and they started
suffering all the curses of, of blindness, right, of chaos and
dysfunction. So another thing is this process of progressive
revelation, you get while you've got this amazing revelation, and
from a good revelation, you'll see reformation. Okay, so let's
jump in. And I mean, a classic example is Josiah, right? Was
Josiah running after God? Was Josiah following God? Yes, he'd
been seeking God for over a decade, when he actually had
that revelation when they found the law. And it was after a
decade of seeking God that he had this Adathon moment, right
where he's born from above, he accessed new revelation, there
was an open heaven dynamic came upon me like, wow, the scales
fell from his eyes, blindness fell from his eyes, awakened to
a whole new realm of revelation and awakening is like, well,
what is this truth was right there. And it was in that
moment, he realized, Oh, my gosh, we should not be
worshipping Asherah, a giant statue of a penis by having sex
with homosexual prostitutes and male and female prostitutes. We
shouldn't have these in the temple, right? That's a big
deal. That's an Adathon moment and awakening moment. Whoa,
everything changes. So was Josiah seeking God and living
for God before that? Yes, he'd already been intensely seeking
God for a decade. And then boom, he has this open heaven moment,
this whole new Adathon moment, a whole new level of revelation
comes upon him. And that revelation produces reformation
and Josiah goes, whoa, he just has such a revelation that he
just destroys every idol he can get his hands on and converts,
changes, rearranges, reforms an entire nation and brings them
back to God. How wild is that? So this process of, you know,
awakening and then producing reformation, the first
reformation in the church actually happened only 10 years
after Jesus ascended, right? 10 years. What was there a
reformation there? Yes. So in Acts chapter 10, let me read
this. I'll give you a little bit of context. So Acts 10, Jesus
goes to Cornelius's house, and God's given him all these
revelations and visions and a trance and taken him to this to
show him that it's okay to go into Cornelius's house.
Cornelius is a Gentile. So normally, Peter wouldn't even
set foot inside his house, right? So he's like, Oh, my
gosh, I can't go in there. But God said you can. So he goes in
there and he does something he's never imagined doing before,
which is preaching the gospel to a Gentile. Because up until
that point, they did not believe the gospel was for Gentiles.
They thought it was only for the Jews. Despite everything that
Jesus had said, they did not get it right. And so this is the
moment that they get it. This is an anathema moment.
is an awakening that produces reformation. Acts 10 44. While Peter was still speaking these words,
the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter
were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. For they
heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, surely no one can stand in the
way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. So he
baptized them and that caused absolute chaos in the church. They couldn't believe that Peter was
preaching to the Gentiles. It caused a huge reformation. And boom, after that reformation,
they came to the realization, oh my gosh, the gospel's for everyone. This is crazy. So let
me know if you think that is a big reformation to have, like a big awakening, a big reformation.
I think so. That's huge. Imagine if they'd never had that. And imagine if the gospel had never
been preached to anyone outside of the Jewish ranks. It would have been just reserved just
for Jewish people. Oh my gosh. Not many of us would know about the gospel. So
before that, were they bad people? No, it's just people, you know, there's a level of, we're born
into a dimension, right, of revelation. And obviously we want to pursue revelation with
our whole heart and get, you know, seek wisdom, seek revelation. We want to pursue that. But
obviously we have to start somewhere. Our journey has to start at some point. And in general,
you'll find that people work with what they've got. But sometimes what people have got is really
lacking, okay. So we're going to go into some stuff right now. We're going to listen to some
amazing testimonies. We're going to look at some amazing people from history. But we're also going
to look at the dynamic of a curse that was brought into the church over 1500 years ago that has
plagued Christianity and is probably plaguing you right now. If it is not plaguing you right now,
I will guarantee that it has been on your case for a lot of your life. Amazing if you've broken
that curse. It's a huge curse. It's embedded into mainstream Christian theology. We're going to look
at where it came from. And so to do that, we actually have to look at some of the church
fathers who actually carried the curse, right. They did beautiful things. They got revelations.
They saw reformations. But they actually, at the same time, carried a curse. And I'm in no way
trying to dishonor or disrespect them. But we have to actually analyze history and analyze truth and
realize, wow, over 1500 years ago, a huge curse came into the church. And we've been suffering.
And God wants to deal with it. He wants to break that curse. It's the orphan curse, all right.
He wants to break that curse because that's just what he's about. You know, we cannot step into
this move of God right now, which is the unveiling of sons, right. It's this unprecedented move of
the unveiling of the sons of God. It's stepping into oneness with God. It's stepping into the
divine life. You can't have any of the promises. You can't have your birthright the way it was
promised to you, designed for you, if you are suffering the orphan curse. The orphan curse
destroys the divine life. It destroys oneness. It destroys the bliss of sonship. So let's go
jump into that. And to get into that, we're going to have to go to go way back in time again. So
we're going to meet another church father. This guy's name is Augustine. OK, so he lived from 354
to 430 AD. And if you remember from our last session where we looked at a bunch of the
church history, this was towards the end of the Roman Empire. He was actually alive at the same
time. He was born before St. Patrick, but he was alive at the same time. So their lives
overlapped. St. Augustine was in Hippo or, you know, that was North Africa. So he was in North
Africa and St. Patrick was obviously in Ireland. So they were totally different parts of the world,
but they were alive at the same time. So St. Augustine was the one who, without a doubt,
introduced the orphan curse to the church like never before. All right. He basically created a
whole systematic theology and that systematic theology. We won't look at it all right now,
but that systematic theology of Augustine that he brought into the church, it didn't exist before
Augustine. He birthed it. He was the father of this and he celebrated it for for his theology
and he celebrated as, you know, a patron saint of theologians. But I want to say that while he was,
you know, we can we can honor him. But actually, if you look at the all the and we're going to look
at the theology of Augustine as we go through this session here, it is the it is the foundation
of the orphan curse into the church. And God has been working on breaking it for fifteen hundred
years. OK, so this is a big deal. So to start unpacking this and to start seeing the effects
of Augustine's orphanology or orphan theology, we're going to have to
to fast forward over a thousand years.
OK, we're going to meet his greatest disciple
that lived over a thousand years after Augustine.
So jump with me.
Well, time travel show.
There we go over a thousand years forward in history to
fifteen hundred and seventeen A.D.
And that is the time that Martin Luther
nailed his ninety five thesis on the chapel at Wittenberg in Germany.
And it wasn't the sole spark of the Reformation,
but it was a massive moment of the Protestant Reformation.
So context on the Protestant Reformation, you had the Catholic Church,
which like we looked at last session as a universal church.
There was only one church, which they call themselves the universal church.
But actually, there had been what was called the East West Schism
in a thousand and fifty four A.D., which we won't address right now.
But there had been a parting of the way.
So this is not the first time
that there's been a split from the Catholic Church.
OK, there was a major, major split in a thousand and fifty four A.D.
with the East West Schism.
And that's where you get the Greek Orthodox Church
split away from the Catholic Church in a thousand and fifty four.
And why? Why did they split away?
They split away because of Augustine's theology, because they're like,
this is crazy.
Now, there are some people in the Greek Orthodox
that still celebrate Augustine.
But Augustine, realistically, it's his theology.
It's the core reason that led to the East West Schism in a thousand fifty four A.D.
Another 500 years forward from that.
And we were in 1517 with Martin Luther.
Now, Martin Luther's main contemporary was a guy named John Calvin.
I'm sure you've heard the name John Calvin.
So John Calvin really, really loved Augustine like no one else.
He was just the ultimate follower of Augustine.
So they saw John Calvin and Martin Luther with, you know,
they caused a massive reformation, the Protestant Reformation.
And a big part of the reason for this is because the Catholic Church
was just so corrupt in so many ways, right?
There's some beautiful people.
We've looked at this already. There's all the saints.
There's the good, the bad and the ugly all happening at the same time.
But there was a fundraiser going for St.
Peter's Basilica, which was actually built by Michelangelo.
And it was one of the most beautiful, wonderful
pieces of architecture and art.
And it is today one of the greatest pieces of architecture and art
on the planet built by Michelangelo
and a bunch of other amazing guys at the time.
But they used this thing called indulgences to fundraise for it,
which is basically telling people you can buy your relatives out of purgatory.
If you pay us a good sum, we will actually organize a deal for you
and we'll get them out of purgatory.
Now, that's a little bit crazy, right?
So there's a lot of abuses going on in the Catholic Church,
and it just got way too much for a lot of these people.
So they sparked the reformation.
Martin Luther was like, no, drew a line in the sand.
John Carl was like, no, they drew a line in the sand
and they broke away from all the corruption in the Catholic Church.
But if we look at this reformation, the Protestant Reformation
was really more a reformation of systems like the Catholic had a way of
system, had a way of doing things that was really quite corrupt
and brutal and a lot of bloodshed.
And obviously there's great people there, too.
But they were like, no, we're not going to be a part of that.
They break away.
But what they didn't break away from is Augustine's theology.
OK, so it wasn't a huge theological shift.
Some things shifted theologically, but the core, the most important part
of the theology that they carry through from the Catholic Church
is the Augustine theology.
So let's look at what happened after the Reformation.
John Calvin, because of his religious
stature, he gains political power as well in a place called Geneva.
All right. So he's in Geneva.
And let's have a look at what Calvin's Geneva looked like.
I'll just say as well, like the Reformation, it sparked
three centuries of bloodshed and war in Europe.
OK, so tens of millions of people died over three centuries
as a whole bunch of progressive wars broke out between Protestant
and Catholic nations and divisions.
And so the Reformation can't take all the blame
because there's obviously some ambition, some pride, some, you know, some human
chaos there. But they were a lot of it was actually sparked by the Reformation.
They fought for three centuries.
Can you imagine that bloody wars that killed tens of millions of people?
So what happens to Calvin in the midst of this?
Calvin gets set up in Geneva.
And he created basically his own little world in Geneva.
And let me read to you what Dr.
Paul Penley wrote about it.
And we're just going to have a couple of little glimpses of OK.
We're trying to get inside of what Calvin's Geneva looked like, because inside
Geneva, you'll see a reflection of Augustinian and Calvinistic theology.
Calvin authorized beheadings, death by fire and torture rather than exercise
patience.
and kindness with his competing theologians. His enforcement of biblical doctrines looked
more like ISIS than Jesus. In five years as magistrate of Geneva, the church city state,
Calvin oversaw 58 death sentences and the exile of 76 people. He wasn't the sole decision maker
in those cases, but personal correspondence and city council records betray his extraordinary
influence. Let's look at something from Frank Viola. Frank Viola wrote, Sebastian Castelio,
a friend of Calvin's, who urged him to repent of his intolerance, made the shocking remark,
if Christ himself came to Geneva, he would be crucified. For Geneva is not a place of Christian
liberty. It is ruled by a new Pope, John Calvin, but one who burns men alive while the Pope at Rome
strangles them first. Frank Viola also wrote, she had this quote, that Calvin was the cruel
and unopposed dictator of Geneva. So what he did is he took Old Testament law to an extreme and
just created this extremely oppressive city to live in where you had to do every little letter
of the law was dictated by John Calvin's perspective on what life should look like, what you could eat,
the colors you could wear, the height that your hair could be done if you were a lady. Coming late
to church would end you up in prison. And so here's a look list of some of the, some of the
things that happened. All right, here's another little list from another quote from Frank Viola.
So in his article, Frank Viola records a number of offenses for which Christians,
for which people were executed in Calvin's Geneva. Fornication, adultery, blasphemy,
idolatry, witchcraft, and heresy were just some of the behaviors that received the death penalty.
Confessions were obtained by torture. Can you think, do you think that this is crazy? Do you
think that this is carrying the heart of God, right? This is the orphan gospel. This is the
orphan curse in action. A child of an unspecified age was beheaded for physically fighting with
their parents. Frank Viola specifies that during a 17, this period of 17 years when Calvin was
leading Geneva, there were 139 recorded executions in the city. Wow, this is crazy. But I tell you
what, Augustine, he was quite similar. He would actually, he endorsed and instigated bribery with,
he was bribing popes. He was endorsing the violent oppression of his theological enemies.
It wasn't tolerance. He violently oppressed them. He attacked them so brutally that he basically
smothered out any other voice that opposed his voice. That's what Augustine did, and that's
exactly what Calvin did. There's a guy, Michael Servetus, who wanted to come and debate with Calvin
about theology. Calvin had said, if you come here, I'll have you killed, right? What a nice
way to do that. But Michael Servetus, he's like, man, we can talk. I just want to come and connect
and talk and just hear about theology. But when he gets there, he goes to church, listens to John
Calvin preach, and immediately at the end of the service, they arrest him. And what do they do?
They burn him alive at the stake. And it's recorded in multiple places that Calvin ordered that they
use green wood to burn him. Now, is that crazy or what? So this is what I'm saying. It's the image
of God, and that is the problem. And so their image of God becomes the mainstay image of God
in the church. And now nearly every church in the Western world still has roots to this theology.
Nearly every church that you go to, whether they're an Anglican church, whether they're a
Pentecostal church, that nearly every church in the world still has roots back to the Augustinian
and Calvinistic theology, even the places that think they don't. And we're going to probably
have to take tomorrow to expose some of that. But it is dramatically impacting the church right now.
It has dramatically impacted the church for over 1500 years. And it is the reason why there's no
divine life. You don't hear any testimonies like the Celtic testimonies or the testimonies of the
saints coming from people like John Calvin, right? There is no fruit of the divine life. There is no
ecstasies. There is no, like you do not see them living like St. Patrick, okay? It's a totally
different version of Christianity. It's the orphan gospel, and it carries the curse of the orphan
gospel. You don't see this producing massive... We'll move on. We'll move on, okay? But you get it.
So let's move on, right? And we're going to move on to a guy, like, remember the name Jonathan
Edwards, okay? You'll remember. We're going to talk about him. He's going to give us another
level of this image of God that is such a curse.
is on the church. Okay, so watch for that name, he's coming up real soon. But let's
go let's fast forward now another couple of hundred years, and there's been wars and we've
still during this time, there's been all sorts of saints happening as well. So St. Maria
that we talked about, who was the lady in blue, she happened in that 200 year space,
St. Francis Xavier, he happened in that 200 year space. So there's all sorts of amazing
things still happening. But we fast forward to 1727 in a place called Hohenhut in Germany.
And a move of God begins as an outpouring of the Holy Spirit starts taking place on
the estate of a man named Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. Right. And so it's the Moravians.
A lot of you will be familiar with the Moravians and with the hundred year prayer meeting that
started right there in 1727. And so what do you have here, you've got this monastic
dynamic again, you know, that was birthed by the Desert Fathers, carried by St. Patrick,
carried by David, this one thing desire, this heart that says, our lives are devoted to
perpetual adoration. How beautiful is that? That's the heart of 24-7. That's the heart
of a monastic movement, is that our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration. So phenomenal.
Well, the Holy Spirit began to falling on them. They started this prayer meeting and
then things started shifting. OK, so just it's really important to mark that date, 1727,
because within five years, something shifts, a new breed of missionary starts. OK, so birthed
out of that prayer, birthed out of that fireplace, just like Isaiah 6, when Isaiah says, whom
shall I send and who will go for us? These guys start catching the heart of God for nations.
So there's a guy, John Leonard Dover and David Nechman. OK, and these two guys, the young
guys, they've got families, they sell themselves into slavery. Right. And they take the funds
raised from selling themselves into slavery. And it's used to start the Moravian Missions
Fund. They pack their belongings in coffins and they go to the East Indies as slaves.
They go to the West Indies as slaves. And it's right. It's crazy. They are standing at the dock
saying goodbye to their children and their wives who are begging them not to go. And they're like,
you know what? We just have to respond to the call of God is telling us to get on the ship
right now. We don't know if we'll come back. We don't know. But God is calling us. We have
to say yes to go on this massive missionary endeavor. So they go there. They could stay
in the big houses and, you know, with white people. But they say, no, no, we'll stay with
the slaves. They end up sparking a move of God that estimates that I've seen is around 30,000
people, 30,000 slaves discovered Jesus in this awakening that they carry. They've got this prayer
movement backing them while they're there. Eventually, they do actually get to come back
and be with their families. And it's beautiful. It's happy times. They saw a massive move of God
there. And they were part of the breakout of Moravian missionaries who start breaking out and
going all over the world, carrying this prayer dynamic. And it's wild. So there's a guy, you'll
know this name, John Wesley. OK, so John Wesley, he actually starts meeting some of these Moravians
and he loves God. He's been serving God. He's been praying. He's been proactive in evangelism.
He's been doing all of these things. But it's not until he encounters Moravians that his heart
really gets set on fire until he really goes like, oh, my gosh, now I know that I know that I know
I've got a relationship with God. I've got a call. I've got a fire burning.
So the Moravians lit up John Wesley like crazy. And then and then we get to 1742. OK, now this
is a moment where we get back to the orphan curse, back to Augustinian and Calvinistic theology,
because in John 4, in 1742, Jonathan Edwards, he preaches a message which is a major
catalyst of sparking the first great awakening. It's called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
It is the most famous message ever preached in America. If you want a copy of it, you can
actually just go to one of the websites, you'll find a copy of it as a U.S. history website,
right? Because it was so, so foundational in shaping the culture in the nation of America,
this one message. But what we're seeing here, right, what I'm trying to unpack to you is how
this orphan curse has been carried through for centuries from Augustine to Calvin, now to Jonathan
Edwards. And it's something that God wants to smash. But let's have a look, because in this,
I'll just read one extract to you from this message, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
But it just carries, you'll see. Let me just read this and you'll get it. You'll get the
whole dynamic of who Augustine and who Calvin and who Edwards thought God was and what they
thought he was like. This right here captures the orphan gospel.
God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect
over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire.
He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. He is of purer eyes
than to bear to have you in his sight. You are ten thousand times more abominable
in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours."
So what happens? Boom, 1742, Jonathan Edwards preaches that. He goes around America preaching
that and it sparks the First Great Awakening. Society was in a very terrible, terrible place
and to be honest anything would be an upgrade on the brokenness and the darkness that they
were living in. But this really scared people into the kingdom. It scared people into church
and it birthed again a whole movement of orphan-hearted people who don't know the love
of the Father. They don't know anything like what Saint Patrick carried, like what those
mystic saints carried. They don't know intimacy. They don't know the divine life. They don't know
oneness with God. They don't know this radical intimacy that we were born for, right? It's this
world of obligation and now you have some people that get birthed in through there but do develop
a genuine relationship with God. So we've got, you know, like there's meat and bones there as well.
Some people get scared in but then really connect with God. But multitudes just, and most of them
never, never, never develop the intimacy, the seamless union, the oneness that they were
created for. So in 1742 you have two other guys who just break out as well. You know, John Wesley
and George Whitfield. In 1742 John Wesley, he preached outside the chapel that his father
used to preach in. He preached on his father's grave because they wouldn't let him preach in the
church and he preached to the poor people. Now in England at that time poor people could not afford
to go to church, right? Because you had to pay a pew tax. What? That's right. You had to pay a pew tax
and there was a dress code and poor people didn't meet the cart. So poor people just couldn't go
to church. And actually John Wesley, when he started out, he thought this is crazy. I can't
believe it. He thought it was a sin to lead someone to Jesus outside of a church, right? So a major
shift is happening. But George Whitfield is preaching to thousands of people and then John
Wesley gets like kicked out of the church anyway. So George Whitfield is already preaching to
thousands of people. He's going to the poor people. He's going to the commoners. He's going to the
people on the streets. He's going to the people at the, you know, at the brick mines and all of
these places in the industry level areas of industry. And he's preaching the gospel. And you
know what? Crowds start turning up. This is the first great awakening. Tens of thousands of people,
up to 20,000 people will gather in the open air for these amazing meetings where John Wesley and
George Whitfield would preach. And there was a supernatural ability for their voice, especially
George Whitfield, for his voice to be projected so everyone could hear him. You imagine a crowd of,
you know, 500 people try and talk to them, you know, and so they can hear you. They would speak
and 20,000 people would be able to hear what they were saying. You know, that is not just having a
loud voice. There's a supernatural dynamic unfolding there. And the presence of God was moving. Some
people even spoke in tongues, not a lot, but a few people. There was miracles there. People were
getting slain in the Holy Spirit. They warned people because people would try and get a view,
so they'd hide up, you know, climb up trees. And people said, like, don't climb up the trees
because when the spirit comes, who knows what's going to happen because the spirit would start
coming. They're preaching. They'd start hearing these thuds as people are getting slain in the
spirit and just falling out of trees. So it's like with George Whitfield and John Wesley,
there's a whole different dynamic than what was carried by Jonathan Edwards, but it's a sparking,
this breaking out of the first great awakening that rushes through England and rushes through
the American colonies. And that goes through pretty much to the end of the 1740s. Then you
have a pretty dynamic upheaval in history there from about 1775 to 1778. There is the American
Revolution. So America fights England. And it's not just American England. Actually, it's a world
war because all the allies jump on board, the Spanish partner with the Americans, and then
this war breaks out around the whole world. It's actually a world war, the Revolutionary War.
But that changes. And then let me just show you as well what starts happening next.
Here's a cool fact about John Wesley. He preached so much on his horse, right? Got on his horse,
traveled, preached. And these guys were preaching almost every day. George Whitfield preached nearly
every day. John Wesley, he preached so many times as well. John Wesley rode his horse. They
calculated, you know, an average...
he did on a weekly basis for how long he did it.
And it was easily 250,000 miles, which put that in context for you.
That's the same as riding a horse around the world,
around the equator line ten times. Right. That's crazy.
They did a lot of preaching.
They sparked a whole radical move of God.
It started shifting the mindset about God as well, what they were carrying.
And then Wesley, his very last letter on his deathbed,
he wrote to a guy named William Wilberforce.
And what was his last plea?
Because he'd been engaged in social activism and helping the poor
and doing so many things that were bringing change to society.
And his last letter that he wrote was to William Wilberforce.
And it was just a petition to him to keep going in his pursuit
to shut down slavery. OK, so
in 1780, off the back of the first Great Awakening, a guy named
a group called the Clapham Saints were formed.
Henry, John Venn and Henry Thornton, they formed the Clapham Saints.
OK, and this Clapham Saints, they backed people like William Wilberforce.
It was one of the one of the first movements that really focused in on
Seven Mountains transformation.
They went really after society from the top down.
They changed things in Parliament.
They completely revolutionized society in England.
So off the back of the first Great Awakening, this group, the Clapham Saints
is born and they revolutionized society in England.
They ended the slave trade.
That's amazing right there.
They birthed the missions movement that sent out has sent out
thousands of missionaries.
They changed.
There was over 200 things that you could be executed for.
They brought it down to eight.
They started the SPCA.
They helped start the University of London.
They did so much, but they totally changed culture and society.
This group called the Clapham Saints.
So that's 1780,
just after the American Revolution.
And then you start getting characters like this guy, William Carey.
OK, so William Carey, he was a missionary to India
and sort of made like God just do amazing things there.
But here again with William Carey story, you see Calvin and Augustine
jumping up there because William Carey is telling people,
I want to go to India right to preach the gospel, to do missions
and lead people to Jesus.
And the response that he got from the church was this.
They said, but when God pleases to convert the heathen,
he will do it without you or me.
All right.
So it's this dynamic of predestination where now you don't have to preach.
You don't have to do anything.
God's going to do it all.
Never mind actually being involved with your faith.
So that's the orphan curse kicking in again.
It was prevalent still in society.
So God's still working on breaking this orphan curse.
Then in the early 1800s.
Right. So in the early 1800s, we start having the
the beginnings of the second Great Awakening.
Actually, after the Revolutionary War, people were disappointed.
They started turning to darkness again.
They started getting lost.
Society started going way downhill.
But in the early 1800s, boom, these camp revivals
start breaking out around America and thousands of people
start going to these camp revivals.
There's signs, wonders, miracles, God's moving in crazy, amazing ways.
And this new guy turns up on the scene.
And he's not like he is not like Jonathan Edwards.
All right. He's carrying a new move of God.
He starts actually smashing some of the Calvinistic theology.
His name is Charles Finney. All right.
And to get this and to introduce you to Charles Finney.
Charles Finney, he traveled with a guy named Daniel Nash.
And Daniel Nash was his intercessor. Right.
So Daniel Nash, what Daniel Nash did is he would go places before Finney
and he would pray.
Now, we looked at the Moravians, right?
The Moravians, 1727, they start praying.
And what do you know after that?
Boom, it's the the just directly after the Moravians
start their 100 year prayer meeting.
You have the first awakening start.
It's that boom breaks out.
And then while they're still praying, the second Great Awakening breaks out.
And you have Charles Finney and Daniel Nash.
And so Daniel Nash would go ahead of Charles Finney and start praying.
This is a real key to atmospheric shift here.
Just one guy that he would know he would, to be honest,
he would take sometimes, you know, a friend or two if he could.
And I would rent somewhere quiet and out of the way.
And they would just go in there and pray and they would pray.
And their prayers, they were in a place of travailing prayers.
So they would sometimes just lie on the ground and groan for days.
That's it. They just came out like they would go into this place.
The spirit of God would come on this line, the ground groaning.
Like, oh, what were they doing?
It's a thing called symphony.
All right.
They were coming into harmony with the sound of the spirit of God.
When you come into harmony
with the spirit of God and the sounds of the spirit of God,
you come into harmony with heaven.
You start coming into harmony with the sounds of heaven.
It's this dynamic.
called Symphonia, and it is insanely powerful to allow your
prayer life to harmonize with the sounds of heaven. And so he
would come to this place of great travail, I'd be like, ah,
that would groan and they just roll around sometimes for days
on the floor, not eating, not doing anything, not even going
to the bathroom. And people would get really concerned with
what was happening. And then they'll go, we got the
breakthrough, they would realize that they broke something in the
heavenly realm, and open heaven dynamic had been accomplished.
And then they'd call Charles Finian, and he'd go to preach.
One place he went to preach, you know, it's not many people come
to the meeting that the first night, not that many people
come. And so but Daniel Nash, Brother Nash, he's already said
there's an open heaven. So they, you know, they just know God's
going to do something. Then at one of the local schools, a
little kid starts tearing up in the class. And the teacher's
like, Are you all right? And this little kid's like, I fear
for my soul, she starts bursting out crying. And then like
popcorn, right? Not just her, the other kids start bursting
out crying. And then the teacher's like, what am I going
to do? There's all these kids just weeping. And like with
concern for their souls, they want to get right with God right
there in the classroom. The teachers are I don't know how to
handle this. They run at she runs out into the corridor to
see if she can get any other help to find that other teachers
have got exactly the same thing happening in their classroom.
They're all right. Oh my gosh, what's happening? And there's a
an awakening, right? It's an atmospheric shift of awakening.
So those types of things would start happening. And then people
would come to Charles Finney's meetings and boom, it would
break out crazy outpourings. There's this one story in the
New York Mills where Finney went, Nash has called him in. So
he walks there. He's just looking at this one lady. And
she starts getting kind of uncomfortable. And then she
falls to the floor. He's just walking through with the owner.
He hasn't said anything. He's just walking through and he
looks at the stage, she falls to the floor and starts weeping.
And then boom, like popcorn, atmospheric shift has taken
place. And these people just start weeping, breaking like, oh
my gosh. And then the owner's like, oh my gosh, we better
start, we just better stop work at them at this mill. Ladies
were weaving and things like that. And so they stopped work
and they just had an outpouring. They had a revival meeting for
about three days. And nearly every single person there gave
their lives to Jesus, got radically saved. Wow, this is
amazing. The most famous revival or outpouring awakening
moment of the great, the second great awakening was in a city
called Rochester. So Finney goes to Rochester with Nash, and
they're praying it up. And then they're like, yep, this is it,
it's on. And this awakening breaks out over the city, right?
They didn't want to go to Rochester because it was so dark.
It was such a place where it was so corrupt. And they're like,
God, we don't want to go there. And God said to them, he's like,
isn't that a good reason to go there? And they said, Okay, we'll
go. So God sent them to Rochester. They had an
invitation there. And they started praying and things broke
out in the heavens. In six months, they baptized 100,000
people from all levels of society. Not only that, but
people came to Rochester from all around. And there is over
1500 recorded outpourings, revivals that people came to
Rochester got set on fire and went out and sparked another
outpouring where they were from over 1500 recorded outpourings
that got sparked from Rochester from that one place. But it was
the second great awakening wasn't just Finney. And it
wasn't just that one place wasn't just Rochester, boom,
right across America, there is a great awakening, the second
great awakening so massive that it literally shaped the psyche
and the psychology and the foundations of America wild.
Alright, so let's keep moving on, because there's a lot of
other things. So but what you started to see there as well
through Finney is it started to break off this orphan curse, the
Calvinistic Augustinian theology, it started to get
broken off. Is that exciting? Are you loving those stories?
Now, I'm going to share a few more stories with you. Because
these things just started breaking out everywhere. Not
we're not talking like the awakenings, the revivals, the
outpourings, it's not just one or two, it's thousands, I can't
collate them all for you. I'm just giving you a tiny little
dip your toe in the bucket to what your heritage is as a
Christian, right? Your heritage as a Christian is awakening,
it's outpourings, it's revival, it's moves of God, it's mystical
union, it's the saints, it's the revivalists, there is so and
we're not talking like I said, we're not talking just a few,
we're talking hundreds of people talking 1000s of people, I'm
just giving you a tiny little drip in the bucket here. So in
the in the mid 1800s, and right here in Aotearoa, New Zealand,
the Maori people had a an awakening as well. There was
Maori apostles and prophets going right through the nation,
and somewhere between 50 to 75%. Some people say higher, that's
that's just a conservative figure. But 50 to 70% of Maori
people gave their lives to Jesus, and we're following him
amazing, right? 50 to 75% of an entire
a people group that's in the mid 1800s. Then you've got a guy Hudson Taylor in 1866. He starts
moving right he start he moves to the interiors of China he sets up something called the China
Inland Mission. Before Hudson Taylor there had not been very many missionaries that actually
reached deep into the interior of some of these big continents some of these big nations that
kind of stayed in the ports as missionaries and those easily accessible places but Hudson Taylor
goes into the interior. That's in 1866 and you think about China now and the significance of
China now birthed from people like that who went there all those years ago carrying something
phenomenal from God. Then we have the Welsh Revival 1904 to 1905 the Welsh Revival with
Evan Roberts and I've talked about that briefly but it was in Welsh Revival that Evan Roberts had
this prayer was like bend us Lord bend us bend us Lord bend us and it's such an expression of
humility because he recognizes we can't do we're desperate for you God right we are desperate for
you to take us where we've never been. He understood that and he saw an out the one of the just a
phenomenal awakening right so people see that it was such a geographical atmospheric shift that all
of Wales it was said that if you set foot on Wales on Welsh territory you would suddenly be
hit by an open heaven you would come into an awakening and awareness of the glory of God.
Pubs shut down you know bars shut down society was radically changed some of you might know
the story but the coal miners got so transformed and so converted that they had to retrain their
mules because they were so used to being sworn at that when these guys got touched by God
they weren't swearing at them all they couldn't understand what the coal miners were saying
because they just used to being sworn at but a massive societal just radical change there and
in a huge right this was huge a huge geographical shift of an open heaven where you set foot on
Welsh territory and there was an awareness of God that began to overwhelm people phenomenal.
Then just after that 1906 to 1909 we had Azusa Street now Welsh Revival and Azusa Street there
was a baptism in the Holy Spirit it was at Azusa Street that it really blew up like crazy so 1906
to 1909 for three years nearly every day they had a manifestation of the Shekinah glory
like right there they had flames appearing on the top of the building the fire station was called
because they were like oh my gosh this place is on fire but it was just supernatural flames
they would come into the meetings and step into the meetings and the Shekinah glory would be so
thick that they'd look at the floor and they couldn't see their own feet because the cloud of
his glory whoa there's a prophecy in 1909 from William Seymour and Charles Parham who were both
key in that time and they and the prophecy said that in around a hundred years God will begin
to restore the Shekinah glory back to the church and I played that in a hundred years after that
1909 because God has started to restore the Shekinah glory of church back to the church so I
played that uh that prophecy in our church and someone went home and they as they opened the
door a Shekinah glory cloud appeared in their hallway and just what like moved through their
house into their bedroom they're like whoa and as I prayed into it I was like God what are you
what is this and he said I see the cloud this a cloud the size of a man's fist and after that
there was multiple encounters uh one night one of our guys he's in his room in the middle of the night
and a bright shining cloud manifested this glory cloud appeared in his bedroom in just right there
in his room and he's completely undone by the presence it lit up his whole room in the middle
of the night uh he's like wow God that was amazing it happened twice in one week multiple stories of
the Shekinah glory but listen these guys prophesied that a greater measure of the Shekinah
glory that was ever on Azusa street is coming back to the world before Azusa street there was
hardly anyone just a few people around the world that spoke in tongues that was actually happening
in the moldy revivals as well people were receiving the baptism of the holy spirit but after Azusa
street it blew up tens of millions of people started getting hit by the baptism and the holy
spirit was a brand new pentecost is this awakening is producing a reformation is the birth of the
modern day pentecostal movement and now there's claims about you know it's it's somewhere around
over 200 million people that are now baptized in the holy spirit but before Azusa street you just
didn't have that all right so you see these awakenings producing reformations God's changing
things rearranging them um there was just like phenomenal miracles one one miracle story actually
a good book to read on this is they told me their stories it's called they told me their stories all
about Azusa street but one miracle there was a guy with no arm and they watched as a
And then muscle and tissue and tendon just covered it and he grew an arm right there.
So many amazing miracles broke out of that place.
The kids, the kids would actually go there and they would play hide and go seek in the
glory as one of the church activities.
Now bring that back, right?
That's got to be one of the best youth group games in the world.
Hide and go seek in the glory.
Yes.
And so let me let me give you another story of another outpouring.
1910, a guy named James Fraser, he goes to Hudson Taylor, who's already in China.
He partners with the China Inland Mission, and then he has a passion to reach this group
called the Lisu.
They really don't know.
Like, they are really deep in darkness.
They're an animism.
They're in the occult.
They're worshiping spirits and demons.
They've got all sorts of demonic supernatural powers going on.
They are right into, you know, they're into the drunks and they're just adulterous.
They sleep around, drink and into satanic occult worship.
And he's like, well, I want to reach these people.
And he spent six years trying to reach them in Southern China in the state, Yunnan.
I've actually been there.
I've been to where the Lisu live.
And because I was so inspired by the story, I actually wanted to go there.
So I went there just to see where James Fraser lived and where he worked and what he did.
And it's a rugged mountainous country.
It's extremely difficult terrain.
And so he lived there.
He walked all through these mountains, reaching the Lisu preaching to them.
And after six years, he basically had no fruit whatsoever.
But he just really started to engage in prayer.
And he got his prayer warriors back in England who were backing him.
He said, we've got to pray.
And they started praying like never before.
And they saw an atmospheric shift over the Lisu people praying in England.
Atmospheric shift happens for the Lisu.
And what happens is the Holy Spirit starts going up all these mountain valleys and
all these people who they're not connect their long distances away from each other.
But an atmospheric shift takes place.
An open heaven breaks out.
There's this awakening that starts happening for them.
And they start coming by the tens of thousands.
And he baptized over 60,000 Lisu.
Right.
And it was so dramatic that it was recorded that it was at one point 90% of the Lisu group
were Christians.
And they were so influenced by the gospel that they were the only people group that
the Chinese government recognized as Christians.
How amazing is that?
Right.
So after that, 1910, you're like another story is the Hebrides revival.
I love this.
Another atmospheric shift happens.
So there's these two old ladies.
And I don't know where you're at, but these two old ladies, maybe I don't know where you
think you're at with your call of God, but it has to start somewhere.
It has to start with someone.
And it absolutely 100% can start with you.
So Peggy and Christine, they're 84 and 82.
Peggy's blind.
And Christine is so crippled by arthritis that she's basically bent in two.
But they just started praying.
They turned their house into an open heaven.
They started praying.
And then they called a guy named Duncan Campbell.
And they basically instructed him as to what to do as the avengers.
And he started moving around.
Now we're praying.
And then boom, all these people started having prayer meetings all night that they just started
getting gripped by this hunger for God.
And the Shekinah glory would come upon their houses in the night.
They'll be praying through the night.
Shekinah glory was just dotting on these houses through the night.
There's one story where there's such an atmospheric shift that people actually woke up in the
night.
Hundreds of people woke up in the night not knowing what was happening, but just having
this conviction on their lives.
And, oh, my gosh, I've got to respond to God.
I've got to get right with God.
Hundreds of them in the middle of the night at the same time turn up to the police station
going, what do we do?
And the police got like, they're like, they get the police.
I don't know what to do.
This is a spiritual matter.
So they go to the church and they're not going to church to get saved.
They're like, we've given our lives to God.
We want to get right with God already.
What do we do?
In the Hebrides revival, people would be walking along in the open fields and all of a sudden
have an awareness and awakening.
This is what happens in an open heaven is you have access to revelation that you could
never access before.
An open heaven makes it easy to access truth.
So they're just walking along doing nothing different, except the atmosphere is different.
It's supercharged with revelation and truth.
And it's like, boom, have an awakening.
Oh, my gosh, I'm following Jesus now.
Wow.
Right.
Amazing.
So there's just so many stories.
I'll give you one more.
Let me know you want one more.
I'm sure you'll be keen for one more.
I'll give you one more of these stories.
So this is 1965.
And like I said, we can't count them.
There are just thousands of these stories.
They're everywhere.
They're in Africa.
You know, the.
there was a pygmy revival where pygmies started giving their lives to Jesus by the tens of
thousands. There was, actually, I mean, this isn't the story that I was going to tell you, but
Don Richardson wrote a book called Eternity in Their Hearts. And in that book, he details how
entire people groups were giving their lives to Jesus in a missions movement in the last part of
the 1900s, you know, like 60s, 70s, 50s, like all through. So the last part of 1900s,
there was this awakening, just sweeping through entire tribal groups, tribal groups,
and his whole premise was God's already put the gospel in their cultures, in their hearts.
And actually, if you find it in their stories, you actually can open up an entire tribal group
to the gospel. And he wrote another book called Peace Child, which is based in Papua in Indonesia.
And that's actually right near where I was born. But in Peace Child, an entire tribal group,
they just give their lives to Jesus. It happens over and over again.
So millions of people, given their lives to Jesus' atmospheric shift and awakening just
broke through all these tribal groups. It was wild. So 1965, in East Timor, and, you know,
in Indonesia, East Timor, here's an example of it. They're out there praying one night,
I heard this account of it from listening to someone who was there. So 1965, they're there,
they're praying this one night, and like, they see the church covered in fire, but it's, you know,
it's out in the villages. So this church is made of, you know, just sticks and thatch, and they're
like, oh my gosh, so they go crazy trying to put the church down, they realize that it's not
actual fire, it's the Shekinah glory of God. And that was one of the key moments as they're like,
oh my gosh, the presence of God comes on them, they get undone, they give their lives to Jesus,
and an awakening breaks out where this awareness of the glory of God goes,
starts sweeping through the hills. And, you know, they started, they've got testimonies there,
I've heard people giving, you know, firsthand account testimonies of walking on water,
raising the dead, leading thousands to Jesus, the children preaching the gospel with signs and
wonders. It broke out like crazy. Okay, so I think you kind of get it, that's enough.
There's so many more stories, so many beautiful ones. But here I think what you're starting to
catch and what I'm trying to share with you and get upon you is the fact that God doesn't just
do this every now and then. He has done this hundreds of times, thousands of times. God is
into awakening, He's looking for someone to be a catalyst of it. Will you be like Josiah and embrace
hunger, right? You're going to have a hunger, you're going to have a humility like Evan Roberts, where
I've come to the end of myself with what I know right now, I don't have enough. It's not going to
come from me, it's not going to come from my good endeavors, but there is something of a move,
the spirit of God that has to come. And God is especially longing for people right now to stand
up and be a part of this move because He's about to deal a death blow to the orphan curse, all right?
So we're going to look at that in the next session, 6am New Zealand time tomorrow. We're going to look
at how God is getting ready and how He's already in this process of dealing a death blow to the
orphan curse that has been shutting down the divine life. We're going to look at that tomorrow, but He
wants you to stand up. He wants this hunger to come upon you that Josiah had, that Evan Roberts
had, that all of these people had, that William Seymour had, that Charles Parham had, that James
Fraser had, that Hudson Taylor had, that Charles Finney had, that John Wesley had, that George Whitfield
had, that Jonathan Edwards had. You know, He wants you to carry the same flame. It's the same flame
that Jesus sparked at the very beginning. It's a flame of awakening. The apostles carried it. The
saints carried it. The revivalists carried it. The reformers carried it. And now God is saying,
will you stand up and say, yes, will you stand up and be counted like Peggy and Christine,
84 and 82 years old, blind and bent over and hunchback? Have you disqualified yourself? God
says He's qualified you. Now is your time. Now is your hour. Will you say yes? When God says it has to
start somewhere, it has to start with somebody, would you say, yes, God, start with me? Would you
say, yes, God, I'll stand up. I'll receive the fire. I'll carry the flame. I'll spark awakening. I'll be
that one. Would you be like the Moravians, 1727? They say, we will pray. They devote themselves to
the perpetual adoration of God, just like David and the people that came around King David devoted
their lives to the perpetual adoration of God and created an open heaven that had never been seen
before. Would you say yes? Would you pray? Would you pray? Would you allow a hunger that you've
never had before, a fire that you've never had before? Would you allow that to burn in you and
take you beyond where you've ever gone in your prayer life, beyond where you've ever gone in
your faith life, beyond where you've ever gone in your Christianity, beyond what you've ever
imagined possible? Would you be one that says, yes, God, send me, here I am, because God
wants. He's calling us out to devote our lives to perpetual adoration. He's calling us to devote
our lives to prayer. He's calling us to devote our lives to be catalysts and stewards of an
unprecedented move of God. It's going to deal a death blow to the orphan curse. It's going to
break open sonship like never before. It's going to awaken, awaken, awaken seamless union, effortless
bliss, the divine life, signs, wonders, miracles, awakenings, open heavens like we have never seen
before. And God is calling yes. So my question to you right now is how will you respond to God? Will
you say yes God? Because if you say yes God, he's going to want to search you out because awakening
will come with a shakening. Awakening will come with a shakening. There'll be a price. He'll say
well you have to say bend me Lord, bend me Lord, bend me Lord, go beyond. You have to come to a
place of humility where you say you know what God? You know what God? I can't do this in my own
strength. I need you to take me where I've never been before. You step into a place of serenity. You
say do whatever it takes God. You have to pray prayers like God, do whatever it takes. What you
have to say God, like this prayer that I pray so often, leave no stone unturned in me. Search me
out. May the all-consuming fire of love come upon me and consume everything that can be consumed
so that only Christ may remain. Will you say yes? I know that in your heart there is a
there is a cry, there is a symphony going on with the cry from heaven that you're like
yes God send me. Let me pray as we wrap this up. Abba Father, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, whoa
you have seen the spirit of awakening upon your people and upon geographical areas, upon cities,
upon nations, upon churches, upon regions, upon individuals, upon groups of people. You have sent
your spirit of awakening over and over and over and over again. And we're saying Papa,
we lay our lives down. We lay our lives down completely in total surrender, in total abandonment.
We give our lives over to carrying the spirit of awakening. We say yes with everything that is in
us to carrying the spirit of awakening. So we say Papa, do whatever you have to do.
If there's transformation required, if there's change required, if you have to burn the dross,
if you need to release the refiner's fire, we welcome it. We say do whatever you want to do.
Do whatever it takes in us as we surrender, as we lay down on the altar. Bring your refiner's fire
like never before and spark in us and envelop us and consume us with the spirit of awakening.
So we can walk with you, we can run with you, we can be catalysts, we can be stewards of an
unprecedented move of God. And Papa, I thank you that as you release that refiner's fire,
I thank you that the fruit will be the divine light. I prophesy this over you,
that you were born to walk into, to live in the divine light. I prophesy that you were born to
live in seamless union. You were born to live in the ecstasies. You were born to live in the wonders.
You were born to live in the glory. You were born to carry Shekinah glory. You were born to carry
the spirit of awakening. You're born to carry signs and wonders and miracles. You're born to be
a catalyst of an open heaven. You're born to shift atmospheres. Whoa, Papa, Papa,
do it again. We have heard of your fame. We stand in awe of your deeds. Pour out your fire,
deal with us, bend us, take us beyond where we've ever gone before and do whatever it takes
to fashion us as instruments that can be carriers of an unprecedented move of God
that shifts normal on the face of the earth forever. Wow. Amen. Wow, family.
Such an honor to be sharing this time with you. So, so beautiful, so powerful to be with you
right now. So may that love of God, may that divine life may swallow you up. May the glory
of God consume you. May the wonders of God surround you. And let's go all in. We've got
two more sessions in this, but two more sessions. And in those two more sessions, we're going to go
deep on the what has to happen now. OK, what has to happen now to break this orphan curse? What
do we have to carry? Where do we have to go? What do we have to do to actually step in as carriers?
What do we have to do to end this curse that's been carried for 1500 years in the church? I'm
excited to share that moment with you. Love you very much. Be blessed and may.
The divine life swallow you up, may the divine dance swallow you up, may the glory of God
swallow you up, may His wonders and His goodness and His kindness swallow you up in Jesus'
name.
Amen.
Bless you.
Love you.
And I'll see you 6am New Zealand time, two more sessions.
Session one tomorrow.
Yeah.
So I'll see you then.
Love you.